vincentvegan78
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Thanks Craig! 🙂
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Adding a different index pageHi there. I think I understand. I did this for my site too (eventually), with no plugins or complicated CSS editing. I managed to have one image and some text underneath that just said ‘Enter site here’, and nothing else on the page at all. How I did it was as follows:
– I created a page called ‘landing page’;
– I made that my new ‘static’ home page, so that it is first page anyone comes to if they go to my site;
– When editing my new ‘landing page’, I went to where it says ‘page attributes’, I changed the drop-down menu to ‘Raw’ (it is usually a ‘template’ page);
– I then created basic html coding using the free tool ‘Kompozer‘ to just display an image and text that both link to the page I want it to (in my case it was ended in /home, but it could go to any of your pages);
– Copy the HTML code and paste it into the tab that says ‘Text’ when editing your page (rather than ‘Visual’). Save the changes and your page will be a basic html page instead of a WordPress template;
– The final step was for me to go to ‘Appearance’, then ‘Menus’ and removed ‘landing page’ from the menu list, so that it isn’t accessible any other way, or listed in my menu bar.It worked for me, so hope it helps 🙂
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How can I alternate the featured post on my site?RESOLVED 🙂
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How can I alternate the featured post on my site?Thanks for the help. The issue was finally resolved: It was to do with the website ‘theme’, which in my case is the ‘Arras Theme’.
To change the slideshow, I went to:
‘Arras theme’ > then the ‘Home’ tab > then under ‘Featured slideshow’ I could select the items to appear from a drop-dwon menu (e.g. announcements, or news etc).For me, the best way was for me to ‘sticky’ the posts I wanted to feature, then select ‘sticked posts’ in the slideshow drop-down menu.
Now that I have done this, the slideshow alters and I can also scroll through the posts. For anyone having this trouble, just remember to add a ‘featured image’ to your posts, so that the slideshow shows a picture and not just the text.
Many thanks for the support 🙂
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How can I alternate the featured post on my site?Thank you. I will have a look at that now and let you know how it goes.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How can I alternate the featured post on my site?Hi there. Thanks again. I am using 3.5.1. However, I have now discovered that the plugin we are discussing is definitely not the issue. I have removed that plugin (Featured Item Slider) to see what happens, and the featured post is still on the webiste, so there must be another way that this is working. Thanks anyway though.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How can I alternate the featured post on my site?Hi there. Many thanks for the reply. I thought that too at first, but the ‘Feature in Featured Item Slider’ tickbox is unchecked, yet the post is still featured at the top of the page. Also, if I tick that same box for other posts nothing changes and the same post still remains featured at the top.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How can I alternate the featured post on my site?P.S. I should have been clearer on what I want to do: I want more than just that post on the top and would prefer to alternate between different posts.