I am running Vantage Premium with the Meta Slider plugin. As you know, even if the slider image is set to be stretched to fit the width of the home page, the maximum pixels is 1080. I would like to be able to use slider images on the home page with a native resolution of 1920 pixels wide.
Obviously, I’d still want the slider to work properly (ie. be responsive etc.). Hoping it is relatively easy to change!
Many thanks!
Ben
great theme and support btw :)
Hey Ben
Thanks for reaching out.
Mmm, I’m not sure that’s the case. Have you tried setting the slider width to 1920 within Meta Slider? I just tested with 1200 now. If you’re running our full width layout then the slider should set to the entered width.
You can turn off the stretch slide setting at Theme Settings >Home.
If you need 100% width, you can also use Meta Slider > Advanced > 100% Width as an alternative to the Theme Settings stretch option as they work in different ways.
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for your quick reply!
I retried it and am still having the same issue. I actually followed the instructions from here: https://siteorigin.com/vantage-documentation/getting-started/slider/
Those instructions state that the maximum slider image width is 1080 pixels. And so it appears to be :/ It is possible to load a larger image and set the width to 1920 pixels, but the image actually just gets cropped back down to 1080 pixels (of the original image) on the home page, and when i go into the Meta Slider settings, the width in the dialog box has reverted back to 1080 pixels.
I also did try Meta Slider > Advanced > 100%, but while this did cover the width of the screen, it was only displaying 1080 pixels from the original image stretched over the full screen rather than using the whole 1920 pixel content of the original image that I uploaded.
Interesting that you were able to set the image at 1200 when you tried (did it actually display the full 1200 pixels of your image, or did it actually just crop some of it out and stretch the rest?) Perhaps if so there’s a difference in the settings you used (my settings are as per the documentation referred to above). Having looked through the forums before posting, there were some references to the code specifying a 1080 px width, so I was thinking there might be something in there that was holding it back.
Cheers
Ben
That’s a good tutorial for sure but it’s specific to setting up a slider like our demo slider with stretch and overlay.
If you’d like to send through a set of temporary login details I could perhaps login and take a quick look in a bit.
Details for that below:
Hi Ben
Would it be possible for you to create a temporary admin account for us so we can log in and take a look? You can create the account with the following email address:
[email protected]
Just navigate to Users > Add New in your WordPress admin. Enter siteorigin for the username and [email protected] for the email address. Make sure you’ve selected Administrator for the role and enabled the “Send Password” field so we receive the details.
Once we’re finished taking a look, you can delete this account. We’ll let you know when to do that.
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Hi Andrew,
Just sent the email. Currently I have one image in the slider, and it is a native 1080 pixel width.
The first image in the Media Library is an uncropped version of this image which is a native 1920pixel width. You can easily tell whether this image is displaying correctly because if I use this image at the moment most of the text in it gets cut off :)
Cheers
For sure. Give that a try now. I changed the crop setting to disabled.
Seems to have fixed it Andrew :) Woohoo! Thanks again
Super, glad we could help out.
All the best.