[Sakin]

@Salome: Please go to “Appearance => Theme Options => Featured Slider => Slider Options”, then check to “Disable Slider Background Effect” and save change. This will remove that stripe texture feature.

[Sakin]

@TBM: Sorry the free version only have Featured Post Slider option. This slider is created to highlight your post in the slider. So, it will automatically add links to respective post. If you just want image, then you need to use Image Slider, which is there only in Pro version, see this http://catchthemes.com/blog/videos-blog/video-series-adding-featured-image-slider/

But for free version you don’t have that option. But if you know the technical details, then you can build child theme and edit the post slider codes.

[Sakin]

@rojtalbot:
1. For homepage headline color, here goes the css:

#homepage-message {
    background-color: #21759b;
    border-color: #1b5f7d;
    color: #fff;
}

2. I don’t get it what you mean. I don’t need any Featured Content in your Homepage. If you are trying to hide the content in your Featured post slider then you can add the following css in “Appearance => Theme Options => Custom CSS” box.

#main-slider .entry-container {
    display: none;
}

[Sakin]

@Alexandra: Why don’t you use the Featured Image Slider instead of Featured Post Slide. In that way you can upload independent image and link to any URL you want. Check out instruction for Featured Image Slider at http://catchthemes.com/blog/videos-blog/video-series-adding-featured-image-slider/

Fore more: you can also check out theme instructions page at http://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/catch-everest-pro/

[Sakin]

@Jaume: Are you using Catch Kathmandu Pro, then it should work fine. As we have added in all the delete cache as

if ( ! function_exists( 'catchkathmandu_qtranslate_invalidcache' ) ) :
/**
 * Template for Clearing qtranslate Invalid Cache
 *
 * To override this in a child theme
 * simply create your own catchkathmandu_qtranslate_invalidcache(), and that function will be used instead.
 *
 * @since Catch Kathmandu Pro 2.0
 */
function catchkathmandu_qtranslate_invalidcache() {
	delete_transient( 'catchkathmandu_post_sliders' );
	delete_transient( 'catchkathmandu_page_sliders' );
	delete_transient( 'catchkathmandu_category_sliders' );
	delete_transient( 'catchkathmandu_image_sliders' );
	delete_transient( 'catchkathmandu_homepage_headline' );
	delete_transient( 'catchkathmandu_homepage_featured_content' );
	delete_transient( 'catchkathmandu_footer_content' );	
	delete_transient( 'catchkathmandu_footercode' );
	delete_transient( 'catchkathmandu_featured_image' );
	
} // catchkathmandu_qtranslate_invalidcache
endif;

add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'catchkathmandu_qtranslate_invalidcache' );

So, it should work fine. But if it’s still not working. Then contact me through email. I have emailed you.

[Sakin]

@Greg: Sorry these theme has lot of option to be added in Customizer. So, we haven’t used that. Instead we use our own Theme Options panel from which you can customize it. Go to “Appearance => Theme Options”. For more, check out our theme instructions page at http://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/catch-evolution-pro/

Instruction of featured slider is mentioned in theme instruction page listed above. Also we have screencast for:
Featured Image Slider: http://catchthemes.com/blog/videos-blog/video-series-adding-featured-image-slider/
Featured Post Slider: http://catchthemes.com/blog/videos-blog/video-series-adding-featured-post-slider/
Featured Image: http://catchthemes.com/blog/videos-blog/video-series-adding-featured-image-wordpress-postpage/

[Sakin]

@j1nk0: Featured Post Slider is created to highlight your post in your slider. So, it’s automatically linked to your post. We generally don’t recommend to remove the link. But if you need to remove the link, then you need to build child theme and edit it. As if you edit directly is core theme file, all your edits will be reverted back when you update/upgrade your theme. For more about child theme check out http://catchthemes.com/blog/create-child-theme-wordpress/

Then after you create your child theme, you need to copy the function catcheverest_post_sliders() in your child theme functions.php file from Catch Everest theme catcheverest-fucntions.php file. Then remove the links.

OR the easiest option is to Upgrade to Pro version and then you will get option to use Featured Image Slider, where link is optional. See this for more details about Featured Image Slider http://catchthemes.com/blog/videos-blog/video-series-adding-featured-image-slider/

[Jaume]

I have some more information to add:

In this thread:

http://catchthemes.com/support-forum/topic/qtranslate-and-featured-slider/

some time ago you said:

I will add function to reset all the transit needed using the condition inside the functions like this:

if ( function_exists( 'qtrans_convertURL' ) ) {
	delete_transient( 'catcheverest_image_sliders' );
}

In another post in the same thread you talk about theme support for qTranslate.

But…

I’ve been looking at the code of catchkatmandu-functions.php and most of the functions related to displaying info in the homepage do not have such a piece of code like that one above. In fact, at the very beginning of every function there is a commented call to delete_transient. I just uncommented the line in the functions that manage the items I needed to properly translate and now everything seems to work ok.

So, can we conclude that some work is still needed in the theme code? Might it be a problem in any sense the fact of having uncommented those lines?

Thank you very much again for your help!

[Sakin]

@roguewavemedia: To remove the slider, go to “Appearance => Theme Options => Featured Slider => Slider Options”, then check in “Disable” next to Enable Slider and save changes.

[Sakin]

@harish: It’s the post slier created to highlight your post, so it will link to the post. To add only image slider then you need to use Featured Image Slider which is there only in pro version. Free version only have Featured Post Slider.

See theme instructions page http://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/adventurous-pro/ for more additional features.

[Sakin]

@cmcdavid87: Yes, please check in theme instructions page at http://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/catch-kathmandu/ where it’s clearly mentioned how to add featured post slier.

1. Go to “Appearance => Theme Options => Featured Slider” in your WordPress Dashboard
2. Under Slider Options select Slider Type as “Featured Post Slider”
3. Here you can also change the number of slides, slider effects and timing
4. Under Featured Post Slider Options, simply insert the ID numbers for Posts in the boxes, one Post ID number in each box
5. Save your changes

Fore more see the video screencast at http://catchthemes.com/blog/videos-blog/video-series-adding-featured-post-slider/

[Sakin]

@Israel: Hum you should be able to upload the image. You can either upload the image or add in the image URL there.
1. First go to your WordPress Dashboard and then “Appearance => Theme Options => Featured Slider”
2. In Slider Options, you need to select the slider type as “Image Slider”
3. In Featured Image Slider Options, You need to upload images, add in title, content and link as per your need and then “Save Changes”

See this screencast http://catchthemes.com/blog/videos-blog/video-series-adding-featured-image-slider/

[vidyaekta]

hello
Its very simple. Create a post, insert your own “featured image” and under “categories”, tick in check-box “slider”.
Then go to “appearance -> theme options”
Next, click on “Featured Slider” and Select Slider Type as “Category Slider”
That’s all.

[Sakin]

@maria: To change the background color and text color in the featured slider content, you can change the color code in the following css and then add it in “Appearance => Theme Options => Custom CSS” box.

#main-slider .entry-content, #main-slider .entry-content:hover {
    background: none #000;
    color: #fff;
}

[Sakin]

@Robert: Looks like you have already fixed it. As your homepage only have slider and the homepage featured content and you have all your blog post in News page.

[Sakin]

@harish: You can increase the no of posts in the Post Slider from “Appearance => Theme Options => Featured Slider => Slider Options”. There you will see “Number of Slides” default value as 4, you can increase it to whatever you want. For more about post slider see this http://catchthemes.com/blog/videos-blog/video-series-adding-featured-post-slider/ and theme instructions page at http://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/adventurous/

[Sakin]

@Oceani5: Sorry it’s not working good. But I need your site URL to check in what are you doing in.

1. About the slider, which slider type are you using it. If you are using Page or Post or Category Slider then you need to have featured image in those pages/posts. It’s not enough to just add image. See this for featured image http://catchthemes.com/blog/videos-blog/video-series-adding-featured-image-wordpress-postpage/

2. About the image size, I am but confused and I need to check in your site first.

You can check our theme instruction page at http://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/catch-everest-pro/ where you can read about Image Sizes and Content Featured Images.

Image Sizes
Feature Post Slider
Width: 1140px
Height: 450px

Thumbnail in Homepage and Archive Page
Width: 690px
Height: 462px

Small Thumbnail
Width: 390px
Height: 261px

Content Featured Image
You can select the content featured image sizes options from “Appearance => Theme Options => Content Featured Image Options”.

Note: If you are doing all this correctly, there there might be changes of plugin conflict. So, check by deactivating recently updates/added plugin one by one.

[Sakin]

@boosted179: It’s difficult to check it when your site is not live. Also it will be better if you could send me your site screenshot not just image screenshot. I don’t know where this image came from.

Ok can you try the following css:

#featured-post img, #main-slider img {
    box-shadow: none;
}

[Jale]

Thanks Sakin. I’m new to wordpress so I did not know for that plugin.

One more question, I’v heard plugins slow down the website, so if I want to optimize the site, is there a relatively simple way to do this manually, maybe add some css ?When we want to hide page title but still use it in featured slider we add
.page .entry-header { display: none; }
Is there a similar solution to this ?

[Sakin]

@RadMod: If you are using free version of Catch Kathmandu Theme then you have option to use “Featured Post Slider” to change the image in the slider. See this http://catchthemes.com/blog/videos-blog/video-series-adding-featured-post-slider/

But if you upgrade to pro version then you will have Featured Image Slider http://catchthemes.com/blog/videos-blog/video-series-adding-featured-image-slider/ , Page Slider and Category Slider. For more information about pro version, you can check out theme instructions page at http://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/catch-kathmandu-pro/