[kalalilys]

I am loving the theme, but having problems with trying to figure out how to use the feature slider. I have looked through some of the other support responses and I *think* I am doing all the right things.
I have tried linking the image from another site outside of my host page, it didn’t seem to work.
I have tried just using a smaller image size.
I did make sure that I have added the image as “Featured Image” in the post and when in the Theme Options added the URL of the page, I think that is correct? I didn’t see where to simply put the Page ID, just the URL.

So I am not sure what I am missing? I have only one post on there public, one private because I am just trying to get a banner (logo banner) to be within the feature slide. Does that make sense? Here is the site http://www.cakecooksglutenfree.com

THanks in advance for the help.

[Sakin]

@kalalilys: If you are using Catch Everest Free theme then you have only option to add Featured Post Slider but if you Upgrade to Pro version then you have option to use Featured Post Slider or Featured Page Slider or Featured Category Slider or Featured Image Slider.

Here goes the instruction to add the Featured Post Slider
1. First create the Post and don’t forget to add in the Featured Image in the post as this image is used in the slider. To add featured image see this http://en.support.wordpress.com/featured-images/#setting-a-featured-image

2. Then get the ID of the post. When you edit your post or write a post. you will see the id in your browser address bar. You will also be able to get the post ID from All Post in your WordPress Dashboard. But still if you cannot find it then you can use this plugin to view it http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/catch-ids/

3. Then go to “Appearance => Theme Options => Featured Post Slider”. Add in the post id. Make sure you only add in the ID number.

[kalalilys]

Oh my. Yes. I got it now. It was so simple. I think I was overthinking it.

Ok- so my original thinking on the banner won’t really work. How can I move the search bar and Social Buttons to the side bar to be able to use the CSS to maximize the space for the header for a logo banner? I am trying to have the logo banner extend across the top.

[kalalilys]

Ok, reading more into what other people have done with the theme (which I will prob get the Pro here very shortly) I guess what I want to ideally do is have the header image, about 850 X 250px but I also would like to still have the social media buttons, just NOT the search bar.
So three items I know I need to do for the header:

1. how to increase the header width area (when I try to load the image it gives me an error page load after the page where it recommends a image size of 300px width)
2. move social media buttons up on the header section
3. how to remove the search bar (I haven’t search for this…I was being lazy 🙁 sorry )

Thanks so much!

Kathy

[Sakin]

@kalalilys:

1. how to increase the header width area (when I try to load the image it gives me an error page load after the page where it recommends a image size of 300px width)
— The you have to added it though “Appearance => Header”. Just upload the image of your chose. If there is upload problem first check with any default theme like Twenty Twelve. If you still have problem with default theme then it’s your server issue. If not then let me know it.
2. move social media buttons up on the header section
— I see that social media buttons up on the header right section only. If you are thinking about adding in the top, then you have to upgrade to Catch Everest Pro version, where you have additional Header Top Sidbear, where you can just drag and drop “Catch Everest Social Widget” to the sidebar.
3. how to remove the search bar (I haven’t search for this…I was being lazy 🙁 sorry )
— You can hide by adding the following CSS in “Appearance => Theme Options => Custom CSS” box.
#hgroup-wrap .searchform { display: none; }

[kalalilys]

Sakin,

Thanks so much. I got the header image sized properly and social media buttons in thier proper place. I think I want to keep them where they are, but when I upgrade to Pro may try moving them around, but I am pretty ok with it right now.
I think I have everything in its place now. Thanks SO much, you make it easy doing this and def. worth upgrading!

Kathy
http://www.cakecooksglutenfree.com

[jthornton]

I am using simple catch need to know the for an iframe that will going into the side bar as add. So I need to know theme:
– Unit dimensions
– Font family for the site (or send a zip file of your font)
– Font size
– Hex colour code for your font
– Hex colour code for your background
Judy

[Sakin]

@jthornton: If you are sing Simple Catch theme then post it in Simple Catch Forum http://catchthemes.com/support-forum/forum/simple-catch-public/ This is Catch Everest Support Forum.

[kalalilys]

One more question for ya 🙂 I have a cooking blog- so i have one page set as “recipe box” and have been trying to make it so that I can make category pages in the “Recipe Box.” I know you can do this with custom menus, does the theme have this capability? I tried to use it (custom menu) but it made a mess of the nav bar. Is this something available with Pro? (the use of the custom menu option)

Thanks,

Kathy

[kalalilys]

I currently have it set here as children pages, but that doesn’t allow me to drop the categories into them. http://www.cakecooksglutenfree.com/recipe-box/

[kalalilys]

Ok- I think I may have answered my own question there looking at the Pro features. I see Custom Menu listed. So that would allow me to use the WP custom menu feature, correct? I think that would be the only other thing I want to alter.

[Sakin]

@kalalilys: Yes free and pro version both can be use as Custom Menu. You can add it through “Appearance => Menus”. See this for more detail on Custom Menus http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

[kalalilys]

Ok, that seemed to do the job. I am not sure why it didn’t work the first time. It is working fine now.

Next question (it will end I promise) I want to diplay on my category pages only links to the full posts, where currently it posts a large image and text. In the WP instruction on this it states that the theme needs to be changed/altered to do that here:

Perhaps you are looking to cut down on the size of your Category pages. You could do this by displaying excerpts rather than the entire content of each Post. To do this, you will just need to find where it says the_content() inside The Loop in your Template, and replace it with the_excerpt(). These will most likely be inside PHP tags:
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
and
<?php the_content(); ?>

Conversely, if your Theme is currently displaying excerpts and you want full posts, replace the_excerpt with the_content.

As it states above, I want to put just an excepert of the actual post and Post title. Above that I will just have General static images of wha tthe category contains, to make the category easier to navigate. I eventually am importing a large number of recipes and having to many THAT large will just not work. Thoughts?

Thanks again SO much.

[Sakin]

@kalalilys: You are showing excerpt view only. So, what is your question. I don’t understand it.

[kalalilys]

Sorry, yes, technically it is excerpt view, but it still shows a very large image and lots of text. I would like it to only show the post title, no image.

[Sakin]

@kalalilys: Then remove the Featured Image from the post.

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