Home Page Formatting

[Donald]

I am struggling with trying to format the front page. I would like to format 2 things and cannot figure out how to di it:

1. Adjust the height of the slider because it appears much too large on desktops, kn my view; and

2, I want to eliminate the title of the page on the home page, but when I do usingg display:none css, there is a huge gap between the bottom of the slider and the text. If I add additional text or widget, there is a huge gap. If I choose to display the page title, there is a huge gap between the bottom of the title and the subsequent item, whether it be text or widget, or whatever. I would like to format these elements according to my wishes. How do I do that?

[Alyssa]

@don4law sorry for the delay I was having trouble accessing my dev computer remotely.
1) Add this to functions.php in your child theme:
add_image_size('buddyboss_slides', 1040, 400, true);
Change 400 to whatever height you want the slides to be. NOTE: You will need to delete your current slides from WP Media and reupload them to get them to resize.

2) This is a bit ambiguous since you can literally set your home page to be any page on your site. But instead of targeting the h1 tag try targeting this class: .page-header or simply header (non-class, just straight)

[Duc Anh]

I added that to the functions.php file, deleted all slides and uploaded new ones. But still 400px height, but does not work. Do you know why?

[Alyssa]

@duca24 what did you change the new value to? You need to change the 400 in the above code to whatever you want it to be.

[Duc Anh]

Please check my attached picture, I changed it to 200

[Alyssa]

@duca24 did you just delete them from the Slide Post, via FTP, or via WordPress Media?

[Duc Anh]

Hi I just delete them from the Slide post. Where should I delete them? FTP?

[Alyssa]

@duca24 delete them from Dashboard>Media>Library

[Duc Anh]

@tjchester I deleted all the files from the Media libary. It is still 400px height?

Why?

[Alyssa]

@duca24 try deleting the files from FTP as well. Or at least verify the files are deleted by checking FTP.

[Duc Anh]

I deleted it Media, form the slides and checked FTP, everything deleted.

The slide dimensions are still saying 400 height.

Would you recommend to use Meta Slider instead?

[Alyssa]

@duca24 sorry it appears the code is executing after the functions.php file I have tested this code to work properly:

function alt_buddyboss_setup()
{
add_image_size('buddyboss_slides', 1040, 200, true);
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'alt_buddyboss_setup', 999 );

[Duc Anh]

Thank you it worked out finally 😀 Great support!!

[Alyssa]

Great news, thanks!

[Jean-Pierre Michaud]

… i would vote/request that the slider height become a setting, i would prefer to have it on something else than 400px myself as well… 🙂