[Theme: Customizr] Slider Height Issues

  • I am using the most updated version of WordPress and the Customizr theme, and I’ve seen a lot of posts on the subject of the slider’s height, but none have resolved my issue. I actually want to make the slider taller; I want it to look more like the Customizr theme does in demo. Unfortunately, high resolutions result in the slider being long and thin, and I want it to take up a sizable portion of the page, can I make it take up a percentage? I’m not very code savvy, but I can follow instructions!

    This has become more of an actual problem because no matter what resolution I try making the actual image (1200×500 for full or 1170×500, or some weird variant to make it taller like 1200×800) it always looks the same, and on all screens but more dramatically on a wide screen it always cuts off part of the top and bottom. I understand conceptually I suppose that it must be scaling the portion of the height visible based on the full-page width, but even when the screen is made tiny, it still doesn’t show my whole slider images. How can I make this more height-centric? Is it possible to tell it to take up the full page width and then display the full height accordingly? That is what originally I thought this theme would do.

    The site I’m currently working with is: https://www.sarberoutdoor.com/

    Any new suggestions would really be appreciated, I like the theme but just can’t get the slider(s) to behave!

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  • Are the pics all the exact same pixel resolution for screen display? (72ppi) and the pixel height the same and according to your desired height? 72ppi is one inch.

    Thread Starter graphicontent

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    They are 72 ppi,does that affect how it ultimately displays? I figured since the only mention of the slider height is in pixels, it would just process them standard for the web. Are you saying if I adjusted the resolution that the height would change?

    I try to make my images the exact same size as the slider window. Sometimes they get cropped any ways, so leave enough blank space surrounding the image that the crop doesn’t matter. Make sure your images are saved at 72ppi before you load them. If the slider is 300 pixels wide, displaying 72ppi, and your image is 1200pixel wide, but is set at 300ppi, youre not going to get what you expect at all.

    Thread Starter graphicontent

    (@graphicontent)

    That makes sense. I think the problem is that my image is full width (per the theme, but it is what I want); the entire width of the page. It lets me select the height in pixels, but not percentages or in such a way that I can guarantee any given portion of my images on any given person’s screen.

    Thread Starter graphicontent

    (@graphicontent)

    So is there no way to do this? No matter what size I make the images, they are zoomed in both horizontally and vertically. This makes the Customizr theme’s built in slider pretty worthless as far as any image control.

    I gave up trying to put a decent slideshow on the homepage. They look tacky and detract from the homepage imo, plus they kind of ho-hum. I decided to use wooslider and make a page called slideshow, and put it in the body section. It limits it’s ability to freely scale any way it wants.
    People see a tab called slideshow, they can view it if they want without forcing people to deal with a bad layout dominated by a slider. I haven’t found a slider that does exactly what I want because they are all being written for responsive layouts.

    Try to put it in a div container maybe…

    Thread Starter graphicontent

    (@graphicontent)

    It does definitely dominate the page, but that’s what the guy wants for a homepage. I wish I knew more about WordPress than I do, I otherwise like the splash page and would like to keep everything else about it. When I try other sliders they always have the title taking up quite a bit of real estate above the slider.

    Seems like Customizr would have made it a more accommodating slide, but if that’s its nature than there’s nothing to be done.

    Thank you for the suggestions, I hope you’re having luck with your site, and fingers crossed that moving to responsive gets better!

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