Dear people of WordPress, I have a word to tell you about this theme.
I like it, I really do. If not I wouldn’t choose it for my blog. But I do think there is some defaults about it too! It need to be change, to be fix and then it will be perfect or almost, let’s face it, nothing is perfect in life!
1: The Resume about the Theme Option !
It was hell to find how to put sticky post on the features area !! Well excuse me to not be inner for the editing section, I do my best. I couldn’t understand how I could put it there and I had to look at for the information for about more than 15 minutes in your help section ! Yes 15 minutes wasted to not understand a such simply element! Why does it so complicated to find the relevant information among all the Theme Options section ? OK you will tell me that you could find it in the Theme Showcase page but when you’re looking for a new theme, you don’t go there but in your dashboard – Appearance – Themes section, am I right ?
2: The Features box
Why just don’t you tell in the resume about the theme that to put a sticky post in the feature section you have to do it in the Posts section and then selected in the Publish area :
“Visibility Public – Stick this to the front page” ! You see, that simple !
3: The Updates
Yes same thing !! I have to look at for the help section to understand that I had to select ASIDE (After the featured Images box down to the right of the editing page) in the post section to put it in the update box in the front page. Another element who could have been easily explain in the Theme Options but not ! You can only choose to use it or not but not how to publish it !
Then now, could I suggest you some options who could be lovely and really helpful to improve this theme.
Let’s talk about the Front Page ! Because let’s face it, it’s mostly about the front page…
– The resume or full content Post option ! –
Until now, nothing extraordinary, I mean you can choose between Full content or resume like in other else theme right ?! But there is something wrong… Yes the resume is just so short, 3 or 4 lignes, are you kiding me ?! Why can’t we adjust it ? Making him a little bit more long ? Why can’t we select ourself the numbers of words or lines we want to publish as a taste of the post.
This one is way too short to really attract new readers, don’t you think ?
– So now comes the problem number 2 about the The Features box –
If I’m choosing the Full Content Last post option, that is great because it gives a taste of your blog and let’s face it, most of time, included me, readers enjoy to read the posts directly on the front page and not having to select the post…
So I’m choosing this option, right ! But why oh why do you publish full content of the Features post as well ? What If I just want to have a resume about the Features ?! Because after all isn’t it for this reason that you create the features ? To give a look to others posts ?
So would it be possible to select this apart from the last post ? Like an independent section ? Full Content Last post and Resume for the Features section ?! That would be terrific !!!
– What about the readers ?! –
Why does the writing have to be so small ? I can’t really say that’s really comfortable for the readers…
Can’t we just add some point to the font ? That would be great to our eyes !!
This way we could have a nice and attractive front page and if new readers like our blog, he / she could have the choice or not to read the features of his / her choice !
The editing of the front page would be clean and lovely and the this theme would become more easely one of the most popular theme…
So what do you think ?! Will you perfect this theme or not ?!
Edited Post :
I would like to thanks Panos for all his explainations about this Theme and WordPress ! I could improve my home page with his help ! If you’re wondering the same questions as me, go to read the comments following. If you got others issues with your blog, I strongly recommend you to visit his blog. Maybe he will have the answer and could help you too !
Hopefully there is some bloggers like him to help us !
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Hi,
If you had studied my post, you would have found the answer to your problem re the length of the résumé. You can make it as long as you wish by adding content to the Excerpt module of the post editor. And if you want résumés for featured posts but full latest post, copy the whole content of the post from the HTML editor and paste it into the Excerpt module.
I’ve read your full post but I can’t find the Excerpt field in my post editor. I was wondering if this field / module would be available only if you’re installing wordpress when you have your web host ?
I’ve been looking for in your website about it but I can’t find anything who would match to this in my post editor….
And I can’t touch to the CSS, I’m definitely not good enough to that, as you can see ! 😉
Thanks for your help !! I really appreciate it and your blog is really helpful and great, I’ve put it in my bookmarks.
You’re welcome. If you’re not seeing the Excerpt box while on the post editor screen, click Screen Options (top right) to activate it. (In case you’ve set French as the interface language: Options de l’écran – Extrait).
Thank you so much for your help !! It’s working !
Hopefully there is bloggers like you to help bloggers like me !! 🙂
I have another question, is at possible to change the “Continue reading” by something else just like you can do with the “more tag” option ? Maybe I’m asking too much, tell me if I am !!
I will definitely recommend your blog to one of my blog buddies who got some issue to publishing a youtube video on her post !! 🙂
I think you’re talking about me. Have figured out the youtube thing, but might have other tech questions for which I might seek Panos’ advice. Will definitely check out his site and add him to my upcoming blogroll. I’ll have to figure out how to do that first. Am going to revamp my blog to try different things. Love what you’ve done Isabelle. Looks fabulous!
huge hugs…hugmamma. 🙂
I thought about you but not only ! 🙂 Lately, I’ve noticed that lot of bloggers that I read have changed their theme too ! And one or two of them have asking him some advices too !
I’m glad you like this them too! Seems that I only have good feedbacks ! 😉
No, unfortunately you cannot change that: it’s hard-coded into the underlying files of the theme, which we cannot access.
Never mind that is still great !! Thanks to you, I could improve my blog and even put some music !! That is huge for me on this platform… 😉
Thank you so much for this post & the additional info about Panos. I’m going to contact him to see if he can help with my new theme. Thank you again!
You’re welcome !! I’m glad this post could help someone too !! 🙂
Thank you so much for writing about the sticky post feature. I couldn’t figure it out either. I really appreciate it. http://karicarlsen.wordpress.com/
You’re welcome ! You’re blog looks great !! 🙂 I’m glad to could help you with the Morning After Theme !