[Mahesh]

@mindfulsami:
1. The problem you are having is because of inconsistency of the image size you are using. The recommend image size for Slider is Width: 1680px Height: 720px. Use image with similar dimensions and the problem will be resolved.
2. Featured Content seems to be fine.
3. Use image with same dimensions, Featured Grid Content uses image with 4:3 aspect ratio. Small grid image is Width: 420px Height: 283px and large grid image is Width: 840px Height: 565px. These sized image are auto generated by the theme.
Hope you understand. Let me know if any problem.

Regards,
Mahesh

[Pratik]

HI @spot0608,

Here is what you need to do.
1. First move Featured Content To bottom. For that, goto Appearance=> Customize=> Featured Content=> Featured Content Options and check Check to Move above Footer option
2. Add function given here: http://pastebin.com/N826Eimi in your child theme’s functions.php file

This should achieve what you want. Please note the comment blocks and remove the unnecessary lines as I have given you solutions for Promotion Headline for both 3 and 4.

This should achieve following:
1) Featured Slider
2) Hero Content
3) * Promotion Headline
4) Header Highlight Content
5) * Promotion Headline
6) Portfolio
7) Static Front Page Content
8) Featured Content
9) Logo Slider

Regards,
Pratik

[Roland]

Hi Pratik,

Here is the theme folder structure:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8699166/Theme%20folder%20structure.png

The version 4.7.1 theme is “catch-kathmandu-pro-3” (existing parent theme)
the version 4.8 theme is “catch-kathmandu-pro”

Child theme functions.php:

<?php
/**
 * Child Theme functions and definitions
 *
 */
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'catchkathmandu_child_enqueue_styles' );
function catchkathmandu_child_enqueue_styles() {
    wp_enqueue_style( 'catchkathmandu-parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
}
function catchkathmandu_post_sliders() {
	//delete_transient( 'catchkathmandu_post_sliders' );

	global $post;
	global $catchkathmandu_options_settings;
   	$options = $catchkathmandu_options_settings;

	if( ( !$catchkathmandu_post_sliders = get_transient( 'catchkathmandu_post_sliders' ) ) && !empty( $options[ 'featured_slider' ] ) ) {
		echo '<!-- refreshing cache -->';

		$catchkathmandu_post_sliders = '
		<div id="main-slider" class="container">
        	<section class="featured-slider">';
				$get_featured_posts = new WP_Query( array(
					'posts_per_page' => $options[ 'slider_qty' ],
					'post__in'		 => $options[ 'featured_slider' ],
					'orderby' 		 => 'post__in',
					'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1 // ignore sticky posts
				));
				$i=0; while ( $get_featured_posts->have_posts()) : $get_featured_posts->the_post(); $i++;
					$title_attribute = apply_filters( 'the_title', get_the_title( $post->ID ) );
					$excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
					if ( $i == 1 ) { $classes = 'post postid-'.$post->ID.' hentry slides displayblock'; } else { $classes = 'post postid-'.$post->ID.' hentry slides displaynone'; }
					$catchkathmandu_post_sliders .= '
					<article class="'.$classes.'">
						<figure class="slider-image">
							'. get_the_post_thumbnail( $post->ID, 'slider', array( 'title' => esc_attr( $title_attribute ), 'alt' => esc_attr( $title_attribute ), 'class'	=> 'pngfix' ) ).'
						</figure>
						<div class="entry-container">
							<header class="entry-header">
								<h1 class="entry-title">' . get_the_title() . '</h1>
								<div class="assistive-text">'.catchkathmandu_page_post_meta().'</div>
							</header>';
							if( $excerpt !='') {
								$catchkathmandu_post_sliders .= '<div class="entry-content">'. $excerpt.'</div>';
							}
							$catchkathmandu_post_sliders .= '
						</div>
					</article><!-- .slides -->';
				endwhile; wp_reset_query();
				$catchkathmandu_post_sliders .= '
			</section>
        	<div id="slider-nav">
        		<a class="slide-previous"><</a>
        		<a class="slide-next">></a>
        	</div>
        	<div id="controllers"></div>
  		</div><!-- #main-slider -->';

	set_transient( 'catchkathmandu_post_sliders', $catchkathmandu_post_sliders, 86940 );
	}
	echo $catchkathmandu_post_sliders;
} // catchkathmandu_post_sliders

/**
 * Loading Parent theme stylesheet
 *
 */

Child theme styles.css header: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8699166/Child%20theme%20styles.css%20header.png

Thanks

Roland

[spot0608]

Hi Pratik,

thanks for your answer.
Unfortunately the page is not available on a public server yet. I just downloaded and installed the theme on my local server as a draft and activated all the frontpage sections with demo content. So the current order is the one from the installed original parallax frame like

1) Featured Slider
2) Hero Content
3) Header Highlight Content
4) Portfolio
5) Featured Content
6) Promotion Headline
7) Logo Slider
8) Static Front Page Content

I would like to have “Promotion Headline” on Position 3 or 4 and the “Static Front page content” on Position 4 or 5 so that for example the “Logo slider” is the last section.

Is there a file in which the order of the front page sections is set?

Thanks a lot
John

[Pratik]

HI @aliceb,

Free version of the theme has Page Sliders. To achieve what you need, you need to upgrade to Pro. Pro version has Custom Featured Image Slider and then you can use # in link to not link it to anywhere.

Regards,
Pratik

[Nonno]

Hi Pratik,

The URL https://catchthemes.com/demo/catch-responsive-pro works fine on Moto G4 …featured slider and all.

On my site – USRTownSquare.org/blog/ – the featured images for individual posts sometimes show very large and the title *incorrectly* goes under the image.
Very unpredictable —- sometimes entire view is ok but overall too small.
Then sometimes looks perfect?????

Very confusing …problem seems to vary

[Mahesh]

@chi: Free version has limited features. You’ll need to add page with featured image and then select that page. And then the image set as featured image will be displayed as Featured Image, Slider etc. For custom images, I recommend you to upgrade to Pro version.

Regards,
Mahesh

[Mahesh]

@chi: The features in the theme are disabled by default. If you want to have similar look as of the demo. Go to Dashboard=> Appearance=> Customize:
=> Header Highlight Content and select Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site in Enable Header Highlight Content on.
Do the same for Featured Slider, Featured Content and News Ticker and you are good to go.
Let me know if any problem.

Note: Please skip the reply on the other thread.

Regards,
Mahesh

[Mahesh]

@chi: Please post the problem in the correct Thread. You are using Clean Magazine, this is Wen Business Pro theme’s thread.
The features in the theme are disabled by default. If you want to have similar look as of the demo. Go to Dashboard=> Appearance=> Customize:
=> Header Highlight Content and select Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site in Enable Header Highlight Content on.
Do the same for Featured Slider, Featured Content and News Ticker and you are good to go.
Let me know if any problem.

Regards,
Mahesh

[Pratik]

Hi @ipswichcatholic,

It is possible to reduce height of slider but will crop out the image. Try following code in Apperance=> Customize=> Theme Options=> Custom CSS box:

#feature-slider .cycle-slideshow {
	height: 500px !important;
}

#feature-slider .entry-container {
	top: 35%;
}

If you do not want the image to be cropped, then you will need to upgrade to Pro version and use Featured Image Slider rather than the Page Slider provided in free version.

Regards,
Pratik

[Mahesh]

@spegrum: Go to Dashboard=> Appearance=> Featured Slider then choose Homepage/Front Page or Entire Site in Enable slider on option, then further options will slide down. Then choose demo or Featured Page Slider. Using Featured Page slider, you can make selected pages as slider and Featured image will be displayed as slides. Please make sure you have featured image set in the pages selected. If the slider still doesn’t appear, set Image Loader to false.
Let me know further.

Regards,
Mahesh

[Mahesh]

@misstraveling: Thank you for using Simple Catch Pro theme. The recommended size for slider is 976 x 313, however you may have image with diferent size too.
To remove grey borders, go to Dashboard=> Appearance=> Customize=> Theme Options=> Custom CSS box and add the following CSS:

.featured-img {
    border-left: none;
    border-right: none;
    border-bottom: none;
}

If you want to keep the border at the bottom, remove border-bottom: none; from the above CSS.

Regards,
Mahesh

[Mahesh]

@android: I did check your site and the customize setting are working just fine. But when selecting Pages in slider, please make sure that the page have featured image set. Or the slider will not load. By default, Image Loader option is set to true, which loads all the image first before displaying the sldier. And if one image is not found, the slider will not be displayed. So try setting it to false and let me know.

Regards,
Mahesh

[luismarioochoa]

Mahesh,

You asked me for my login info and I thought you were going to help me by getting rig of anything related to Advance Custom Fields, but sadly you did not. Since I am not qualified to pinpoint the problem by myself, my only choice is to erase the current child theme and create a new one, but Catch Themes MUST put back the code that Sangeeta inserted so that my Featured Image Sliders have a working Read More link on them and not the falsely advertised “Check to disable Read More text”. I would need this done ASAP. Please advice. This recommened by Catch Theme Theme, is causing me a lot of grieve already, VERY DISAPPOINTED.

[Mahesh]

@android: Its means that you haven’t selected the page to display as Featured Slider. Go to Dashboard=> Appearance=> Customize=> Theme Options=> Featured Slider=> Slider Options then scroll down, you’ll see Featured Page Slider #, select the desired pages in the drop-down. The featured images set in the pages will be displayed as slides.
Hope this helps. Let me know if any Problem.

Regards,
Mahesh

[Android]

Hi Mahesh, thank you for getting back to me so promptly, the only message I get is the following when I try to use the featured page slider and make the required settings ( which don’t appear to save)

“You have selected Page Slider but you haven’t added the Page ID in “Appearance => Theme Options => Featured Slider => Featured Page Slider Options””

However I have tried this several times, maybe I’m missing something? I’m pretty sure I’m not, I’ve been using WordPress and plugins to build 15 or so sites and so well past the novice stage. Having said that I could be doing something wrong? Do you want to have a look in the back end/ as its all very mysterious and the issue is very random.

One question I have is there are two places to access the settings Customizer and the Theme options, could this be causing a problem, setting them in two places? although this would not account for the “not saving” thing which is happening in general? Anything I can do to help just let me know.

Much appreciated, Andy

[Mahesh]

@kterra: Thank you for using Catch Everest Pro theme. If you want to have individual header image for your different pages and posts, go to Dashboard=> Appearance=> Header Image and select Entire Site, Page/Post Featured Image in
Enable Featured Header Image option. Choosing this option will set featured image as the page’s header image if exists if not, it uses default header image.
To Enable Slider on Home page only, go to Dashboard=> Appearance=> Featured Slider=> Slider Options and select Homepage/Frontpage in Enable Slider option.
For hiding header image in homepage, go to Dashboard=> Appearance=> Customize=> Theme Options=> Custom CSS box and add the following CSS:

/* Hides header image from homepage */
.home #header-image {
	display: none;
}

Let me know if any problem.
Note: For Header Image, you can use image of your desired size.

Regards,
Mahesh

[luismarioochoa]

Mahesh, I don’t even know how to get there. Sangeeta should have our WP site login. When you are there, maybe you can erase that file for good or anything that has to do with Advanced Custom Fields, because we are not using anything like that anymore and we disabled Advanced Custom Fields, the only reason we have not erased the plugin is because we had to pay for it, but we don’t need it. Those who created the previous website, installed who knows what in Full Frame Child but we are not longer using their services, they had hidden the Blog Page, because obviously it was a mess, but we need back so we enabled, ACF is probably what is affecting many things we notice in the Blog and other pages that used the complicated plugin. Ideally we would love to use the Parent Theme, but you guys have to correct the issue with the Featured Image Slider that is the only one that has no Read More Text even thought it shows that it can be enabled or disabled. That’s a major issue that I was promised it would be corrected in a next update but two updates have come and nothing, it is very frustrating. Please help.

[luismarioochoa]

Mahesh,

I am not longer using Advance Custom Fields, I don’t need it, so that plugin has been disabled.

The MAIN REASON why I purchased this theme, was because I needed a Full Frame Slider with a Read More button on it. I contacted Catch Themes and Sangeeta recommended this particular theme that disappointingly has not to worked as promised. I have the email exchanges with Sangeeta from April 27 at 12:32AM and this was what he replied:

“Hello Luis, Thanks for your feedback to Full Frame Pro Theme. We will check that on how we can implement that. Looks like there is no Read More only in Featured Image Slider. In Full Frame Pro, if you choose Featured Post Slider or Featured Category Slider or Featured Page Slider. Then it shows Read More”

Then on June 25 at 1:01 AM, Sangeeta wrote:

“Hello Luis,

Sorry that you are not satisfied with and we will add that Read More link in new version update…so you need to create child theme and edit the function fullframe_page_slider(). I have attached the child theme, you can upload it just like installing new theme, or you can just send me your URL and temporary admin access and then I can install that for you” I sent Sangeeta my login and he uploaded the ChildTheme with the code so that the Featured Image Slider would have a Read More Link. I was happy until the Blog starting to show Fatal Errors.

There has been a new update since then and what Sangeeta said it was going to be corrected.

Now the Child Theme has Blog display Fatal Errors that I don’t know how to resolve and I cannot use the Parent Theme because there is no Read More button or link ONLY on Featured Image Slider even though it can be checked to “disable the Read More Text” which it is a bad joke because it does not work either way!

I am very frustrated and disappointed at Catch Theme. Please resolve this issue ASAP, it is a Catch Theme problem affecting a client that has purchased four themes from you, so please do something about it.

I look forward to hearing from you with a solution ASAP.

Thanks.

Luis

[luismarioochoa]

Mahesh,

It does not happen in the Parent Theme and I am not happy because I am back at square one.

Feature Slider==>Select Slider Type==>Featured Image Slider, says “Check To Disable Read More Text”, but even though this shows up in the Feature Image Slider Customization section , IT DOES NOT WORK and I NEED IT TO WORK. I need a READ MORE link as per in the ChildTheme or better yet, a Read More button.

Sangeeta @CatchThemes, kindly did a temporary fix by adding some code in the ChildTheme, so that the Feature Image would have a Read More Link.

Now things are not working in the ChildTheme Blog the way they should, you rightly tell me that it is because I am using the Child Theme, I switch, posts display correctly in parent theme, but I cannot use the parent theme (as I would love to), because the Feature Image Slider does not do what the theme says it does which was the main reason why I purchased this theme: Feature Slider With a Read More Link), it simply does not work, worse even, the Content Box is not even clickable!

I was told by Sangeeta that this issue was going to be resolved in a next update, I updated but nothing was done to it. That was months ago. I need a solution ASAP. I am not happy.

Luis