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[jhm707]

Hi,

I’m taking my site live on Monday, and as I try to set it up I am having trouble changing the Post Carousel Display and Post Slider Display settings on published posts. If I click the button to add a post to the slider, it won’t let me remove it later.

Similarly, if the first time I publish a post it is not on the slider, I cannot seem to add it later.

Thank you.

[Prasant Rai]

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[Rue Nel]

Hello There,

Thanks for providing the information. Regretfully it is not working for us. It seems that username is invalid. Please double check it. Meanwhile, please take not that the post carousel and post slider will allow you to showcase your posts in various formats like the Most Commented, Random and Featured. If “Featured” is selected, you can choose which posts you would like to appear in this location in the post meta options. For more details about this setting in the customizer, please check this out: https://community.theme.co/kb/customizer-ethos/

Hope this helps.

[jhm707]

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[Jade]

Hi there,

The post setting for the carousel items are set in the Post Carousel Display. As I have checked Garden Flyover post setting was enabled that’s why it was displaying. I have uncheck it so that you could see the result.

[jhm707]

Hi,

I think I was confusing.

Please note, the Carousel seems fine. The Slider is also turned off (in your example it is also) but as you can see, the post still shows up on the Slider even when it is not selected.

See attachment, thanks so much.

[jhm707]

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[Lely]

Hi There,

Thank you for the screenshots. I think there is a misunderstanding here.
To display the Slider on Blog Index page, we can go to Appearance > Customize > Ethos > Post Slider for Blog. This is currently set to ON. Set it to off if you want to hide the slider. If Post Slider for Blog is set to ON and you have chosen Featured under Display option, we do check those setting Post Slider Display – Blog. It enables that specific post to be included on the slider.

Hope this helps.

[jhm707]

You are not understanding the error.

The posts are NOT chosen in Post Slider Display- Blog. But they ARE showing up on the post slider display. Please look at the image I sent you again. The post, “Garden Flyover” is NOT selected for Post Slider Display-Blog. But it IS showing up in the Post Slider. I have turned it off, it should not be showing, but it is.

How do I deselect a post so that I can REMOVE it from the Post Slider Display? Unchecking the button is not working.

I know the slider is showing, that is OK. But posts that were selected for the Post Slider Display before I don’t want to feature anymore. When I deselect them, they stay on the Post Slider Display.

[Rue Nel]

Hello There,

The current setting will display the most commented posts and then by date. If you want to display selected post items in the slider, I would highly recommend that you select to display “featured” and assign some of the featured posts.

Do you want to display the recent post items instead? If this is the case, please follow the following steps below:
1] Using Notepad or TextEdit or Sublime Text or any text editor, please create a new file in your local machine.
2] Insert the following code into that new file

<?php

// =============================================================================
// VIEWS/ETHOS/_POST-SLIDER.PHP
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Outputs the post slider that appears at the top of the blog.
// =============================================================================

$is_blog    = is_home();
$is_archive = is_category() || is_tag();

if ( $is_blog || $is_archive ) :

  if ( $is_blog ) {
    $info = array( 'blog', NULL, NULL, '_x_ethos_post_slider_blog_display' );
  } elseif ( $is_archive ) {
    $type = ( is_category() ) ? 'cat' : 'tag_id';
    $info = array( 'archive', $type, get_queried_object_id(), '_x_ethos_post_slider_archives_display' );
  }

  $slider_enabled = x_get_option( 'x_ethos_post_slider_' . $info[0] . '_enable' ) == '1';
  $count          = x_get_option( 'x_ethos_post_slider_' . $info[0] . '_count' );
  $display        = x_get_option( 'x_ethos_post_slider_' . $info[0] . '_display' );

  $blog_slider_is_enabled    = $slider_enabled && $is_blog;
  $archive_slider_is_enabled = $slider_enabled && $is_archive;
  $is_enabled                = $blog_slider_is_enabled || $archive_slider_is_enabled;

  switch ( $display ) {
    case 'most-commented' :
      $args = array(
        'post_type'      => 'post',
        'posts_per_page' => $count,
        'orderby'        => 'date',
        'order'          => 'DESC',
        $info[1]         => $info[2]
      );
      break;
    case 'random' :
      $args = array(
        'post_type'      => 'post',
        'posts_per_page' => $count,
        'orderby'        => 'rand',
        $info[1]         => $info[2]
      );
      break;
    case 'featured' :
      $args = array(
        'post_type'      => 'post',
        'posts_per_page' => $count,
        'orderby'        => 'date',
        'meta_key'       => $info[3],
        'meta_value'     => 'on',
        'ignore_sticky_posts'	=> true
      );
      break;
  }

  ?>

  <?php if ( $is_enabled ) : ?>

    <div class="x-flexslider x-post-slider">
      <ul class="x-slides">

        <?php $wp_query = new WP_Query( $args ); ?>

        <?php if ( $wp_query->have_posts() ) : ?>
          <?php while ( $wp_query->have_posts() ) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>

            <li class="x-slide">
              <article <?php post_class( 'x-post-slider-entry' ); ?> style="<?php echo x_ethos_entry_cover_background_image_style(); ?>">
                <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
                  <div class="cover">
                    <div class="middle">
                      <span class="featured-meta"><?php echo x_ethos_post_categories(); ?> / <?php echo get_the_date( 'F j, Y' ); ?></span>
                      <h2 class="h-featured"><span><?php x_the_alternate_title(); ?></span></h2>
                      <span class="featured-view"><?php _e( 'View Post', '__x__' ); ?></span>
                    </div>
                  </div>
                </a>
              </article>
            </li>

          <?php endwhile; ?>
        <?php endif; ?>

        <?php wp_reset_query(); ?>

      </ul>
    </div>

    <script>
      jQuery(window).load(function() {
        jQuery('.x-post-slider').flexslider({
          controlNav   : false,
          selector     : '.x-slides > li',
          prevText     : '<i class="x-icon-chevron-left" data-x-icon=""></i>',
          nextText     : '<i class="x-icon-chevron-right" data-x-icon=""></i>',
          animation    : 'fade',
          smoothHeight : true,
          slideshow    : true
        });
      });
    </script>

  <?php endif; ?>

<?php endif; ?>

3] Save the file named as _post-slider.php
4] Upload this file to your server in the child theme’s folder
wp-content/themes/x-child/framework/views/ethos

Hope this helps.

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