[Resolved] Help with Sec Nav Add On, Help adding Frame for Slider and Post Layout

[Shana Howard]

Hi. I am hoping that I can get some help. I am a newbie to css and php have spent hours but still I can not figure out the following things.

1) I would like to have a Title above the Secondary Navigation. Is there a way to put a widget above it or add a header title?

2) I am trying to add a feature post slider to the homepage and I would like it to go above the left sidebar and the content.

3) I also am trying to customize the post layout. I would like to remove the feature image from the posts on home page. I would like instead to have the slider.

Hopefully you can help me b/c if not I may throw my computer out the window.

Thanks a bunch.

[Tom]

Hi Shana,

Hopefully your computer is still inside your house 🙂

1. Where is the secondary navigation located? In a sidebar?

2. Your best bet here is to use GP Hooks. I explained it in this thread: http://www.generatepress.com/forums/topic/how-to-add-slideshow-to-my-theme/

3. For this, you would use the Page Header addon. There’s a couple videos you can watch which show you how to use a video as your featured image: http://www.generatepress.com/knowledgebase/generate-page-header/

Let me know if you need any more help 🙂

[Shana Howard]

Hi Tom. Thanks for the quick reply back. Thankfully, my computer is still in the new house. Thanks for caring.

After some more hair pulling work and research, I have this code that is for a Featured Content Gallery.

<?php include (ABSPATH . ‘/wp-content/plugins/featured-content-gallery/gallery.php’); ?>

I guess I am suppose to insert this somewhere in the php. I am using Exhibit Theme and would like the slider to go above the Content (in the center of my two side menus) but only on the home page. It is a content slider.

Also, if I get this slider thing working is there a way to not show the photos on the homepage without having to remove all the feature photos from the posts?

[Tom]

Hi Shana,

Does that plugin come with a shortcode instead of a php call?

If so, the Page Header addon would allow you to add it above your content on the homepage super easily.

Let me know 🙂

[Shana Howard]

Hi Tom.

I scrapped the plug-in cause I couldn’t get it to work right. I have already bought the plug-in package… all of them. And I don’t even know what a hook is but one day…

Could you help me with one more thing? I am trying to change my header not to an image but to html code. I can add it with a widget but it is small and doesn’t stretch across the whole page.

[Tom]

Looks like GP Hooks will come in handy sooner than you thought! 🙂

You can add your own HTML into the header using GP Hooks – go to “Appearance > GP Hooks” and select the “Before Header Content” area.

Add your HTML in there and you should be good to go.

Let me know if you need more help!

[Shana Howard]

That put my html header about the original header image (I guess I can delete that so it is only the html image). But it is small and doesn’t stretch all the way across the page. Is there a quick fix for that?

[Shana Howard]

Something crazy just happened and I don’t know what. There are double images. I deactivated the hooks but they are still there… I just updated the plug-ins.

http://takingroute.net/

[Tom]

I’m sorry about that! This is a bug in the child themes. I released the update, but there’s a long queue over at WP.org to get updates released.

You can patch your child theme with these instructions: http://generatepress.com/forums/topic/double-image/#post-47009

As for your header image – we can stretch it using CSS, but that will most likely cause a huge loss of quality. Your best bet is to use an image that’s big enough to span the full width.

Let me know if you have any questions 🙂

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