Text formatting in static page

[tserface]

Hi,

I tried to post this earlier, but it didn't seem to take. I apologize if this causes a double post.

I really like your theme. It is very clean looking, easy to use, and classy.

I tried to set up a static page to have as the first page of my website. I went through setting it up in wordpress, but if I use formatting in the wordpress editor the formatting goes away when the page is displayed. Is there some way to use the theme, but retain the formatting from the editor for static pages?

I confess to be very new at this and I may just be misunderstanding how it is supposed to work.

Thanks in advance and thanks for all your work on the templates.

Tom Serface

[sayontan]

Seems more like a generic WordPress query. Can you post a link to your blog so that I can understand what's happening better?

[tserface]

Sure. Thanks for the quick reply. It may very well be a wordpress thing and/or my cockpit problem. My site is not active yet, but the link to it (in my testing) is www.camaswood.com/wordpress. The Home page is the static page I'm talking about. I'm actually going to set up two blogs, but only the CamasBlog one works right now (I put in some dummy content to play around with). In the wordpress editor I changed the heading that says "Welcome to Camaswood" to be a heading 2 format (larger text) and put the picture under it. It shows up OK in the page editor, but in the display it gets reformatted into the theme formatting.

I'm guessing I need to create a new template or something to do this, I just don't know enough to get started. I would have thought a lot of people would do this sort of thing with the front end of their websites )

Thanks again... I really appreciate your help.

Tom

[sayontan]

Tom,
By any chance have you got excerpts enabled for the front page? I discovered a bug there that is preventing things from working correctly on a static page.

Try out this sequence:
1. Go to "Excerpts / Full Contents" under your theme settings
2. For "Excerpt Settings for the Front Page" set "Display full content"
3. Save

Now test out the static page. If it shows up with the correct formatting, then there is your culprit.

I have submitted a fix to WordPress for this bug today. Once they approve it (probably tomorrow), you should be able to download the new version of the theme that will display the correct behavior.

Sayontan.

[tserface]

Woohoo... that worked great. Thanks. I am having a blast learning about this stuff and I appreciate your help a lot.

Tom