(Modern Blogger Pro) Genesis Responsive Slider

[Visitodo]

Hi all,
I recently activated Modern Blogger theme for my Travel blog http://www.visitodo.com.
I want to put a slider on the homepage under the main header and before my blog posts.
I want the slider to show 4 or 5 blog posts of my choice.
However I can not get it to appear.
I have filled out the Genesis Responsive slider settings.
when i go to widgets, i drag to Slider Widget as i do not have a Home- Slider option available.
Can anyone point me in the right direction please?
Thanks in advance

http://www.visitodo.com

[Brad Dalton]

You will need to add a new widget after the header

You can also add the

if( is_front_page())

conditional tag after the function name in the code.

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[Susan]

This is a question which you can ask on the Pretty Darn Cute Design Support Forum: https://prettydarncute.com/forum-index/

Drag the Genesis Responsive Slider to your "Slider Widget" (Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets > Slider Widget

Susan
Pretty Darn Cute Design Theme Support Admin

[Visitodo]

Hi Everyone
thanks for your messages. I tried both the suggestions but cannot see the widget with the imagines and preview of the selected posts in the settings. Basically I would like to have a box with images of a few posts, when the readers click on it they can read the posts. The images slides after few seconds.

I tried boih the suggestions I also changed the functions.phd iin this way

/** Ad Space Widget Area */
add_action( 'genesis_before_loop', 'adspace_before_loop' );
function adspace_before_loop() {
if ( is_page() ) {
return;
}
genesis_widget_area( 'adspace', array(
'before' => '<div class="adspace">',
'after' => '</div>',
) );

}

add_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'modernbloggerpro_after_entry_widget' );
function modernbloggerpro_after_entry_widget() {

if ( ! is_singular( 'post' ) )
return;

genesis_widget_area( 'after-entry', array(
'before' => '<div class="after-entry widget-area"><div class="wrap">',
'after' => '</div></div>',
) );

add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'add_genesis_widget_area' );
function add_genesis_widget_area() {
genesis_widget_area( 'custom-widget', array(
'before' => '<div class="custom-widget widget-area">',
'after' => '</div>',
) );

}

}

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'custom-widget',
'name' => __( 'Custom Widget', 'genesis' ),
'description' => __( 'Custom Widget Area', 'childtheme' ),
) );

i'm not an expert at all in web programming.

please help !!!

[Susan]

I tried both the suggestions but cannot see the widget with the imagines and preview of the selected posts in the settings

The Modern Blogger Pro theme comes built in with the slider widget. If you are NOT seeing the widget in your dashboard per my screenshot above, then please send me an email ([email protected]) with your site's user name and password, so I can troubleshoot further.

There is NO need to add in additional code to your site to add a slider widget; it's already there in your functions.php file:

You can see the slider in action on my demo site (here)

Official theme support for the Modern Blogger Pro theme is provided here: https://prettydarncute.com/forum-index/

Susan

[Brad Dalton]

No need to add any code. My bad. Got mixed up about the theme you're using.

Please follow Susan's instructions as a widget is already built into your theme so its very easy.

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[Visitodo]

Hi all,
I have the slider widget on my dashboard. I dragged into it the génesis responsive slider too as fromthe instructions. But still can't see any box with the preview posts slider on my home page.
Is it posible I'm doing any mistake with the settings of the plugin?
thanks

[Visitodo]

Hi all,

sorry I finally made it! Thanks a lot!
Now there is only a small details to fix. The pictures of post in the slider widget dont' fill completely the space of the box, how xan i fix it for now and the future?
thanks a lot-!

[Susan]

The demo uses a slider setting of 700px by 400px. Once you have the slider set to that size, run the regenerate thumbnails plugin.

The slider will "resize" larger images to fit into the slider. It will *not* resize smaller images. Make sure that each of your images in the slider is an appropriate size.

[Visitodo]

Hi Susan,

I installed the plug in, and run it to resize all the images. But I still have a problema with the images in the slider. The height of most of them is shorter tan the slider widget box.
I also checked the image dimensión and it looks like they are big enough to me. Sone are 800*600 in the original dimensión, but don't fit the box. I would like to understand what should i do in iorder to fix this problema because it doesn't look nice.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

[Susan]

It looks like most of your images are 920px by 400px. If you have a slider widget that is set to 700px wide, then an image which is 920px will have the width reduced to fit into 700px. This means that an image which is 400px high will then reduce in size to 700px by (approx.) 300px.

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