Sidebar Under Slider

Hi @landondavis

If you haven’t make edits in themes files yet, then the first things I can suggest is:
– have a backup of your theme’s files which you can restore in case anything goes wrong
– work from FTP. This way if anything goes wrong, you’ll be able to revert the changes. If you’re not sure about your FTP credentials, please contact your host. They should be able to help.

To make your changes future proof, consider creating a child theme: https://developer.www.ads-software.com/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/
which you can edit without having to worry that your changes will be lost by an update.
Many theme developers create official child themes, so asking your theme’s developers whether they have a child theme could be a good start.

The way you can work with child themes is that you copy over the files you want to change, and make the edits only in the child theme. E.g. if you need to edit the header.php of the parent theme, then first you need to copy that over to the child theme. Then you can make the edits at the child theme.

I checked the linked page, and I didn’t see the slider overflowing the sidebar/widget area there. Were you able to figure it out?
I also checked a few posts, but I didn’t see any slider there either.

Thank you for all the information about Child Theme’s and such. I installed an official Neve Child theme.

In regards to the slider, I cant even get it to show up. When I do it just shows the alphabet all the way down, and it covers the blog slider. I just took it off. I guess what I am looking for is how to set it up correctly. Thanks!

Edit: I also can’t create archive/404 template with elementor pro. I need to enable safe mode to get to the actual editor. I think this all is amounting to a problem with Neve.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 12 months ago by landondavis.

Hi @landondavis!

If you are using Elementor to create your pages, we have our own element in it:

and you could try to use that.

If that won’t put your slider where you would like it, make sure you have the header.php file of the parent theme between the child theme’s files. Then open it up and look for the </header> codepart. Write a word, like “test” under it and check out your website, to see if it appears. If it does appear, you can make our shortcode to appear there too:
https://smartslider3.helpscoutdocs.com/article/150-publish-on-wordpress#php
like this:
<?php echo do_shortcode('[smartslider3 slider=1]'); ?>
just with your slider’s shortcode.

If it won’t work out, please rather contact us here:
https://smartslider3.com/contact-us/support/?topic=Publish&platform=WordPress&version=Free&website=website-yes
and we will try to help!