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  • vfxhooker

    (@vfxhooker)


    Hello there,

    First things first… I have no idea what version of WP I’m using. It’s whateve Bluehost installs as of five minutes ago.

    I’m not sure if this is in the right forum or not. I have need of a VERY simple site.

    I don’t need a blog. I just need a landing page with an embedded vimeo movie, and a contact link.

    That’s it.

    I’m hosting with Bluehost. I have uninstalled and reinstalled wordpress a few times now and I realize I just need help. Right now I’m working with a fresh install. I have done nothing.

    In my previous attempt, I did manage to get a vimeo video embedded, but no matter how I edited the embed code the video was displaying at 640 x 360. I needed it to display at 1280 x 720. I used EmbedPress and even though it shows in the editor as being sized correctly, it would never show on the live page as the larger size.

    The other issue I had is that when the page would load, it looked as if all I had was a background image. I had to scroll down a bunch to get the homepage section, where I embedded the video, to show up. I want the video to be visible on the main page when I load it. In fact, there shouldn’t even be enough content on the page at this point hat a scrolling function should be active.

    Any help with this would be much appreciated.

    Thanks!

    -Josh

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  • paulwpxp

    (@paulwp)

    Just focus on 2 things.

    Since you want the embedded vid to show widely, make sure choosing a theme that has wide content width. WP has a parameter called content width and it is set by theme’s function. This parameter is the max width of embedded content. This one is a bit tricky because most themes don’t indicate the content width parameter in theme’s description, need to go into theme’s function to find out and it’s not easy for none-coder. Sometimes we find a theme that we really like excepts the content width, we can also override this with our own function.

    https://codex.wordpress.org/Content_Width

    The other thing is general WP setting. Any theme can be set as a simple one page (or a few pages) site. Just make a Page (not post) fill up the content and then set this page as static front home page.

    https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

    Create another page to be a contact page that you mentioned and the in the nav menu only put in this link to the content page and nothing else.

    • This reply was modified 6 years ago by paulwpxp.
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