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[dobbinsbobbinssewing]

Hi,
New to X Theme, and using Icon 2 to get me up and running. I chose Icon 2 because I really liked the grid style feed on the blog page. My posts are all standard posts, but I would still like featured images and perhaps different colour backgrounds for different categories (would be nice but not necessary!). I found advice in the forums for removing all featured images, but not adding them! As a creative site, visuals are really important. Is this, or something similar, possible?
Here’s my site: http://dobbinsbobbins.com/
Many thanks

[Rue Nel]

Hello There,

Thanks for writing in! You can set the mason grid layout and the number of columns for your blog index in your customizer. Simply go to Appearance > Customize > Blog and adjust the style and layout of your blog.

And if you want to change the background colors of each post format, you can change it still in the customizer, Appearance > Customize > Icon. For more customizer settings for Icon stack, please check it here: https://community.theme.co/kb/customizer-icon/

And if ever you want to have a different background color for you category, simply add the following css code in the customizer, Appearance > Customize > Custom > CSS

.format-standard.category-{name} .entry-wrap {
    background-color: {#fff} !important;
}

In your case, since you only have one category for the moment, you can have this code:

.format-standard.category-uncategorized .entry-wrap {
    background-color: red !important;
}

.format-standard.category-blog-tour .entry-wrap {
    background-color: #fff !important;
}

.format-standard.category-christmas .entry-wrap {
    background-color: yellow !important;
}

.format-standard.category-throwback-thursday .entry-wrap {
    background-color: green !important;
}

Hope this helps.

[dobbinsbobbinssewing]

Thank you for getting back to me. Perhaps I’m missing something. The settings I currently have for my blog layout is Style: Masonry, Layout: Full Width, Columns: 2, Post Meta: On, Full Post Content: Off, Excerpt Length: 60. Despite this, my blog posts are still all in one long line on top of one another. The only difference is that they’re narrower and not centred! What can I do to ensure that they appear as a grid?
Thanks again.

[Paul R]

Hi,

Can you confirm that you are fully updated? (Theme and Plugins)

You can find the latest version numbers here: (http://theme.co/changelog/) Then you can compare them to what’s installed on your site.

If you find anything to be out of date, you can review our update guide.

[dobbinsbobbinssewing]

Yes, everything is fully updated.

[Lely]

Hi There,

Would you mind providing us with login credentials so we can take a closer look? There’s something that is preventing from the columns from working. I can see the masonry code but from the look of the position, the column settings are ignored. To do this, you can make a post with the following info:

– Link to your site
– WordPress Admin username / password

Don’t forget to select Set as private reply. This ensures your information is only visible to our staff.

[dobbinsbobbinssewing]

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[Christopher]

Hi there,

Please add following code in Customize -> Custom -> CSS :

.x-iso-container.cols-2>.hentry {
    width: 46.95%;
}

Hope that helps.

[dobbinsbobbinssewing]

Yay that’s perfect- thank you!

[Jade]

You’re most welcome.

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