[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/

[RadMod]

Another update, I found this video on making posts with featured images, this works on all other pages except the home page. Again I have cleared all cache’s using YOST but I still get the default description and slider images when I post the home page in FB. However if I post another page on FB I will only get the featured image with my text.

[Sakin]

@msabeer3d: To hide the content in the slider you can add the following css in “Appearance => Theme Options => Custom CSS” box,

#slider-wrap .featured-text { display: none; }

But for the post from recent posts, you cannot remove that. If you want just the images in your slider then you need to use slider type as “Featured Image Slider” which allowed you to upload image only. See this http://catchthemes.com/blog/videos-blog/video-series-adding-featured-image-slider/ . But this option is there only in Pro version.

[Sakin]

@maria: Please post in your site URL so that I can see what is the sizes that you have added in Featured Slider.

As per the instruction in http://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/catch-everest-pro/, it says that if you use Featured Post Slider or Page Slider or Category slider then it will take featured image size of Width: 1140px and Height: 450px. But if you have featured image less then this then it will load the original image that you have upload. But if you use Featured Image Slider, then you need to upload the image of your own choice. In this case make sure you change the size of the image before uploading it.

[Sakin]

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

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

[Sakin]

@Serendipity30: Please post in your site URL so that I can check in. Also which slider are you using. Are you using Post Slider or Page Slider Or Category Slider or Image Slider. If you are using Post Slider or Page Slider Or Category Slider then your image will be as Width: 754px and Height: 400px.
Note: but id you have uploaded the featured image which is less then Width: 754px and Height: 400px, then it will load the original image size that you uploaded.

[Virgile]

Hi Sakin,

thank you for your answer.
Do you know if I must clear all my English content first and then write it again, if start to use WPML?

Because actually I have found way to translate subtitle, featured content and widget titles by adding [:en]My English Title[:fr]My French Title.
So I don’t want to start again from the beginning.

The problem is I can’t still translate footer, featured slider on the homepage and homepage headline. Is it something related to the theme?

[Sakin]

@onceuponageek: Yes that’s because of using different image size. As per our theme instructions http://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/catch-kathmandu/, we recommend the featured slider image to be Width: 1280px and Height: 550px. Or at least all image sizes has to be same size.

Sorry, this cannot be fixed without changing image size as this is responsive design where we have to adjust the height and width as per the screensize.

[Jason]

So I managed to get rid of the search bar at the top. Any way to tighten that space up a hair, I’d like to see the site title image be equidistant top and bottom – to the top of the page and the featured sliders.

Still can’t fix #2….

Thanks!

[Sakin]

@PoulKristensen: You are using Catch Kathmandu Free theme, then you only have option to use “Featured Post Slider” for that you need to create new post and add in featured image in your post and then add your post ID in “Appearance => Theme Options => Featured Slider => Featured Post Slider Options”

You can check out Catch Kathmandu theme instructions page at http://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/catch-kathmandu/ for detail instruction. We also have Video screencast showing Post Slider http://catchthemes.com/blog/videos-blog/video-series-adding-featured-post-slider/

[Sakin]

@Ivan: In Catch Kathmandu Pro, if you want posts to automatically add in Slider then you have to go to “Appearance => Theme Options => Featured Slider => Slider Options” and then select slider type as “Category Slider” and save changes. Then go to “Appearance => Theme Options => Featured Slider => Featured Category Slider Options” and select the category.

Note: after you select the category, make sure that the post in that category have featured image. As this category slider take the post featured image, title and excerpt text. For adding featured image, see this http://catchthemes.com/blog/videos-blog/video-series-adding-featured-image-wordpress-postpage/

For more, check our theme instructions page at http://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/catch-kathmandu-pro/

[Sakin]

@Kim: This is strange looks like regenerate is not working in your site. Did you activate any new plugin or update plugin recently. As I tested in my server and it’s working fine. I have just tested in new demo server as well. It’s working fine.

Also when I check in your source of your image in the site, it’s
<img width="644" height="312" alt="laser-hair-removal" class="attachment-featured-slider wp-post-image" src="http://hidemyage.com/wp-content/uploads/laser-hair-removal1.jpg">

You can see the image tag is taking width and height properly but the in src it is taking full image. So, it’s issue with the image crop.

I will also email you, if you want to talk in detail.

[Kim]

Ok. But I’m not using the slider. I’m only using the featured images for the post excerpts…