Oxygen theme featured post slider

  • Unknown's avatar
    gigaboutblog · Member ·

    I’m using the Oxygen theme and everything is pretty much how I want it to look, except the featured post slider is a bit too large and takes up quite a lot of the page.

    Is there any way the post slider can be resized on the free version of WordPress?

    Thank you in advance!

    Blog link: gigaboutblog.com

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    rachelmcr · Member ·

    Hi there,

    There isn’t a way to change the size of that post slider without the Custom Design upgrade. However, with the WordPress.com Premium plan you’re trying out, you can use Custom CSS to make changes to how your theme looks.

    To add custom CSS, go to your My Blogs page and click the Customize link under the blog’s title. In the Customizer, open the CSS section and in the CSS editor there, you can enter the following CSS:

    #featured-content {
width: 75% !important;
}

    That will make the Oxygen featured post slider 75% of its normal size. You can adjust that percentage to get the size you like.

    If you’d like to make more changes to your theme’s look, we have tips for getting started with CSS here:

    If you have CSS questions, most of our CSS support is done in the CSS Customization forum by expert staff and volunteers:

    https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization

    And if you’d like to make changes but CSS isn’t something you really want to get into, you can request more help here: Request Theme Customization

    Please let me know if you have any questions about that. :)

  • Unknown's avatar
    gigaboutblog · Member ·

    Thank you very much for your help!

    Just wondering – now there is some space at the side, is there any way I could use custom css to add some sort of content to the right hand side of the post slider if it’s not classed as a widget area?

    Thanks again. :-)

  • Unknown's avatar
    rachelmcr · Member ·

    You’re welcome!

    CSS can be used to change how content looks on the page, but there isn’t a way to add new content using CSS. That depends on how the theme is built.

    If you want to see if you can move some of the existing content around to fill in that space, I’d recommend posting your question in the CSS forum here:

    https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization

    That way, the CSS experts in that forum can help you figure out if it’s possible using CSS. :)

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