I am creating a slider on a page to show customer testimonials. I’ve stored the testimonials as posts using the type quote and want to use a Revolution Slider template to pull this information and show in the slider. To do this I need to know what ‘custom meta tags’ to use in the slider for ‘The Quote’ and ‘Citation’. Please can you tell me what I should use? I believe this is the format required %meta:somemegatag% if I’m to add this in the same way as other post data using the Slider template. Thanks for your help!

David.

Thanks for writing in!

Revolution slider does not support post format query, but it does support category filter. You may consider using category for your quotes.

1. Create revolution slider templates, then add one slide with post information.
(with the latest rev. slider, you could use meta tags in layer. _x_quote_quote and _x_quote_cite)
2. Create revolution slider with source type as posts, then select the category and then select the slider template you created.

Sliders

Hope this helps.

Also, your example was missing the CSS etc to make it look pretty, but I dug this up:

<style type=”text/css”>
.bqstart {
float: left;
height: 45px;
margin-top: 3px;
padding-top: 45px;
margin-bottom: -50px;
font-size: 700%;
color: #FF0000;
font-family:Arial;
}

.bqend {
float: right;
height: 25px;
padding-top:80px;
font-size: 700%;
color: #FF0000;
font-family:Arial;
}
blockquote {
max-width:80%;
}
.citation {
font-size:smaller;
float:right;
clear:both;
}
</style>

<span class=”bqstart”>“</span>%meta:_x_quote_quote%<span class=”bqend”>”</span>

<div class=”citation”>- %meta:_x_quote_cite%</div>

Trying to include the featured image with the quote.

Thank you for writing in!

You can try using _x_ethos_index_featured_post_layout for featured image.

Thanks!

Also, if I set a featured image for a “Quote” type post, the whole background of the image is filled with the featured image, with size & positioning CSS applied directly to the image element. Where can I change the size & position of the featured image?

Just to fill you in, I’m really just trying to make a quote slider that shows the photo of the person being quoted on the left of the quote itself.

Featured will be pick by the slider as background image and not part of meta information. Featured image is attachment (another post type for media). So, you can’t use it as meta. You can only use the reserved post’s string placeholders provided by the rev. slider. And we have no control over that 🙂

In short, what you’re trying to do is impossible. But, you can always use some altyernative 🙂

Go to “Screen Options” on top of your created post/quote and enable custom field. Then go to custom field section and add new field with name of x_featured_image and value as image url ( eg. http://domain.com/featured-image.jpg ). Then go back to your slider template and add new layer (not image layer), then insert html content with meta like this.

<img src="%meta:x_featured_image%" />

Hope this helps 🙂