What is this page element called?

  • bridgetconn

    (@bridgetconn)


    12 years, 8 months ago

    Hi there…

    I’ve been searching for days for a theme that I can customize that has a particular element to it which has been very difficult for me to find. I want to have a text area on the main index/blog page that doesn’t show up on any static pages. I want to have it set apart stylistically from the posts — I tried some adventures in sticky post styling, but that didn’t work out. Basically, it’s the “Welcome to My Blog” section of this theme:

    http://demo.themespreview.com/?wptheme=003/Spotty

    (But unfortunately, this theme malfunctions in 3.2.1 so I can’t use it)

    If I knew a term for what this section is called, maybe I could better search for the basic theme style I need that includes this area. Thanks so much!

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    How do you intend to populate this text area?

    Thread Starter bridgetconn

    (@bridgetconn)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    I just need a few sentences of text in it to describe the company. Later on this morning I found this plug-in that seems to be working:

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blog-introduction/

    So I guess what I am asking about is called an intro. I’m still trying to figure out some specifics about how to style it, but I think I can get that part down.

    Still any themes or ways to search for themes with these intros would be helpful, thanks!

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    You could add this text directly to the theme’s index.php template file – before the Loop. If you placed it in a div with its own unique class, styling it would be dead easy.

    Alternative, you could add a widget ready area to the index.php template file and use a Text widget for the actual text content. Again, set up a unique class as part of the sidebar registration that you can use to style on.

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