Captions on the Homepage Slider?

[Kelly Cook]

Hi Bill,

Is there a way to show captions on the Homepage slider?

Also, when I’m using this forum is their an easy way to search for a keyword (for example, slider”). You may have already answered this, but I don’t have time to go through pages of posts to find it. Am I missing something in terms of searching in the help forum? Thanks!

–Kelly

[Bill Robbins]

Hello Kelly,

Great question. We can turn the slide title into a caption with just a bit of editing. Here’s how:

1. Go to the Appearance section in your WordPress dashboard and choose Edit.
2. From the list of files on your right, choose page-home.php
3. Locate this line:

   
   <a href="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "slideurl", TRUE); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('header-image'); ?></a>
   					
   

4. Right above that add this:

   
   <h3 class="slide-caption"><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
   

   (Be sure to copy that code directly from the support site and not the notification email)

   Save your changes.

5. Then go to your theme options page and choose the Advanced tab.
6. Scroll down to the Custom CSS box and add this:

   
   h3.slide-caption {
   	position: absolute;
   	z-index: 10;
   	padding: 10px;
   	bottom: 0;
   	margin-bottom: 0;
   	color: #fff;
   	background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.77);
   }
   

7. Update your settings.

That should let the slide titles appear as captions. If you have any questions let me know.

You can use the search widget that’s in the right hand column to search the forum. I would love to have a better search but so far all of the “advanced” search plugins for WordPress have not worked.

Let me know if you have any questions,
Bill

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