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I have been attempting to recreate the layout of the provided sample home page design for this theme with no success. I have found as others that the slider will only display if you choose your sites home page to be “Your latest posts” and not a static page as intended. I thought I might be able to use the posts page as a workaround and have it display only the earliest posts to set a consistent experience for a simple business site. This way does allow me to create a set series of posts on the home page to show but despite every effort of digging through every menu I cannot get the full post to show, only a summary. I have verified that under the reading settings for the site it is set to show the full post and the customize menu for the theme is set to show recent posts as well as numerous attempts to get the blog pages number of full posts to display before grid option to change.
So if others are having these issues I would love to see if some has arrived at a solution.
Before I complain please let me say thank you for your efforts especially for a GPL product. I love this theme and want to use it for many other projects but I have to get through these bugs.1. There is no way to reproduce the home page from the sample as the landing page template is broken – I saw a post where some attempted to post a fix but the system blocked them from posting code
2. If I create a static home page – and set it’s template as landing page – I get a static page with no slider and one full width column. There is no sidebar displayed as in the example page.
3. If I attempt to recreate the example page using blog posts and setting the order to be earliest to latest then I can control the order of posts shown on the page. However I cannot get the entire post to show, only the excerpt.
4. There is a setting in the WordPress settings -> reading area to show the full post, but there is not a setting in the theme to show the full post in the customize menu for the theme. There is a setting under the theme options for “blog pages > number of full posts to display before grid” but this number is set at zero and every time I change it to another number and hit save then it will never update. It always stays zero and I never get an error. It just will not change no matter what I do.
5. There is no way with this template as others to import the sample content to see how the designer achieved things in the sample page.
6. I did finally figure out how to use the design elements but you have to switch to html view and individually insert the items as code. I was attempting to use the 1/3 width columns and found that I have to use firebug to decipher that a div tag had to be inserted and set to the matching style element from the style sheet for the design element that I wished to create. Isn’t this exactly what I was trying to get away from by using WordPress? I can manage but how to I explain that to a client when they want to use the design elements themselves?
If anyone else has arrived at a solution for these please respond with your fixes!That’s off, I was positive the slider was added to the landing page template but now I see it is indeed not. I’ll fix it in the next release, meanwhile add this to the file template-landing-page.php:
You can check in index.php where this call is made.
Thank you so much for the prompt reply. I am trying to go live with this soon time is a bit of a luxury at this moment. I had already prowled through the code and located this line and inserted it into the landing page temple . However when i do so I get the first post of the Sticky Posts but no slider. I just get the first featured image as a static image and no slider.
Does the slider pull its array of sticky posts from some other location that might not be initialized in this scenario? i had even tried avoiding the conditional statement and just inserting the get_template_part( ‘slider’ ) statement without conditional with the same result.
I could get around this limitation if I could get the “latest posts” setting on the theme’s home page setting to show only one post and no grid below on the home page. Then I could set the reading order of the wordpress to site to show earliest posts and ensure that my long “home page” was the only one displayed. I followed other sections of the forum that described how to change the_excerpt to the_content and get the full post but now the other posts that I want in the slider but not on the home page are displayed as well.
Sorry if all this is complicated because essentially what I want is simple. I want to to be able to use the theme basis for a small business where the slider advertises the other elements of the site and the home page greet the visitor with a simple one-post ore single page experience. Many of my target audience are older people that have made it very clear that information overload on the home page text is to be avoided at all costs.
Thanks SO MUCH!!!!!!
OK I found a solution to that last issue. I was able to remove the while loop from the index.php file so that it only displays the first post. That suits my needs as a workaround but still using this with a static front page would be great!
Hi bfixit,
I Understand your issue.
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http://www.semlandingpages.comwhat a disappointment to download this theme and find it is not showing up as per demo. I wanted to put a simple single image, where the slider is, on the home page, but it is impossible. I wanted the home page as a Page – not a post. So assigning sticky is no help for me here. this theme does not allow for configuration of an image for the home page, well that makes it quite useless to work with. I read all the above comments and I too want to get away from the time consuming task of coding.
further to my last post In the home page right side under page attributes, I just changed the home page to a Landing Page template and I now have my featured image showing full width…but now all content is now full width too. I lost the ability to display my text content with side bar beneath the imgage. And when I do change my template settings back to two columns for content, the content column only takes two thirds of the page, and the right side bar is double the width which is terrible because of the gaps in the page. And I cant get the header tag line to show….(text) so all in all this theme has turned out impossible to work with.
Drop the slider code in key-masters comment in template-portfolio-right-sidebar.php
Place it right under the php get_header code (line 5)
Hey guys –
I’ve been trying to get the slider to work not just on the top-level or parent pages of the blog, but also on lower-level or child pages.
My site is here:
http://www.itinerantangler.com/blog/podcasts/
On that top level page the slider (which I have moved to the header) works as intended. But on child pages *only the first slide* is visible.
I had a workaround that semi-worked; I simply cut and pasted the javascript for the working header from the parent page into the header.php so it was reproduced on all pages. But that screwed up certain functions from wp_head (mostly on my bbPress installation).
Bottom line question: *is there a way to enable the slider for ALL pages of the blog?*
Thanks a lot!
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