volewriter

It’s OK, I got in again. Also, rwaynick’s tip sorted the photo, so I’m feeling a lot calmer. Think my brain was scrambling there for a while! Please could admin mark this question as resolved? And THANK you, everyone.

Oh, and now the damn Dashboard’s locked me out. I could weep.

Oh, I will give that one last shot, rwaynick.

You see, I don’t even know how to do a back-up.

I’m going to go into the jobs section and see if someone will come in and sort it for me. I’ve spent hours and hours on it, and tried so many things but the bottom line is, I don’t know what I’m doing.

I’ve tried to make a new home page, one that I could edit like the others, but I don’t know how to add the menus. I’ve tried to edit the page by treating it as a blog post and going into Blogs, but my Dashboard’s saying I have no posts. I’ve tried to make my Home Page a static page, but the drop-down menu I get when I attempt this only gives me the names of other pages to save it as. So I’m giving up.

Thank you very much for all your help.

The trouble is, I don’t get any of those options shown in laliz’s screenshot. Mine looks like this: https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/165371/664a5fb35a4b1719abcb1662d7ab1814

And if you select a static page as a Home Page, will it have the picture-shrinking and enlarging facilities like the other pages?

I want to try, but I’m nervous I’ll ruin what I have.

Wow, thank you, laliz. I successfully swapped the photo by following your instructions.

However, because I can only do it apparently by pasting in code, which I’m not very good at, it’s come out too small. And because the editing facilities on this page aren’t like the ones on the other pages, I can’t play about with the size to get the proportions right.

So is there any way I can change my Home Page so it’s got the same edit facilities as the rest of the pages? For instance, if I changed it to a Static Page, would it get its own name and be reachable from the Dashboard alongside the others? And would I be able to shrink or enlarge the images as easily as the ones on those?

wslade, I have posted on the theme’s support page but no one’s replied yet.

rwaynick, I wondered if my homepage might count as a blog post and then I could edit it that way, but when I checked, my dashboard said I had no blog posts.

Thank you very much for the detailed reply.

I went into Dashboard, Settings and Reading, and found the check was against ‘Your Latest Posts’. I changed it to ‘Static Page’ but when I looked at the options listed under Front Page, the only ones that came up were the other pages which I can already access. My Front Page isn’t named or listed.

I’m really flummoxed.

“Your home page picture is likely in a page along with the other brief content you see to the left of your picture. It may not be named Home but a look through your Pages should locate the correct page.”

Thank you very much for taking the time to reply. The only options I have down the left hand side, though, are Site Title, Colours, Header Image, Background Image, Navigation, Widgets and Static Front Page. I’ve looked into them all, but none of them address the big photo of me. https://www.katelongbooks.com/

Should I be looking somewhere else?

Ah, I didn’t realise I needed to do that. Thank you!