Site Title

Which theme are you working with? Please provide a link to a page in question

https://parishofifield.apps-1and1.net/ Charis Church

Thanks for replying Andrew, much obliged. You will see top left in front of the pictures some words in black. I would like to change their colour so people could see them. As it is, if you were to scroll over them, they turn to white in colour.

I don’t know if I should ask this question but is there a way of creating a side bar for the home page that I could put a picture slide show in please?

Thanks again,
RonB

You will have to use CSS to do this.

Something like this should work for you:

.site-title { color: white; }

As for the sidebar, mainly this depends on the Theme you are using. I can help you, but I’d have to know more about which one you’re using.

Thank you Andrew, that worked fine. I am using the Charis Church themne. WordPress version 4.3.1.

What I had in mind was a slide show on the left hand side of the page with a series of church interior pictures working like a marquee.

It might not be possible using WordPress. I have spent the last 25 years using Serif for my web site building so this is all new to me. the Church wants a more modern outlook. That’s fine, but they don’t have to build it…
Cheers,

Ron

Hi Ron,

It is very possible, and I have done it before.

You’re going to want to download the plugin called “Slideshow.” You can search within wordpress when you click on “Add new” on the plugin screen.

Once you’ve successfully activated the “Slideshow” plugin, you can make a slideshow by clicking on the Slideshows menu. Should be pretty straightforward, there are a lot of options but nothing too complicated. You can always tinker until you find something that works. To add the slide images, there is a section when adding a new slideshow that is called “Slides List.” That’s where you’re going to upload the slides, plus all the settings for each slideshow image.

Finally, to show the slideshow, you can goto Appearance -> Customize, and select Widgets. Under Widgets, the Charis Church theme has a section called Sidebar 2. This is the left hand sidebar, which I believe is where you want it (the small whitespace flush left of the content). Click on “+ Add a Widget” and select “Slideshow Widget.” Change the title to whatever you want (or keep it blank) and choose your newly created Slideshow. Save your changes, and you should now have the slideshow on the left sidebar.

Let me know if this works! – creativecode