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Slideshow
themekraft
asked this on June 26, 2012 21:58
How to setup the slideshow?
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The slideshow shows title, excerpt and the featured image of the last 4 posts.
To get your slideshow adjusted perfectly for your website just check the following steps:
1. Global set up - in the Theme Settings Page
Here you can enable/disable the slideshow for your homepage or for all pages. This works just for the auto-generated homepage (which is showing your latest posts). Below you can choose of which category the posts for the slideshow should be taken from. If you use another static page as homepage, have a look at point 2.
2. Slideshow on single pages - in the page edit screen
If you want to enable the slideshow on any other page, just go into the edit screen of that page. At the bottom you will see an extra field called “Custom Community Settings”. There you can choose, if you want to enable the slideshow for that page and which category to display.
So, now you should have a slideshow on that page, and your posts should be shown.
No images? Check if you activated a featured image for the posts shown in the slideshow! You will find the “featured image” option when editing an article, on the right side below the tags-field.
3. Getting the images adjusted
The slideshow does not resize the images. The images are aligned centered. So your images need to be big enough.
Default size of the big image in the slideshow: 756x250px, but the image should be bigger than 756x567px.
Why? When you create your feature image, you have to keep in mind that it will be displayed at 756 x 250. That is the big image you have in your slideshow. However, doing this, will cut your image on the small preview-menu in the slideshow.
Best is to create images at 756 x 567. This will keep the 4:3 ratio in the menu, and your image will be displayed as usual. You just have to center what you want to be in the big image on the slideshow.
For the full width slider images use 1008 x 756 px as featured image size.
If you checked these points, all should be fine now. If not, maybe you found a bug…
Slideshow shortcodes
You can also insert the slideshow anywhere you like by using its shortcodes. Check out here many examples to copy and modify for you: http://custom-community-pro.themekraft.com/slideshow-shortcodes
Custom slideshow
There are several ways to make your custom slideshow:
1. via shortcodes, check out example here:
http://custom-community-pro.themekraft.com/slideshow-shortcodes/#customized-slideshow
2. make a child theme, copy the original function slider() from core/includes/wp/shortcodes.php and modify it for you so you’ll have your custom slider.
if you like to have the slideshow inside its own container and above the content (like the home slideshow, not the ones inserted via shortcodes), then you need to copy the function slideshow_home() from core/includes/theme-generator/theme-generator.php
notes:
in this function slideshow_home() you have to call your own slider() function!
rename and modify it for you, and adapt the CSS to your needs.
and then you will also need your own featured image size, so add this into your functions.php but with your own image sizes:
// post thumbnail additional sizes
add_image_size( ‘your_sliderfunction_name’, 1000, 400, true );
…hope this is a good starting point to play around with your own custom slideshow.
II have activated WP3.5 and BuddyPress ans the result is good, but the SLIDESHOW stopped on 1 of the several images.
How can I resolve that?
Thanks in advance!
Best wishes
Marco Bertalot-Bay (marcobbay)
Hi Marco,
please submit a support ticket here, so we can take care of your specific problem.
Thanks!
Hi all!
Perhaps someone will say that everything described here, but I have not found.
How to create a "support ticket"?
And what are the rules?
When logged in here, you can just click the button in the upper right corner here, to create a new support ticket.
Here as a link: http://support.themekraft.com/tickets/new
To checkout our different support options, have a look here:
http://themekraft.com/support/
We try to keep it as simple as possible:
Browse the docs - or write us ;)
If you miss explanations, rules or whatever, please give us some feedback so we can improve and help others find help more quickly without any confusion :) So any feedback is always greatly appreciated.
Have a great day!
Well, of course, help the planet.
But why have to pay for something that began as something free and not my / our fault just does not work?
Is the repair is not a question of who created the "Custom Community"?
The whole problem appeared after upgrading to the latest version of CC.
Is it my fault that I updated the CC to work properly for the version that does not work slideshow?
I apologize for this form, but I'm not alone with this prolemem.
There have been many statements reporting this problem for half a year.
My suggestion: do THEMEKRAFT can prepare a new update of CC in the slideshow just going to work?
Yes, I asked about how to set up a support ticket.
Understood to mean not only why the support is paid.
I mean, if someone asks for support because they do not deal with Custom Community for Wordpress, and for such assistance must pay.
But I (and others also) have inform the problem of non-functional theme function that failed after the upgrade.
I think that the repair of this issue lies in its creators, as an expression of professionalism.
For me, you are professionals, because Custom Community is a good job, which I congratulate you.
For this is always one of Themekraft is willing to help.
So looking forward to the update :)
Already lived to upgrade WordPress to 3.5.1, and as they go to work on updating the CC?
Hi mariosvd,
you can download the latest update from github here:
https://github.com/Themekraft/Custom-Community/
Most of the bugs are fixed. You are welcome to help us testing!
I just updated the github repository with some new fixes.
New version on wordpress will come ASAP.. just a few urgent bugs left.
Oh! great!
I'm glad that you don't forsaken technical support - thanks!
Sorry to ask in this topic, but what do I get and where to install / replace?
Hi mariosvd,
do you use pro or free version?
Read the blog post here for more info on where to get the newest version (status 30 January 2013) (for pro and free version):
http://themekraft.com/custom-community-some-quick-update-fixes/
Hope this helps!
If you still run into any error or have any question
please submit a support ticket here
Some update help when downloading from GitHub:
http://themekraft.com/custom-community-some-quick-update-fixes/#com...
With great joy can congratulate you. Slideshow works! :)
You have done a great job with this new update.
T H A N K S !!!
It is a pity that you have to do it manually, and does not have automatic update capabilities.
I use the free version of CC.
I also have a few suggestions, which have yet to improve:
1. Between "Header image" and the menu is more space than there was in the previous version - it stab harmony, as between the menu and the right part of the page there was far less free space.
2. In "Slideshow" between the thumbnails on the right side, for about 40 px there is some projected image.
3. All methods of removing avatar is not working properly. These ways must correct support department but the problem remains too large a margin on the right.
(my way: div.author-box{
margin-left:-100px;
}
div.post-content {
position:relative;
left: -20px;
width:100%
}
4. Category menu - once you could add a category on the menu that was not a link (moving the mouse caused her to develop the menu, rather than activates a category as a link).
It's all of my observations.
For these observations, I attach a graphic instructions.
Feel free to share your opinions.
hi mariosvd,
i copied the stuff over to a support ticket and will write you there,
this thread will explode with unuseless information for others regarding this topic.
thanks, see you in the support ticket
I recently starting using CC, installed version 1.15. Whatever size my image is the slideshow stretches it to fit the large window. So if I design the featured image to be right size for that windows then it's the wrong size for the thumbnails, and vice versa. I'd like to be able to upload and approximate rectangle and for it to use a sensible best fit for the thumbnail (i.e. to auto-crop it to preseve whichever dimension is slightly the wrong size) and likewise not to stretch the image in the main display, but to simply trim it. (The display is quite long so I most of the time it would be losing a bit of the top and bottom but preserving the full width.) Is there no option for this? Simply stretching the image looks very ugly.
I'm still stuck on this. I need the slideshow images to be "aligned centered" in the slideshow as the OP suggests they should be.
A support ticket was answered, "A image 1008x256 seems to work best, also under theme settings / slideshow stretch big image, set this to off." But I can see no such setting. I have expanded an searched all the various tabs under Theme Settings > Slideshow and there is no stretch option for me.