Title: Customizing the plugin Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Customizing the plugin * Resolved [Nizzylikes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nizzylikes/) * (@nizzylikes) * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-plugin-1/) * Hi there! * I’m really glad that I found this plugin, thanks for providing! * I’ve been playing around with it a bit and I managed to hide the titles of the posts. But right now there’s a big space underneath the thumbnail in which the title is supposed to be. If I hover over the thumbnail, the space underneath it also lights up. Do you happen to know how to get rid of the space? * Also, there’s this blog (I happen to know that she uses your plugin!) and I would LOVE to recreate the look of her related posts! The blog is called [http://www.carlycristman.com](http://www.carlycristman.com). You’ll notice that there’s no space around her thumbnails that turns a different color when you hover over. It’s just the thumbnail itself that lights up! I’d love to have that as well, do you know how to achieve this? * And last but not least (sorry for all the questions!), how do I get the related posts to show up on my homepage? (Where all the new blog posts are previewed) * Thanks a lot! * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/related-posts-by-zemanta/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/related-posts-by-zemanta/) Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Thread Starter [Nizzylikes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nizzylikes/) * (@nizzylikes) * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-plugin-1/#post-5589789) * I just figured it out!! I got the clean square thumbnails without titles or abundant space right now! * But I’d still like to know how to create the hover effect in which the thumbnail turns lighter! 🙂 And how to get the related posts on my main page! * Thread Starter [Nizzylikes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nizzylikes/) * (@nizzylikes) * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-plugin-1/#post-5589823) * I also figured out how to do the hover effect, but I’m still unsure how to add these related posts to the preview posts on the homepage! * Also now that I got (almost) everything the way I want, the plugin skips the first thumbnail! It’s just a white empty space where the first thumbnail should be. The rest is fine! Here’s a screenshot: [http://oi62.tinypic.com/2vsf8z5.jpg](http://oi62.tinypic.com/2vsf8z5.jpg).. Notice how there’s a big open space before the first thumbnail? It happens to every post! * Thanks! * [PetraP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petrap/) * (@petrap) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-plugin-1/#post-5590059) * Hey, * thanks for reaching out and really sorry for this unintentional silent treatment! I have checked out that blog, but would you be so kind and give me a link to yours, so that I can take a closer look? Also if you can make a screenshot of( y)our plugin settings? For that homepage issue, you can take a look at this thread: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anyway-to-get-it-on-the-main-page?replies=2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anyway-to-get-it-on-the-main-page?replies=2) * Let me know how it goes, take care and have a lovely day, Petra * Thread Starter [Nizzylikes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nizzylikes/) * (@nizzylikes) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-plugin-1/#post-5590068) * Hi Petra, * Thanks for the reply! My blog is [http://www.nizzylikes.com](http://www.nizzylikes.com) As you can see, the first thumbnail doesn’t show on any post. When I enable the titles, the title of the first post does show up, just not the image. Also the fifth and sixth thumbnail don’t show up, not even when I add them myself (also no title). * Here’s some screenshots of the plugin settings. [http://i62.tinypic.com/zuag4.png](http://i62.tinypic.com/zuag4.png) [http://i57.tinypic.com/vmvpmg.png](http://i57.tinypic.com/vmvpmg.png) [http://i60.tinypic.com/96dy7r.png](http://i60.tinypic.com/96dy7r.png) [http://i62.tinypic.com/2l918vc.png](http://i62.tinypic.com/2l918vc.png) * Hope you can help me out! * [PetraP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petrap/) * (@petrap) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-plugin-1/#post-5590086) * Hey, * thanks for getting back to me – I have checked out your blog and as far as I can tell, you have already figured it out on your own or am I missing something out? There are no spaces, hovering works, all that is missing are related posts on your home page…and I have noticed on other thread you do not have main.php. Do you have index.php or content.php files perhaps? * Take care and have a lovely day, Petra * Thread Starter [Nizzylikes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nizzylikes/) * (@nizzylikes) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-the-plugin-1/#post-5590087) * Oh you’re right! I used the WordPress Related Posts plugin instead, and that’s how I fixed the problem! 🙂 Thanks for your help anyway! 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