Featured slide show in GameNow theme

  • Hi,

    I have the GameNow theme and am having a hard time getting the featured slideshow and to only contain posts marked in the Featured Artists category. No matter what category I select for the post it ends up in the featured slideshow. Tried to follow instructions below, but I must be doing something wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Instructions from GameNow FAQ:
    you need to set the featured_category_id in the wpn_config.php file to the featured category ID.


    Here’s the original code in the wpn_config.php file:

    // Feautured Category ID
    ‘featured_category’ => ‘3’,

    // Highlights Category IDs
    ‘highlights_category_id_1′ => ’10’,
    ‘highlights_category_id_2’ => ‘5’,
    ‘highlights_category_id_3’ => ‘7’,

    The lower left corner of firefox says the Featured Artists category ID is 4.

    I am also having similar issues with the Highlights section. Urg!

    Instructions from GameNow FAQ:
    To set the highlight categories open the wpn_config.php file found in the theme’s
    root directory and edit the 3 category IDs for under highlights_category_id_1,
    highlights_category_id_2 and highlights_category_id_3.

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  • Thread Starter suggestingmusic

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    oops. the website is https://www.suggestingmusic.com

    Thanks for any advice you might have!!!

    Thread Starter suggestingmusic

    (@suggestingmusic)

    Okay, I must be… s l o w.

    Thought I’d come back and share what happened in case someone runs into the same problem. I doubt it though cuz my head is thicker than most leaving less room for my brain.

    So, somehow during my frantic attempt to fix the site, I changed ‘featured_category_id’ the original code to ‘featured_category’

    Don’t do that. Next. When in admin section go to Categories. Mouse over any category name and you will see the category id after the = sign in the left bottom corner of your Firefox browser. Take that id, which in this case for Featured Artists happened to be 4 and plug it in where the 3 is above.

    Highlight sect. Same thing. Mouse over the 3 categories you want in the highlight sect. get the numbers and plug them in place of the 10 5 and 7.

    That’s it. Easy. But when you don’t know what you’re doing and have less cranial space than others, you just gotta fall out of your chair and hit your head on a turntable in two different places just after the start of a new year and you get all the answers you need.

    Thanks, I am trying to get the featured slideshow /post to work on Gamenow but only 3 of my articles r shown.. how did u make urs work?

    ops my bad, my thick head too….I placed them in the wrong category and the featured category(which was renamed) had only 3…hence only 3 showing up…

    I had the same problem when i installed the template. It took me almost a hole day to solve it.

    To save time to other persons I am going to share what i did.

    First, you need to ow the Category ID, you can easly now by selecting the Category from your Admin panel and looking at the end of the URL.

    Post => Categories => SELECT THE CATEGORY
    Example:
    https://xplaylinks.com/wp-admin/categories.php?action=edit&cat_ID=17

    Second, in Appearance go to the “Editor”, there yu will find the wpn_config.php at the left.

    Example:
    I added the #17 because hat is my Category ID that I need.

    // Feautured Category ID
    ‘featured_category_id’ => ’17’,

    After i did thet it enabled the Slideshow in the frontpage.

    Remember tht the images used are 630×230.

    You can check my website here: https://xplaylinks.com

    Hi, My site – https://www.ahlpod.com has this theme installed, but on the featured thing (above highlights) is showing posts, but doesn’t have a thumbnail image for them, how would I put a thumbnail image for each post to show on the featured place?

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