Show content in the Slider

Hi Nils,

Thanks for using Startup Blog!

The Slider needs to link to a post or a page, so I’m afraid it can’t be used for HTML only. However, the text it displays comes from the Excerpt box, and HTML is allowed there: screenshot.

Let me know if that works okay for your site.

Hi Ben,

thanks for your reply! Unfortunately html doesn’t work for what I want to embed here. The good news: html (e.g. formatting text) is indeed working in the excerpt box. As the plugin Code doesn’t show the chart I want to embed, I wanted to insert it via html-iframe. But now the slider is just empty and without the iframe. Is there any solution to this or do I just need to accept the limits of that slider? ?? It would even be fine for me to completely get rid of the slider, if I’m able to put a regular working html-code in that place.

Thanks again and best wishes

There isn’t a good way to add other types of content into the slider, but if you are comfortable working with some code, there is a way you can output something else in that part of the site.

If you’d like to remove the slider entirely, this CSS will hide it:

#bb-slider {
  display: none;
}

Then in the Code plugin you’re using, you can add this PHP function to output HTML where the slider would be:

function startup_blog_output_html() {
  echo '<p>This is example HTML</p>';
}
add_action('startup_blog_after_header', 'startup_blog_output_html');

You may need to add some custom CSS to style things nicely, but that will at least get you started in the right direction.