Post Slider
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My website uses the sketch theme. It says it has a post slider and that will display on the portfolio page and archive pages. I configure it, but I can see it on the archive pages.
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Do you mean you can’t see the slider?
How many featured posts do you have?
Make sure the page on which you are hoping to see the slider is set to use Portfolio Page Template
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have at least two posts tagged with your featured content tag.
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There are a lot of posts with a “featured” tag on ibtx.wordpress.com, so the missing step is likely setting the static front page to Portfolio Page Template. Note that the post slider only appears on the homepage.
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Or, rather, only appears on the front page, and only when it is set to display a static page.
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Ok, I resolve the problem of the post slider, but the sidebar disappear and the content that is in my homepage do not fill all the page. I try everything! I change the size of everything to full and large, 1500×1500. It don’t work. Help, anyone?
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@ chaitanyamsv,
@ starlordz,
chaitanyamsv was correct when he said,Make sure the page on which you are hoping to see the slider is set to use Portfolio Page Template
I was wrong when I said,
Note that the post slider only appears on the homepage. Or, rather, only appears on the front page, and only when it is set to display a static page.
The post slider appears on the any page set to Portfolio Page Template at Page Attributes, except on the page set to display your latest posts.
@starlordz,
but the sidebar disappear…
I’m working on a reponse to your latest post.
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…but the sidebar disappear and the content that is in my homepage do not fill all the page. I try everything! I change the size of everything to full and large, 1500×1500. It don’t work. Help, anyone?
The sidebar is supposed to disappear on the showcase Portolio Page Template page. It still displays on your posts and pages, including archives pages.
I see that most of your content on the static front page (Portfolio Page Template) is not filling the page as you would like. Not sure why this is the case. I notice that in some cases text and image combine to fill the page, but no image fills the page. Errors such as this might be caused by stray HTML tags, or other HTML errors, which occur rather commonly when content is pasted in from external sources. Did you format the content of this page yourself?
See the WordPress support page HTML Troubleshooting, which is introduced by the following,
Sometimes formatting and layout issues can be caused by stray HTML in your posts. Here’s how to find and correct these errors.
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I change the size of everything to full and large, 1500×1500. It don’t work. Help, anyone?
I just checked the size of four images in your static front page: 6084, 157, 158, and 160. Each is 764 pixels wide. There’s the reason for them not filling the page.
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Ok… I think that it is an error because when I check out the page the images were full sized, but when I check back at the site nothing changed. It try 4 times and nothing. The only change that I made that you can see that some images are now to the right, making some text go to the left. And yes… I format the content of the page by myself with a help of a friend.
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The images 6084, 157, 158, and 160. The width is given in the image URL.
You can display them larger than that but you’ll lose picture quality. You must have them set to display at full size. And full size is 764 pixels wide in each case.when I check out the page the images were full sized
Today I see that your front page is different, but the largest images are still each 764 pixels wide. Look at the width value in each of the following URLs:
* Image 48: https://ibtx.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/image48.jpg?w=764
* Image 49: https://ibtx.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/image49.jpg?w=764
* Image 13: http://ibtx.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/image13.jpg?w=764&h=632
* Image 11: http://ibtx.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/image11.jpg?w=764&h=438
* Image 7: http://ibtx.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/image7.jpg?w=764&h=433
* Nokia N1 image: https://ibtx.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/nokia-n1-5.jpg?w=764 -
The full size of those images are 764, but why the other images still doing the same thing if the full size is at least 2200 wide?
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I see you’ve changed the size of some of the images. Give me an example of one that is large enough to fill the page width, yet isn’t filling it.
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<img class=”alignleft wp-image-4479″ src=”https://ibtx.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/image49.jpg” alt=”image” width=”1067″ height=”176″ />
Here is the html code for the image 49 that I use. It is like 2250 originally, but that’s the size that I choose to put. Then when I published it the size changes.
I resolved some of the spaces by putting the content on tables. Now I have another problem with a space at the right side of the image that says Latest News. -
<img class=”alignleft wp-image-4479″ src=”https://ibtx.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/image49.jpg” alt=”image” width=”1067″ height=”176″ />…
It is like 2250 originally, but that’s the size that I choose to put. Then when I published it the size changes..
So it is set to display at 1067 pixels width? I don’t know why it is not doing so. It appears to display at about the same width as the slider. Another oddity I detected was that if you zoom in with Firefox, all of the page content expands in width in relation to the monitor width,
except
the post slider and the section of the front page above the “# Best of 2014” image.
It’s very difficult to detect and analyze what’s going wrong with your front page without access to the text editor. Besides the above-mentioned anomaly, another striking aspect is that there seem to be several different maximum page widths, though in a single page there is only one template setting allowed for the entire page. I don’t know what is causing this, and can only guess that it is an effect of html code or CSS customization. I see that you’ve applied a “table” tag to this topic. Are you using tables in the page?
I’ve tagged the topic for Staff Attention, but I would suggest that you delete most of the vague tags presently applied, leaving only the most specific and relevant, such as “Portfolio Page Template,” “page width,” “image width, “possible HTML errors,” “Sketch theme,” perhaps “tables.”
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Ok 😉 I will eliminate some tags. Yep… I am using tables in the page.
I will try again tomorrow to fix the weird space with a recommend tip that Yahoo Answers gave me. I will work on that. 👍 -
@starlordz — Does the image work at full size if you change that image code to the exact width of the page? For example:
<img class="alignleft wp-image-4479" src="https://ibtx.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/image49.jpg" alt="image" width="1092" /> -
Let me try. Do you know how to resolve the the weird space that is between latest posts and featured episodes of the week?
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That’s due to using a table to organize that content. The table will, by default, center the table cells vertically.
I don’t recommend using tables like that — not only can you run into trouble with the alignment like that, but it can also cause trouble for visitors with smaller screen sizes. (For example, it makes the site very hard to read on a smartphone because the table doesn’t fit on that small screen.)
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