Remove/hide sections on static home page

Thanks so much for trying out Vega, we appreciate it ??

You can definitely hide sections – please go to Appearance > Customize > Front Page and click the radio buttons (Yes/No) for the sections you want to show/hide.

Let me know if you need anything!

Oh my god, I swear, I spent *hours* looking for that last night – I knew there had to be an option somewhere. That’s what I get for working on my website at 4am.

I do have one more layout question on the front page: within the “latest posts” and “columns” sections, is it possible for the selected pages/items to only preview the image and title (and not a summary of the text on the page)? Some of my pages and blogs are text dense, so the text under the title takes up a lot of space and makes the front page look cluttered.

Thanks again!
Rebecca

Hello Rebecca! I am glad that worked out.

For the text under the posts and pages – if you explicitly an excerpt, that would override the automatic text that shows up on the home page.

In order to explicitly specify an excerpt for a post or a page, go to the page/post edit screen. Click on “Screen Options” in the top right. See this screenshot: https://prntscr.com/csmy4q It would open a ‘drawer’ like this: https://prntscr.com/csmyaj Make sure “Excerpt” is checked. Now scroll down to see the “Excerpt” field (it should be after the content editor): https://prntscr.com/csmzcg Whatever you enter in here will be shown on the home page and any place where the post/page excerpts are being displayed.

Thank you so much! That worked perfectly!

Okay – last question (I promise): I’d love to use the columns section/feature to link to a category of posts (in this case, I’d like the column to link to the category “Production Archive”), rather than a page. That doesn’t seem possible in terms of the dropdown within the settings. Is there a workaround you can think of? The best I can come up with is to create a page, then link every post to that page. But that is labor intensive, so I’m hoping there’s another option…

Thanks again!
Rebecca

Rebecca, you’re most welcome! That’s what we’re here for ??

For the columns/featured icon columns: that is a limitation of the theme, where it provides a dropdown link to the pages for each of those columns. There are two ways I can think of that may help rectify this – but both will require editing the theme PHP files (preferably in a Child Theme). Are you comfortable with code?

The other option is for you to upgrade to the pro version which has another “featured” area that allows you to use your own images, URL, and text so it is completely flexible with what you want to do with it.

Let me know if you have any questions.

I am comfortable enough with code to give it a shot (presuming you explain where to add the code.) I am comfortable with child themes. I’d love to try! Thank you for offering.

Sure – You’ll need to edit the file customize/customizer.php and parts/frontpage-4cols.php. I am not sure how you want to tackle this, but I would suggest replacing the dropdown with a text input and add a new description field for the text under it.

I am working on the same theme, and have the same problem. However, my theme is not displaying Appearance> Customize> front page

I do have Apperance> Customize> Static Front Page ut it only lets me select which page to display as home page.

Please help.

Again the specified option does not appear for me. I’ve been clicking through all the menus and settings for hours now.

Can you show me a screenshot of what you see?

Hi Lyrathemes,

Thank you,
attached is the screenshots.

You’re not using our theme Vega.

Oops! :/ embarrassed
sorry, and thanks…

Step – Login your WordPress Dashboard.

Step 2-Go to the Editor in Appearance Sidebar Menu in WordPress.

Step 3-Select Static Front page to edit.

Go To the editor an find

Original

$num_sections = apply_filters( ‘twentyseventeen_front_page_sections’, 4 );

Replace 4 with 0 like This and Save.

$num_sections = apply_filters( ‘twentyseventeen_front_page_sections’, 0);

You can cantor your page section from here.

https://goo.gl/lEzDNP

I wanted to add another front page section. I cannot find a straight forward way to do this.
when changing the below 4 to a 5 i did not see any added sections in appearance->customize->theme options…
$num_sections = apply_filters( ‘twentyseventeen_front_page_sections’, 4 );

Hi @acceleratedco,

I’m afraid the @avinashkrsingh response is related to Twenty Seventeen theme, not Vega theme.

Adding another section to Vega requires theme customization.

Best