thorirv

Hi Ravan, and thanks for following up.

I haven’t tried with latest update, but 1.5.2 didn’t work on the two sites I checked it with. I’ll try 1.5.5 locally before updating the live sites, report back when I’ve had the chance.

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Th

FYI it also doesn’t work with my sites.
Fixed it temporarily by replacing this plugin with ‘Fancybox for WordPress’, but would like to come back to this one when updated.

Thanks for reply, good to know

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From same developer, “Sliders”. I think you must be a member though, but it isn’t expensive. See here https://alienwp.com/plugins/ (My only connection is being a happy customer)

FIY, the Devpress team has split up, Oxygen (and Florence) can now be found at alienwp.com.

I can’t offer any help re. Florence, but I can very much recommend signing up with either companies for themes and support.

Nice BobbyDonovan!

Glad I camea across this thread, or I would have spend the rest of the day trying to figure this out..

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Th

Brad, I owe you coffee!

: )
Many thanks – Thorir V

Thanks for reply Brad. I should have posted an update, but that’s excactly the article that helped me get it to work : )

The only thing I didn’t figure out yet was how to apply the same filtering to two custom post types. Copying the article’s code I used if( $typenow == 'my_custom_post_type' ) and was hoping I could add another by using array, but haven’t yet figured out how. Don’t need it actually, so in this case it’s not a big issue.

Thanks again.
Terrific plugin! Never would have pulled this off without it.

Thanks, I’ll have a look.
What comes to my mind is to use a conditional plugin that takes php, since the each block of data (’employee card’) is only supposed to show up in one page’s sidebar. Is this what you meant?

I asked the designer about this at one point, and he told me the ‘featured-content-slider’ can NOT display pages. I didn’t attempt to hack it, but changed the plan (which I described in the reply above yours).

I’m pretty new myself, but perhaps my .02 are worth some.. In any case, if something I’m about to say is nonsense, I’m sure more knowledgeable members will correct me..

Have you tried searching for – say – ‘wordpress, theme, magazine’.. ? I suspect you would get many results, and no doubt many of them very good. A couple that come to my mind right away; Synch (and perhaps Sight) by WPShower, and perhaps Oxygen by Devpress would be intersting to you.

As for your list; I think 1&6 are WordPress features, and possible with all themes. 3 is available with many modern themes, or via plugin (Devpress ‘Sliders’ comes to mind) if the theme doesn’t support it out of the box. I don’t have experience with 2&5 so I can’t comment on that.

I registered at Devpress (which I recommend, they’re very quick to reply to support questions).
In short, I found out that by design the ‘featured content slider’ must point to posts, not pages. The alternative was to replace it, and it wasn’t overly complicated.

The solution I used doesn’t feature the thumbnails, so if you need them, you would have to find a different slider plugin.

I used Devpress’ Sliders plugin (which I think is for subscribers only, others sliders might work as well). A good thing about ‘Sliders’ is that its default styling matches Oxygen pretty well. Configuring the plugin is straightforward, but in order to make it work with the theme, you will need to create a new page-template-front.php and add to your child theme (I assume one would be working on a child theme). There you need to replace one line of php code; <?php get_template_part( 'featured-content' ); // Loads the featured-content.php template. ?>, and (if you’re using ‘Sliders’), replace it with <?php echo do_shortcode( '[sliders id="xx"]' ); ?> (where xx is the id number of your slider). If using a different slider plugin, I’m sure the documentation describes which code to use.

To bring it into the slot of the original slider, you’ll need to adjust the css. I can’t remember just how I did it, would have to look it up.

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I seem to remember that the featured image for a post that’s supposed to show in the slider, must be at least 950px wide (not 100% certain about the number, can’t find the document now), otherwise it wouldn’t show. That’s consistent with my trial and error experiment with the WP.com version.
(Update, I was probably reading this, which says 750px. Just note that it refers to the WP.com version)

Now after exporting to self-hosted, I’ve got it to work again using what jcarrio described above, but I suspect that users following that and still not getting the slider, might be using featured images that are too small. Thought it was worth mentioning.

That still doesn’t solve the original question, about how to get pages to show up (which is what got me to this thread). I’ll keep trying and post back if I figure out how.