Slider Image Appearing in Blog Feed (Soho Theme)
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Hi kokkieh, yes I did raise this topic in a live chat yesterday, but it wasn’t really resolved. Apparently I need to upgrade so that a code can be inserted to hide the image. Surely this is should be classed as something that needs fixing with this theme rather than an improvement that can be purchased via an upgrade? I have a random image appearing in my blog feed, which is necessary so that the slider, a feature of the theme, actually works. Is there another way to resolve this or a workaround?
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Hi there,
This is not a bug. Your theme uses the featured image from a post to create the slider on the page set to the home page template. All posts always appear on the posts page of a site – the Journal page in your site’s case. This is how the WordPress software works. As we told you in live chat, you can hide that post using custom CSS, which means adding custom code to tell your theme to essentially make that post invisible. But that changes the way your theme and the software is designed to work.
There are certainly other ways the theme’s designer could have used to create a slider on the home page which would not have required publication of a post for the sole purpose of assigning a featured image, but this is the method they chose.
You’re welcome to contact the theme author directly about this via the premium theme forum that one of our volunteers linked you to in the earlier thread, but unless the theme author decides to update the theme to change how this works, custom CSS is the only option.
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The following pages on @juliehurst’s site: Styling, Wardrobe Management, and Personal Shopping, each has a slider with a different featured image than that on the “Slider” post, that works the same way as the slider on the front page (homepage). These pages also seem to resemble the front page in other apparent respects. Why can’t the same thing be done on the front page? That is, why not just set a featured image on the static front page, and assign it to the same page template as the page Styling, for example? What have I missed?
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The following pages on @juliehurst’s site: Styling, Wardrobe Management, and Personal Shopping, each has a slider with a different featured image than that on the “Slider” post, that works the same way as the slider on the front page (homepage).
None of those pages contain what this theme refers to as a slider. Those pages are showing the featured image as a custom background on the page. On the front page, with the front page template set, there is a button on the page that slides the front page content off the screen so only the image remains.
This is no longer visible on the OP’s site, though, as they’ve set their front page to the default template since my last reply, so it now behaves the same as all the other pages, using the featured image of the page itself as a custom background.
Why can’t the same thing be done on the front page?
That’s a question for the theme’s designer who chose to set it up the way it currently works.
We can’t make changes to premium themes designed by third party theme shops. We can only report bugs to them, and then it’s up to them to fix this. But as this particular feature is designed this way, it’s not a bug we can report.
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On the front page, with the front page template set, there is a button on the page that slides the front page content off the screen so only the image remains.
Only the image and nothing else? Or the image and the title/sidebar combination on the left. I’m seeing a slider on the homepage that operates by clicking an arrow at the edge of the black border at right. Clicking the arrow moves the content of the page of the screen to the left, leaving only the image behind it (and the title/sidebar at left). I find the same type of slider, that behaves the same way, on every page of the site.
The sliders I find on every page of the site work now the same way that they did when I first visited the site a couple of days ago, and yesterday.
Why can’t the same thing be done on the front page?
That’s a question for the theme’s designer who chose to set it up the way it currently works.
I was asking why couldn’t a featured image be set on the homepage as on the other pages. You’ve already indicated that it has a featured image set.
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We can’t make changes to premium themes designed by third party theme shops.
I did not suggest that a change be made to the theme.
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I agree with @musicdoc1. I am confused as to why only the home page image appears in the blog feed as a slider, when all pages (Styling, Wardrobe Mangement etc) operate in the same way with an arrow/slider but there appears to be no need for these respective images to appear in the feed. They each have their own featured image.
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If you presently have a featured image set on the home page, and the slider is working properly, then you shouldn’t need that old post. As a test, you may set the page to default status to see if it makes any difference in how the front page slider behaves.
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Sorry, I meant to say:
As a test, you may set the Slider post, https://signaturestyleconsultancy.com/2015/07/21/slider/, to default status to see if it makes any difference in how the front page slider behaves.
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Hi, if the home page isn’t set to slider, the featured image on that page disappears. All the other pages/images remain intact and continue to work correctly with the slider. Changing it only seems to affect the home page.
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@julieehurst,
Oh. Well, I didn’t know there was a “slider” setting for the home page, and so hadn’t suggested that you change that. However, I made another error. I said “default status” when I meant to say “draft status.” I meant to suggest that you try switching the Slider post to draft status.Also, above @kokkieh said,
they’ve set their front page to the default template since my last reply, so it now behaves the same as all the other pages, using the featured image of the page itself as a custom background.
Do you obtain the same result whether the front page has the front page template or the default template assigned?
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Another thing I’ve noticed and should have mentioned earlier. Have you viewed the site on both large and small screens? The slider that appears on each of your pages, and works perfectly on each page, when I’m viewing your site on my PC screen at normal browser window settings, disappears when I decrease the width of the browser window even a relatively small amount, perhaps 12% or so. I wonder if @kokkieh had been viewing the site on a device with a small screen.
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when I’m viewing your site on my PC screen at normal browser window settings, disappears when I decrease the width of the browser window even a relatively small amount, perhaps 12% or so. I wonder if @kokkieh had been viewing the site on a device with a small screen.
Good catch, @musicdoc1. I was indeed checking on my laptop. On a larger monitor I see that happens on every page.
So I took another look at the theme and here’s what I found:
1) If the front page is set to the Homepage Template, the page will display no content, but only the background video or image slider.
2) If the front page is set to the Default Template, the page will display the content you add to it, and the background video or image slider behind the content.
But the front page does not use the featured image as background, regardless of the template used. All other pages and single posts use the featured image as background, but not the page set as the site’s front page.
The page assigned as front page will only show the image from the post that has your assigned tag as the background. If you create multiple posts under your featured tag, with a different featured image on each post, the images will alternate, which is what I’d expect from a slider. But you then need to create a separate post for each image you want in the slider.
This, as I said before, is how the theme was designed to work. I don’t know why the theme author decided to create it that way instead of just letting the images be assigned directly to the page, but it’s also not something we can change.
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Thanks for the clarification. : )
If you create multiple posts under your featured tag, with a different featured image on each post, the images will alternate, which is what I’d expect from a slider.
Do you mean that, if you have multiple posts assigned the featured tag, then the background images on the static front page will rotate automatically? For example, every two seconds it slides to the next image? So there are really two types of “sliders” on the front page?
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And in the case of @julieehurst’s site, there is no post slider on the front page, though it is activated, because there is only one post that has the feature tag assigned?
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Regarding the front page slider:
Is it a post slider, where the featured images link to posts, or just a featured image slider, where the images link to nothing? There is no example in the Soho demo, and I’m unable to test it without purchasing the theme. -
Do you mean that, if you have multiple posts assigned the featured tag, then the background images on the static front page will rotate automatically? For example, every two seconds it slides to the next image?
Yes.
So there are really two types of “sliders” on the front page?
No, there is not. I initially misunderstood how the slider on the theme worked. The feature where you can slide away the content of a page to only show the background image is not the post slider. It’s just a feature of the theme.
And in the case of @julieehurst’s site, there is no post slider on the front page, though it is activated, because there is only one post that has the feature tag assigned?
There is a slider, but it’s showing only one image, as there is only one image with their featured tag.
Is it a post slider, where the featured images link to posts, or just a featured image slider, where the images link to nothing?
This slider uses only the featured images on the posts. It’s not like a traditional slider that’s intended to highlight the posts themselves and doesn’t link to the posts.
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So there are really two types of “sliders” on the front page
No, there is not…
But @julieehurst and I were referring to the feature that slides the page content to the left a slider. So I’m just saying that on the front page, and only there, there is potentially that “slider” as well as the post slider.
There is a slider, but it’s showing only one image, as there is only one image with their featured tag.
Alright. I understand what you’re saying, but I just meant that the image doesn’t slide to another because there’s only one post with a featured image and tagged with the featured tag. So again we’re essentially saying the same thing.
It’s not like a traditional slider that’s intended to highlight the posts themselves and doesn’t link to the posts.
Thought that might be the case. Thanks again for the explanations. Hope @julieehurst is clear on all of this now. : )
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