[Sakin]

@aquahoya: Please post your query in New Support Forum. This page concerned about the site http://truthinablog.organika.ca/. Also when you post your question please add in your site URL.

Simple Catch Free site have only Featured Post slider, where you have to add in the Post Id which will take the Post title, excerpt and featured image of that post. In you have Simple Catch Pro Theme you have additional Featured Image Slider where you can upload independent image, title, content and links.

For Header background, you need to upload your header image through media uploaded in Add New media in your WordPress Dashboard. Then you can add in the following CSS in “Custom CSS” box in your Theme Options panel.

#header {
background: url("Your Background Image URL") repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
}


You can add widgets in in your sidebar. Go to Appearance => Widgets. Then drag and drop widgets in the sidebar.

You can remove the comment through “Settings => Discussion”. But individual page and post setting will overwrite the overall setting. See this for more details http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/

[aquahoya]

I apologize before hand. I would like to add an image like shown in the “preview” that is under the “topmenu.” I guess that is the sliding post. I am guessing I just place the URL in the “featured slider post” and it should work?

Secondly, I would like to create a “header image” that backdrops or it falls behind the menu bar on the homepage just like is mentioned in “truthinablogs” responses but I don’t know what css to go to as its not clear.

Thirdly, I would like to remove the “comments” at the bottom of the pages and posts, where do I go to do that?

Thank so much,

Kevin

[Sakin]

@kirk: For the Featured Post Slider background color. You can add the following CSS in your Custom CSS box in Theme Options panel.
#slider { background-color: #fff; }

[Sakin]

@superguysteve: I don’t think you have setup the slider properly. You need to first post few articles with Featured Image. Then add the post ID in the Featured Post Slider Options. Check our the Theme Instruction http://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/catch-box/

[Sakin]

@paigeohliger: Yes you can add the link in The content of Featured Image Slider. But you need to add the following css in “Custom CSS” box to make the link text visible.
.featured-text p a { background: none; display: inline; position: relative; text-indent: 0; }

[paigeohliger]

One more general Mustang question.

Is it possible to put an HTML link in the featured slider content area? I understand that the entire content area can be a link. We would like to add links to different pages from the text in the content.

[Sakin]

@poornima.uk: If you are using Featured Image Slider, then you have option to add in Title and Description that will be content for the slider. But if you are using Featured Post Slider it will take the title and excerpt of the post.

[poornima.uk]

Thanks Sakin,

 

I am using a featured image slider but can’t see how to put the text – don’t worry, will try a slide show plugin and will return to you if that doesn’t work!

[Sakin]

@jcdSF: This is just a matter of different usages of theme. Some theme usages featured image as the header image. Where as some uses that spot for the Slider. This theme uses the header spot for the slider which takes the featured image from the posts. So, please understand the nature of differences in different themes.

If you go to theme directory in WordPress.org you will see it http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ that not all theme have header image as the featured image.

So please try to add your image in the page itself and it will display under your page title. But yes, if you are need to add this extra feature for your site then you might consider posting in WP Jobs or Tweaky

[jcdSF]

So are you saying that the scenario I described in my original question is not possible with your theme? I can have a featured image slider in the head of every page, or just one page, but I can’t have a featured image slide show on my home page and a different featured image in the head of every other page?

WordPress does appear to have the option to add a different featured image to the head of individual pages, and your theme clearly has the ability to add an image slide show to the head of a page, but I don’t seem to be able to do both (your featured image slider on my home page + different individual featured images in the head of the rest of my pages). Which is what made me think that your theme is overriding WP’s ability to insert a single featured image into the head of a page.

[Sakin]

@poornima.uk: Currently Simple Catch doesn’t support to add the text block before the slider. If you have knowledge about child theme then you can build child theme and then add the text using the action hook simplecatch_after_headercontent().

To remove the Continue reading text in the slider. Add the following CSS
.featured-slider a.readmore { display: none; }

If you want more flexibility then you can use Featured Image Slider instead of Featured Post Slider in your site http://timewisefoundation.org.uk/

[Sakin]

@jcdSF: There is no featured header image for the individual page/post. As this theme allows the user to enable the slider in the header. You can add slider in all pages if you need through your theme options.

If you want to show image in the page then you need to insert the image in your editor and show it.

[jcdSF]

Sorry, I should have clarified that I’m using Simple Catch Pro. So how do I add a different header image on every other page of my website (as shown in the link you provided) while keeping the image slider in the head of the home page? I added a featured image to the second page of my site, but it doesn’t show up on the page (see link to screen shot below):

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8751623/featured_image.png

Also, I don’t know if it’s important, but my website consists entirely of pages, not posts.

[Sakin]

@Abbtt: I pro version there in option for this. In Default Layout you can simply choose “No Sidebar, Full Width” and then it’s all done.

[Abbtt]

@Sakin: These are features – the removal of the sidebar and the image spanning all the way across (900px) – that I would like to be present on all posts. For example: http://14thstreetoats.com/brett-mandel-candidate-for-city-controller/.  As you can also see, it is on our only other published post – http://14thstreetoats.com/erik-honesty-cultured-couture/.

I used the CSS above to achieve this on the free version of Simple Catch, would like to know what the coding would be on the Pro version.

Please let me know as soon as you can. Really excited to get this upgrade!

Abbott

[Sakin]

@jcdSF: Simple Catch doesn’t overwrite the featured image function. It uses the Featured Image function of WordPress. See this for featured image details: http://en.support.wordpress.com/featured-images/ . Featured Post slider takes the featured image of the slider. IF you want to add different image independent of the post then you need to use Featured Image Slider for which you need to upgrade to Simple Catch Pro theme where you have Featured Image Slider option.

[Sakin]

@Abbtt: So for which page you want to do this? I am bit confused on what you want to do? Can you explain bit more with the exact link of the page. Then I will check the css.

[Abbtt]

@Sakin — are you able to get back to me here? would really like to move forward ASAP.

 

Many thanks,

Abbott

[Sakin]

@thorsten: We are thinking of adding in future. Noted Down.

[thorsten]

when there will be a option to open the link in a new windows, it will be perfekt 🙂   So, someone click on the picture in the slider, he leaves my blog……