Home page instal help please
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January 25, 2017 at 10:27 am #349047
Two questions re install.
1) I want to use my normal WordPress page for the homepage, so I’ve selected “location” in the geodirectory /permalinks section.
I’m confused about what I then do with step 3 of your instructions. It says, “Make sure you choose the same page at Settings > Reading > Front page displays > Front Page.”
But if I input “Location” there, that then makes the geodirectory location page my homepage and that’s not what I want. I want my homepage to display my latest posts.
Help please.2) I installed the plugin as per your instructions, but something looks very wrong. I’ve attached a screenshot of the location page. I’m wondering why it would be looking like this? Is it something to do with my theme? or the widgets? I’m using zminimal theme from themeforest. Thank you.
January 25, 2017 at 11:00 am #349064Hi Katie,
If you would like to display your custom home page, check out this section of the documentation as it explains more about this https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/basic-installation/#home
Thanks!
January 25, 2017 at 11:07 am #349068Hi Kor Chung,
That’s exactly what I looked at – I can’t make sense of those instructions. Please re-read my earlier comment again. I’m not sure what I need to do with step 3.
thank youJanuary 25, 2017 at 11:15 am #349070Hi Katie,
Could you try choosing the “Your Latest Post” in Settings > Reading and see if it works http://prntscr.com/e03mom ?
Thanks!
January 25, 2017 at 11:25 am #349078Sure. This is how my site looks when I have that selected. I’m not sure if it’s displaying as it should.
picture 1: My website homepage showing the main menu navigation bar.
Picture 2: GD home page. As you can see there’s nothing featured here. (should there be?)
picture 3: the location page. As you can see, it’s displaying very strangely.
Thank youJanuary 25, 2017 at 11:26 am #349082Hi katie,
Please share WP temp admin access to your site so we can take a better look. You can post the details here using the private reply option below.
Thanks!
January 25, 2017 at 11:30 am #349086This reply has been marked as private.January 25, 2017 at 12:24 pm #349114Hi Kor Chung,
Hoping you got that private message with all the details you required.
I’m near Sydney and it’s getting late here, so I’m off to bed. I’ll check back in in the morning to see how you got on with it. Thanks so much for looking into these issues for me – i appreciate it. KatieJanuary 25, 2017 at 6:09 pm #349441Hi Katie,
your website is setup correctly (I assume).
Let me explain.
The home page looks bad because the menu has too many items, same thing for the location page.
The GD Home is empty because you are not using it. You selected the location page as GD Home page, you can delete that page if you want.
Hope this helps.
Let us know,
Thanks
January 25, 2017 at 9:11 pm #349523This reply has been marked as private.January 25, 2017 at 9:25 pm #349527Hi,
that problem is caused by this theme CSS (which is too generic):
.widget { float: left; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 32px; width: 292px; }
Please try to add this in GeoDirectory >> Design >> Scripts >> Custom CSS:
.widget { float: inherit; width: auto; }
Still that menu is causing problems.
Thanks
January 25, 2017 at 9:54 pm #349539This reply has been marked as private.January 26, 2017 at 5:32 am #349621Hi Katie,
I’ve just taken another look at your Website and it looks like you’ll need some custom CSS to fix the layout issues. If you’re not familiar with CSS styling, I’d suggest that you use a different route. Have you tried some of our free themes from our library? https://wpgeodirectory.com/downloads/category/themes/ . Or, you can start learning some basics of custom CSS following this section of the documentation https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/customizing-your-style/ .
As for the menu issue, you can insert all the GD pages into a single menu item and you’ll have to do manually. Here are some guides on how to create navigation menus on WordPress https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Menu_User_Guide .
Thanks!
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