[nate]

Hey

Worked like a charm thanks. So easy after I'd tried so many things that didn't work. Very much appreciate your help.

Now to be a fussy person the only things I would change (but I'm happy as it is) is the layout of the blog posts in the grid.

If I go to http://snowboardingprofiles.com/blog and scroll down to where the blogs begin to go into grid exerts I notice a couple of things that I like that would be great to have on the page template are below - link for the page where I'm using the page template is http://snowboardingprofiles.com/

The theme's original blogroll as per this page http://snowboardingprofiles.com/blog has everything a bit smaller - smaller font, titles are in a smaller font than the full posts, and images are a bit smaller and all of the body text of the exerts come in after the image.

In the page template the blog exerts don't display the post's title and the words sometimes start down the side of the picture and look a little bit messy.

Not sure if that would be an easy fix or not and in any event I am happy with this template and thank for creating it.

What I really do prefer about the template (apart from the main reason - that it does what I need it to do in terms of static content followed by blogroll!) is that it goes straight into the blog exerts and doesn't display a full blog first like it does on the themes original blogroll.

Thanks again genwrock and keep up the good work,
Nathan

[nate]

Thanks - that's awesome, will let you know how I get on.

[nate]

Thanks genwrock - you rock!

I'll have a play around with that tomorrow (brain's a bit fried right now!) and if you do modify the code with a full width content section would be cool if you posted it here.

Your help is much appreciated.

[nate]

Hey - thanks for the quick reply!

I actually really like that with the grids. However I really want the content full width. Would it be possible to adjust the template so that the primary sidebar only started as the blog posts started?

Also (I have some big gaps in my wordpress knowledge!) how do I go about uploading the “template_custom.php” into the child theme folder? Would this need to be done through an ftp server? or is there an easier way? Also when creating the “template_custom.php” is this created in notepad?

And one more question! Where do I add the content for the static content section? Is this just done in the wordpress editor?

Thanks again,
Nathan

[nate]

Hi

Thanks for this post. I feel like I am getting close with this but not quite there.

I have the Eleven40 child theme.

I added the code to the functions.php in the editor. This gave me the "text before blog" widget area where I added in what I wanted.

Just to clarify I want this to work on my home page so that I can display the "blogroll" with static stuff above it.

I can get this to work on my other pages - e.g. right now I have the PHP pointing towards my about page and that is working how I would like it to - http://snowboardingprofiles.com/about - This was done by pasting the code and setting the "if( is_page(139) )" to the number of the about page. But what is the number of the Front Page when the front page is set to "Your Latest Posts" in Settings>reading?

Put another way I can't figure out how to point this to the blogroll - i.e. if I go to Settings>>Reading and set to "Your Latest Posts" How do I point the new php in the functions.php so that the content in the "text before blog" widget area will show up on the home page.

I hope I have explained what I mean here correctly.

Any help with this would be very much appreciated.
Sincerely,
Nathan

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