header image (bridge pic)

The picture of the bridge in the live demo is added to the first post as a featured image. In a post editor screen, there is a featured image meta box on the right side underneath the Tags meta box. Use that to upload the image that will show at the top of the post like the bridge image.

Gifs should work.

can this post be made a sticky post?

Yes ??

making progress, but not seeing how to make the post sticky to the top of the page

I am trying to get this gif (final will be smaller) to be sticky on the top of the page

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Okay, I’m seeing it in the first post which you’ve made sticky. Did you figure it out?

Yes, sort of.

Don’t know where the orange outline came from, it is not on the bridge pic.

Can you turn on/off the date/time of the post?

Can you turn on/off the More when there is not more to the post?

Thanks

You have been very helpful and responsive.

No problem. To get rid of the orange outline, you’ll just need to create and upload a child theme. I have instructions for that here: https://www.competethemes.com/documentation/ignite-knowledgebase

Then add the following code to the style.css file in the child theme to remove the orange outline:

.excerpt.sticky, .sticky.entry {outline: none;}

As for the other stuff, what’s the end goal? Do you want to remove that stuff for all posts or just one?

I understand how to take of the outline, thank you.

I’m finding that when I make the post sticky I cannot change the font size, bold, italic, color, but these changes do show up on when I click to view the post itslef.

My ideal goal would be to get a sticky featured image without post title, without the boarder, author, or more button showing for the sticky post.

Then all regular posts would be as normal.

Can we change the theme background color in the Ignite Plus version?

Can we change the spacing from the top post to the heading?

Thanks again. I like your theme, it is very clean which is hard to find.

Phil

Glad you like the theme Phil, thanks for using Ignite ??

To answer your questions:

I’m finding that when I make the post sticky I cannot change the font size, bold, italic, color, but these changes do show up on when I click to view the post itslef.

The style changes won’t show up in the excerpts. The excerpts are designed to strip the styles to keep a consistent look.

My ideal goal would be to get a sticky featured image without post title, without the boarder, author, or more button showing for the sticky post.

The following CSS added to your child theme will accomplish that:

.sticky .excerpt-meta-top, .sticky .excerpt-header, .sticky .more-link, .sticky .excerpt-categories, .sticky .excerpt-tags {display: none;}

If you also want to remove the excerpt, use this:

.sticky .excerpt-meta-top, .sticky .excerpt-header, .sticky .excerpt-content, .sticky .excerpt-categories, .sticky .excerpt-tags {display: none;}

Those styles are specific to the sticky post only.

Can we change the theme background color in the Ignite Plus version?

No, not right now. However, that would be a good addition.

Can we change the spacing from the top post to the heading?

Yes, you can increase the padding-top of .main which contains all the posts. Make sure to increase the padding-top on the sidebar as well for a consistent look.