1 picture for the entire page
Do you mean the entire viewing area being displayed or just a given page being displayed within the viewing area of a visitor’s acreen?
place buttons to pages where I want them
Where do you want them? WordPress can display widgets for adding menus, text, links and all kinds of things in many places, but placing buttons on top of an image could become rather tricky.
understand. I will settle for a header that is the top third of the picture. below this a strip of buttons and below this the rest of the picture. I can split the picture to accommodate this. I have searched for a theme like this but unable to find. is there a theme? as I am new to wordpress and this project I will leave the tricky stuff until I have more experience.
thanks
a header (picture)
a strip of buttons (Menu Bar)
the rest of the picture.
Almost any theme can do that, and you might try looking at some of these:
https://wordpress.org/themes/search/one%20column/
If you cannot find one that already has the Menu Bar beneath the Header, that kind of tweak in a Child Theme should only require moving some code (swapping the positions of the Header and Menu Bar) without having to write anything. Then, just put the remainder of your image on your Home page without adding anything else and you should have what you are asking about other than whatever you might want to do in relation to Site Title and Tag Line.
note: As you look at themes, I would assume most with Sidebars will have optional page templates that do *not* show the Sidebar. Also, widget areas typically only show when they actually have something in them.
ok I will try again. as I have watched videos I can not find how to create a sight similar to what I want. I cannot find a way to post pic here to show. how do I solve this.
too many avenues to search is there a quicker way.
R2D2 is as close as I can get. don’t know how to put a pic on the text section of this theme.
If your new and are just starting out on WP, and if you are planning on customizing your site I would suggest creating a child theme. Links below. You can add a background using an image easily with a child theme. Take a look at the links below. Then proceed from there.
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The best way to make changes like this to a theme is to use a child theme, so your tweaks won’t be overwritten when updating the theme. Here are some guides in case you haven’t made one before:
http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/wordpress-child-theme-tutorial
http://op111.net/53/
http://vimeo.com/39023468
You should also check this out for customizing your site.
http://themesandco.com/snippet/firebug-best-spent-6-minutes/
http://getfirebug.com
Then to edit this editor is fantastic. You can edit multiple files at the same time.
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
And this FTP program is tops in my book.
http://www.coreftp.com/
As #leejosepho said, Just about any theme will do what you want, especially if you learn to style for yourself, that’s why I posted the previous links. One of the best supported themes however is a theme called Customizr you might want to check it out.
R2D2 is as close as I can get.
R2D2 is a Child Theme, and that is fine unless you want to edit any of its files such as questas_admin has mentioned. At that point, you would first want a Child Theme of your own in order to protect it from updates. One way to do that would be to modify a copy of R2D2 as your own by renaming it and its folder.
don’t know how to put a pic on the text section of this theme.
If you are talking about a background image, you should be able to add one at Dashboard > Appearance > Background where you can make various customizations to any theme. Then to add images on pages, that can be done while editing a page there at your Dashboard.
