Posts: content block issues + template editing help

I’m trying to reproduce your steps with Playground

I have installed Akita Blog theme and tried to reproduce the problems you are mentioning but I can’t. Maybe there is another plugin you installed interfering here?

The layout seems pretty simple, like Wikipedia. You simply two blocks of content, the main content and a sidebar to the right. Also a couple custom fields could do the trick for the sidebar elements (check for Secure Custom Fields). Personally I would probably create a Custom Post Type for this type of characters (unless your site is going to be only based on them, in this case with regular posts will be enough).

Sure you can ask here if you have any questions and probably me or other members could help you.

This carousel thing can be a little tricky. The problem here is that you need some block that can integrate with SCF dynamic data. Generally, you can do this with some code (basically creating by your own, the block itself). Probably all those sites you mean talking about code, are explaining to you how to create such block by yourself.

You can also achieve this with a plugin. The issue is that 99% of the time, “pro/paid” versions are required to enable extra features for blocks, as they only give very basic blocks that can be found anywhere just for free. I don’t really know a free plugin that provides the carousel block for you, if you are genuinely interested in this feature, you may probably need to dig further: you require a carousel block that integrates with dynamic data (in this case SCF fields). In SCF instead of using a repeater, you should use the Gallery field and configure it accordingly to what the block is asking for (you can choose to provide a list of images (an array) or the ID of the images in the field (if one does not work, chose the other one).

Hi @eddie1950

I am Laszlo from Nextend, we are the developers of Smart Slider 3.

As for publishing the slider:

When you add the shortcode to the post content field, it will be rendered exactly at the place where your template displays the post content. So on our end it is not possible to change that.

If you want to render the slider into the right side of the page, then you need to publish the slider to a container that is located there.

Since you are trying to build a dynamic website – so different posts display different sliders – you should probably:

• add a custom field within SCF for your post type
• in your theme you should render this custom field to the intended container and run the do_shortcode() function over it

Please note that this approach requires some developer experience, as custom coding is out of the scope of our support. But here you can find a guide for ACF:

• https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1798-acf-publishing

I believe it will work the same with SCF, too but you won’t have a dedicated “Smart Slider 3” field there – as that integration is available only for ACF. So in case of SCF, you should probably use, e.g. a text field and define the shortcode there ( in each post ) as text.

As for the images:

As I see you added the images as Slide background images:

• https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1724-slide#image

In this particular case, it’s based on the “Slide background image fill” option:

• https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1809-slider-settings-slides

how your images look like in the slider.

E.g.: in the case of the 1st slider( slider ID: 7 ), you used the “Center” option:

• https://smartslider.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1809-slider-settings-slides#slide-background-image-fill

which positions the images to the center of the slider and displays them with their original size ( 580px*580px, 550px*550px, 813px*813px, ) without scaling them down. With this option the background images won’t be responsive.

To avoid this behavior you should change the fill mode to “fit” or “blur fit” instead. That way the background images won’t be cropped.

Best regards,
Laszlo.