Hello,
1. You can change the front page in admin panel > Settings > Reading, find “Front page displays” line and tick “A static page (select below)”, Front page: select “Shop” from the dropdown menu.
2. You can disable the category image in custom.css file. Find the class .cat-banner and add the following line:
.cat-banner { display: none; }
Don’t forget to create custom.css file in wp-content/themes/blanco in enable it in admin panel > Theme Options > Enable Custom CSS file.
3. Do you want to remove the whole dropdown menu or just the line “sort by newness”? Please provide us with the link where it’s displayed and login details to admin panel in Private Content.
4. Unfortunately it can’t be changed by default in our theme. The categories are shown in the alphabetical order. If you have the required skills you may try to change it yourself.
Regards,
Eva Kemp.