Hi Sakin, I seem to have no control over the aspect ratio of my my featured post images. So the bottom of the slider section moves up and down it fades from post to post. I need it to stay static so people can read my message below it. Have you encountered this problem and can it be fixed? Can it be fixed in the pro theme?
Thanks
David
When I click on screen options, I don’t see excerpt in the list of options. Is that only visible in the updated version of the theme? Is that the only way to modify the slider text? I understood with the featured slider you can modify the text yourself as well.
@shruti: If you use Featured Image Slider then you can add image of any size. If you are using Normal width then it width is 754px and for full width it’s 1190px width.
But if you use Featured Post Slider or Featured Page Slider or Featured Category slider then it will take the exact image size of width 754px and height 400px.
Which version of Catch Evolution Pro sure you using it. Make sure you are using the latest version 1.5. Then you will see the Featured Slider layout in “Appearance => Theme Options => Featured Slider => Slider Options”. There you will see the option “Slider Layout”
Hello,
How can the dimensions of the Featured Image for the Featured Image Slider be set to a fixed height and width (or at least a fixed height)? Also, how do we set up the Featured Slider in full width? I didn’t find the Full Width Slider in Slider Layout option under Slider Options.
Thank you!
Hi,I use the featured slider which is working well.
I use 4 pictures. However 2 of them show 4 sentences and 2 others just 3 sentences. This means the size of the box changes when the pictures with 4 sentences appear.
The pictures have the same length. Now only the number of sentences need to be equal. I think then the box doesn’t change size anymore. You can see the slider on http://www.worldcupbrazil.net.
Thanks in advance!
@inventorgeorge: You can just go to “Appearance => Theme Options => Featured Post Slider => Slider Options” and then in “Enable Sidebar”, you can just select “Disable”.
There is no such chart but you can see details about the feature additional in our Catch Evolution Pro theme instruction page at http://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/catch-evolution-pro/
@caramele: The dimension for the slider image in 976 and 313. So, you don’t need to change anything. You just need to upload the image of greater then that. All the small image below that dimension will show it as it is with center.
They will be in the order of Published date. Note, if you just have 3 posts then it will show 3 posts. Remember, if you have “Exclude Slider post from Home page posts” from “Appearance => Theme Options => Featured Slider”. Then the post in the slider will not be display. So, if you have 7 total post with 4 slider posts, then the remaining 3 will be shown.
Which one is Categorized. Also remember, if you have same post in 2 categories then it will show it.
Hi Sakin. Thanks for the answer. I forgot to change the featured image on the posts. Now everything’s almost fine. Can I change slider pic size? I tried to change dimensions in css (976 and 313), but it didn’t work out. Can I at least influence the cropping?
About the blog posts – I changed it to 5 posts, but I still see only 3. Not to mention that they’re not in a chronological order.
3rd question: yes, I did that. Excluded Uncategorized from home page and still see it.
@caramele:
About your Featured Post Slider images, you need to assign Featured Image of size minimum 976px width and 313px height. See theme instruction page http://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/simple-catch. After you add that images, you can change order in Slider and it will show you changed images.
To control then number of recent post, you can go to “Settings => Readings” and change the number in Blog pages show at most.
But I don’t understand your 3rd request. You can select the categories that you want to display from “Appearance => Theme Options => Homepage / Frontpage Category Settings”
@positronic: I can see that all your features post has been re-sized to 210px height and 210px width as needed in all latest posts. That is nice.
The only problem, I see is the Featured Post Slider. It is talking old image sizes. If you have already Regenerate Thumbnails using the Regenerate Thumbnail plugin then you need to clear the auto cache of Slider. For that you can just change any value in your Theme Options panel and then you can change it back.
Greetings,
I have noticed that the featured slider buttons do not work on my site. The images slide as commanded, but a user cannot click the left and right buttons to take control of the images. Other than customCSS, the only modifications I have made to Catch Everest Code is an SSL script in the footer. I read in a different thread on your support forum that the modifying the footer code can corrupt the slider, but removing the SSL script did not fix the issue. Other than that, the code is virtually as delivered. (Once again, great work on the theme!) I am running WordPress 3.8 and using Catch Everest Pro 1.5.3. Any suggestions on how to get the buttons working again?
Best Regards,
keller113
http://www.phischon.com
Hi, I’ve got a new install of Simple Catch here at:
http://jensbaking.thewingedheart.com/
Everything is looking lovely so far, but I’m having trouble getting my existing featured images to display properly as thumbnails and slider images.
My thumbnails don’t get cropped to a square. They are just re-sized and have white space to the right or below depending on if they are portrait or landscape.
Similarly, slider images get re-sized down to the height constraint of the slider rather than being cropped at full size to the slider dimensions.
I have tried running the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin several times, and it appears to run successfully, but there is no change.
Note that if I upload a new image and set it as the featured image, the problem does not persist (this is the case with “Test Post”).
Any insight would be lovely. Another plugin to update my thumbnails, perhaps? Thank you!
Thank you so much for that. Its definitely sorted it a bit. But there is still some white space below the header logo. How can I remove that? Leaving only 5px like at the top.
I think it may be to do with the following lines in my code
@media screen and (max-width: 768px) {
.header-sidebar { padding-top: 0; }
}
http://www.sweetandsalty.biz
All my custom code is below:
#header-right { clear: both; }
#header-right { padding-top: 0; }
.lang-item {
display: inline;
}
p { line-height: 1.425; margin-bottom: 1em; }
#slider-nav { display: none; }
#site-logo, hgroup.with-logo { padding-top: 0; }
#hgroup-wrap { padding-top: 5px; }
#hgroup-wrap { padding-bottom: 0px; }
#hgroup-wrap { padding-left: 150px; }
#hgroup-wrap { padding-right: 10px; }
@media screen and (min-width: 961px) {
#hgroup-wrap { padding-top: 5px; }
#hgroup-wrap { padding-bottom: 0px; }
#hgroup-wrap { padding-left: 150px; }
#hgroup-wrap { padding-right: 10px; }
}
#hgroup-wrap a:hover img,
.featured-image a:hover img,
.entry-content a:hover img,
.comment-content a:hover img,
.widget a:hover img,
a:hover img.header-image,
.author-avatar a:hover img,
a:hover img.wp-post-image {
opacity: 1;
}
#hgroup-wrap .lang-item img { display: inline; }
@media screen and (max-width: 768px) {
.header-sidebar { padding-top: 0; }
}
Hi
Yes it works, thank you, but its created a huge white space below the header. I don’t want that.
I’ve searched for hours on the forums and tried all the codes, its driving me crazy. Please help.
http://sweetandsalty.biz
Current CSS is as below:
#header-right { clear: both; }
.lang-item {
display: inline;
}
p { line-height: 1.425; margin-bottom: 1em; }
#slider-nav { display: none; }
#site-logo, hgroup.with-logo { padding-top: 0; }
#hgroup-wrap { padding-top: 5px; }
#hgroup-wrap { padding-bottom: 5px; }
#hgroup-wrap { padding-left: 170px; }
#hgroup-wrap { padding-right: 10px; }
@media screen and (min-width: 961px) {
#hgroup-wrap { padding-top: 5px; }
#hgroup-wrap { padding-bottom: 5px; }
#hgroup-wrap { padding-left: 170px; }
#hgroup-wrap { padding-right: 10px; }
}
#hgroup-wrap a:hover img,
.featured-image a:hover img,
.entry-content a:hover img,
.comment-content a:hover img,
.widget a:hover img,
a:hover img.header-image,
.author-avatar a:hover img,
a:hover img.wp-post-image {
opacity: 1;
}
#hgroup-wrap .lang-item img { display: inline; }
@media screen and (max-width: 768px) {
.header-sidebar { padding-top: 0; }
}
oh yes just to give you more info, regarding my previous post. My custom CSS now looks like this:
.lang-item {
display: inline;
}
p { line-height: 1.425; margin-bottom: 1em; }
#slider-nav { display: none; }
#site-logo, hgroup.with-logo { padding-top: 0; }
#hgroup-wrap { padding-top: 10px; }
#hgroup-wrap { padding-bottom: 10px; }
#hgroup-wrap { padding-left: 170px; }
#hgroup-wrap { padding-right: 10px; }
@media screen and (min-width: 961px) {
#hgroup-wrap { padding-top: 10px; }
#hgroup-wrap { padding-bottom: 10px; }
#hgroup-wrap { padding-left: 170px; }
#hgroup-wrap { padding-right: 10px; }
}
#hgroup-wrap a:hover img,
.featured-image a:hover img,
.entry-content a:hover img,
.comment-content a:hover img,
.widget a:hover img,
a:hover img.header-image,
.author-avatar a:hover img,
a:hover img.wp-post-image {
opacity: 1;
}
#hgroup-wrap .lang-item img { display: inline; }
@media screen and (max-width: 768px) {
.header-sidebar { padding-top: 0; }
}
http://www.sweetandsalty.biz
Thanks
Hi Sakin,
On our site http://www.commishcollege.com, is it possible to hide the article titles and caption on the featured slider, unless the visitor is hovering the slider image with their cursor?
Thank you!!!
@Mgx: I see that you are using Free version of Catch Evolution, where you can only use Featured Post Slider. This slider is created to highlight you post. So, you cannot remove that link. Instead if you use Catch Evolution Pro version, there is Featured Image slider where you can upload your image without or with link. It’s optional.
About the post in the homepage, it is the default way that WordPress uses in Blog. It will link to the post. To remove that link it’s bit difficult. You might need to hire developer to work for you on this customization.
I will guide you the process.
1. Build child theme of Catch Evolution Theme
2. Then copy content.php file in your child theme and remove the link from the title
3. For slider you can create functions.php file and copy catchevolution_sliders() function and edit that in your child theme.
Thank you that fixed it. Also, I’m having problems with the slider. Under Appearance => Theme Options => Featured Post Slider it asks to put in the Post ID to use as the slider. I made the image the exact size it told me, 644px by 320px and I put the correct Post ID. But all it shows on the homepage is title of the post but not the image. What am I doing wrong?
@FleurdeSante: Sorry I don’t get it what you mean. Check our theme instruction page at http://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/catch-evolution-pro/ where you will see details on how to add featured Image slider. This will replace the stock images.
@shamwow: Featured Image gives you an option to upload the image of you own choice where we do not control it’s layout. It depend on the size of the image you upload it. But featured page slider cuts the image in equal size of 1140px width and 450px height. If you want same size image in the Image Slider, then you need to upload all the image with the same dimension.
