"Simple" Wordpress Theme?

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aj113

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I'm having a devil of a time trying to find a WP theme that will do what I want.

1. Home page = full sized image that takes up all real estate above the fold, and has an embedded clickable url which takes the visitor to a different site.

2. Facility for some kind of article or post below the fold.

It's such a simple requirement, but I am struggling - any suggestions?

 

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Refusalsrights

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I am not sure if you are looking for a free theme or a paid one, but take a look at the genesis framework, and go through some of their child themes, I think there would be a couple that meet your requirements.

 

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Thanks, paid or free, I'll take either.

 

meln

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Maybe I'm not understanding you correctly, but why can't you just make a static homepage with that big image and content below it? I mean this can be done with any theme...

 

HaiiroNeko

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You could try the Enfold theme by Kriesi. It lets you pretty much create every layout via drag&drop layout builder.

Demo here

Theme shared here

 

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meln said:

Maybe I'm not understanding you correctly, but why can't you just make a static homepage with that big image and content below it? I mean this can be done with any theme...

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Really? I thought the option was to have a static page below the resident theme's header?

 

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cyber.surfer

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With just one home page with a pic and an article I don't think will get SEO benefit using Wordpress.
Check out this HTML landing page though.

 

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Ah wait, that gives me an idea - is there a way of selecting a static page which would contain both the image and the text, and editing out the header?

 

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cyber.surfer said:

With just one home page with a pic and an article I don't think will get SEO benefit using Wordpress.
Check out this HTML landing page though.

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Sorry I didn't make myself clear. There will be other pages, if I can't get the theme's resident menu to operate below the fold I'll "make" one from within the text below the image.

 

meln

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So you want the picture to be above the header too? Then no, that can't be done with just a static post... IMO it'd be easiest to just edit the homepage PHP file in your existing/default theme and put it there.

 

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aj113

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Just ditch the WP html and add my own?

 

lucasbraydon

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Why don't you try and use the visual composer wordpress plugin

 

Basenix Group LLC

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What do you need the Theme for?

Real estate? Do you need a plugin to add properties?

 

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lucasbraydon said:

Why don't you try and use the visual composer wordpress plugin

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Never heard of that, I'll check it out.

 

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aj113

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Basenix Group LLC said:

What do you need the Theme for?

Real estate? Do you need a plugin to add properties?

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No it's not real estate. I don't actually know what I need, hence this thread.

 

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Bagga Bones

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Blogoma is pretty cool check it out on themeforest for $40.

 

fullyniche

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Day by day spl blog theme release on Themeforest. So, you and see portfolio. You can get some ideas.

 

bertbaby

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Elegant Divi theme?

 

srb888

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aj113 said:

I'm having a devil of a time trying to find a WP theme that will do what I want.

1. Home page = full sized image that takes up all real estate above the fold, and has an embedded clickable url which takes the visitor to a different site.

2. Facility for some kind of article or post below the fold.

It's such a simple requirement, but I am struggling - any suggestions?

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I think I know almost exactly what you want.

I will begin designing one Wordpress theme according to your needs, and will show you the sample here as early as I can. It's 10 pm here on Sunday so I may have to carry over the work tomorrow, just in case I doze off!

 

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aj113

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Wow, thank you very much!

srb888 said:

I think I know almost exactly what you want.

I will begin designing one Wordpress theme according to your needs, and will show you the sample here as early as I can. It's 10 pm here on Sunday so I may have to carry over the work tomorrow, just in case I doze off!

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