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Any plan to update Vantage with your new Slider?

By David Briard, 10 years ago. Last reply by Andrew Misplon, 10 years ago.

Hi,

Your new slider (seen in Influence) looks very cool, is there a Vantage theme update in progress with that new feature?

Best regards,

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  1. 10 years, 1 month ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Hi David

    Thanks for taking a look at Influence.

    No plan right now but I’ll mention it to Greg.

    I’ve whipped up a child theme here: https://siteorigin.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/vantage-child-new-slider.zip. Download and install via Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload.

    Once installed go to Appearance > Widgets and add the SiteOrigin Slider to the Slider widget area.

    (Whenever you activate a child theme you do unfortunately need to redo all the Customizer settings and often re-assign the menu)

    We’re a little pushed on time so this might not be perfect. Let me know how it looks in testing and we’ll tweak it from there.

  2. 10 years, 1 month ago David Briard

    Hi Andrew,

    Thank you so much for your fast reply and for the child theme!
    It works great, almost perfect, except two small things:

    1) There is a tiny gap below the slider.
    I can see that it is the 1.5em in the css below but I am not good at css and I am not sure if setting margin to 0px will not break something else in the theme???
    .widget {
    margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;
    }

    2) There is a black dot near the top left corner of the slider.
    I have no idea of to remove it???

    Do you have a little more time to take a look at those issues?
    My website is http://www.davidbriard.com.

    Best regards and thanks again!

  3. 10 years, 1 month ago David Briard

    Sorry, I found a 3rd problem.
    3) The slider is visible everywhere, not only on the homepage.

  4. 10 years, 1 month ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Thanks for working through this with me during a busy period for us. I’ve create a new child theme here:

    https://siteorigin.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/vantage-child-so-slider.zip

    If you want to avoid re-doing Customizer settings then un-zip this one and copy its files into your current child theme, overwriting the style.css, functions.php and header.php already there. I should have solved all three issues.

  5. 10 years, 1 month ago David Briard

    Thanks Andrew,

    It works now :)
    I just had to do a little change in the css because I don’t know why but the slider was half sized and aligned to the right…

    Here my changed css:
    .widget.widget_sow-slider { margin: -0px 0 0!important; list-style:none; }
    I also had to add “list-style:none;” to hide the visible bullet.

    Now its perfect, thanks to your help, and I will remove metaslider which does not look as good as your slider.
    Have a nice day!

  6. 10 years, 1 month ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    In my updated style.css I had:

    .widget.widget_sow-slider { margin: -19px 0 0!important; }

    Sorry if that didn’t work, it seemed ok in my demo. The -19px will get your slider flush with the menu if you want that.
    Thanks for the additional list style note. Glad to hear we made progress.

  7. 10 years, 1 month ago David Briard

    For information, here what happen if margin is -19px
    http://tinyurl.com/la3b5cc
    and live on http://www.davidbriard.com
    In fact it seems that the slider is exactly at the end of the menu… most strange.

  8. 10 years, 1 month ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Ahh ok I see. You need to either list -19px for the top margin OR list-style: none; but not both. I’d go with list-style: none; – here is my setup now:

    Child theme stylesheet:

    /*
 Theme Name:   Vantage Child Theme – SO Slider
 Author:       SiteOrgin
 Template:     vantage
 Version:      1.0.0
*/

@import url(“../vantage/style.css”);

.widget.widget_sow-slider {
	list-style: none; 
	margin: 0!important; 
}

    Child theme header.php file:

    <?php
/**
 * The Header for our theme.
 *
 * Displays all of the <head> section and everything up till <div id="main">
 *
 * @package vantage
 * @since vantage 1.0
 * @license GPL 2.0
 */
?><!DOCTYPE html>
<html <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<head>
	<meta charset="<?php bloginfo( 'charset' ); ?>” />
	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=10" />
	<title><?php wp_title( '|', true, 'right' ); ?></title>
	<link rel="profile" href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11" />
	<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo( 'pingback_url' ); ?>” />
	<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>

<body <?php body_class(); ?>>

<?php do_action('vantage_before_page_wrapper') ?>

<div id="page-wrapper">

	<?php do_action( 'vantage_before_masthead' ); ?>

	<?php get_template_part( 'parts/masthead', apply_filters( 'vantage_masthead_type', siteorigin_setting( 'layout_masthead' ) ) ); ?>

	<?php do_action( 'vantage_after_masthead' ); ?>

	<?php if ( is_front_page() ) {
			if (function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')) {
				dynamic_sidebar('slider');
			}
		}
	?>

	<?php do_action( 'vantage_before_main_container' ); ?>

	<div id="main" class="site-main">
		<div class="full-container">
			<?php do_action( 'vantage_main_top' ); ?>

    Child theme functions.php file:

    <?php

function vantage_child_widgets_init() {
	register_sidebar( array(
		'name' => __( ‘Slider’, ‘vantage’ ),
		‘id’ => ‘slider’,
	) );
}	
add_action( ‘widgets_init’, ‘vantage_child_widgets_init’ );
  9. 10 years, 1 month ago David Briard

    That’s perfect for me :)
    Thanks a lot for the great support!
    Best Regards,

  10. 10 years, 1 month ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Super glad we got that working. This is great reference thread, thanks for asking. All the best.

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