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Trying A Different Front Page Design

Started by webomatica · 10 months ago

I write way too many posts that fall off the front page before I'd like, so I'm playing around with a slighty different front page design. It's basically showing 15 excerpts with cute little icons. The category and search results pages look the same. ... Continue reading »

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  • Mike

    2 years ago

    I was skeptical, but that looks pretty good, actually.
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  • webomatica

    2 years ago

    yeah I'm kind of intrigued by it. I think the thing I need to add is a previous / next post button on the single post view.
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  • Char

    2 years ago

    Hey! I like it, but I have one little note. It is not intuitively obvious how to get to the rest of the story. Some blogs use the word "More..." or some variation of that. It wasn't until I clicked on the post name that I realized that there really was more.

    Otherwise - I really like it.
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  • webomatica

    2 years ago

    Hi Char... good point. I'm sure there's a way to add that.

    Otherwise, people may think my posts consist of 1 paragraph apiace :)
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  • engtech

    2 years ago

    Putting a word count before the more would be good as well.

    This is essentially what I do with posts that fall off the front page:
    http://engtech.wordpress.com/page/3/

    Making the read more obnoxiously big helped as well.
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  • webomatica

    2 years ago

    Gee, so many useful comments - good thing WordPress is easy to tweak. Is a plug in needed for a word count, or is that something callable by a WordPress tag? Ill look into it.
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  • webomatica

    2 years ago

    Okay - got a "read more" plus a word count thingie courtesy a plug in.
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  • tunequest

    2 years ago

    Yeah, the "Read More + word count" definitely helps. Makes the front page seem more like an index/launching point, making the recent stuff easier to scan. And that's good; before, if I didn't subscribe to your feed, I'd have missed half your posts.

    Good stuff.
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  • webomatica

    2 years ago

    Okay, good to hear. Thanks for offering suggestions. I'm pleased that it was all constructive and stuff that is straightfoward to do - plus I'm learning more about WordPress in the process.
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