Gazette theme modification help needed

melkker
(@melkker)

10 years, 8 months ago

Hi
I’m building a website using Gazette theme and have couple of issues.
1) How can I make these 6 featured content tabs to show different rubrics? I’d like to use it as a main menu where visitor can choose between different movie genres.

2) How can I make these 6 featured content tabs to show random youtube or vimeo picture of linked movies within a genre?

3) How can I make Youtube post to appeare like photo post currently? This means full size automatic youtube picture on posts feature picture and playable youtube link/window as side to side picture currently is shown on the top of the page when clicked on the post.

4) How can I randomize site logo? Every time if visitor changes page then the site logo should be loaded randomly within folder of logos with different colors.

The blog I need help with is http://www.isekino.eu.

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Thread Starter melkker
(@melkker)

10 years, 8 months ago

Anybody?

elegsam
(@elegsam)

10 years, 7 months ago

Hi melkker,
Please how were you able to display those images at the top of your blog?

Please assist with steps!

Arik
(@giggsip)

10 years, 7 months ago

1) Install Jetpack (if you are not in wordpress.com
2) Edit theme options
3) edit main page setup – there you will chose the tag that will be used. I think the default is “featured”.
4) For a new post add the tag you chose
5) Make sure to set the main image for the post – it will not use general images from the content

Thread Starter melkker
(@melkker)

10 years, 5 months ago

Hi
Thank you Arik. Got these header pictures working, but following issues remain.
1) How can I make the 6 featured content tabs to show random posts under given genre. My idea is to use featured content tabs as shortcuts to different genres of movies.

2) How can I make Youtube post to appeare like photo post currently(wide and description below)? This means full size automatic youtube picture on posts feature picture and playable youtube link/window as side to side picture currently is shown on the top of the page when clicked on the photo post.

4) How can I randomize site logo? Every time if visitor changes page then the site logo should be loaded randomly within folder of logos with different colors.

The blog I need help with is http://www.isekino.eu.

Moderator Kathryn Presner
(@zoonini)

10 years, 4 months ago

1) How can I make the 6 featured content tabs to show random posts under given genre. My idea is to use featured content tabs as shortcuts to different genres of movies.

4) How can I randomize site logo? Every time if visitor changes page then the site logo should be loaded randomly within folder of logos with different colors.

Both Featured Content and the Site Logo are Jetpack functionality. The Featured Content area isn’t designed to randomize posts, but you could always try asking in the Jetpack forum if they know of a function to randomize the featured content:

https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/plugin/jetpack

Randomizing Site Logos would be much more complicated, since the Customizer can only allow a single logo to be uploaded. It could also be worth asking in the Jetpack forum in case this is something someone else has done before.

Moderator Kathryn Presner
(@zoonini)

10 years, 4 months ago

2) How can I make Youtube post to appeare like photo post currently(wide and description below)? This means full size automatic youtube picture on posts feature picture and playable youtube link/window as side to side picture currently is shown on the top of the page when clicked on the photo post.

I’m not quite sure I follow what you’re trying to do. Could you provide links to specific posts and explain your goal a bit further? Thanks!

Thread Starter melkker
(@melkker)

10 years, 4 months ago

Hi Kathryn, thank you for your response! I’ll try get some information from Jetpack forum.
As for issue nr.2 I try to get the same look as you get from this page – http://www.isekino.eu/?p=76
But instead of big main picture(currently tunnel picture) should be playable youtube link with same dimensional characteristics as current tunnel picture.
Thanks!

Moderator Kathryn Presner
(@zoonini)

10 years, 4 months ago

Ah, I understand what you’re trying to do, thanks for clarifying.

One option could be to add a custom field to a child theme, where you’d add your video URL. You could then output that URL in post-thumbnail div within the entry-header div. I’m not sure if the video would auto-embed if done that way, it would take some experimentation. There are other ways to accomplish this as well – you might look for a theme that displays videos in the way that you want and then see how they are coded.

Thread Starter melkker
(@melkker)

10 years, 4 months ago

Thanks again!
Unfortunately I’m not so experienced in programming in WordPress to try so complicated “hacks” on my own.
Isn’t there some kind of code which I could paste into the style.css or somewhere else what would do the trick?

Moderator Kathryn Presner
(@zoonini)

10 years, 4 months ago

Nope, I’m afraid there isn’t. Getting a video to output in the featured image area instead of the featured image isn’t something you can do with cusotm CSS. If you’re not comfortable experimenting with these kinds of modifications, you might be better off looking for a theme that has this feature built in.