Hello!
I’ll get straight to the point, I have a blog hosted on WordPress.com with the Starter plan, and I’m using the Twenty Twelve theme since I really like the layout and can’t quite find anything else more modern but similar. My only issue is that the tag page (I mean, the `blog.com/tag/…` page) is atrocious, basically it displays *all* the posts with that tag one after the other, not the title or the features image, but the *whole* post.
Every solution I find online to edit the tag page involves either using plugins (which I cannot do unless I pay more, and I’m not willing to), or editing php files or something along those line (which, likewise to the previous solution, I cannot do).
So… is there anything I’m missing that would allow me to fix/edit the tag page?
I thought of creating a new page with a Blog Posts block that filters by tag, but then I don’t know how to make the user select which tag to filter the posts by.
Every kind suggestion is highly appreciated, even just a “no, you cannot do that” will help hahah
Thanks in advance \~
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no, you cannot do that
Also, this is the wrong place to ask. We are WordPress .org and you are on WordPress .com, but you will get the same answer even if you ask in the right place.
Since you’re using an old theme, your options are limited. However, if you used a more recent theme, a “block-based” theme, you would have more control over the page structure of your archive pages, without the need for a plugin.
It may be worth trying such a theme. You’ll find that most themes available to you on your WordPress.com plan are actually block-based themes. You could play with it a bit to replicate the structure you like about the Twenty Twelve theme. It’s a relatively simple layout so I’m confident you could replicate the look by customizing the Twenty Twenty Four theme for example. Those customizations all happen in the Site Editor, under Appearance > Editor in your dashboard.
Once you’re happy with the look of your new theme, you’ll be able to create a custom Archives Page template in the Site Editor, a template that will only be used to display archives like your tag pages.
If you’re not too sure where to start, check the different themes available to you, check the support docs on WordPress.com, and different Learn videos on learn.wordpress.org to become more familiar with it. Nothing will beat playing with the thing on your own, though. 🙂
And as the others have mentioned, you can always contact the WordPress.com support team, or the WordPress.com community in the support forums. They’ll be happy to help.