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1. malcolmlo
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi everyone. I am new to the community and somewhat(not completely) new to wordpress in general.

   I manage our companies website on wordpress (although we have a more technical guy doing advanced template modifications etc.) and I have customized my own template for a personal project.

   I now want to attempt a bit more ambitious project. For a WP pro I think it would be fairly easy, and require maybe only a day or so of tinkering around. However, as I am not too adept at CSS/PHP I am not really sure where to start.

   The site I am modeling my layout from is this:
   wwww.lolsnaps.com

   Basically it is a photo sharing blog, but ultra simplistic. I want it to function just like lolsnaps but without the list menu on the left (thats version 2.0).

   The end result is fairly simplistic. Here are the goals:

   1. custom header image, 100% width (can manage this fairly easy myself)
   2. 1 image per wordpress post, with a title. No text necessary, and comments disabled.
   3. Main page: http://www.domain.com displays most recent post only. Stripped out menus/category navigation, etc.
   4. Arrows going to next most recent and previous posts.
   5. Sharing options below (can easily do this myself).

   The challenge I think will be getting the mainpage to display ONLY most recent post. and removing everything i dont need (which is basically everything. I only want header/footer, title, photo, previous/next buttons, and sharing functionality on the page. Everything else must go. Might consider keeping search, but not sure yet.

   The quickest/easiest way to achieve this I think would be to find a template that does most of this already. However i have yet to find one. If you know of one, by all means would love to see it!

   Otherwise I will have to do it myself, so any advice on where to start, what to read, or even some code tips would help.

   If I comment out parts of the main templates, is this the best way to remove them from the interface? If I update WP will this break things?

   Thanks in advance!

2. malcolmlo
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hmmm, no response. Am I asking in the right place?

   If not forgive me, i am new to these forums.

3. Digital Raindrops
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi Malcolm,
   You are asking in the right place but have not given enough information, there are thousands of themes which one are you using?.

   Google and look at some magazine themes these are often pay themes but save a lot of work, make sure they are "WordPress 3".

   Something like Repro for $35 may be close, search for Premium Magazine themes.

   For the free themes here, I do not know how good these themes are but research a little, find a theme and Google it for good or bad press.

   HTH

   David

4. malcolmlo
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi David,

   Thanks alot for the response. This is kind of close to what I need.

   I will have a look at it shortly. But to explain better, here is an image of what I am looking for:

   http://img412.imageshack.us/i/screenhunter02jan051914.jpg/

   The idea is: the home page of the site is 1 image and a menu on the left. The image is actually the most recent "post page". I can code into the post template forward and back buttons myself as seen in the screenshot.

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