Hi @vivianny –

If you don’t put any widgets in the Homepage Top area, nothing should display or take up space.  If you want the slider to take up the full area, I think you can just adjust the Slider width – Appearance>>CBOX Theme Options>>Homepage>>Slider Width – so that it covers that area.  Just remember your slider images will need to be correspondingly large to avoid distortion.

If you are not seeing “Featured Slider” there is probably something wrong with your installation of the theme, I would think.  Nothing is needed to have that menu option show up.  Are you sure you followed up on all the steps to install the theme?  Maybe try uninstalling/reinstalling to see if that helps?

I _think_ I’ve figured this out.  Adjusting the “Slider Width” setting just changes the width of the picture, not the width of the box the picture is in.  _That_ width is in the themes/cbox-theme/templates/homepage-template.php file.  In my case I wanted to make the slider slightly narrower, So I created a child theme and modified that, changing:
<div id="flex-slider-wrap-full" class="column ten"> to:

<div id="flex-slider-wrap-full" class="column nine">
but then the box to the right doesn’t get any bigger, so I had to also change:
<div id="homepage-sidebar-right" class="column <?php if ( $slider ) echo 'six'; else 'sixteen'; ?>">
to:
<div id="homepage-sidebar-right" class="column <?php if ( $slider ) echo 'seven'; else 'sixteen'; ?>">
Hope that helps someone.

• This reply was modified 10 years, 5 months ago by Chris Jordan.
• This reply was modified 10 years, 5 months ago by Chris Jordan.

Hi Sumit @samm8158 –

Thanks for reporting the issue with videos and slider animation.  I have opened up an issue on GitHub for the dev team to take a look.  You can track progress here: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cbox-theme/issues/207

Meanwhile, please note that the slider animation stops if you hover over the slide, and starts again when you move the cursor away from the slide.  But you are right – this is a little disconcerting to a user who isn’t aware and is trying to watch the video in its entirety.

In terms of your first issue, it is always best to choose slider images with the knowledge that the bottom third will be mostly obscured with the overlay.  So if your image has important content at the bottom, you might want to do some image editing.  (I think it is always best to edit the image first to get the size right, and not depend on the built-in scaling.)  When you do this, make sure the slide will look good when the overlay is in place.

You can also fiddle around with the overlay height with CSS and limit your caption content to just a title, for example:

.flex-caption {
height: 45px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
padding-top: 5px;
}

• This reply was modified 10 years, 5 months ago by Scott Voth.