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#1 saplets

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Posted 03 January 2011 - 05:22 AM

Hello,

I need to add a slideshow displaying the latest updates and announcements on my

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in a box.

I'm using the Smooth Slider plugin to generate the slideshow. However when i include the shortcode for the slideshow in the box content, the display comes out oddly placed.

Please help me with the correct display of the slideshow. I need neither a title nor a thumbnail inside the box. The entire space should be utilized for the slideshow.

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Posted 03 January 2011 - 07:14 AM

Anurag - Could you give us a link to the page with the box, please?

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Posted 04 January 2011 - 05:16 AM

Hello Kate,

The website is

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. Had mentioned the same in my previous post as well.

Thanks!

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Posted 04 January 2011 - 01:46 PM

@Anurag You sure did, my apologies... I need to read more carefully! ;) I'll take a look. EDIT: Ah, I know why I said that... I just visited the site: all I see is a countdown on the homepage. That doesn't sound like what you're referring to, thus why I asked for the link to the page with the box. Or, is this the same page?

#5 saplets

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Posted 05 January 2011 - 09:03 AM

@Kate I'm sorry, it was an error on my part. Have locked the site with S2Member till it goes live. Will unlock it for today, so that you could guide me with the problem. :)

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Posted 05 January 2011 - 01:41 PM

Okay, I can see it now... It doesn't look like there's anything in the slideshow right now. I'm also not sure what you want to do with positioning... Right now it appears to be in the middle of the box. Let us know...

#7 saplets

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Posted 05 January 2011 - 01:56 PM

@Kate I want the slideshow to cover the entire dimensions of the box it is in (with no border). Can that be made possible? I want neither the box title nor the thumbnail for this specific box. Could you please guide me on how to do that? Also, i've added some demo slides in the slideshow so that you get a better idea. Thanks!

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Posted 05 January 2011 - 02:18 PM

@Anurag Currently I don't see the box title or thumbnail, so I think you're good on that. As for the dimensions, couldn't you use negative margins? Something like this:

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Posted 05 January 2011 - 02:23 PM

@Kate Did what you said, but the slider itself is smaller than the box dimensions. Been trying to match the slider's dimensions to that of the box, but no luck yet! :(

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Posted 05 January 2011 - 02:45 PM

Got it!! All i had to do was enable a certain function in the Slider Options to get rid of the Slide Title! No luck with the positioning though. Need it to match the exact dimensions of the box.

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Posted 05 January 2011 - 02:56 PM

Hey! Almost there!! Could you please tell me how to reduce the padding for a specific box?? If i change the CSS property in Firebug, it makes changes to all Boxes on the page, as the same class is called for all boxes. Thanks!

#12 Kate

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Posted 05 January 2011 - 02:59 PM

@Anurag Unfortunately they don't have unique ids so you can't change just one box (without some PHP hacking).

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Posted 05 January 2011 - 04:51 PM

@Kate Ok :( Would that be considered in the next theme update??

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Posted 05 January 2011 - 07:29 PM

More CSS control over the featured custom types would be a good idea




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