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[Wendy W]

Hi!

This is my first support question since I’ve purchased this theme so I hope you can help me.

I would like to know how would go about having my website start up with a main page that have topic categories that people can click on which would lead to blogs that are assigned that category.

How would I do that? Just to have a basic opening page allow for that. And also attach an image associated with that category which both the image and text of the category can be clicked on.

Some of the categories would include, Inland Southern California, People who have made a difference, Environment, Soccer, Politics etc.

I just need the basic code or process to accomplish that.

This is the website address I manage for a friend that is using this theme. http://www.blinebuzz.com

Thanks so much!

[Rue Nel]

Hello There,

Thanks for writing in! Regretfully, at this time I am not entirely certain what it is you would like to accomplish based on the information given in your post. If you wouldn’t mind providing us with a little more clarification on what it is you’re wanting to do (a link to a similar example site would be very helpful, or perhaps some screenshots), we’ll be happy to provide you with a response once we have a better understanding of the situation.

Thank you.

[Wendy W]

Hi!
Thanks for replying back basically I’d like to have the opening page of the site
have a list of Categories of topics that relate with my friend’s blog.

like you know on the right side of this article there is a list of categories?
http://www.blinebuzz.com/tension-mounts-at-pivot-points/

I just want the first page you load to have a list of categories of the blog posts where you can click on so that it can take me to a page with blogs relating only to that category.

Ideally I would like to have a picture associated with the main category on the front page so that people can click on it.

Do you have a page pre-built in the theme for me to do that? Or at least is that something that is easy to do? Please let me know

again the website is: http://www.blinebuzz.com

Thanks!
-Wendy

[Rue Nel]

Hello Wendy,

Thank your for the clarifications. You can create a page which will have a list of categories. Within that page, you can insert an image element and link it to a particular category. At the moment, we do not have a pre built theme like what you have in mind. However, if you are building a page in Cornerstone, you can easily create this page using the an image element. You can even use the recent post element to have a preview of the what posts related to a category in your site.

Hope this explains it.

[Wendy W]

Hi Rue,

I have no idea how to go about that, can you give me a quick tutorial or code I can paste in to “create a page which will have a list of categories”? and how to within that page, insert an image element and link it to a particular category? Or is there a video tutorial that shows me what to do?

Basically I will want the images to be on the left side of the category in either one or two rows. These are the categories for the opening page.

a.      About Bruce
b.      Politics
c.       Soccer/Sports
d.      Environment
e.      Economy
f.        Foreign Relations
g.      Latin America/Latinos/Immigration
h.      California
i.        Inland Southern  California/Inland Empire
j.        Mountains
k.      Important People

I greatly appreciate your help!
-Wendy

[Paul R]

Hi Wendy,

In your page, you can select 1/3 – 2/3 column then add the following code in a text element in your 1/3 column.

http://screencast.com/t/7dhyNIbi

<ul class="my-categories">
<li>[image type="thumbnail" src="http://yourdomain.com/image.jpg" alt="Text"]About Bruce</li>
<li>[image type="thumbnail" src="http://yourdomain.com/image.jpg" alt="Text"]Politics</li>
<li>[image type="thumbnail" src="http://yourdomain.com/image.jpg" alt="Text"]Soccer/Sports</li>
<li>[image type="thumbnail" src="http://yourdomain.com/image.jpg" alt="Text"]Environment</li>
<li>[image type="thumbnail" src="http://yourdomain.com/image.jpg" alt="Text"]Economy</li>
<li>[image type="thumbnail" src="http://yourdomain.com/image.jpg" alt="Text"]Foreign Relations</li>
<li>[image type="thumbnail" src="http://yourdomain.com/image.jpg" alt="Text"]Latin America/Latinos/Immigration</li>
<li>[image type="thumbnail" src="http://yourdomain.com/image.jpg" alt="Text"]California</li>
<li>[image type="thumbnail" src="http://yourdomain.com/image.jpg" alt="Text"]Inland Southern  California/Inland Empire</li>
<li>[image type="thumbnail" src="http://yourdomain.com/image.jpg" alt="Text"]Mountains</li>
<li>[image type="thumbnail" src="http://yourdomain.com/image.jpg" alt="Text"]Important People</li>
</ul>

http://screencast.com/t/F1x36TnF9

Change http://yourdomain.com/image.jpg with the correspondin image url.

Hope that helps

[Wendy W]

Hi,

Oddly for some reason I only have visual composer editor and not cornerstone available when I go to add a new page.

Nor does the cornerstone button option appear on the customizer.

Is the feature located in a different location?

I know I updated my X theme to the most current version.

Let me know, Ive attached screen shots of what I see for your reference.

Thank you for your help so far!
-Wendy

[Friech]

Hi Wendy,

Its either the Cornerstone is not installed or deactivated. It seems your site is having Internal Server Error at the moment, please contact your hosting to assist you with this first.

http://prntscr.com/bafbhb

Thanks.

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