vanessajw

thanks for this insight, I’ll check it out.

I’ve only found posts in brief can show on a page of their own call it what you want, say ‘posts’ or in your case ‘news’ or in settings-reading-eg homepage, or a page you’ve called ‘home’ or ‘about’ whether it’s word press’s auto one or one you’ve made yourself. I make my own to save confusion.

ps I like your photo slider, which plugin did you choose may I ask? And the social icons I like too…..which plugin for them?

ps remember to add the posts page into your menus controls and click the tick to add it to your menu design. see dashboard-appearance-menu, then tick your ‘posts’ page to ‘add to menu’ and you see you can then drag it around to place it where you want on your menu bar.

create a new page, call it ‘posts’ but leave it blank. Then go back to your dashboard-settings-reading, click on the reading then you’ll see some choices about whether you show your lists of posts. Create a few and you’ll see that you can choose what content page you use for ‘home’ and which page for ‘posts’. it’s easier at the start to create a new blank page with some blurb about you, call it ‘home’ for example.

I don’t use the auto one called ‘about’. Just create two pages, a one about you, call it home say, and a blank page just called ‘posts’ and then go to the settings-reading page and select the down arrow, front page shows ‘static page’ and you can then select which static page you’ve made e.g. one about you….and then another page for the posts….experiment and you’ll see. Continue reading link will only link back to the page that your posts is already set to display which maybe already the ‘home’ or ‘about’ page. But create some new blank pages called home and posts and you’ll see more options. Then the posts will display one under the other on the posts page in a brief form and then you click in further or ‘continue reading’ to read the whole post.

ah just found it, I changed the visibility on the post edit sidebar bit to ‘sticky’ and the whole lot go to a nice long list one under the other, ok.

I’m looking at this query to see if this helps.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/move-sidebar-under-main-post?replies=9

I found adding any code to functions.php file in my child theme, shut down the whole dashboard and didn’t work at all, a backup replacement was needed, so if you adding new code to functions worked do let us know. I haven’t used FTP upload yet to do this.

I’ve done the child theme, but I haven’t yet set up FTP so I can’t add new files other than add css to the child theme. I’m a bit nervous of tinkering any more….but I did FTP with Dreamweaver a while back ok.

yes and this audio link doesn’t recommend coding in the functions file at all, but putting the code in the plugins instead….has Konstantin tried that and does it work?

https://yourwebsiteengineer.com/?s=functions

Or has anyone tried this creating a custom plugin which recommended by the podcast team https://justintadlock.com/archives/2011/02/02/creating-a-custom-functions-plugin-for-end-users

yes I’ve read what is supposed to happen and how to add widgets areas to the theme, when I’ve got my upload blank functions file with the new functions code in place in it

(not the parent functions.php file, which every time I added code to the whole site shut off with syntax parse error and a backup copy was needed to replace),

but I was wondering if anyone using Expound has tried it yet….adding a child function file with just the extra widget code functions and whether it really worked?

Has anyone actually created a blank functions php file in their child theme and added a footer widget yet and had it working?

yes thanks I’ve got the child theme and css in that stylesheet ok, I just need to set up the FTP bit next, when I feel strong enough to try! I’ll get back to you all when I’ve done that.

Thanks my pleasure….it’s hard going but I am learning code power gradually…..

Thanks for your contributions I need a few days off WP tinkering it’s doing my brain in and it’s scary.