[Heinrich]

Hello,

i’m trying to build up a page with two different templates. My frontpage shoud have a sidebar and includes the latest articles. All other pages should use the one-colum template.
Is this possible without a fixed page on front?

my page is <<kaiserhh.de>>

Greets

Heinrich

[Sakin]

@Heinrich: This is quite different setup that you are trying to do it. Yes, this is possible.
Step 1: First create the page, and then in your right sidebar of edit page, you will see “Page Attributes”, where you need to assign template as “Blog Template”. Further, in your edit page, you will see Catch Box Options meta box where you can select sidebar layout to “Right sidebar”.
This make the page with right sidebar and latest articles.
Step 2: Now, you need to assign this page to Front page. Go to “Settings => Reading”. Then in “Front page displays”, you need to check on “A static page (select below)” and then select page that you have created in Step 1 as the Front Page.
Step3: Now to make all other pages different layouts, you can go to “Appearance => Theme Options => Default Layouts” and select the layout you want.

[Heinrich]

Thanks, it works fine but there is an empty field in top of the content field.

[Sakin]

@Heinrich: Did you edit the file page-blog.php? Please restore that file and add the following CSS in “Appearance => Theme Options => Custom CSS” box to hide the page name.
.home .page-header { display: none; }

[Heinrich]

Yes i did. Shame on me.
But now it’s fine.

Thanks 🙂

[Heinrich]

HeySakin, I’ll have another question

Can I limit the shown exerps on my Frontpage-Blog (maybe cat=”frontpage”) to just 1 category? Another category (news) should be shown in the slider on top.

Greets

heinrich

[Sakin]

@Heinrich: In Catch Box Pro theme, tou can choose the category to show in homepage from “Appearance => Theme Options => Homepage/Frontpage Category Setting”. Just select the multiple categories from which you want to show the post.

Then for the the slide, you can choose the Category Slider. Go to “Appearance => Theme Options => Featured Slider => Slider Options”, then select Featured Category Slider. Then in Featured Category Slider Options, select the category that you want to show for slider.

[Heinrich]

If I do so, I cannot use the layout like I want it (see above) 🙁

[Sakin]

@Heinrich: I don’t get it what you mean. I have you the solution to make the layout like you described.

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