[michelleoswell]

That works. Switched it to hide the medium-sized image just so I could investigate the options, but now I’ve got the idea.

Thanks.

[michelleoswell]

Hi Melanie,

Sorry, I got sidetracked with renovations in my building! Simply saying that custom css could handle background images set me on the right track and I did a little more digging into the page’s css to find the right classes. Then it was simply a matter of setting the background image in the page header for the category’s class in the theme stylesheet. And since individual posts can have headers set within the post settings, I think I’m set with this.

[michelleoswell]

Sure, it’s http://library.curtis.edu/archives/. If you look at the main text on the page, what I’m calling the “tab” is the title of each individual section of the tour (so Mission, Collections, Gifts & Bequests, etc).

[michelleoswell]

The first option I might be able to figure out – I’ve got just enough knowledge of php to be dangerous. 🙂

[michelleoswell]

Sure, the category is a custom category called “Notes from the Archive.” But since this is a blog post category that has an auto-page created for the category, how would I make it so the breadcrumb links to the custom page rather than the auto-created page for the category (http://library.curtis.edu/category/notes-from-the-archives/)?

[michelleoswell]

Hi Ed, sorry, I can’t. Our IT people have the server locked down while we’re in production. I can tell you that it’s in a sidebar, and the width of the box is coming in at 250 pixels. I’ve upped it to 350 in Firebug and it makes no difference. The code that’s being produced is as follows:

<li class="slide" data-thumb="http://library.curtis.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/37_312-Gary-Graffman-and-Isabelle-Vengerova-245x300.jpg" style="width: 100%; float: left; margin-right: -100%; position: relative; display: none;">
<div class="layout-text-bottom overlay-none">

<div class="slide-excerpt">
<h2 class="slide-title">
New posting
</h2>
</div>
</div>


You can see that the slide excerpt class is producing only the title – there’s no other text coming through.

[michelleoswell]

Any idea when this might be? My site is supposed to go live in a month, and this feature is rather important.

[michelleoswell]

No, I can change classes. For example, in my tabbed section I was able to take the class .row, add my custom class .roundedbox, and change the background-color thusly:

.roundedbox .row {
background-color: #AAA095;
}

Elsewhere in the tabbed section, this was successful:

.roundedbox .ui-corner-bottom {
border: 1px none;
border-radius: 0 5px 5px 5px !important;
}

[michelleoswell]

Hi thewoosh,

It works for me sometimes, and other times it doesn’t. In this case, I just tried adding my custom css to the div above the one I thought I should be modifying, and it seems to have worked.

[michelleoswell]

Argh – and I hate to add on more to this, but the swift framework shortcode editor button (that little red button that I see in the documentation) isn’t on my editor. I have very few plugins active (Breadcrumb NavXT, COntact Form 7, Revolution Slider, and WP Twitter), and deactivating them doesn’t seem to make a difference.

[michelleoswell]

Okay – I figured out that the thumbnail was attached to the featured image rather than the “thumbnail” function in the post, but I still can’t figure out how to add the excerpt to the slider. I’ve tried show_excerpt=”yes” in the shortcode, but it doesn’t work. I don’t see this in the list of shortcodes in my editor, so I’m simply copying what is listed on the example. Is there somewhere a list of options for that shortcode?

[michelleoswell]

Thanks Cosmin, I’ve seen that shortcode and tried to use it, but that provides simply an image with the post title. I’m looking to get the image with at least an excerpt of the text below, and nowhere in the documentation can I find out what the options are with the shortcode. Plus, even just the shortcode examples given aren’t really displaying well on my page.

I’m attaching a picture that shows two things: 1. The “recent posts” element, which is displaying correctly, and 2. a textbox using the slider shortcode which isn’t working. It’s got one post name right on top of the other with no image shown.

Thanks for your help.