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Started 8 months ago by kaws
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kaws
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Thanks Vfxdude for a wonderful theme even though I have a few questions.

1.) On my Blog page I only want to show posts that are categorized as Blog or any child of the Blog category. I set the custom field with category and my blog category # which is 5 but when I post a feature, my features are showing on the blog page as well, how do I make it so none of my posts under the Features category show on the blog page?

2.) On the front page, I have the slider. Is there anyway to make it so any post under the Featured category it will drag the first image of that and use it in the slider and link that image to the Featured post? Or do I always have to make a "slide2" "slide3" "slide4" page etc.?

3.) How can I make my Featured POSTS be full page rather than like a blog post and have the sidebar?

Thanks in advance.

Posted 8 months ago #
timlawrence25
Member

For question #1 you may want to check wordpress setting (Readings). Don't define a post page and only define a frontpage. If you define a post page in wordpress, all the categories will go to this page (if I remember correctly).

Posted 8 months ago #
kaws
Member

Yeah it worked perfectly, much appreciated. Any word on 2 & 3 yet?? lol

Posted 8 months ago #
timlawrence25
Member

for #2 Vfxdude tells you how to do this within his site. look up the bfslider stuff, you can change the parameters of which post or page to use.

here is the link:
http://www.vfxdude.com/bigfeature/2009/08/the-bf-slider/

And I'm still waiting on number 3.

Posted 8 months ago #
kaws
Member

I can't figure it out so it just uses the "Features" category post as the slider feed. Am I missing something??

Posted 8 months ago #
timlawrence25
Member

Yeah, try this. You will need to name your category slug "features"

[bfslider name="features" type="category"]

Posted 8 months ago #
kaws
Member

Yes that worked, appreciate it. But, can I make it so it shows the full width of the image only and no excerpt/read more?

Posted 8 months ago #
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vfxdude

[bfslider name="featured" type="category" imagesize="feature" height="420" maximageheight="350"]

Posted 8 months ago #
kaws
Member

Wow... thanks a lot, my site is really turning out nice, can't wait to showcase it to you guys.

Posted 8 months ago #

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