ChrisSale

There are some other recent posts that explain about featured images, that might help you.

You can also try plugins for resizing/cropping thumbnails (featured images) for example “Post Thumbnail Editor” plugin. I tried this and it works well.

Yes these modifications are possible. Several ways to do this sort of thing (actually that makes it more difficult because you have to choose ??

1. Try just using the Footer. You can set it to 2 columns, change the background color, drag widgets into the columns to display recent posts with pictures, etc.

2. Install a Slideshow Plugin (one I have just tried and like is Meta Slider from Matcha Labs; works great with Hueman). This gives you a shortcode (eg [Slideshow]) that you simply add to the text content of your static front page in the position you require the Slideshow.

3. and 4. ??

Thank you.

<gasp> It cannot be that easy!!?
Tried it. It works. THANK YOU.

With method 2 I can use different pic for thumbnail to inserted image(s).

Now I must go and remove all the Commented Out lines in all those .php files that had no effect at all!!?? ie. <?php the_post_thumbnail()

Just for education, could you tell me WHERE the thumbnail is called? It must be somewhere I did not find. (ignore this if you are busy).

It is a couple of minutes work to do what you require, but could take hours to explain to you step by step what to do. Here is the way I would do it (may not be the best, but any way that works will do).

Using a program like FILEZILLA (it’s free, and a tool like this makes life easier for working with WordPress) download the function.php file from the …/wp-content/themes/hueman folder onto your own computer.
Open this function.php file using some text editor program (for example Windows Notepad) or Dreamweaver or similar program.

Basically delete everything out of this functions file
except the bit you want to change,
ie. the alx_setup function.
Edit this alx_setup_function as required.
Save the file, and then use FILEZILLA to upload the file to your
wordpress site, to …/wp-content/themes/hueman-child folder.
The file is still called functions.php
The function in the child theme (folder) will then get used in preference to the same function in the main Hueman theme (which you have not changed — that is the benefit of using a child theme).

You are not in this case altering the style.css file.
(But if you do later want to make small changes to the CSS, then I would use exactly the same procedure as above (except start with the child style.css file)).

If none of this makes any sense then you probably are in over your head (but could easily find a WP developer to make the change for you for a small sum). If you understand most of it but have a quick question it may get answered here ??

I have just updated to 3.8, gone to the Admin screen and after playing about with it for a few minutes just sat and stared in dismay. The new look is simply not as clear or easy to use as 3.7. Sorry.
I won’t repeat what others have said here. Just adding my vote to say please think again.

I read it. Thank you.

Also, after uploading my picture to gavatar it took about 20 minutes before it appeared on this forum; so not instant.