Customizing Front Page/Title Page Panels/Sections

Hi Sarah,

I would like to know how I can add text or embed a video in the “Title” section or the “News” section.

There isn’t an easy way to do this, since those panels are designed in a very specific way and to be displayed in a specific order.

I don’t see any posts displayed in the News panel – will you be having a blog?

One option is to hide the Title & News panels in the Customizer’s Front Page Visibility panel, so that the first panel that appears is the Page panel.

In the page editor, you would embed your trailer and add text, and they’ll be the first things you see on the site.

If you do intend to have blog posts, you could then use a plugin like the Display Posts shortcode to display posts below those other elements in the same panel.

Another workaround if you wanted to keep your title panel visible, is to add extra text via some custom CSS. Something like:

#header-branding::after {
  content: "My extra text here.";
  font-size: 26px;
  color: #fff;
  display: block;
}

If you go the CSS route, don’t edit the theme files directly, otherwise your changes will be overwritten every time the theme is updated to the latest version.

Since you’re already using Jetpack, an easy way to add custom CSS is to activate the Custom CSS module. You’ll then add your custom CSS in the new stylesheet editor that’ll appear in your dashboard, under Appearance > Edit CSS.

Thanks for your response Kathryn, I appreciate it!

I am a bit of a novice with WordPress so thanks for bearing with me.

My pleasure!

I don’t have posts in the News panel because it isn’t clear to me how to post there – but ideally I would like content to appear in that panel. When I go to the Front Page editor and add text or video the content appears on the bottom panel – (the image where the lake and dock appear). I am not sure where there is an open field to add content to the News panel.

You can add posts to your blog (aka the News section) by going to Posts > Add New in your dashboard.

http://www.mooseheadswickedgoodplan.com/wp-admin/edit.php

Once you start adding posts, links to them will display automatically in the News panel on your front page.

Good luck and let me know how it goes!

You’re welcome! If you get stuck just let us know.