Big Slide With Background Editing

Hello to All,

Does anyone know how to tame the beast that is the ‘Big Slide’? I have imported demo data to help me get started and familiar with the template. I have figured out how to edit the homepage, but I cannot figure out how to edit the ‘Big Slide’ element. I have deleted old post, changed, dates and turned some into drafts and private to no avail. It just removes the post from the element, but it does not replace it with anything.

Where do I go to edit the ‘Big Slide’?

Thank you.

I am in the same boat. The Big Slide is a mystery, and I am tired of wasting my time with it. Let us hope this forum provides assistance.

If you want a more flexible big slider or background don’t use the template Homepage with the BG and article list but use the Homepage with just article list. Then insert the big slider as an element from the Visual Composer on top of the page then if you want background Go to > Row Settings of the Big Slide and select Background then > Select Image Paralax and the most important thing is to select Maximum Full Width under Background Override. If you want to adjust the space between the slider and menu use a Spacer / Gap.

The other thing you can use is a Revolution Slider which comes with the theme and it is fully customizable like I did here – http://www.toppcnews.com.

• This reply was modified 11 years by kovachx.

Thanks for your prompt reply. –Jim

Thank you, I am going to try it now.

Okay, it works, but not exactly as it does in the demo. In this case, there is a large 20px gap between the notorious ‘b.i.g. slide’ and the menu above, just like it is shown the second image. I tried 37 combinations using all the row setting options. Most just broke the theme. I was able to get parallax to work, but the gap remains.

It would be too easy to just allow a way to edit the ‘big slide’ that is part of the template.

Way too easy.

It baffles me why that would be an option, but yet there is no way to edit it. It’s just there without any way to edit it. What is the point?

Looks like I am going on without this feature. Let’s see what else is included and not editable.

As I said use the spacer / gap tool and it will allows you increase decrease the gap.

Thank you for the response, but again, just like your example, the gap remains between the menu and the big slide with a background. Maybe you can post screenshots of your settings that you are using to not have the gap as the setting described only get me so far.

Here are the settings I used, to include the spacer/gap tool. I tried as posted (45px) and I went up and down the scale to no avail. The spacer/gap tool only adjusts the space between the top of the row component and the included component (big slide). This does not change the gap between the menu and the row. Furthermore, I went as far as to edit the row and column settings CSS to “0” for padding, etc.

The results are the same. I even switched to using a solid color and the gap sill remains. Again, this is simply not intuitive.