How to get a Responsive Slider on every page in Executive

[Toon61]

Hi all,

Well, the title of this topic says most of it.
How can I get the slider in Executive Theme on every page, or an pages where I want it to appear.

[Susan]

Try Brian's tutorial:

http://www.briangardner.com/welcome-text-widget/

His is for a text widget, but a widget is a widget - you can add a slider in there instead.

It will need some CSS styling, but if you following the styling for your Executive theme, you should be good.

[Brad Dalton]

There's different ways you can do this.

Just tested this locally on the Executive theme.

Here's one method which uses the existing home-slider widget and styling:

Simply copy this PHP from the view raw link and paste it at the end of your child themes functions.php file using a text editor like Notepad++.

Or you could add another widget using Susan's solution.

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[Susan]

Thanks, Brad for chiming in - I'm bookmarking this! 🙂

[Brad Dalton]

No worries Susan. I tested a few solutions for this question and thought this would be a good one as it uses existing CSS and widget PHP code and simply extends the home-slider sitewide.

On top of this, you can also modify the conditional tag if you don't want the slider displaying on specific pages and also change the hook position.

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[Toon61]

Thanks Brad and Susan.

But the link Susan gave for Brian's tutorial is dead.
Never mind, I used the code Brad put in his reply.
One question though, the slider now appears on every page, but is there a way to change the images. Now it shows the same images as on the homepage, but I really would like to show other images on other pages.
Is this possible with this slider, or do I need another slider to accomplish this.
Or is there a way to do this with some sort of shortcode?

Sorry for all these questions, but I'm pretty new/fresh to all of this.

[Susan]

As far as I am aware, it's not possible to do that with the Genesis Responsive Slider.

You should take a look at Soliloquy (the "lite" version is free) - it allows you to have multiple sliders in multiple locations - I really like this one! (I have the full version)

[Toon61]

Susan

Thanks for the reply.
I hope that Soliloquy serves my needs, and as far as I can see/read, I think it does.
Thank you for pointing this one out.
I'll let you know if it worked for me.

[Toon61]

@Susan,
I finally get it all to work the way I want it.
But, I didn't use Soliloquy, but Meta Slider instead (also free and I'm on a budget...).

[Susan]

I'm glad you got it to work. I'll close this thread as "resolved". 🙂

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