[medicsontheball]

Is there a way to position the featured post slider in the footer?

[Sakin]

@medicsontheball: Sorry no option to do that. You need to build the child theme and then change the position with the help of hooks and functions.

[medicsontheball]

i have a child theme built. However, I do not know how to use hooks and functions. Can you assist?

[Sakin]

@medicsontheball: Can you post in your site URL?

[medicsontheball]

http://www.medicsontheball.com

[Sakin]

@medicsontheball: Sorry I don’t see slider in your site. In which section in footer are you trying to move to. Basically, you can copy the function catchbox_slider_display in your child theme functions.php file and change the action position.

[medicsontheball]

yeah…I dont have a clue how to change the action position. there is a lot of code there and I am not that great at this. Kinda a novice. I dont want to risk breaking it so I guess no slider for me 🙁

[Sakin]

@medicsontheball: You can let me know which slider type you are trying to add in and in which location then I can send you the hook.

[medicsontheball]

I would like to add Featured Post to a widget. Probably on the main sidebar.

[Sakin]

@medicsontheball: Oh for sidebar, I don’t recommend you to use this slider. As this slider uses the large images and your sidebar will have small area. So, it will be better if you add in Plugin for that.

[medicsontheball]

Dont want inages. I want featured posts.

[Sakin]

@medicsontheball: Oh for that you can get plugin from http://wordpress.org/plugins/. Just search for Featured Post Widget.

[medicsontheball]

Right. However I prefer to use native functionality instead of plug ins whenever possible.

[Sakin]

@medicsontheball: You can copy the function catchbox_slider_display in your child theme functions.php file and change the the position. So, if you want it before all sidebar widgets then you need to use catchbox_before_widget_start hook for after use catchbox_after_widget_start. So, replace the current hook catchbox_content with the hook you need.

[medicsontheball]

Thanks Sakin. Sounds like a lot of work for me, based on the code I see. Is it any easier to move it to a different page other than the homepage?

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