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Hello, I could sure use your help with a couple of issues in focus premium.
1. How can I remove the white padding between the body and footer?
2. How can I create a text box for a quote like Lorenzo has on his home page here: http://www.lorenzomarzocca.com/ ?
Thank you.
I got the footer margin figured out.
Hi jks
Lorenzo is using a child theme and has created a custom home page setup to achieve the slider in conjunction with the box in question.
Here is a child theme to help:
https://siteorigin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/focus-child-custom-home.zip
Download the zip and install from Appearance > Themes > Add New: Upload Theme.
Activate and then to go to Appearance > Menus and reset your menu location setting.
Go to Pages > Add New and create a page called Home.
Edit the page and select a page template called “Custom Home” in the right column.
Go to Settings > Reading and set Home as your static home page.
You can now go to back to Pages > Home and use our Page Builder plugin on that page. What we’ve done, basically, is allow you to use Page Builder on the home page and still keep the home slider. That isn’t possible without this child theme.
Thank you Andrew, this is a big help.
How can I set up a featured video page like Lorenzo has that functions like the default home page did before I used the child theme?
Hi :) Thanks for the wait.
With the child theme I sent you should still get the slider. To get the slider to work add each video as a post and ensure each post has a featured image added:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/featured-images/
Perhaps you can explain a bit further and I’ll try assist.
I’m sorry I wasn’t clear Andrew. Your help with the child page got my home page to be what I wanted. Now I’m wanting to set up another page that has the slider as well as the thumbnails of the featured videos just like Lorenzo has here: http://www.lorenzomarzocca.com/ as his featured video page. Essentially it looks like he has the custom home page as home and has somehow utilized the default home page for his second page.
Here we go:
https://siteorigin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/focus-child-custom-home-slider-archive.zip
Try deleting the previous child theme and using that one instead. The custom home page template will be the same. The new child theme does the following:
1. Go to Posts > Categories and create a category called “Featured”, the slug must be “featured”.
2. Add and posts you want to appear on your Featured page to the Featured post category.
3. Add it to your menu by adding a custom link:
http://yourdomain.com/category/featured/
There are a few ways we could do this. The above is one. Let us know how that works for you.
The slider on the Featured category page will only pull posts from the Feature category.
Should I create a page of some kind?
That’s not necessary, no. If you take a look in our updated child theme you’ll see a file category-featured.php. It just looks for a category with the slug “featured”.
Go to Settings > Permalinks and make sure your have it saved with the Post Name radio button selected.
Then go to Posts > Categories and create a category as I mentioned above. Add posts to that category that you want to feature.
Your page will appear at:
http://yourdomain.com/category/featured/
We’re getting close, I have the page showing but it doesn’t have the slider.
It doesn’t look like you’re using the updated child theme I sent. Can you see it above? If you’re comfortable working on your server via FTP you can just replace the child theme folder with the new one. If not, switch to Focus premium, delete Focus child and install the new child theme.
That worked Andrew, thank you!
I hope this is the last time I’ll have to bother you, but now everything has expanded. I’ve tried to work with the padding but haven’t been able to get the appearance back the way it was.
Found it Andrew. Thank you for your fantastic help.
Jim
For sure :) Glad to hear you’re making progress. If anything else comes up, let me know :)
Cheers for now.
And I’m back…
I’m getting a narrow white margin where my Archives page title should be.
http://www.oneamazingperson.com/wp/category/uncategorized/
You can try targeting the following rule in Custom CSS:
#page { background: ; }Insert your background color where I’ve left a space.
Thank you Andrew, is there any way to change this page’s title to anything other than uncategorized?
You don’t need to use this page. This is just the page for posts assigned to the category “Uncategorized”. If you edit each post and in the right column, disable the Uncategorized checkbox then no posts will appear here.
The title for archive pages is controlled from archive.php. You can copy archive.php from your parent focus folder to the focus child theme folder. Then, on line 15 you can edit:
<?php wp_title(' ') ?>If you want you can remove the entire title block:
<h2 class="archive-title"> <?php wp_title(' ') ?> </h2>