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Hi there,
I wanted to know how to make it so that my minimatica wordpress page would use the slider to send people to pages instead of blog posts. TimGouldPhotography offered some help without my even having to ask a question.I applied the changes he suggested – and now the slider does take one to pages instead of to posts, however the slider’s behavior has changed so that it only shows one slide at a time and those slides do not expand.
What have I done wrong? The site can be viewed here. http://honeytestsite.site88.net/
Below I have attached Tim’s original advice
“TimGouldPhotography on April 29, 2012 at 10:23 pm says:
By default, the slider shows the most recent posts, and is updated every time a new post is made. I wanted it to remain static and link to pages – like a fancy menu.The trick is to allow it to show Posts still, but only posts from a specific category. You make four posts, using the timestamp to determine their order on the slider, and make sure they are the only posts in that category. Then you tell each of those posts to redirect to the Page that you really want to show. This is all done with the help of a couple of plugins.
In Posts>Categories create a new post category (name it something obvious just for your front page, so you won’t accidentally use it elsewhere)
Install the Frontpage Manager plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/frontpage-category-filter/).
In Settings>Frontpage Manager, set the frontpage to only show posts from your special category.
Install the Page Links To plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-links-to/).
Create the Pages you want your users to see. Do whatever you want, no special considerations here. But make a note of the url.
Create the Posts for your front page. Your users will never actually see this post; the image and text will appear on the slider, but NOT on the final Page where the user ends up.Put a short and sweet text description.
Add an image (landscape format works best in the slider) but make it a featured image.
Set the post category to the special category you made earlier. This will make it show up on the frontpage slider.
Finally, thanks to the Page Links To plugin, there is a new box labelled ‘Page Links To’. In here put the url of the Page that you want your users to see instead of the Post you are writing.OK, so now your blog page is acting like a fancy menu instead of a blog. But what if you still want traditional blog posts too?
Make a new Category called (for example) ‘Blog’.
Make a Menu item that links to the ‘Blog’ Category.
When users click that your menu item, they get taken to a normal blog page with all Posts in the ‘Blog’ Category. Just remember, whenever you make a new post, put in in the ‘Blog’ category (you can put it in other categories as well, but if it’s not in the ‘Blog’ category it won’t show on that page).”
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