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haydndup
Egg
Posts: 9
Hi there,
From what I understand, the top slider cycles through pages (or subpages), and the bottom slider cycles through posts. Is there any way to change that?
I want to use the larger top slider to cycle through posts, and the smaller bottom slider to cycle through the pages.
Thanks in advance!
Guru Frog
Frog
Posts: 57
Hi haydndup,
Sorry for the late response, it's been incredibly busy in the pond at the moment. We build this theme to specifically work with pages in the slider and not posts, however, if you look in the index.php file on line 20 where the query_posts() function is, you'll see that it has post_type=page and you could normally change this to post_type=post instead to reference posts. The problem here is that the slides are not just stand-a-lone pages, but actually pages that are children of a chosen parent page (you choose this under DESIGN on the eFrog Options Panel), and this complicates the matter over and above what this forum is here for.
This is something that we could consider rolling out as a future update though, so thank you for the suggestion.
haydndup
Egg
Posts: 9
Hi,
No worries, I worked around the issue and then ended up using pages anyway.
I thought I'd share a change that I made; I didn't like that the top slider ordered the pages by date, so I modified the query code.
I changed:
query_posts('post_type=page&post_parent='.get_option('efrog_slider_id'));
To:
$args=array(
'post_parent' => get_option('efrog_slider_id'),
'order'=>'ASC',
'orderby'=> 'menu_order',
'post_type' => 'page',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'posts_per_page' => 100
);
query_posts($args);
That allowed me to manually set the order that the pages appeared in the scroller using the page's order field.
Another change that I might make is convert the bottom slider to use pages. I am currently using it to showcase our sponsors by putting each sponsor in a post and marking it with the "Sponsored" category (see http://www.ujsolar.co.za/). However, this has some problems because the sponsors now show up with the blog posts which I don't want.
Guru Frog
Frog
Posts: 57
Hey @haydndup
I love how you went in a little circle and came back to using pages but with a different order, the power of being able to code! We need more eFrog users who go that extra mile to customize our themes to make them their own. We'll definitely consider this feedback for some additional eFrog options, our aim is to obviously give you all the power possible without having to put that guru coder cap on :D
I really like the direction UJ Solar is going in, I'll keep an eye on it for our next showcase post!
haydndup
Egg
Posts: 9
Hi hi,
Thanks for the feedback. I've modified the bottom slider now so that it also uses pages, and then made all pages children of either "Content" or "Sponsors". The top slider now displays content as it did in the past, and the bottom slider shows each of the sponsors' pages. The blog is now completely separate from the rest of the content.
The site is mostly done now, just waiting for some more content to come in (mostly from the sponsors themselves). Thanks for the awesome theme, the team really loves it!
Guru Frog
Frog
Posts: 57
Hey haydndup,
I'm really looking forward to seeing the final product! We love nothing more than seeing our themes evolve, good man!
George will be so proud :)