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  • I am using a custom theme from Viva Themes at http://www.foundpoetryreview.com that features a homepage slider. The slider is controlled through custom fields at the bottom of each page or post — you enter the slider image, caption text, and slider number (the order in which you want the slides to appear).

    I am having a couple of issues:

    * The slider always features the pages first, then the posts, even when I set the post slider number to 1 and adjust the others accordingly. Because we feature a weekly poetry prompt via post, there are times we want that post to be the first that appears in the slider.

    * I can’t change the order of the pages featured in the slider. Right now, the slider features our “about” page, then our “submissions” pages. I have tried to reverse these by switching the slider numbers (assigning 1 to submissions and 2 to about) but cannot get the slider to update accordingly.

    Viva Themes has a limited support forum I can post in, but I thought I’d have a better chance here.

    Any ideas?

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  • not being familiar with this particular theme/slider, it may be based on the publish date of the pages or posts, so you might want to try changing those.

    That sounds like a difficult way to manage a slider! (Most are coded to pull from a certain category)

    It seems like the theme is using a basic nivo slider, so I would maybe search for a nivo slider plugin you could use instead that would give you the flexibility to choose exactly what goes in each slide (a lot of the nicer thought out plugins just have a theme options page where you paste the link for the page/post to show up in the slider)

    Here’s one example to try:
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nivo-slider-for-wordpress/

    That would be the easy solution – the more difficult solution would be to recode the theme itself so it does that for you. You may be able to go into your homepage template and change how it is coded so it will pull it differently (not using the custom fields but instead based on a category or a tag) – but it would be kind of confusing unless you do a lot of theme development.

    Anyways, hope that might help a little!

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