Title: Featured posts problem
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Featured posts problem

 *  [honkamaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/honkamaa/)
 * (@honkamaa)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-problem/)
 * I have a problem with the featured post area of this theme.
 * I expereince two problems as described below:
 * 1. When featuring a post the featured post area is separated form the menu area.
   This does not look very good.
 * 2. There is alot of empty space below the text and image in the featured post
   area.
 * You can see these probles at [http://www.swedishbasketball.com](http://www.swedishbasketball.com)

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 *  [Ayman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aymanalzarrad/)
 * (@aymanalzarrad)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-problem/#post-3870079)
 * > 1. When featuring a post the featured post area is separated form the menu 
   > area. This does not look very good.
 * I think this is how the theme should work.
 * > 2. There is alot of empty space below the text and image in the featured post
   > area.
 * You can change that from your style.css file.
    I suggest you create a child theme
   first ([http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes))
   and than apply the changes to the child theme.
 * The CSS you need to change are `#featured_section` and `#featured_slider`
    you
   already have each one with `height:370px`
 *     ```
       #featured_section {
       height: 370px; /* Change this to what ever height you want */
       }
   
       #featured_slider {
       height: 370px; /* Change this to what ever height you want */
       }
       ```
   
 * Hope this is helpful
 *  Thread Starter [honkamaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/honkamaa/)
 * (@honkamaa)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-problem/#post-3870083)
 * Thanks for the swift answer Ayman.
 * This was a good start for solving the problem, I changed height to 250px. But
   as you can see it now separated the featured post area from the bottom as well
   as (like earlier) from the top. I would need to somehow “push” everything together
   to get rid of the spaces below and above the featured post area.
 * Please look at [swedishbasketball.com](http://www.swedishbasketball.com) to see
   how it looks now.
 *  [Ayman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aymanalzarrad/)
 * (@aymanalzarrad)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-problem/#post-3870084)
 * For the space above the featured area you can do like this:
 *     ```
       #featured_section {
       margin: -35px 13px;
       }
       ```
   
 * For the one below you have to do 2 things:
 * **1**
 *     ```
       /* I don't know if you don't need this navigation under the featured post area but anyway is taking 40px of space so lets bring it to 0 */
   
       #featured_slider #nav{
       height: 0;
       }
       ```
   
 * **2**
 *     ```
       /* The slides are taking more space than the slider it self. You changed the slider height but not the slides so lets do it */
   
       #featured_slider #slides{
       height: 250px;
       }
       ```
   
 * Now you should have 0 spacing above and below the featured post.
 *  Thread Starter [honkamaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/honkamaa/)
 * (@honkamaa)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-problem/#post-3870088)
 * Thank you Ayman for your incredible quick and correct support. This is now solved
   and I can continue working on my site. 😀
 *  [Ayman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aymanalzarrad/)
 * (@aymanalzarrad)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-posts-problem/#post-3870089)
 * Good luck for you and for all Swedish basketball players.

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