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  • August 9, 2015 at 8:42 pm #62447
    philmi
    Member

    Hi community,

    I am a WordPress newbie. I have two questions:

    I had the idea of communicating my research findings in a vivid way to interested people. Here is my website (it is still not available for search engines and it needs language tuning etc…): LINK.

    I love the idea with the featured content and the slider. As you can see, I use several pages to talk about my research, teaching etc, and I have a blog for frequent updates. I would like to use the large slider on the main page to promote some pages (e.g., my research areas). Additionally, I would like to use the featured content to promote some blog postings that I find most interesting. As far as I understand, I can only feature pages (not blog postings). Is that correct? If not, how can I link particular postings? (HERE is a screenshot of what I see)

    Also, I modified a little bit on the CSS file because I found that font sizes were too large (especially the date/comments etc text for each blog posting). When I changed that, all other icons (social media icons, search icons etc) on the top of the page also became much smaller.

    Hope you can help me!
    Thank you very much in advance.
    Phil

    August 9, 2015 at 9:57 pm #62454
    Sakin
    Keymaster

    @philmi: I see that you are using Catch Responsive Free theme which has some limitation over Pro version. You can check additional information about pro version at http://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/catch-responsive-pro/

    1. Yes, in free version you only have option to user “Featured Page slider” and “Featured Page Content”. For this, you just need to create pages from “Pages => Add New” and then you can select that page in your slider from “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider => Feature Slider Options”.

    But for Slider and featured content, make sure you have added in featured image in those page. As featured image will show in your slider and featured content. For featured content, check this http://catchthemes.com/blog/videos-blog/video-series-adding-featured-image-wordpress-postpage/

    2. Where did you change the css. I hope you haven’t made modification to theme file like style.css. If you have done that then remove it as all the files inside ‘catch-responsive’ theme folder will be reverted back to original when you update the theme. So, best if to either use Custom CSS box at “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Custom CSS Options” box or if you have large css edit then it’s preferred to build child theme and add your css in your child theme style.css file.

    So, to change the font size of just date/comments, we called it at entry meta. For this, just change the font size in the following css as per your need and then add it in “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Custom CSS Options” box:
    .hentry .entry-meta { font-size: 14px; }

    August 10, 2015 at 4:43 am #62488
    philmi
    Member

    Thanks! I purchased the Pro Version and both seems to work. Yes, I changed in the CSS style, but I used your recommendation for the new theme.

    I think I have only one more question: How can I (“correctly”) change the size of the headings?

    thanks a lot, great help!

    August 11, 2015 at 9:23 pm #62827
    philmi
    Member

    can you help me? How can I (“correctly”) change the size of the headings?

    August 12, 2015 at 1:35 am #62860
    Sakin
    Keymaster

    @philmi: which heading are you talking about? Please explain.

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