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Home Insert

Visionary Home Insert

The Visionary WordPress theme comes with a section for including custom XHTML straight from your admin panel. This section is called Home Insert and is set between the feature article and excerpts on the front page of your blog.

You may choose not to use this, and if so, the section completely collapses and doesn’t break anything from within your theme.

To use this feature, just log into your WordPress dashboard. Go to Design > Visionary Settings. Under the Home Page Settings section, you’ll see a box to input your custom code labeled Home Insert.

What can you do with this section?

Well, you can add any XHTML you want. Sorry, no PHP.

The example in the image above includes an image, h4 element, and a paragraph. Here’s what the code for that looks like when I added it into the Home Insert section.

<img src="http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/paradise-150x150.jpg" class="left alignleft" alt="image" />

<h4>Home insert</h4>

<p>This is a custom home insert for the Visionary WordPress theme.  It's actually kind of cool because I can add custom XHTML here.</p>

Yep, I just added plain ol’ XHTML to pretty it up a bit.

All you need to do is put in valid markup (XHTML). Add anything your heart desires.

Some possible uses

I don’t want to limit you with these ideas, so feel free to let your imagination run wild. Don’t feel hindered by my suggestions.

Anyway, here’s a list of some things you might do:

  • Put in an ad or two (always a user favorite).
  • Show off some images.
  • Feature an old post (would have to hard code content).
  • Add some useful links.
  • Feature a section of your site with a neat image.