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It seems those widgets are hard coded into sidebar.php, you could remove them manually, or try adding other widgets to the Primary Sidebar. Those default widgets will be replaced by whatever widget you use there. I have just checked, it works on my test install.

The theme is widget ready, it just has a fallback for when no widgets are placed in the sidebar.

You should be able to remove those from your widgets settings screen in the admin, the specific widgets you are looking for are, Meta, Archives and Categories. Just drag them from the Primary Sidebar area to anywhere else, or open the settings for the widgets and click on the delete link.

If you get stuck, Appearance Widgets Screen

Hope that helps

Well, if it’s a link in your navigation menu, you can add the blog page and change the reading settings like I described, but if it’s just a normal link, from anywhere in your front page, then doing what lockettpots said is best.

@joshpuffpuff, are you using a separate static page (one not generated by WordPress) in normal html and css, or are you using a static front page set in the Reading settings under the Settings menu in the admin?

@sally@eventsatbrookhills.com, you usually won’t find help for premium themes in these forums, but as a start, try extracting the .zip you downloaded from ThemeForest. There are a lot of files inside that zip, including the actual theme .zip. In this case would be something like modern-elegance.zip, you should upload that via the WordPress admin, or extract it, and then upload via FTP.

WordPress looks for the style.css in the main theme directory, it is what defines a WordPress theme, the theme name, author, version, tags, etc…

If you’re still stuck, contact the theme author.

Hope that helps

@emreotay, that’s a Tumblog theme on tumblr. Try searching in the WordPress theme directory for “post formats”. There are quite a few themes that support post formats, with similar layouts to what you are looking for.

Pick one (or two), install it, look at the theme options, if there are any, perhaps you could get it to look like the one you found.

Google the term Tumblog, it should give you a better idea of what it’s all about.

Hope that helps

@kisarune, I agree with alchymyth, it should work that way by default, but looking at the loop, it seems the it needs one more conditional, is_category().

Try this:

In your loop.php find these lines:

<?php if ( is_search() ) : // Display excerpts for search. ?>
    <div class="entry-summary">
    <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
   </div><!-- .entry-summary -->

Right after that (before the else statement) paste:

<?php elseif ( is_category() ) : ?>
    <div class="entry-summary">
    <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
   </div><!-- .entry-summary -->

That should display excerpts for the categories.

Hope this helps