[Plugin: Frontpage-Slideshow] HOWTO: Transparent text background and text positioning

Hey folks,

Great plugin.

Here’s a couple of things I figured out that get the plugin to do exactly what I want on my site.

Firstly I wanted the text to appear at the top of the slideshow. Easy to do, I just went to Settings -> Frontpage Slideshow and changed ‘Main Text Top’, under ‘About Sizes, Positions, and Corners’, to 0px.

Now for the really excellent bit.

I’musing the shortcode to put the slideshow in my custom theme. I wanted to get rid of the text’s background colour. No can do, the normal way because if you leave this setting to blank the settings will not be saved, i.e. you need to specify a background colour. But set it to blank and you will see that the preview shows the slideshow with no background colour on the text, then copy the shortcode it produces and paste that into your theme. Voila!

The shortcode I am using is – [FrontpageSlideshow fs_cats=4 fs_slides=5 fs_default_link_to_page_link=1 fs_default_comment_to_excerpt=1 fs_main_width=760px fs_main_height=240px fs_placeholder_height=0px fs_button_normal_color=#00203f fs_button_hover_color=#013160 fs_button_current_color=#013160 fs_ul_color=#013160 fs_text_bgcolor= fs_text_opacity=100% fs_main_color=#00203f fs_font_color=#eee fs_orderby=menu_order fs_template=default]

I hope this is helpful to someone else. This really is a cool plugin and takes very little effort to customise. I’m not afraid of php, html/css but it’s nice to have everything done for you :).

Thank you