• Kieran

    (@cozzie)


    Hi there! Can anyone please tell me how to set the featured article on the homepage of the revolution two lifestyle theme?

    Its the large highligted image at the top of the homepage. Also the theme has three ‘featured category’ blocks just below this and I can’t figure how to set them either.

    Does anyone know how to do this? I’ve spent ages trying to figure it but can’t

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  • ameo02

    (@ameo02)

    I believe I spent ages too, but figured out. LOL

    Well, there you go:

    1st – You must have installed content-gallery plugin!
    If you don’t, install it. It comes with the theme.

    2.nd and most important – when writing post you must add NEW CATEGORY – which you must name

    featuredtop

    Then and only then it should work.

    For other categories, there is folder under this theme called xml: there is lifestyle.xml file.
    If you open it with notepad++ or some other text editor it shall list all of available categories.
    You might try to rename them, or try add your own categories, when writing posts, and sorting posts in that categories you named yourself.

    I hope you’ve understood this.
    regards ameo

    Thread Starter Kieran

    (@cozzie)

    Hi ameo

    Thanks so much for your reply!

    But I’m not quite there – i’m just getting a black box (with the scrolling bar) where the featured article should be – no images appear.

    1. I activated content gallery (its in wp-content/plugins/content-gallery)
    2. I’ve customized the gallery settings (width, height…) and called the category “featuredtop”
    3. In the posts section I’ve added a category called “featuredtop” and added posts to that category. In those posts I added a custom field called “articleimg” which are the paths to the uploaded images.

    Do you have any idea what I’ve not done right?

    thanks again

    ameo02

    (@ameo02)

    IF you placed key “articleimg” and put valid link path to your images, as shown here
    https://www.revolutiontwo.com/plugins/featured-content-gallery.htm

    and didn’t work, then this is beyond me. You could however post a link 2 your site,
    maybe someone else knows more.

    Thread Starter Kieran

    (@cozzie)

    Hi ameo

    Got it! In the new category called featured I also needed to change the slug to ‘featured’. That did it!

    Thanks a lot for your help. I’ve just come to wordpress from another cms and its a real boost to see how helpful the community is.

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