Make category page home page (keeping theme formatting)

timkeen
(@timkeen)

11 years, 8 months ago

Hi there,

I’m using WP and WPFolio 2 to host a small record label website here:
http://amiablehundred.com

I currently have it set up so that the home page redirects to the category page, which then displays in a nice way. However, the redirect time is unpredictable and tends to slow down the site’s loading.

I was just wondering if there’s a way of making the category page (/category/music) the homepage of the site, while keeping the formatting that the theme uses? I’ve tried this method from the archives, but I lose the formatting.

Thanks!

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Moderator keesiemeijer
(@keesiemeijer)

11 years, 8 months ago

this theme? http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/wpfolio

Not tested, but backup your themes index.php and replace it with a duplicate of your category.php re-named index.php.

Thread Starter timkeen
(@timkeen)

11 years, 8 months ago

Yeah, that theme, but there’s a slightly newer version out.

Thanks so much! That almost worked–the grid’s just changed slightly, there’s now two to a row instead of three. http://amiablehundred.com/
Do you know how I could alter that?

Thanks again

Moderator keesiemeijer
(@keesiemeijer)

11 years, 8 months ago

Where can I download the newer version?

Thread Starter timkeen
(@timkeen)

11 years, 8 months ago

here you go: https://github.com/laras126/wpfolio-two/downloads
Moderator keesiemeijer
(@keesiemeijer)

11 years, 8 months ago
Remove this from your stylesheet:
```
.news #content {
     width: 640px;
}
```
or replace it with:
```
.news #content {
     width: 100%;
}
```
Thread Starter timkeen
(@timkeen)

11 years, 8 months ago

Almost there!

Hmm, that works if I disable my child theme, but if I have my child theme enabled–even if EVERYTHING in the stylesheet is commented out–it still goes back to two per page.

I also lose most of the menu at the top if I turn my child theme off and use the edited style.css…
Moderator keesiemeijer
(@keesiemeijer)

11 years, 8 months ago
Don’t disable your child theme. put this in your child theme stylesheet (style.css):
```
.news #content {
     width: 100%;
}
```

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