[New to Tempera]

Hi I am completely new to blogging and am having a real hard time trying to fix my website and don’t really understand some of the terminologies.

The first few things I would like to fix are as follows:

1) I downloaded the Tempera theme and I’m having problems getting rid of the Tempera message that they have included for the theme. This is still coming through when I’m checking out my webpage. This is the text that says “Tempera is living on the edge, waiting for you to come and give it a push! ” etc.

Does anyone know how I can get rid of this?

2) I would like to have the scrolling pictures at the top of the page as for the theme, and then were the Tempera text “Tempera is living on the edge, waiting for you to come and give it a push!” is I would like to place my own Welcome message on the page before the thumbnails for the posts.

Does anyone know how I can do this?

3) How do I make the little thumbnails be the actual links for the post rather than having the poss come up under them??

If someone could please help me as soon as possible as website is looking really awful at the moment and I’m starting to get a little downhearted.

Anyone’s help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

[Wayfarer]

Hi there 🙂

I know creating your own blog can feel overwhelming, but try not to be disheartened. I am no expert blogger but Tempera has been (by far) the easiest to use and most effective-looking theme I’ve tried. A little trial and error works wonders! Don’t be discouraged. 🙂

1. You seem to have resolved this yourself 🙂 (via Tempera Settings > Presentation Page > Extra Text).

2. Slider Graphic
Go to Appearance> Tempera Settings> Presentation Page > Slides and make a selection for your slide content. The graphics will be the images associated with the content you select. The text will either be custom or a post excerpt, depending on what you select as your slide source.

3. I am not quite sure if you mean the Cryout boxes (the four boxes with the dark hover-over text on my site) or general posts:

a) Cryout Columns (boxes)
In Tempera Settings> Presentation Page Columns, select the source of the content and how many columns you want in the row.

If you choose Widget Columns as your source:
Go to Appearance > Widget > Presentation Page Columns > Cryout Columns (drag the widget into the Presentation Page Columns box from the widget list on the left – you can have as many as you like) and then add your content within the Cryout Columns settings.

b) Posts
Appearance > Tempera Settings > Post Excerpt Settings > Home Page and set to excerpt. You could try reducing the excerpt character number to 0 if that’s how you want it to look? (NB It will only work for standard posts, not the specifically formatted ones).

I am not sure if this is what you were actually asking, but I hope it helps.

Check out the theme’s Presentation Page tutorial too: http://www.cryoutcreations.eu/wordpress-themes/wordpress-tutorials/how-to-use-the-new-tempera-presentation-page-columns

Have fun creating your blog! 🙂

~ Wayfarer

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