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OK, I figured out how to add the “Font Sizes” button to the Tinymce editor menu, so that helps. It doesn’t give me the ability to change the colors, but it’s something, anyway.

For instance, on this page, https://carriage-house-inn.com.50-22-24-130.servelink.com/?page_id=23 I would like to have some of the text – the list of awards, the quote from the magazine blog – to be in a somewhat different looking font to set it apart from the first paragraph. Probably a bit smaller. The only options open in the tinymce editor are Paragraph, Heading 1, Heading 2 (which both look pretty much the same to me), Heading 3 which is smaller, but solid caps and the lines are spaced pretty far apart, and then it lists Heading 4,5, and 6, but it doesn’t appear like they are any different from each other. I’d like to play with some different color choices and font properties. I have done some limited work with css, but I don’t want to create a mess by changing the wrong properties.

OK, I did it – and it worked! Thanks!

Sorry, didn’t mean to be impatient. I made the change you suggested, but it just isn’t working. The introductory text shows, but it’s in a hideous no-man’s land between the top header and the “Comment” box, and no actual posts from that category show at all…just the comment box.

I really don’t think it’s worth it. I just thought it would be nice to have some introductory text before the posts, and I really didn’t think it should be all that difficult. I’ll just leave it as it is and hope the client doesn’t ask for it. This is my first WordPress site and it’s giving me a huge headache.

No ideas? This is what I have right now in my blog page template:

<?php
/**
Template Name: Blog-page
 */

get_header(); ?>

		<div id="primary" class="content-area">
		<div id="content" class="site-content" role="main">

				<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

					<?php get_template_part( 'content', 'page' ); ?>

<?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>

				<?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;

$args = array(
	// Change these category SLUGS to suit your use.
	'category_name' => 'Breakfast',
	'paged' => $paged
);

$list_of_posts = new WP_Query( $args );
?>
<?php if ( $list_of_posts->have_posts() ) : ?>
	<?php /* The loop */ ?>
	<?php while ( $list_of_posts->have_posts() ) : $list_of_posts->the_post(); ?>
		<?php // Display content of posts ?>
		<?php get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>
	<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php else : ?>
	<?php get_template_part( 'content', 'none' ); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

			</div><!-- #content -->

		</div><!-- #primary -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Yes, I did that – I changed ‘category_name’ => ‘music, videos’ to ‘category_name’ => ‘Breakfast’ because the name of the category I want to display on that page is Breakfast.

Also, why does the page look so different from my other pages? It seems as if it’s lost the customizations that I’ve applied with the stlye.css editor – see how I want the page to look here: https://carriage-house-inn.com.50-22-24-130.servelink.com/?cat=4 Except I want a single paragraph to appear above the start of the posts from that category.

Ummmmmm, well…..now the page’s content is showing up, but the posts in the blog category I want are not, and the page looks hideous! https://carriage-house-inn.com.50-22-24-130.servelink.com/?page_id=482

I have created a custom page template based on page.php in the main TwentyEleven folder, and put it in my child theme’s folder. This is what I have so far:

<?php
/**
Template Name: Blog-page

get_header(); ?>

		<div id="primary">
			<div id="content" role="main">

				<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

					<?php get_template_part( 'content', 'page' ); ?>

					<?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>

				<?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>

			</div><!-- #content -->
		</div><!-- #primary -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>

So now what do I need to add/delete/change in order to make it display the text I want above the blog posts?

What I don’t understand from that codex is exactly what I need to add to my custom template in order to have it do what I want. There’s so much extraneous stuff in that example and I can’t sort it all out.

I have two categories of posts, one category is displayed on one page, the other on another page. I just want a simple paragraph of text above the posts on each page. I’m using [catlist name=whatsnew] on one page and [catlist name=recipes] on the other page to call up the posts from each category, but the text I entered above those bits of code isn’t showing when I view the page.

Yes, I have a child theme. But the only things in the child theme folder are header.php, footer.php and style.css. Oh, there is one page template I created months and months ago to display an events calendar, but I don’t even recall how I did that! Bear with me, I started this project almost a year ago, then had to wait for the client to be ready to proceed. Everything I learned back then has sort of faded.

That’s helpful….it sounds like what I want to do. But I don’t really understand how to implement this: “If you are using a different theme, you need to replicate the HTML structure of your own theme within this template.” I’ve made some minor alterations to my theme’s appearance by using the theme’s css editor, but I really haven’t tried making a custom page template.

That worked! Perfect! Thank you, CrouchingBruin!

This is a testing server for the site. The client’s domain is not yet pointed there.

I had that problem, too, until I changed the maximum width of the slideshow in the settings.

Also, before updating, I used to be able to copy/paste the destination address from the text on the page. Now that doesn’t work either, requiring the user to manually enter the address of the business. This is very inconvenient.