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February 2, 2016 at 5:11 pm #178189rhysludMember
I can try to track down each bit of CSS but perhaps I'm overlooking something easier?
Here are the two pages for comparison
http://www.mandarinradio.com/ Front page section 5 "LATEST POSTS FROM THE MANDARIN RADIO BLOG" vs. http://www.mandarinradio.com/category/blog/I would expect these to behave similarly.
I do not like the way it looks on the front page. Particularly where the image lands, how it pushes the title off-center.
http://www.mandarinradio.com/
The color and size of the title (too small and white)
The color and size of the title (too small and white)February 2, 2016 at 6:20 pm #178201TomParticipantI would expect these to behave similarly.
I'm curious about why you expect this. The pre-sale/demo presentation and theme setup guide don't display featured posts at all.
To obtain the blog appearance on the home page, remove all content from the home page widgets.
If you can describe the widgetized appearance you want in detail, provide an example, etc., you may be able to get help more directly.
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[ Follow me: Twitter ] [ Follow Themes: Twitter ] [ My Favourite Webhost ]February 2, 2016 at 6:32 pm #178204rhysludMemberWell I suppose I should not expect that. I was just thinking it's kind of the same concept - a list of posts with certain parameters like excerpt length. And since it's a Genesis widget (not some random thing) that there might be some consistency. I guess I just expect more from StudioPress than is reasonable.
But I don't think It's unreasonable to expect that clicking the box to add a thumbnail to the Featured Post widget should NOT result in shoving the title of the post off center. That just seems like an error to me.
February 2, 2016 at 6:59 pm #178206TomParticipantThere can't really be consistency when front page designs are, of course, quite different from theme to theme. The altitude theme does not include a presentation of featured posts on the front page, like say, News Pro, where there are four different FP styles presented in the demo - none of which resemble the blog feed.
Because you've specified a featured image to appear to the left, the default browser behaviour alone will push the content and title to the right, getting it out of the way. The default theme styling also leaves the text centered, etc.
Can you describe in some detail what you want? How should featured posts appear in Home-5 on your site? (meta, image size & placement, content, post-info, typeface details, sizes, alignments, etc.?)
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[ Follow me: Twitter ] [ Follow Themes: Twitter ] [ My Favourite Webhost ]February 2, 2016 at 8:12 pm #178210rhysludMemberI think I understand.
Ideally I would like the Featured post widget on the front page to produce what I see on the blog archive http://www.mandarinradio.com/category/blog/
The thumbnails lay out in such a way that it doesn't appear to be a design flaw.
Truthfully, though I'll take the simplest solution that does not look like a mistake.
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