rogeratsf

Okay, I stand corrected. My site does not have a tag cloud. In it’s place, I have another post. Other than that, there is no significant difference from the screenshot.

Here’s the bottom line as I see. WordPress began as a blogging platform. But increasingly people are using it to create websites. The site that I’ve create is a website, not a blog. It is relatively static and I want to have total control over what appears on the home page. Specifically, I want to dictate exactly which photos appear in the slider, and exactly which posts end up in the boxes below the slider. The procedures I’ve outlined above will accomplish this, I believe. I also believe that there are others who are interested in this level of control.

Websites have different requirements from blogs. So the procedures required to create each are also different. Fortunately, WP and the Pinboard theme are flexible enough to satisfy the requirements of both.

Alexander and Martyr13,

The reason for my original question was not merely to resolve a specific design problem. I was also pointing out that I could find no documentation that explains how create a site that looks exactly like the screen shot accompanying the theme. I never really got an adequate answer to either question: existence of documentation, or explanation of how to do it. Meanwhile, I figured it out for myself. Don’t know if this is the “correct” method, but it worked for me.

If I get feedback that this works for someone else, then I will designate the thread as resolved.

To create the slider:

1. Select the images that you want to use. Images should all be the same dimensions, and the width should be at least the width of your site.

2. Create a post for each image, add one image to each post, and designate that image as the Featured Image for the post.

3. Set the post visibility to Public and Sticky and save and publish the post.

4. Under Appearance / Theme Options / General / Home Page / Sticky Posts Slider : be sure to check “Display a slider of sticky posts on the front page”

To create the three boxes under the slider:

1. Under Appearance / Theme Options / Layout : set Content Columns to 3

2. Create a new category and called it “Portfolio”

3. Under Appearance / Theme Options / General / Home Page / Exclude Portfolio : check “Exclude Portfolio Category from main loop”. Directly under that, select “Portfolio” as your Portfolio Category.

4. Assign the “Portfolio” category to EVERY post in your site EXCEPT the three that you want to show up in the boxes under the slider.

5. To get a nice symmetrical design for the 3 posts that will appear in the boxes, be sure you have a Featured Image, and the images all have the same dimensions.

Well, the above works for me. If it works for you, let me know.

Here’s my site:

https://www.williameichenberger.com

Roger

I also have the same question. Wouldn’t it make sense to consolidate all similar questions into a single thread? Is there any documentation that explains how to achieve the look that resembles the screenshot that comes with the theme? In short:

1. an explanation of how to designate which pictures end up on the slider, and how to activate the slider.

2. how to get three posts (and only three) to be featured under the slider AND, if possible, how to designate which posts end up being featured there.

https://www.williameichenberger.com/site/

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