Hi there,
I really love this theme you guys created, and I’m hoping you can help me out with something. I’d like to set up a Big Slide Module on my homepage, but instead of displaying posts within it, I would like it to display static pages on the site that do not change. This way, I can present important information to my site visitor without worrying that it will be lost if I add content elsewhere.
I’ve been looking around in Visual Composer but I can’t seem to find a way to do this. It only offers “categories” for posts and whatnot, but I want to be very specific about what pages I feature in the Big slide and the other elements in the module.
Hopefully there is a simple solution to this. Please let me know. Thank you!
I think somebody else did this awhile back, but the theme (and, well, WordPress), don’t work this way by default. I’m not sure how you would modify that to load “specific” posts within the loop, although one might imagine it could be done by “page order number” and you could then set the order on each page, to have one be the main, then second, then third, etc.
I know somebody else asked about this over the past year, but you’d have to suffer the search tool, and most people don’t bother to “tag” their posts to help finding stuff easier.
Hi,
You have this option in big slider settings panel which you can try: http://screencast.com/t/wuA0b7xfNA3 but please note the the slider was designed to work with posts and using pages with it could cause issues or may need additional customization.
I also suggest you try top find a plugin for this.
Thanks
Hi Lucian,
Thanks for the clarification. Is there a way to display specific pages in a specific order? I can’t find any documentation about these settings and for non-tech people like me, the descriptions in the settings panel are confusing.
You can set the order of pages on each page when you create/edit it … e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 … and most “loops” offer option of choosing either pages by alpha name (A-Z), or the order number. I suspect you will need to set the order number. I do this whenever using pages in a widget, so that I get stuff in the right order (e.g., privacy at the end not the top). So, haven’t checked but I bet with the VC module it would do page by numerical order which you set right side of each “page.” 🙂
Hi,
@mjk234 I suggest you try Chris solution for this as you would need to make additional customization or insert hard coded filter for page post type as I’ve mentioned before the sort options and filters.. all work with ‘posts’ only for other ‘post types’ different form posts you need to alter the theme code or use a plugin.
Sorry fro the inconvenience!
Thanks
Hi Chris,
I apologize for sounding ignorant, but I’m having a hard time following your instructions here. I’m quite unfamiliar with Visual Composer. Could you show me screenshots of what you mean? As far as I can tell, in the options for the big slide, there is no field for setting the order of pages or by page name.
Thanks for your help.
Hi,
There is no page sort option on theme’s sliders/blocks because the blocks were not designed to work with other post types different from post.
If you chose to use pages instead of posts in blocks/slider it would not look write as pages don’t have an featured image as posts have and because of this no images will load when use them in blocks/sliders. You could try to use the WP Pages widget: http://screencast.com/t/o3PM7KaKGIZ as this has a filter by ID and title for pages which yo can use.
Hope this helps!
Thanks
