katrinakvr

Are you comfortable editing the .php files? All you need is a text editor.

With a lot of help, this is what I did.

First make a new child theme from twenty twelve. It’s easy;
1. make a new folder in the wordpress/wp-content/themes folder (directory) and name it whatever you want to call your new theme.
2. copy the style.css and the footer.php files from the blocomo directory to your new directory.
3. copy the content.php file from the twentytwelve directory to your new directory.
4. open the copy of style.css in a text editor (Notepad or something like that) and made the appropriate changes to the header information to reflect the new theme name, etc. Save your changes.
5. open the copy of content.php with the text editor and find this section:
</header><!– .entry-header –>

<?php if ( is_search() ) : // Only display Excerpts for Search ?>
<div class=”entry-summary”>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div><!– .entry-summary –>

I replaced that section with this:
<!– .entry-header –>

<div class=”entry-summary”>
<?php if (( is_search() || is_home() || is_category() ) && has_excerpt()) : // Only display Excerpts for Search, Home and Category ?>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
“> read more <span class=”meta-nav”>→</span> </div>
<!– .entry-summary –>

Now I get excerpts on all the pages that would show multiple posts, with a “read more” link leading to the full post.

I also write custom excerpts or use the “more” tag rather than relying on automatic excerpt of the default first 55 words or whatever it is set to.

After you are finished with your changes, go to the themes management page in the WP admin section. Your new theme should be showing there. Activate it and see if the changes are what you expect.

Good luck!
Katrina

Hi Andrew,

I’ve created a child theme using Christopher’s Blocomo theme as the start. The parent theme is Twenty Twelve.

My styles.css is from Blocomo and I haven’t modified it yet. The only thing that I’ve really modified so far is content.php.

My Dashboard doesn’t have Custom Styles, Custom CSS or Jetpack.

I usually use Notepad or Dreamweaver to edit code.

Cheers,
Kaatrina

Thanks very much Christopher, no apologies needed!

This works great and your other links have pointed me in the direction to learn about this myself.

Cheers,
Katrina

Thanks very the very quick reply!

I made the changes and they worked like a charm. My email reader scrambled your message and I had to read it on the forum for it to make sense.

Thanks again!
Katrina

Hi Mika,

I’m not quite sure what you mean here.

My original thought was that the gallery would be completely separate from the blog with a different theme, menus, etc. The only thing that they would have in common is that they are both WP based sites.

Cheers,
Katrina

Yes.

Other than I will own them both and both will be integrated into the primary kosraevillage.com site.

The goal of the second WP “gallery” site is to replace the current photo gallery on kosraevillage.com.

Thanks,
Katrina