jahmin

Hi,

thanks for looking for me. I had to abandon the template as I ran out of time. A pity as I prefer it to the one I’ve ended up using, but a line had to be drawn. The pages are private because the people I did it for aren’t really to go public yet.

Thanks again

Laurie

Thanks, I’ve done that, the static pages works with 2014, and with another theme I have installed, but not with Pictorico. I also deleted the installations of Pictorico and of my child theme and reinstalled/recreated those too…. the problem must be somewhere deeper…. lord knows where

thanks Chip, I have installed Jet Pack but it is not active currently, will just deleting it sort the problem or should I something else to un-do what it is doing? (worried that just deleting it will leave the problem with less options for solving it).

L

thanks Jose for your efforts, i’ll have a go and see what happens.

sorry Chip for posting in the wrong place, i don’t know my way around, will have to work harder at learning.

hi yeah, it’s set on the specific page I want to use – thanks.

I’ve ben posting on the theme page too, no replies in the past four days ??

ta for your assistance

I also tried creating a more specific template including the code from page.php and giving it the id of the page I wish to use as the home page “page-13.php” – that had zero effect also. It seems that the theme is looking elsewhere.

Hi guys, yeah I did check the hierarchy and have tried using the php code form page.php in a template called front-page.php in the hope that this would have the correct result. it seems to make absolutely zero difference.

should this method work in principle then? (I’m not even sure if that is the case!!)

thanks!!

L

PLEASE HELP ME!! I can’t work out which php file is controlling the layout of the static homepage in this theme – i can rename any number of pages or add my own home-page.php and the makes little or no difference. It’s driving me crazy – especially as I am sure the answer is obvious.

Thank you.

The header shows in both, but it is displayed differently – you can see that on “https://www.migrantalert.org.uk/contact/” (2400×700)px it is relatively more ‘zoomed-in” than on “https://www.migrantalert.org.uk/who/values/” (1200x350px)

thanks

hi,

i tried that, finding all instances of .home and deleting them from the stylesheet and then copying the result into my child theme sytlesheet and removing the @import line from it, it doesn’t remove the grid structure from the home page – only changes the way the grid item(s) display – showing only text and no image.

am i applying your suggestion incorrectly?

Thanks for this Kathryn.

I think it’s going to be beyond my limited skills!

Can I ask one more thing? (I won’t say a last thing).

I want to create a static home page that appears more or less the same as the normal pages. I have created a home.php in my child theme to over ride the index.php of the original theme and copied the php code from the page.php template of the original theme; nevertheless it still appears as it does (https://www.migrantalert.org.uk/) – using the grid format. Do you have any suggestions as to how to change that?

many thanks!

Hi Kathryn,

Thanks for the suggestion. It works, to a degree. The thumb is filled correctly, but the header now doesn’t all show.

compare

https://www.migrantalert.org.uk/contact/ (image at 2400×700)

with

https://www.migrantalert.org.uk/who/values/ (image at 1200×350)

I thought it might be a CSS issue so i edited .header-image the original was

.header-image {
	background-position: center;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	-webkit-background-size: cover;
	-moz-background-size: cover;
	-o-background-size: cover;
	background-size: cover;
	height: 100%;
}

I changed it to

.header-image {
	background-position: center;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	-webkit-background-size: cover;
	-moz-background-size: cover;
	-o-background-size: cover;
	background-size: cover;
	height: 350px;
	width: auto;
}

made no difference! ??

Hi Kathryn, sorry I made the test posts I had written private. I’ve published them again now.

Thanks

That said, it would be pretty good, if it could be done. Currently the ‘static page’ option on the theme shows a single page as a thumb; if I could get it to show four in a row or, better, two rows of four …. I’d also want to deactivate the slider for the home page (can’t remember how I switched it on now!)

Cheers,

Hi Kathryn,

Thanks for the response. I think I was beginning to realise that it was a bigger deal than I’d hope!

The site will be largely static, and that was the main reason for thinking of doing using pages instead of posts

The site it: https://www.migrantalert.org.uk, but I think I might drop this idea and pursue something more readily achievable…

Thanks!