Front Page with POrtfolio below the Slider

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breezemaster
Member

OK. Me foolish.

FIxed the bad requests.

Hadn't realised that would effect anything.

Everything lovely.

Sorry bout that...

And many many thanks for the great support.

I'm pretty damn sold on sticking with you guys.

Posted 1 year ago #
Elliott
Support

Glad that worked for you breezemaster, if you have any other questions then let us know.

Posted 1 year ago #
lwarren
Member

Does this solution work for the Awake theme as well?

Posted 1 year ago #
Elliott
Support

Hello lwarren,

For Awake navigate to Dashboard -> Awake -> Homepage and at the bottom there will be a textarea where you can use the portfolio shortcode. By default the homepage will show with a sidebar so if you do not want the sidebar with your portfolio then make sure you have no widgets set on the "Homepage Widget Area" sidebar.

Posted 1 year ago #
lwarren
Member

Beautiful...and so easy! Thanks for your quick reply.

Posted 1 year ago #
Elliott
Support

Glad that works for you lwarren, if you have any other questions then let us know.

Posted 1 year ago #
sc00by9999
Member

Im trying to add a portfolio gallery on my home page. I downloaded and added the modified files, however its not working right for me. It is showing gallery images, but I cannot define the category or number of images. It seems it is pulling all categories (including the blog). Even if i dont add the shortcode to the page, it still pulls the images.

UPDATE:
its seems the gallery is attaching itself to the bottom of any page I set as the home page.

http://kellarphotography.com

Posted 1 year ago #
Elliott
Support

Hello sc00by9999,

Do you have a certain page or posts to display on your homepage in Dashboard -> General Settings -> Reading? You said you have modified the file, what modifications have you done?

Make sure you are using the latest version of inFocus. (1.6) and that you are using the right file, (featured-custom vs featured-categories) depending on what you have your slider set to.

Posted 1 year ago #
sc00by9999
Member

thanks, I decided to put the blog on the homepage.

Posted 1 year ago #
ZenzeMedia
Member
Hello,

Im getting lost in this very big thread.
The site works perfectly but im trying to get something like the preview (see attachment).
It a categorie displayed on the homepage.

Which .zip file can i use to achieve this?

Thanks in advance,
Zenze
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Posted 1 year ago #
Stoyan
Member

Hi Elliott,
Is there any chance to get portfolio title above the portfolio on home page?

Posted 1 year ago #
Elliott
Support

@ZenzeMedia, you probably want the full portfolio style, see this post, http://mysitemyway.com/support/topic/front-page-with-portfolio-below-the-slider#post-6612

@Stoyan, What this will do is insert a portfolio under the main content of your homepage so if you want to get by without editing any files then you can create a page and insert a <h1> element or something similar and then select this page to display under Dashboard -> inFocus -> Homepage in the "Mainpage Content Area" text field. I recommend trying this first but if you still want to edit the files then let me know.

Posted 1 year ago #

Stoyan
Member

Thanks Elliott,
Maybe i found a solution. I've tried this

$category = get_the_category();
$parent = get_cat_name($category[0]->category_parent);
if (!empty($parent)) {
	echo '<h2>' . $parent . '</h2>';
} else {
	echo '<h2>' . $category[0]->cat_name . '</h2>';
}

and it's work for me.

Posted 1 year ago #

ZenzeMedia
Member

Hello Elliott

The files do work on my homepage (www.zenze.nl/Wordpress2)
But it currently shows all posts, and i only want to let it show 1 category.

You needed to configure an portfolio page to work on the homepage.
So i created a page called Home. (www.zenze.nl/Wordpress2/home/)
I did insert the following code: [portfolio cat=19 style=full max=3]
Result is perfect on the portfolio page, however the homepage it shows something different?

--
Portfolio-page: http://www.zenze.nl/Wordpress2/home/
Home-page: http://www.zenze.nl/Wordpress2/
--

I see, that the Homepage is generated from all posts.
Is it also possible to show only posts from category 19 (in my case)

Posted 1 year ago #
Elliott
Support

Hello ZenzeMedia,

Not sure why it is doing that for you. Make sure that your page is using the default template.

We can try manually setting the category. If your using the custom-featured.php file then on line 134 you should see this,

query_posts("paged=$paged&cat=$portfolio_cat&posts_per_page=$portfolio_max");

You can try changing it like this,

query_posts("paged=$paged&cat=19&posts_per_page=$portfolio_max");

Posted 1 year ago #
ZenzeMedia
Member

Hi Elliott.

I needed to change that single line in both files.
Now it works, thanks!

Cheers

Posted 1 year ago #
LoveandLaughter
Member

Hello!
Very quick & simple. How do go about deleting and uploading this new file? I am unsure as to where to go. The theme editor?

Thanks!

Posted 1 year ago #
Elliott
Support

Hello LoveandLaughter,

You will need to use an FTP client to upload the new file. I recommend trying filezilla out since it is free, http://filezilla-project.org/. And here is a quick tutorial on how to use it, http://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Using.

If your still having problems then PM us an FTP login and we'll do the change for you.

Posted 1 year ago #
pastorwesley
Member

Okay... so I tried this customization for our church's website: http://www.revelationcog.com but it wasn't quite what I wanted. Now, I can't get all of these images off of our homepage? Can someone please help me here?

Thanks!

Wesley Woods

Posted 1 year ago #
pastorwesley
Member

Nevermind... I figured it out. I do have another question though. Is there anyway to make use of a carousel slider that I can display some "recent" or "upcoming" events on the homepage above my main page content area that I already have?

Thanks!

Posted 1 year ago #
Elliott
Support

Hello pastorwesley,

Here are some slideshow plugins that you might be interested in, http://www.dynamicwp.net/articles-and-tutorials/20-beautiful-wordpress-slideshow-plugins/.

We have a few slider and gallery shortcodes in the next update that you can use also. We are nearing completion so it might be best to just go ahead and wait for the update.

Posted 1 year ago #
pastorwesley
Member

Thanks for the timely response and input Elliot! You guys are incredible! I can't wait for the update.

Wesley

Posted 1 year ago #
pastorwesley
Member

Okay... I'm really wanting to use the featured custom customization for our churches homepage. The problem I am having is similar to some of the difficulties others have been able to work through. I want to add the portfolio under the slider only showing 3 posts from a homepage category that I have created. The problem is that whenever I do, making sure that everything is set up like it needs to be, it pulls posts from all categories. I thought this could be resolved by changing line 134 in the .php file what was given above but by placing the category number for the category I created which is number 21. I'm still getting all posts showing. I've given a screen shot below. Remember, all I want to show is 3 posts from one category. Is this even possible?

Wesley

Posted 1 year ago #
pastorwesley
Member
sorry attachement didn't post.

Wesley
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Posted 1 year ago #
Elliott
Support

Hello pastorwesley,

Go ahead and PM us a Wordpress and FTP login so we can take a look at your settings.

Posted 1 year ago #
moditz
Member

Hi Elliot and the rest of the great team!

Problem A) I followed the steps on how to implement the portfolio view on the homepage, it worked quite well but instead of 9 posts on my normal portfolio page, 10 posts appear on the newly made homepage. Is there a quick fix?

Problem B) I put the template slider you offered for download in the infocus folder. But when I then select the template, it will show a standard page with sidebar, no slider at all. Did I miss something?

Any help appreciated...

Thanks in advance..

My best

Posted 9 months ago #
moditz
Member

Before I forget: Another issue with my point A) is that the mouseover magnifying glass image won't appear on the starting page. It still does appear on the actual portfolio page, though slowly loading.

Posted 9 months ago #
Elliott
Support

Hello moditz,

These files are for inFocus 1.6, is that what you are using?

Our latest update 2.2 has been released today. http://mysitemyway.com/docs/index.php/Updating_Awake_and_inFocus_to_2.0

It has these features built in so you might want to consider updating.

Posted 9 months ago #
moditz
Member

...I considered and did it, but when I updated, all the designing was messed up and I really took some time to build this site (months...) So it didn't seem like there's a quick fix for that. So I changed back to 1.6 where I know everything and everything was back into place...

Posted 9 months ago #
Elliott
Support

Alrighty, go ahead and send us a link to your site so we can take a closer look.

Did you use the featured-custom or featured-categories file?

Posted 9 months ago #
moditz
Member

here you go : http://pommerdesign.com

the two files I used so far: featured-custom.zip & template-slider.zip , the featured-custom works but it won't show all portfolio items, just 10 on the starting page, under "work" you can see the full thing...

Posted 9 months ago #
Elliott
Support

Alrighty, for the portfolio posts on your homepage you should be able to change this in Dashboard -> Settings -> Reading. If it still does not display correctly then open up your featured-custom.php file and find line 159 which should look like this,

query_posts("paged=$paged&cat=$portfolio_cat");

Change it like this,

query_posts("paged=$paged&cat=$portfolio_cat&showposts=20");

Where "20" is how many posts you wish to display.

As for the slider template when I checked your homepage I noticed your slider was not displaying, did you hide this with CSS? If so then it will affect your slider template also.

Posted 9 months ago #
moditz
Member

cool, thanks, the first suggestion worked perfectly. one thing, though: I don't wanna have the 2 posts from "contact" to appear on the starting page.

can I remove those?

yes, I purposely hid the slider on the front page, but I wanna display it under "service", is there a way to do that?

really appreciate the help, thanks!

my best

Posted 9 months ago #
Elliott
Support

Did you hide it with CSS? Take off whatever CSS that is hiding it and change it to this,

#home_page #home_feature { display: none !important; }

That will hide it only on the homepage.

I'm not sure what you mean by the "contact". Is that a post category?

You can exlude it from the query like so,

query_posts("paged=$paged&cat=$portfolio_cat,-30&showposts=20");

Where "30" is the ID of the category.

Posted 9 months ago #
moditz
Member

Hi thanks, slider is working now, only two things:

a) I actually disabled the "header teaser text" and now it shows again,

b) then I wanted the rest of the page below the slider to be a "full width template" without my sidebar, which was set correctly before...what can I do there?

Here is what I mean: http://www.pommerdesign.com/about

With "contact" i just mean my menu point called contact, where i have two posts right now that are only supposed to be shown there, not on the front page. If your code works for that, in which file do i put in the code?

thanks

Posted 9 months ago #
moditz
Member

PS: Is there anything I can do so the mouseover effect works also on the frontpage as it does on the original page (magnifying glass appears as layer on top of the pic...) ?

Posted 9 months ago #
Elliott
Support

The magnifying glass was one of the things that needed to be taken off for it to work properly.

In the pages that you want it full width add this,

<style type = 'text/css'>#secondary { display: none; } #primary { width: 900px; }</style>

And then play around with the "900" value until it looks good.

Posted 9 months ago #
moditz
Member

Thanks for the code Elliott, where do I add this code?

What about my first two questions?

My best

Posted 9 months ago #
Elliott
Support

When editing your page you paste it inside the HTML editor.

Are you trying to get rid of the intro all throughout your site or just the homepage?

Posted 9 months ago #
moditz
Member

..intro text is off throughout all the site.

Posted 9 months ago #
Elliott
Support

I'm sorry but I am confused as to what you are wanting. If possible then take a screenshot and highlight the areas so we can get a better idea.

Posted 9 months ago #
moditz
Member
Hey Elliott, I attached a graphic file so you can understand what I mean. If you're sending me code, please also tell in which file and line to put into, makes my life easier :P

FYI: the line of code you put in before messed up the page below the slider, the sidebar line would still show and the content was on top of it. I put in the top part of the file "style.css".

to wrap it up: slider without intro text, full width page template (infocus 1.6) not on the home page
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Posted 9 months ago #
Elliott
Support

Your site is timing out for me.

So to make sure I understand correctly,

You are wanting a homepage with no call to action and a full width portfolio correct? If so then the file in this thread should be doing that for you.

It would probably be best if you went ahead and updated moditz, we have options for all of this stuff you are wanting and it would be a lot easier than juggling around a bunch of php files.

Posted 9 months ago #
moditz
Member

...I did the update and it was too much change. I'm sure it's better and more comfortable once you're through but it's like switching to another theme..this still is shorter for me. As I said Elliott "the line of code you put in before messed up the page below the slider, the sidebar line would still show and the content was on top of it. I put in the top part of the file "style.css"

I'll try again, hope to find a solution.

Posted 9 months ago #
Elliott
Support

If possible then send me a PM with a Wordpress and FTP login.

Posted 9 months ago #