marquis on main page –

Hi Shane

Thanks for your support.

Under Appearance > Theme Settings > Slider you can control which category the slider pulls it’s posts from. So you could perhaps create a unique category and assign a single post to that category.

The built in Focus functionality is unfortunately not very customisable. It’s great if you want what the demo delivers but unfortunately gets limited quite fast.

(Moving forward perhaps just refer to the slider as a slider and the content underneath that as a post loop, marquis isn’t a term I really see used in this kind of field so it can be confusing – don’t mean to be difficult).

Here is a child theme: https://siteorigin.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/focus-child-home-query-posts.zip

Install via Appearance > Themes > Add New: Upload Theme. Then go to Appearance > Editor and edit index.php. See my query_posts there. I’m excluding a category by it’s ID from the post loop that you see below the slider. This opens up many more options if you check: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts.

So to confirm I’m doing this in aid of your second idea which was:

“can i make a post invisible … (not part of the main page grid)- but still show up in the marquis grid – showcasing that one piece of selected media content.”

Give this a go and see how it works out. Activating a child theme might require you to re-assign the menu position from Appearance > Menus.

Ahh sorry about that.

Your second suggestion was to have a post in the slider but one that was hidden from view in the home page post loop (post grid). So what I did was create a new home page template and put that in a child theme so it’s safe from upgrade. All the child theme does is load up this one file we’ve placed in it. Otherwise it loads everything else from the parent theme being Focus. The one change I made was to add the ability to exclude a post category. So you could now exclude posts from the home page grid, or even one post if there was only one post in a category, by editing index.php via Appearance > Editor with the child theme installed.

This is all I’ve added:

query_posts( 'cat=-3' );

That says, exclude posts from category ID 3. You’d change that to suit your own needs. You can find a category ID by going to Posts > Categories and clicking on a category, the ID is in the url.

That little piece of code query_posts has many options, I posted this link in case you wanted to check them out: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts

Let me know if this makes any more sense.

Give it a try and see how it goes.

1. Download it to your desktop.
2. Install via Appearance > Themes > Add New: Upload Theme
3. Edit the category being excluded or categories being excluded at Appearance > Editor: index.php

Ahh no sorry you’ve missed me here. Your second idea was to exclude a post from the home page grid, that’s all I’ve done here. You could do this, create a category and assign one post to it, use that for the slider, then exclude that category from the home page grid, then it won’t show up there.

Hope you with me. Give it a try and you’ll see it in action, it’ll make more sense then.

When you upload a child theme you’ll lose anything set in the Customizer. Head to Appearance > Customizer and perhaps check the background color setting there.

If the Custom CSS you used was placed under Appearance > Custom CSS in the parent theme then it should be applied to the child theme. Did you perhaps edit style.css in the parent theme?

Please send a temporary set of login details to [email protected] and include a link back to this thread. I’ll take a look as soon as possible. Thanks.