[jchick]

I have an update - unfortunately it didn't really work. While the posts are showing excerpts now, they are not showing the manual excerpts text that was entered when the post was created - it's just showing the first 300 characters of the post. Is there any way to get the manual excerpt to show?

[jchick]

That worked like a charm! Thank you both for your help. Much appreciated!

[jchick]

HI Susan,
I just did and still no luck.
John

[jchick]

Anyone?

[jchick]

Can anyone help with this?

[jchick]

I had post content set. When I changed it to excerpts the issue was fixed. Thanks for your help Sridhar!

[jchick]

That worked! Thanks so much for your help, Andrea.

[jchick]

I have tried that and it didn't work. Thanks, though.

[jchick]

Can anyone help with this?

[jchick]

Hi Brad,
How do I get the slider to you? I'll send it right over.
John

[jchick]

Hi Brad,
Thanks for your patience with this. I deleted the page named "home-2". I don't see my actual homepage anywhere in the pages listing in my WP dashboard. It's not listed in my menu section of the dashboard, either. I think the theme creates the link automatically for the nav menu.

I tried the first code you sent and got this error message:

I want to try the second code you sent but I don't know the page id of my homepage because I can't find it in the pages section of my WP dashboard.

John

[jchick]

Hi Brad,

Thanks for your help -again. Much appreciated. I think I figured out the issue but I don't know how to fix it. When I look at my pages in the WP dashboard I see a page called "HOME", but the page slug is "home-2". I may have duplicated the homepage for some reason a few months ago and forgotten about it. If I view home-2 I can see the slider.

Of course, I want it to show up on the sites real homepage, but I don't see that page anywhere in my WP dashboard. I tried deleting home-2 to see if the slider would appear on the main homepage but that didn't work.

John

[jchick]

Thanks, Brad. The layout extra plugin worked perfectly. I really appreciate all your help.

[jchick]

That worked! Thanks! Now, is there any way to get the sidebar on my homepage?

[jchick]

I'm not sure about the php code. All I have is this documentation from the easingslider pro website:

If you wish to display a slideshow within your theme, you must use the PHP function. Shortcodes are not supported within theme files. Using the PHP function is easy. Simply insert the code below into the theme file you wish to display a slideshow in. Again, don’t forget to replace the “1″ with the ID of the slideshow you wish to display.

<?php if ( function_exists('easingsliderpro') ) { easingsliderpro( 1 ); } ?>

I found it on this page: http://easingslider.com/docs/displaying-slideshows/

[jchick]

Still no luck. Screenshot attached.
http://websitesbycreation.com/beecrafty2.png

[jchick]

Here's a link to a screenshot of what I did in the editor:
http://websitesbycreation.com/beecraftycode.png

[jchick]

Hi Brad,
That didn't work, either. I really appreciate your help with this.
John

[jchick]

Yes, I've created a slideshow and added images.

[jchick]

I used this snippet:
`add_action('genesis_before_loop', 'display_slider_before_posts_home');
/**
* @author Brad Dalton - WP Sites
* @example http://wpsites.net/web-design/image-slider-home-page-only/
*/
function display_slider_before_posts_home() {
if ( is_front_page() && function_exists('easing_slider') ) {
easing_slider();

}

}

That's not working for some reason. Is it because I'm using the blog template for the homepage?

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