Hi Steve,
I think I may give up on migrating the site because my cheap server is so slow. I may just upgrade on wordpress.com. Do you have any pros/cons to tell me?
One of main advantages to hosting your site through a service like WordPress.com is that we take care of many of the more technical aspects of hosting a site on your behalf, for example security, backups, etc.
Hosting your site elsewhere comes with more responsibility but also gives you greater flexibility. You can, for example, install third-party plugins and edit a site’s backend code if it’s running on the free software available here at ww.wp.xz.cn.
You can read a little more about the key differences and pros/cons between WordPress.com vs. ww.wp.xz.cn here:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
One question. In some of my posts the background color in the galleries is black, and in some it is white….I prefer the black. Do you know why the difference is happening?
The theme adds a white background to galleries that appear on posts that have the gallery post format assigned to them.
You could also override this design choice and set the black background using the following custom CSS:
.format-gallery .gallery, .format-gallery .gallery .gallery-item, .format-gallery .tiled-gallery, .site-content .format-gallery .slideshow-window, .site-content .slideshow-window {
border-color: #000;
}
.format-gallery .gallery, .format-gallery .tiled-gallery, .site-content .format-gallery .slideshow-window, .site-content .format-gallery .tiled-gallery-caption {
background-color: #000;
}
and my next question is: Is there a way to create another page which will display posts in the same fashion as the current home page does? I have only been able to get it to create a “list” of posts rather than a graphic display like the current front page.
You can create category pages in order to display listings of your post in the same style as your home page. For example, all posts that have been categorised in introduction can be viewed via this link:
https://justanolddog.com/category/introduction/
You can find full steps for adding a link to your category page to your site’s menu here:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/view-all/
As a heads up: If you choose to continue with WordPress.com then the best place for you to get help is via our contact form here:
https://wordpress.com/help/contact
If you’d prefer forum support over live chat (which is what’s offer via the above form) then you can post directly to the WordPress.com Themes forum:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/themes
Thanks!
