Only adding blog theme to your existing theme.

  • Hello all, this is my first post on this blog and first time working with WordPress. I’m putting together a portfolio and blog of my photography, and I’m having some issues getting it exactly the way I want it so I thought I’d ask for some help. I don’t have my site online yet, so I’ll just describe what I’m doing. I’m currently using the touchfolio theme https://dimsemenov.com/themes/touchfolio/demo/ and the only thing I don’t like about it is the blog section. I would like the main page of the blog to be what I believe is called a masonry gallery, like on this page : https://demo.megathe.me/heat/journal/ And for the individual blog post pages, since they will mostly be only photos, I would like each post to scroll across like a gallery, it doesn’t have to be the click one arrow then the page jumps from one image to another type but even just a horizontal scrolling to the left would suffice, such as on this theme: https://expositio.wpshower.com/?p=33 I’ve tried changing the template on to masonry and gallery under the page attributes section on wordpress but it doesn’t seem to change anything. If any of you could direct me at all, I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks!

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  • Ayman

    (@aymanalzarrad)

    What you are trying to do requires customization… However, I would suggest you first to start creating a child theme so you can have a safe place to apply your customizations.

    By saying safe I mean that your customization will not be delete it if you ever update the parent theme.

    Learn more about creating a child theme here:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

    Also, these forums only support themes from the repository on this site, so you may want to consider using a theme from here-

    https://www.ads-software.com/themes/

    Or make sure the developer of your theme provides support.

    Thread Starter thompkinz

    (@thompkinz)

    Thanks for the help! So here’s what I’ve done. I created a new style.css for the child theme, added it into the folder but it isn’t showing up in my available themes. I should have mentioned before that I do however have the theme I’m trying to copy downloaded to my computer. But how would I go about just copying the section of the blog?

    Ayman

    (@aymanalzarrad)

    I’m sorry but as @wpyogi mentioned above, the support here is for themes provided from:
    https://www.ads-software.com/themes/

    The developer of touchfolio does not seem to be providing support for the theme so what I can tell you is that make sure you are following the instructions for creating a child theme correctly and than search for the template that is used for the blog and copy that over to your child theme.

    Codex page explaining child themes:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes
    This will help you understand more about how child themes works and how to create your own.

    Codex page explaining the template hierarchy:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Hierarchy
    The other page link explains the template hierarchy so you can read that to get to know more about how WordPress uses templates and try to find which template your theme is using to show the blog section.

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