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Hello,
I tried to find some old posts similar to my question but couldn’t find any. So here I’d like to explain my problem hoping someone can help me.
First of all, I did succeed in adding a slideshow following the tips from this website http://scottgohphotography.com.au/blog/2012/12/how-to-wordpress-pinboard-slideshow/
and here’s how it looks like in my website:
http://suhsiahsu.com/Secondly, I want to make my front page look like the one in the same website
http://scottgohphotography.com.au/blog/
or the one in pinboard demo website
http://demo.onedesigns.com/pinboard/
that is, to have some posts underneath the slideshow.Here comes the problem:
If I’d like to have posts on the front page, it seems to require the front page (home page in my case) set in blog or portfolio template (if I’m not mistaken?).
But then, the original slideshow would disappear as it only works under a default template (as it is now) or a landing page template.So how can I make my front page look like the demo website with all the posts still appearing under the sticky-post slideshow?
Do we need to do it with a widget ?
BTW, if this problem can be solved, concerning the posts shown, can we choose which posts to appear, blog posts or portfolio posts?
Thanks!
Sophie
The slider should display on the standard blog page as long as it’s set as front page under Settings > Reading and not using one of the built-in custom blog templates that don’t display the slider. Only standard blog posts are displayed, there is no option to display portfolio items along with the slider.
Your header image is too large and pushing the header sidebar below it. You may consider deleting the following line from header.php:
<?php get_sidebar( 'header' ); ?>
Thanks a lot for your advice!
Just to make it clear:
If I set the blog page as my front page in order to have a front page like the demo site, then other than portfolio page, I could not have another page with the post function, right?
Thank you!
Sophie
You can use any of the blog custom page templates as a secondary page but it would not display the slider.
Thank you very much for your reply.
But I have some more questions if that’s OK:
I know that the header is a space normally dedicated for ads, and it is usually not recommend to put any widget here especially if you want to display social media icons.
But in my case, since I want to display some stuff on the header, first of all,I didn’t change the code from header.php as you have suggested, because I found out that if I do that, I’d not have enough space for some widgets, like the two displaying now on my website (suhsiahsu.com): the search widget, and the language option widget (I’m running my website with WPML.)
I could have at least put the language option widget on the sidebar, but I find it kind of odd: because normally, if a website has language option, it displays it on top of the page, even above the header, like this: https://www.animalsasia.org/intl/index.html
Still, now that the language option is set in the header, it is situated right in the middle of the header, which doesn’t look good either. Is there a way to adjust its location by changing the CSS? So that it can get right on the left to the search widget?
I’m new to wordpress.org, hope that I didn’t ask some stupid questions!
Thank you very much!
Sophie
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