Repositioning featured posts grid?

Hello Cath22.

Thank you for using Fourteen Extended and the appreciation ??

As for your request, that would require some fine control over certain elements taking in to account other changes. Unfortunately it would be near impossible to factor in every conceivable change users may make to the theme and accommodate it.

The alternative I can offer/suggest is to address the issue via a child theme. I’ve submitted a child theme that allows for the grid/slider to be repositioned below the menu bar and above all other content including the left sidebar.

Have a look at a demo here and let me know if that’s the sort of adjustment you are looking for.

Regards,
Zulf

Thanks so much Zulf!
Very nice demo!
Is the child theme needed to achieve this available somewhere?

Kind regards,
Cath

You are most welcome Cath ??

Currently yes, the child theme is required to achieve this but I’ll continue to explore possibilities of doing it without the child theme.

If something useable becomes available I’ll integrate it in to the plugin.

Regards,
Zulf

I did find out how to reposition the featured posts grid and it worked well even after activating this plugin. I only have a slight problem now after switching from 3 featured posts to 4, as if something in the plug-in is overriding what I changed in my child-theme.

Here is my problem:
As I enlarged the left side bar by 30px, and moved the middle column by a relative 30px, the space allocated to the grid is no longer 100%, but 100% minus 30px. I solved this by changing the 33.333% into 32.5%, adding this line of code to my child-theme:

.grid .featured-content .hentry {
width: 32.5%;
}

For the 3 featured post lay-out this worked fine.

Now I would like to use the 4 featured post lay-out of your plug-in, but when I try to use the same trick in my child-theme, changing to less than 25%, nothing happens. Could you pls tell me if there is a workaround to add a similar line of code somewhere so that it overrides the original setting of 25% to something that fits my 100% minus 30px lay-out. Probably I have to change the original 33.333% (for three posts) into less than 25% (for 4 posts), I just don’t know how to do this with the plug-in activated, as changing the % into something else doesn’t have any effect anymore when the 4 featured post box is ticked.

I realize that this is a very specific question that may fall outside the regular support of this plug-in, but this plug-in offers such great possibilities that I would love to be able to use it with my current lay-out. Thanks in advance for your help.

Hello Cath,

The adjustment you made for the 3 grid is perfect fine. The four grid uses a different value of 24.999999975% which is the one you need apply your formula to and get the results you want.

The above would need to be applied to the @media query of min-width: 1008px – see the fourteenxt-styles.php file in the plugin around lines 155-170 for the code used.

Let me know how that works out and if there’s anything I can do to help.

Regards,
Zulf

That works! Thank you so much!!