Hi, it looks like your homepage is a static page, not a blog page with the latest posts? So the slideshow won’t show up on the homepage by adding it to a blog post.
I would try adding the slideshow shortcode to the page content for the homepage and see if that puts it in the correct spot. If you want it above the page content and the sidebar, you would have to edit one of the theme template files.
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HD1234
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Thanks for your help, that worked great. Now it shows up on the page but still having one issue… despite setting it as 1000w x 500h for some reason I cant adjust the height of player. Do you have any idea where I would look to correct this?
Did you upload the slide images before setting the slideshow dimensions? The slide images are sized to those dimensions when they are uploaded, so you might need to re-upload them.
But a 1000×500 slideshow won’t fit in the content column, you need to add it to the template above the two columns, or switch to a one column template.
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HD1234
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Ah right, that size is way too big for the target area 😉 I actually want the slides to fit in that area proportionately (without the need to page scroll) so that I can still have the main sidebar and everything looks clean and tidy. I have it pretty close set at 500×300, still the height is slightly ducking under the screen (so you need to scroll down a bit to see the full slideshow) and the width isn’t quite aligned with the above nav menu titles (I want the slideshow to stretch end to end, from “home” to “contact”)… I guess I just need to tweak until its perfect. Is there a way to determine those exact px size amounts? Anyway, with your help its now working!!
By “upload” do you mean to the media library itself or upload as in ‘add featured image? So each time I adjust the size settings I must remove featured images from the slides, update and then delete those same images from the media library and finally re-upload via the slides ‘add featured image again for it to work properly, correct? Trying to figure out the quickest way to test slideshow sizes…
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HD1234
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Okay, so after a few attempts I got the slideshow size nailed. Looks fantastic!
As for the uploading part, the only way I could get it to work each time was by deleting the slide, deleting the image from media library, change slideshow settings, create new slide and then upload the featured image and save. Quite tedious, but it works and now it seems all I need do is replace the test images. Am I doing things correctly or is there an easier step by step process?
Good to hear that you got it figured out. You don’t have to delete the image or the slide, just remove the featured image on the slide post and add a new featured image. You just need to make sure the new featured image is uploaded and not from the media library because the featured image will be cropped just when it is uploaded, they existing images aren’t effected if you change the dimensions.
Generally you want to figure out the size of the slideshow first, update the slideshow options with that size, prep the slide images to that size in an image editor, and then create the slide posts and upload the slide images.
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HD1234
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Okay, thats good to know, I will try it when I begin adding the real images. Thanks a lot for your help!
JL, Their was a shortcode that I found a few days ago in a message by Scrabler for the Weaver II PRO … I put it into the Advanced section of the Header and it worked.
It was something like [meteor_slideshow slideshow=”testimonials”] but I cannot remember it .. do you know what it was?
I do believe that the command “description” was in it. after inserting this code all I had to do was hid the Header.
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