Hi Jude
{ have also responded on the courses forum..!}
Reasonably sure that Columnist supports this functionality as you
describe - but there will probably be a setting in the theme options to
do this..
Something about frontpage display options, maybe..?
cheers
Mike
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> Dicken, Jude <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> 12 June 2014 17:04
> With Wordpress spreading like wildfire in the museum/heritage world, I
> thought I'd sneak some advice on using the free 'The Columnist' theme,
> if anyone else is using it out there.
>
> I've started using this theme for my personal 'Dead Herring' site -
> 'Dead Herring' is the name of my monthly column that gets printed in a
> magazine here on the Isle of Man ('Dead Herring' being the Manx
> language equivalent of 'dead donkey', a news item of no real
> significance, usually of whimsical or sentimental nature. My column is
> about stories I find in our historic Manx Newspapers, 1792-1960, so it
> helps publicise Manx National Heritage collections too...oh, and a
> 'dead herring' is also a kipper which the Isle of Man is well known
> for...but I digress.)
>
>
> This is how it looks so far:
>
> http://deadherringiom.wordpress.com/
>
> I don't know how to get the homepage to display articles in columns,
> i.e. 4 columns with an image and the start or taster for each article
> with a 'Continue Reading' link to the article page itself. I'm
> stumped. How do I do it? Once I know this then I've got what I need
> for my site and can start adding the 30-odd articles I already have,
> with a new one added every month.
>
> Thanks, Jude.
>
> A very silly question maybe, but I really am stumped.
>
> Thanks for any Wordpress words of wisdom.
>
> Jude.
>
> Jude Dicken (Miss)
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