Problems with the bfslider & moving the nav + logo.

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Problems with the bfslider & moving the nav + logo.

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Started 1 year ago by 2colors
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2colors
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Hi, I'm having a few problems with a site I'm making... I'm aiming to have a bfslider on the home page, and to have a "feature" photo for all other pages. Quite like a site Illusio has made. Here.

Here's a template of what I want the home page to look like. HOME. & here is another of what I'd like the other pages to look like. PAGES.

Illusio used TopArt primarily.. but I'm just a bit confused in how this works. I'll often change things in Topart.. but nothing happens. Lol, anyways, I would really appreciate some help. Thanks.

Posted 1 year ago #
vfxdude
admin

you can use the BFArea child theme, it looks like this. Then you can add sliders and shortcodes to the "Feature HTML" input field below the editor (of each page/post). You can chenge the customHeader function (in the child theme's functions.php) to move the navagtion to the top.

Posted 1 year ago #
2colors
Member

Can you specify a little bit more? I'm not exactly sure what I should be doing in the child theme's functions.php...

Then, what shortcodes would I be inputting into the Feature HTML field? This is the first time I'm using the bfslider or Feature HTML..

Lastly, How to I move the h1 or post/page title below the feature area? I don't fully understand child themes & would like to know ways to execute what I'm trying to do in an neat and consistent manner.

Thanks once again.

Posted 1 year ago #
vfxdude
admin
you don't have to do anything in functions.php, but if you want to move the navigation you can change things around in the customHeader function (there's 2 bf_navigation calls there). Example:

move these lines below the (topheader and cwidth divs):
```
<div id="navbar"><div class="cwidth clearfix"><?php bf_navigation("","navsmall"); ?>
<div id="social"><?php bf_navigation("socialnav","navsmall"); ?></div>
</div><div class="clear"></div></div>
```
You create a page, and add a shortcode in the Feature HTML field below the editor. It can be any shortcode, bfslider, nivoslider, bfthumbs, galleria etc.

The post title is already below the feature area, just see here.
Posted 1 year ago #
2colors
Member

Ok, hopefully these are my last questions...

The site is getting along, but I still have a few problems. I can't seem to get the social nav working... I followed the readme.txt but still no prevail. I'm unclear on why I need to do step 3 (readme.txt). Step 4 says to add the links you just created to the nav and save settings, but I can't find where to do that. I can add a custom link.. but they don't have a connection to the interface menu "Links" (to my knowledge). Help would be much appreciated.

Then, I want to move the footer text down a pixel or two and also center it... but can't find it in either stylesheet. I can change it's color in #footer of the bfarea stylesheet but other than that, I'm clueless. If I could get the actual line number or something it'd be great.. I'm still just getting a handle of this child theme stuff.

Lastly, on this page the feature image repeats it self twice. I want it to be an archive of the sites posts... but have the same feature image as this page. Oh and at the moment it's a page using the "blog posts" template. Any thoughts?

Thanks so much.

Posted 1 year ago #
vfxdude
admin

create a new navigation in theme setting by pressing the green plus sign (if it's not there then enable multiple navigations below).

Use Firebug. Searching in the code is so time wasting. Everything can be overriden in the child theme stylesheet by coping from firebug and altered.

Cant's see any repeating feature images though. It can happen if you also insert it into the post/page editor.

Posted 1 year ago #

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