http://forums.developdaly.com/topic/making-default-home-use-frontpage-template-et-al Support en-US Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:07:34 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://forums.developdaly.com/search.php http://forums.developdaly.com/topic/making-default-home-use-frontpage-template-et-al#post-178 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:14:24 +0000 cautery 178@http://forums.developdaly.com/ <p>Cool... I knew about creating a page and putting the template against it, but I had not found the "Reading" options... Thanks... Now have a page with the FP template served at the root URL...</p> <p>I also finally figured out what needed to be done to "fix" the excerpts and headline categories... Apparently, there must be some no dupe code in the template... I didn't have enough posts to populate the two additional post features.... </p> <p>If you have the "featured", "excerpts", and 4 "headlines categories" set, you have to have AT LEAST five (5) posts to populate the first excerpt position, and nine (9) posts to populate the first Headline Category.</p> <p>I need to put together a content import file to populate my prototype installs to test, config, edit, etc... Do you know of a good file to use that will populate everything, exercise all the typography, et al.?</p> <p>Baby Blue Search Field: OK... Browser is Firefox v3.6<br /> "Home" page with FP template does NOT have blue field. (Set as HOME in Reading)<br /> "About" page with DEFAULT template gives blue field<br /> "About" page with FP template gives blue field<br /> "About" page with FP OR Default template AND set to POSTS Page in Reading does NOT have blue field (setting POSTS Page overrides FP template of course)<br /> Clicking on ANY Category Page link in CAT NAV gives blue field.</p> <p>NOTE: As each page is clicked, the field starts out the "correct" darker color, but then changes to the blue color. It takes a bit to change color... like the field color loads late in the page load.</p> <p>The HTML code for the color is #DDEAF8 if this helps... </p> http://forums.developdaly.com/topic/making-default-home-use-frontpage-template-et-al#post-177 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:07:11 +0000 Patrick Daly 177@http://forums.developdaly.com/ <p>1. Create a page called "Home" or whatever you'd like to call it and then while editing that page look for the meta box that allows you to select a template. By default it says, "Default Template". Instead, select "Front Page". Then from the Settings tab go to Reading. You can change "Home" to be your front page.</p> <p>2. Let me know if have anymore luck after following the previous step.</p> <p>What browser are you seeing the blue search field in? </p> http://forums.developdaly.com/topic/making-default-home-use-frontpage-template-et-al#post-176 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:16:09 +0000 cautery 176@http://forums.developdaly.com/ <p>Liking Malleable! Questions though...</p> <p>1) Can't figure out how to make the "Home" page use the FrontPage Template.<br /> 2) Put the FP template against the "About" page to test, and got the slider to show 2 of 2 posts... but I can't get the excerpts or headlines sections of the template to work.</p> <p><a href="http://s155367598.onlinehome.us/" rel="nofollow">http://s155367598.onlinehome.us/</a></p> <p>Oh... and I will try to fix/figure it out it if I can as I customize the color pallette, but the search form field background color is the dark color on the default "home" page, but changes to a bluish color on single post, about (FP template), etc...</p> <p>I've got a long way to go to catch up in the understanding of how the WP framework flows thru Hybrid, and thence to the child theme... I understand the concept, but I am having to learn a lot of new stuff as I go.... PHP, MySQL, more than basic CSS, etc... Diggin' it though. </p>