Formatting an About page

mindstorm · 2014-08-02 06:50:45

My website is just about complete (www.mindstormphoto.com). I have the initial gallery pages done, and the blog done (imported from my prior blog). All that is left is an About page.

If you go to www.mindstormphoto.com/about.html you can see what I have now. This was created in DreamWeaver, which I clearly don't know very much about using...

Is there a page format in the CE4 Theme for Wordpress that will let me do this entirely within CE4, and not have to spend the time learning DW for this one page?

I am basically looking for a header block, preferably with my menu used in the blog and gallery, with the section below that set as two columns. Each of those columns will have a photo and a block of text, describing my wife and myself.

Seems that a WP theme would have an allowance for an About page, but I haven't figured out how or where to access it.

rod barbee · 2014-08-02 07:56:57

You can do this with what's already available.
First, in the Theme Options section, make sure one of the existing Page Templates is set to full page, without sidebar.
Create a new page from the WP Dashboard and choose the template that has no sidebar.

Now use the TTG Responsive Grid Framework to create a text area with two equal columns. The Responsive Grid Framework has yet to be added to the CE4 documentation but it's in the CE3 documentation. And it works with CE4; all the css looks to be the same.

I just created a three column WordPress page on my CE4 test site. You can see it here: http://ce4.barbeephoto.com/blog/?page_id=16

mindstorm · 2014-08-02 14:10:21

Thanks! The documentation for the Responsive Text stuff is rather sparse (and that is being kind...), but the example code gives me something to work from. I think I can read the HTML well enough to customize that code for the result I need.

I'll try "for real" tomorrow, and will let you know if I hit any more snags. If not, I will be able to add my site to the CE4 Showcase soon.

Last edited by mindstorm (2014-08-02 14:10:52)

rod barbee · 2014-08-02 14:15:50

It is called an advanced feature

Customization shouldn't be too hard. Set up for a 12 column grid just like the example code. Only change the <div class="grid_4.... part to <div class="grid_6.... and only use two of those rather than the three in the sample code.

Last edited by rod barbee (2014-08-05 12:48:49)

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