• Hi, I am newer to wordpress and having problem displaying slider on homepage in free version of Renden Theme. I uploaded three images on theme options under built-in slider section. May slides did not appear. I notice it says to enter shortcode but I do not see where to get a shortcode to display slider. Am I doing something wrong here? Please help me. https://shopthedifference.com/ thank you much

    PS. Is there an imstagram options for social media icons

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  • Theme Author ThinkUpThemes

    (@thinkupthemes)

    Hi christinac32,

    You don’t need to enter a shortcode. Renden has a built-in slider. In the homepage section of the theme options panel just add slides to the ThinkUpSlider option. If this doesn’t work try deleting all the slides. Then save the theme options panel and add your slides back again.

    Also, make sure you’ve assigned an image to each slide.

    Hope this helps! Let us know how you get on. ??

    I havin the same problem with renden Theme.
    I made all the tips you writing.
    I add slides to the ThinkUpSlider…Nothing has changed.I dont see the pictures….
    I deleted all the slides and save the theme options panel and add slides back again. But nothing.
    Can I make something else?
    https://elkapro.sk/

    Elkapro: As per your link, your site shows images in the slider. I do not know if you wanted the narrow version of the slider or the wide.

    If you want the screen wider version of the Slider, Go to “Appearance – Customize – Theme Options – Home Page, then in that side panel for Home Page settings, make sure “Message – Check to enable intro on home page.” is unchecked and above it the “Enable Full-Width Slide” button is set to On.

    Otherwise it all good already. (could be you already got the answer and fixed it. Also remember to refresh your browser to see new settings and if that does not work, clear the cache of the browser and refresh).

    Hi Mark,
    Thank you for your response, but I solved it with custom slider.

    ThinkUpSlider is not worked, so I activated META SLIDER on WP.
    I created my own Slider and I chose CUSTOM SLIDER on Homepage.
    I entered shortcode.
    What you saw, were this option ??

    Good day.

    I have a problem with my slider images in terms of resolution/size. The sizes differs on evry other monitor that has a different screen resolution.

    How can I overcome this problem?

    Any help will be appreciated.

    My address:
    https://www.dynamcor.co.za

    Dynamcor, at least one of your images you used for the slider is 1500 x 350 size.

    What the Renden ThinkUpSlider does is adjusts the size to fit the slider so if your image is too big, some of it gets cut off, if its too small it gets enlarged. Its bad enough the slider blurs the image a bit already.

    The size that works with this ThinkUpSlider in the Renden theme is 1400 x 360 (max), where it does barely any scaling of the image.

    So you would either have to scale your images in a good photo editor as Adobe’s Photoshop or any other good editor or you have to cut out the exact size of 1400 x 360. Any text you want would have to go into that image after its cut.

    As a side note:
    2 things,

    1. Font size for the menu is way too small in a Desktop screen (its ok in the mobile screen).

    2. Slider images, on the vehicle wrap, you inserted some text into the theme customizer for the slider. The text is hard to read, its white against a bright colored background.

    There is no theme customize feature to address this, so you have to make adjustments in customize CSS. So here is the custom CSS I used to make the needed adjustments (and works fine in mobile screens).

    /*FONT SIZE & COLOR CHANGES – MENU & CONTENT*/
    html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
    h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
    a, cite,
    del, dfn, em, font, q, s, samp,
    strike, strong,
    ol, ul, li,
    fieldset, form, label, legend,
    tbody, tfoot, thead, tr {
    font-size: 100.8% !important;
    }

    /*SLIDER IMAGE LABEL ADJUSTMENTS*/
    #slider .featured-title span {
    padding: 10px !important;
    color: #FFF !important;
    font-size: 1.9vmax !important;
    background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.65);
    border-radius: 12px !important;
    }
    #slider .featured-excerpt span {
    padding: 10px !important;
    color: #FFF !important;
    font-size: 1.2vmax !important;
    line-height: 55px;
    background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.65);
    border-radius: 12px !important;
    }

    The slider labels are given a black background with transparency and white letters to stand out. The “! important” is needed.

    Hope that helps.

    Hi Mark, thank you for the advice.

    I just adjusted the sizes to 1400 x 360 pixels and they seem to work on my laptop. I will test this on my larger monitors in the office.

    I still seem to have a problem that these sliders on a mobile device do not adjust to the monitor size?

    Do you have any knowledge regarding this?

    Thank you very much for your time and support.

    Regards

    For the website to adjust to mobile screens, requires either a script (PHP or JavaScript / jQuery) to adjust the pages and images, or its done by @media queries in the CSS files. You can do it in the custom CSS as well.

    Renden theme is kinda poor in scaling the site, but hey, its free so they are not going to put much effort into it.

    Note: I checked your website after you adjusted the slider image sizes, looks good now on a wide screen desktop monitor.

    Thank you Mark, much appreciated.

    Welcome.

    Any changes to the theme via CSS is done in the Custom CSS provided by the theme.

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