The table below shows the layout of the Home page as displayed on a desktop computer. It consists of several areas, most of which are arranged in three columns. On mobiles, these areas are displayed one after the other (taking each row from left to right). Areas indicated † are not displayed on mobiles. The contents of most of the areas are specified in Widget boxes with names such as EZ Home Top #1 (accessible from the dashboard). The designer assigns widgets (with functions such as HTML or Text or Search….) to the widget boxes.
The names of the Widget boxes are in bold, Widget names in italic/bold and categories in italic.
| Site Title, Tagline and Logo† | ||
| Menu bar including search (currently Jetpack Search) | ||
| Cycle counts see EZ Feature Top1 | ||
| EZ Home Top #1 | EZ Home Top #2 | EZ Home Sidebar |
| Footer 1† | Footer 2† | Footer 3† |
| Fat Footer 1† | Fat Footer 2† | Fat Footer 3 |
Notes
- The Site Title: “Camden Cyclists” and the Tagline: “The Camden Branch of the London Cycling Campaign” are in the ‘General Settings” accessed from the WordPress dashboard.
- The Menu bar is configured from the dashboard – ours refers to pages and to posts by category 1.
- We use the WordPress theme ‘Genesis’ and the child theme ‘Dynamic-Gen’ (the latter can be configured e.g. to specify the widths of columns but we seldom change it).
Genesis provides a widget called “Genesis Featured posts” in which the following may be specified: the category, the number of items to be displayed, order, show featured images, display (or omit) from desktop computer or mobile…etc
A plugin provides the WP categories widget for displaying links to a selected collection of categories
Description of the widgets used in each widget area
The number of items to be displayed is in brackets.
- EZ Feature Top1 – Custom HTML to get the cycle counts
- EZ Home Top #1 – Genesis Featured posts ( News (3) omitted from mobiles)
- EZ Home Top #2 – Genesis Featured posts ( Events (3) omitted from mobiles and Events(2) omitted from desktop computers)
- EZ Home sidebar – Genesis Featured posts (Newsletters (2) omitted from mobiles, Newsletters (1) omitted from desktop computers, News (2) omitted from desktop computers)
- Footer 1 – Genesis Featured posts (JonStone (2) omitted from mobiles)
- Footer 2 – Genesis Featured posts (Press Letters (3) omitted from mobiles)
- Footer 3 – Two Custom HTML widgets – the first about membership and the second links to our Facebook Group.
- Fat Footer 1 – WP categories widget to display News and Newsletters
- Fat Footer 2 – WP categories widget to display Consultations, Minutes of Quarterly meetings , Minutes of Monthly Meetings, Reports, SiteAdmin
- Fat Footer 3 – Custom HTML widget – Contact us code.
- Header Right widget area – contains HTML widget with SVG code for the logo and the WP Search widget 2
- Primary Sidebar widget area – this is used on the Contacts page mainly for the login dialogue.
- See our notes on maintenance regarding Dynamic-Gen’s role in putting search in the menu bar.
- This is required for mobiles and also when window is narrowed on desktop computers (it is hidden when the menu bar is wide enough to include the search).
