Whitespace Pro home page question

[lwharris]

Some of my blogs feature sliders & videos & they are not showing up on the homepage. I also want to put my contact form in one of the boxes & it doesn't display, either.

http://madtechskills.com/

[lwharris]

Still can't get this to work. The slider displays on the individual post page, but not on the home page. Some things I've tried that don't work:

<?php
echo do_shortcode('[nivoslider id="142"]');
?> 

[nivoslider id="142"]
`

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[Webmaster]

Hi -

If you are adding the slider to a widget area, try doing it using a shortcode widget instead of a text widget:

Shortcode Widget

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[lwharris]

Thanks for the suggestion, but that didn't work either. I didn't know about that kind of widget, though, so always good to learn something new.

[Christoph]

Hi,

WordPress strips out all markup (code) in the automatic excerpts.

You can try using the manual excerpts underneath the text editor (you might have to "activate" them under screen options)
or maybe something in these posts can help:

wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts-remove-html-can-i-reverse-that
wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/141125/allow-html-in-excerpt

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[Derek]

What slider plugin are you using. I'm using the Genesis Responsive slider on my blog (Same theme as yours)

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[lwharris]

Sorry I've been away for so long. But I haven't forgotten this thread. 🙂

I submitted a ticket & with permission, am posting the response I received:

The Whitespace Pro theme has posts and only posts showing in the grid. It is not a widget area.

The slider only works in a widget area. Thus, it will not show a slider where the posts are.

There is a welcome widget area you could use for the slider.

The post grid just shows post excerpts. Excerpts as a rule in WordPress do not show formatting or embeds.

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