Big Slide Options

Hi – Trying to figure out if there is any configuration where we can use the Big Slide across 2/3 of a 3 column layout? We’ve tried just about everything, various mixes of template settings, page attributes and Visual Composer elements. Screen capture of builder area here. Simply looking for Big Slide at top, 2 columns of content under and sidebar along the right column. Tried both actual sidebar layout and full layout with “Widgetized” Sidebar content element. Right now, area just remains blank and pushes any other content down. If we add a background color to the content block, the color shows, but no Big Slide.

Thanks so much for your time, any suggestions would be appreciated.

For some reason, our slide doesn’t look anything like the demo link above. Is the “IOS Slider” you mentioned the “Slide” option that we can select when adding an element in Visual Composer? Only other options I see are “Big Slide” (which won’t work across 2-column) and Revolution Slider, which I’m not sure can be formatted to display Featured articles with titles (can it?).

Another slide issue we continue to have is that our images are always appearing slightly too small for the area, (screenshot here) so the title and category boxes hang over to the left. Doesn’t seem to matter how large the original image is or even the proportion. I’ve seen references to this in other forum posts but no solution that looks like it applies to us. Would appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks so much!

Hi – We are using version 4 of the theme. I thought the link above with the demo was provided prior to Version 6 release so hoping it is similar. Site is currently at http://www.VenturaClassifieds.com

We’ll review the documentation for Revolution Slider, but were just wondering, based upon your experience with it and your decision to include it in the Newspaper package, is it capable of styling in a similar way to Big Slide and also pull in Featured posts with titles?

Will try regenerate thumbnails after your review and comment. Not clear why we would have to regenerate thumbnails when only original images were uploaded to existing/first-time install of version 4, but would be happy to try. If it works, would we need to regenerate each time we add content to the slide?

Thanks!

Also with regard to IOS Slider for version 4, we would like to remove the category and date blocks over the images, but still allow categories and dates to appear as usual on posts, and dates to appear as they are in the content blocks on the home page. Wondering how to hide the category and date info on the slider only? Thanks!

Custom CSS to hide category/date on slider worked perfectly, thanks so much!

Still having issues with the Featured Photos not displaying at full size. We ran the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin, deleted cache on page and no difference. Viewing on screen not too large (15″ laptop) and images still smaller than column, although they look for a moment when loading as if they will be correct size, then quickly resize themselves to a little too small. Is there a minimum size or any other way to control the issue?

Screenshot here.

Also, we have set the slide to only rotate through 5 posts but it currently is rotating 10 posts. Other content block on page is set to offset 5 posts (start at 6th post) and “Unique Articles” is enabled, in case that matters. Screen here. Any idea why that would be happening and what to do to fix?

Thanks!

Sent, thanks!

Hoping for some feedback on the issue of 10 posts rotating through the slider even though the settings are set for 5? Also seems to be happening with other content blocks. Screenshots linked above. Any ideas?

Thanks!