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Great theme, love the slider. I understand that to add an image into the slider it must be added as a featured image. Great!
However not all posts will have an image, or maybe shouldn’t be a featured image. Its a big problem that all standard format posts (text only) also add a blank page in the slider, only showing the text overlay. This is odd, and four standard posts in a row show a completely empty slider when loading the page, so its just empty and dull, without the featured images being shown.
How in the heck can I post a normal, standard text post and keep those out of the slider, so it doesn’t affect my chosen featured images in the slider?
I would like an answer to this question as well. I would like to have my home page not display the posts that do not have images / text only posts. Is there a solution?
I cannot even get an image to display! I have uploaded image to ‘set feature image’
in post selection’gallery’ is selected, still no image?
Have you been sucessful to upload an image?
thanks:)I found a plugin that did the trick. Called, Frontpage Category Filter, http://wordpress.phpanswer.com/wp-filter-post-categories/
Worked.
so to get the image to show did you upload image to the post and upload it to ‘set featured image’ and select ‘gallery’?
thanksWhat are the dimensions for the ‘featured image’ to appear correctly in the standard/normal gallery with 4 sliders?
Triangular–I dealt with that problem by creating a separate blog as a sub-directory and including a link as a menu item. I also included links to two of my other websites using the menu. You can check my portfolio site at [url=http://gregaitkenheadphotography.com]GregAitkenheadPhotography[/url] to see what I mean.
natasha–to get the slider image to show I just do as you said–choose one, set it as the featured image after selecting “set featured image,” save changes and then update post.
MattSuppa–I’ve found that horiz. images work best, and now size all of mine with a long side of 800 px. before uploading.
Hope that helps.
triangular said:
Great theme, love the slider. I understand that to add an image into the slider it must be added as a featured image. Great!However not all posts will have an image, or maybe shouldn\’t be a featured image. Its a big problem that all standard format posts (text only) also add a blank page in the slider, only showing the text overlay. This is odd, and four standard posts in a row show a completely empty slider when loading the page, so its just empty and dull, without the featured images being shown.
How in the heck can I post a normal, standard text post and keep those out of the slider, so it doesn\’t affect my chosen featured images in the slider?
I’ve found that the best way for me to do something like that (though it might be tedious for you) was to either set them as “asides” (however they become like pages and are not accessible from the front/home page which is sort of irritating) OR to put them in a specific category.
Some of my blog posts will have images, but not all (for example this very first one: http://photography.alicetragedy.org/?p=3), so to work around the problem of the featured image, when I post a blog entry it can be kept in “standard” mode (or in “image” if it has an image) but won’t be accessible from the slider – only from the category menu below.
in order to do this, you must put all of your non-image posts into the same category (I chose to call it “blog” for obvious reasons) and then go from the Dashboard to Appearance > Theme Options; from the dropdown menu next to “Blog Category” pick your non-image category, and it should work.
I hope it helps!
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