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1. Dutch Von Shed
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   I have a WP website at http://www.thebikeshed.cc

   I've used a WP template called CRAFT, and although I am in no way a web designer or in any way technical, I have made it all work (with some help) and even customised a few pages by playing with code through trial and error. (eek).

   I've now reached the limits of my abilities, and would like to change a few simple (?) things, but I think I need help from an expert - online or in the flesh. I'm based in London, so I thought finding someone would be easy - but apparently not.

   If you look at the site for reference, he changes I want are these:

   1. Make each post thumbnail on the Homepage about 20% bigger (losing a little of the left margin).

   2. Under each thumbnail, reduce the number of lines of copy displayed from each post from around 8 to a maximum of 5.

   3. Make each "New Post" thumbnail active, clicking through to the post (as per the "Featured Posts" carousel).

   4. Make the archive pages display in the same layout as the homepage.
   (with "Next page" displayed at the bottom of each page.

   5. Make the category pages display in the same layout as the homepage.

   I'm sure many of you will say - ahh that's all easy, but I
   m afraid it's beyond me, and I need assistance. happy to buy a beer of five to anyone that can help me out. This is a personal blog, not a business, but I'd happily pay to get it just right.

   Thanks

   Dutch

2. bheadrick
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   It looks like the theme has a custom function to resize the images to a specific size, so I'm guessing you'd just need to edit the home.php or other files referenced there to make the thumbnails bigger. Then, you'd need to make some css chages to make room for that.

   for the excerpts below the images, it's difficult to know how this theme is creating the excerpt, - but you'd probably need to change the code in home.php to tell it to have a smaller excerpt (excerpts are generated as a certain number of words, not lines).

   making the thumbnails clickable should be pretty easy - just add the same link code that's already on the title.

   The archive changes can be done mostly by updating the css.

   These are fairly simple changes, but not something I'd recommend for someone not familiar with php. I could make these changes in an hour or two. It would be a child theme that you could install while leaving the main theme in tact in case there are any theme updates in the future.

3. Dutch Von Shed
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   That's extremely helpful guidance and also a very kind offer. How should I contact you?

4. bheadrick
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   http://www.bryanheadrick.com/contact

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