Customizing the Front Page template

This custom template helps to introduce your business or organization to the site’s visitors. The Front Page template has six sections:

• Introduction
• Feature page #1
• Feature page #2
• Recent blog posts
• Recent testimonials
• Homepage-specific widget area

All sections are optional except the Introduction section. When you first activate  Fortune, your homepage will display posts in a traditional blog format. If you’d like to use the Front Page template instead, follow the "Setting up your pages" instructions here.

Introduction

The Introduction section displays your homepage title and content along with a Featured Image:

1. Add some introductory text to the page that has the Front Page template. For best results, we recommend a couple of paragraphs.
2. The page’s Featured Image is displayed behind your intro text.

Featured Pages #1 and #2

These sections are optional. There are two ways to display your content in these sections; you can either have a grid layout or a full-width layout.

Grid layout

1. Head to Appearance → Customize → Theme Options → Front Page Template Options, and click Configure under Featured Page #1 or Featured Page #2.
2. Under Featured Page, select the parent page that has child pages.
3. Under Section Layout, choose a layout for your grid from the dropdown list.
4. Click Publish at the top of your screen to save the changes.

In order to add a small description at the top of this section, you need to add content to the parent page. You can use the More block or Excerpt module to truncate this content.

Full-width layout

1. Head to Appearance → Customize → Theme Options → Front Page Template Options, and click Configure under Featured Page #1 or Featured Page #2.
2. Under Featured Page, select the regular page from the dropdown list.
3. Click Publish at the top of your screen to save the changes.

Recent Blog Posts

1. Head to Appearance → Customize → Theme Options → Front Page Template Options, and click Configure under Blog Posts.
2. Check Display Recent Posts.
3. By default, this section displays the title “Latest News” above the posts. You can edit this by adding your own title into the text field under Section Title.
4. Specify how many posts you want to show per page under the Number of posts to show label.
5. Choose a layout from the dropdown list under Section Layout.
6. Click Publish at the top of your screen to save the changes.

Recent Testimonials

This section is optional. In order to display Testimonials section, you need to make it visible in the Customizer:

1. Head to Appearance → Customize → Theme Options → Front Page Template Options, and click Configure under Testimonials.
2. Check Display Testimonials.
3. Specify how many testimonials you want to show per page under the Number of testimonials to show label. Your recent testimonials will be displayed in two columns.
4. By default, this section displays the title “Testimonials” above the testimonials. You can edit this by adding your own title. Go to Appearance → Customize → Testimonials and type your own title into the text field under Testimonial Page Title.
5. Click Publish at the top of your screen to save the changes.

Homepage Widget Area

Fortune includes a homepage-specific widget area which is located under the main homepage sections. You can configure this widget area under Appearance → Widgets.