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cabecafeita
Member
Please, i´m gonna crazy here.
I want to put in my front page the Portfolio (gallery style), below the "Slider".
How i can do it? I changed the "Mainpage Content Area" to a Page taht contains the portfolio, and doesnt work, nothing appears.
I´m spending 35 hours already on that, and nothing to now.
Please, help me.
I made a example with photoshop of how i mean to my Home need work:
Untitled-5.jpg (90.4 KB, 18 downloads) 1 year old 
Elliott
Support
Hello cabecafeita,
This would be considered custom work but I believe other people would like to do this also so I will create a fix for you. In the meantime please be patient and refrain from double posting.
I have been really busy lately but I should get back with you by tomorrow with the fix.
Elliott
Support
Alrighty, first off is your slider set to grab custom images or images from a category? There will be a different fix depending on which one you have set.
If it is set to grab from categories then go ahead and try out this fix. If it is set to grab custom images then let me know and I will upload another fix for you.
1. Delete the following file.. /wp-content/themes/infocus/lib/includes/featured-categories.php
2. Extract the attached file and upload to /wp-content/theme/infocus/lib/includes/
3. Create a portfolio gallery page with the portfolio shortcodes.. Ex: [portfolio cat=5 style=gallery max=9] and make sure to select the default template.
4. In your inFocus settings select the page you just created in the Homepage tab to display on the homepage.
5. Test thoroughly.
Let me know of the results cabecafeita.
featured-categories.zip (1.9 KB, 35 downloads) 1 year old
Elliott
Support
Try this one cabecafeita, let me know if it works.
featured-categories.zip (2 KB, 45 downloads) 1 year old
Elliott
Support
Hello HouseofStrauss,
Try this one, just follow the steps above.
Let us know if it works for you.
featured-custom.zip (2.3 KB, 76 downloads) 1 year old 
HouseofStrauss
Member
Hi again Elliott. The featured-custom.php modified file works perfectly. Thanks for doing this. Looking at the way this displays data looks great as a front page design feature. A further step (you may want to consider) is to make each portfolio block (image) pull from a different category, or page id. Also to allow it to query the latest post from each category, taking first image and excerpt. That way you have a dynamic portfolio of blog and prime page highlights right on the front page. Just a thought ...
valuesandfriends
Member
@HouseofStrauss: This is exactly what i would also need as a frontpage feature!
@Elliott: How can i display excerpts from different categories on my portfolio page instead?
Do i have to add an additional category (i.e. 'Portfolio') to every article?
If so, how are they going to be displayed on the portfolio page? (Newest article first, the the second newest etc.?)
Cheers, Jan
[MODERATED] - Hey Jan, I deleted your other customization posts so they do not confuse other readers. We'll continue this in your PM.
Elliott
Support
Hello Jan,
Open up /wp-content/themes/infocus/lib/includes/template-blog.php and find lines 231 - 237 which should look like this..
<?php if($teaser_text) { ?>
<p class="portfolio"><?php echo $teaser_text; ?></p>
<?php } ?>
<?php if(!$read_more_disable) { ?>
<span><a class="button_link" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><span>Read More</span></a></span>
<?php } ?>You will want to add a line inbetween like this..
<?php if($teaser_text) { ?>
<p class="portfolio"><?php echo $teaser_text; ?></p>
<?php } ?>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<?php if(!$read_more_disable) { ?>
<span><a class="button_link" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><span>Read More</span></a></span>
<?php } ?>This could throw your categories out of balance so you might want to surround it with a div like this..
<div style = 'overflow: hidden; width: 100px; height: 50px;'><?php the_excerpt(); ?></div>
Play around with the width and height until you get something you like.
valuesandfriends
Member
Hey Elliott,
my template-blog.php ends at line 225.
I found the mentioned code in template-portfolio-gallery.php and added the line.
How do i setup the 'Portfolio' page to display the excerpts now?
When i add the portfolio shortcode (i.e. [portfolio cat=1 style=gallery max=9] ) to it, the page displays nothing.
Cheers, Jan
Dorian
Support
Hi valuesandfriends,
That's right.
Now to setup the portfolio, please have a look at my second post in this topic http://mysitemyway.com/support/topic/gallery
This should guide you step by step in the procedure involved.
Cheers,
Uniq
valuesandfriends
Member
Hi Uniq,
thanks for your response.
I followed the steps exactly to set up a portfolio gallery.
Unfortunately the portfolio section on the frontpage which should be displayed underneath the slider still remains empty.
I would like it to appear like on http://www.surfartculture.com/ but with a sidebar.
Cheers, Jan
valuesandfriends
Member
-2-
When i try it with a modified featured-categories.php the layout is slightly different to the one i would like to have but the images do not load (see attachment). They appear for a second and the the loader spins and spins.
If it easier to fix this i would also be comfortable with it.
Cheers, Jan
test.png (132.4 KB, 1 downloads) 1 year old
valuesandfriends
Member
Hey Elliott,
i would like my blog to show up on the frontpage. The post images should appear under the slider as a portfolio (small images with shadows) with an excerpt of the post underneath (two or three columns).
Quite similar to how cabecaFeita did it (www.surfartculture.com), just with a sidebar on the right.
For the screenshot above i used the modified featured-categories.php you provided in the other thread. If the portfolio view does not work this would also be ok for me but unfortunately the post images do not load.
Sorry for not being able to explain this in better english but i hope you understand what i am aiming for.
Thanks for your help!
Cheers, Jan
valuesandfriends
Member
-2-
I just decided to skip the "portfolio-look" blog overview on the front page because i need to get the site up and running again urgently.
The only open issue is that the images do not load (as you see in my screenshot above).
I used your modified featured-categories.php for this.
Any idea to get this going?
Cheers, Jan
Elliott
Support
Hello valuesandfriends,
Unfortunately to get a sidebar with this fix would require custom work and I would recommend hiring a freelancer for this.
If the images are not showing up then redownload the file and extract it. If that does not fix it then send us a link to your site as there is probably something else going on.
valuesandfriends
Member
Do you need a login for WordPress or just the link to the website?
http://www.stilbrief.de
Cheers, Jan
kehyian
Member
Hi there,
First of all I'd like to say a big THANK YOU for the InFocus template and for the great support here.
I have a question regarding the hover effect on gallery thumbnails in the front page.
I'm using the modified featured-custom.php and in the page I created for the gallery everything works fine but if I choose this page for mainpage content area the hover effect is gone.
Any idea ?
Thanks in advance.
Elliott
Support
Hey kehyian,
Sorry about this.. I just remembered that was one of the things I had to change to get it to work on the home page. If you need it then we can do a little jQuery fix where the images will fade out when you hover over them but the little play button and magnifying glass will not show up though.
Let me know what you feel like doing.
kehyian
Member
Hey Elliott,
Thank you very much for you time. I 'll leave as it is now.
But now i noticed something else.
If i choose another page for the mainpage content area then i can see the new page AND the videos.
It's like the videos are hard-coded in front page.
Any idea?
Thanks again
Elliott
Support
If you want to get the Full Portfolio (1 column) instead of the Gallery Portfolio (3 columns) then you can try these..
Let us know if they work for you all okay.
featured-custom-full.zip (2 KB, 6 downloads) 1 year old featured-categories-full.zip (1.7 KB, 4 downloads) 1 year old 
defharo
Member
Hello Elliot,
I have installed the code (featured-categories.zip (2 KB)) to display the gallery under the homepage content and works perfect. But I have a question: I have 2 pages now show two diferent galleries (In the future I want to have other different categories-galleries), what happens is that on the homepage shows all the images of the 2 galleries. The firts question is: how I can display in the homepage only the images of a category? and the second question: How I can limit the number of images in the gallery show on the homepage of the web?
See the homepage: http://www.defharo.com
Thank you very much for your help
deFharo
Elliott
Support
Hello defharo,
It will use the categories and number that you define for your slider in Dashboard -> inFocus -> Homepage. If you want to change it only for the portfolio then open up the featured-categories.php and at the top you should see this..
<?php $featured_query = new WP_Query("cat=$slider_showcats&showposts=$slider_count"); ?>
Go ahead and change it like this..
<?php $featured_query = new WP_Query("category_name=Your Category&showposts=6"); ?>
And then switch Your Category with your category slug which you can find in Dashboard -> Posts -> Categories. To change the number of posts it grabs then switch showposts=6 to whatever you want.
Let us know if this works for you defharo.
breezemaster
Member
I tired the original
"Try this one cabecafeita, let me know if it works.
featured-categories.zip (2 KB, 22 downloads) 3 months old"
to get a gallery (not full width) under my slider.
It pulls in the gallery, but my slider won't load an image. It just spins.
The Full width variation works fine.
Did something change in the original templates between releases here?
Would love to get that going.
Cheers in advance!
Jim
breezemaster
Member
Hey Elliott,
Sorry, mis-communication.
I didn't mean with a sidebar. I meant, the smaller (not full width) version of the portfolio.
Full width page, 1 third portfolio images.
I tried the zip you posted (second one) and it breaks the slider.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Jim
breezemaster
Member
Hi Elliot,
Heres the link.
http://dev.netzstrategen.com/outletstore-gartenmoebel/
Note: If I use the 'Portfolio Full' variation (both your 'featured-categories-full.zip ' + a 'Full portfolio' shortcode) it works fine.
Using your code provided here (featured-categories.zip) together with a 'Gallery Portfolio' shortcode creates what you see at the link above.
ie. Slider broken & Gallery portfolio images not limited to the chosen catagory (all posts displayed).
Please help! ...much needed feature!
(ps. I haven't bothered loading all pictures into the gallery. Only one chair is showing there now)
breezemaster
Member
smaller screenshot
Screen_shot_2010-11-24_at_6.38.52_PM.png (102.4 KB, 1 downloads) 1 year old
Elliott
Support
Hello breezemaster,
Your getting a 400 Bad Request on some of your images..
For the image location you have http://localhost:8888, Try putting your full host here like this,
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