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Questions using Marketer - featured image, homepage, and product highlight
7 replies · Started by Steve on December 6, 2019
Hi. Per suggestion, I'm working to use Marketer for my site. I have gone thru customizer but have three questions (so far)...
1. It says that in order to make a "normal" homepage (I want a homepage with a background image and short 100 word intro below it) I need two pages. One for home and one for blog archive. Can I not just use the existing page for blog archive and use Elementor to create a new homepage, pointing to it?
2. Featured images need to be replaced, but I want to resize them. What's the right technique for this. I've read the adjusting featured image article and I know that the image lives in media library and can be edited there. Is that the right way or should I just adjust my image before importing and the theme will pick up the changes? My posts at the moment are way too tall, even after I adjust, and its due to the featured image size. Site name included below...
3. I do not understand the functionality of product highlight
Thanks
Steve
Hi there,
1. Not quite sure if I fully understand. So do you want the home page to be the posts page or a static page
2. Marketer has this CSS added for the featured image size:
@media (min-width: 769px) {
.post-image-aligned-left .post-image img {
max-width: 300px;
}
}If you remove that, the customizer option should work.
3. Nothing specific. This CSS is applying a specific background color for the first sidebar widget. Yo can simply remove it if you don't want it:
.sidebar .widget:first-child {
background-color: #e86000;
color: #fff;
}Let me know if this helps :)
Hi. Let's work #1 first. I want the home page to be a static page. Can I create a page using Elementor Free and then point to that as the home page? Will E Free have control of all elements or will Marketer?
Yes you can create a static page using Elementor and assign it to be the home page:
https://wordpress.org/support/article/settings-reading-screen/
Elementor will have control over the content if it's activated.
Hi. I have created a homepage and an empty page that works as the blog archive page. On the homepage however, the product highlight and recent posts elements from the sidebar are still active. I want to eliminate them. How do I do that?
Sidebar layout options are in the customizer:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/sidebar-layout/
Or you can set it per page basis using the metabox option:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/sidebar-layout/#different-sidebar-layouts-for-individual-pages-and-posts
How i can put same featured image for all the new post.
Hi there,
you can use this plugin to set a default/fallback image for any posts that don't have one:
