You can almost do everything with the Premium WordPress Theme Thesis. Changes of all kinds are possible and some of which I have presented to you. In this tutorial we will build a slider into our theme and showcase the best articles.
If one is working on Thesis Theme, you realize how easy it is to import the best parts of other themes or rebuild them. The Thesis theme has made a name through the support of SEO, typography and flexibility. The following is a screenshot of a smooth slider that is configured for Thesis.
And here comes the tutorial. I show you how a dynamic content slider can plug in your site. We use this plugin “Smooth Slider, ” which works very well with WordPress and Thesis. I could not find any conflicts.
Smooth Slider plugin install
Log in to your blog Dashboard
In the left navigation menu under plugin on “Install ”
Looking for a plugin with the name “Smooth slider and click”Install “to download the plugin and configure
Activate the plugin installation yet to be stopped
An article or a page to add Slider
Edit the article you want to have the slider. In each article you’ll see at the bottom the option to add Slider Smooth ‘. If you there is a check mark and save the article you have added an article to the slider.
Smooth Slider configure
Dashboard log-ins
Links to the menu item “Settings”button
Smooth Slider select
Here are the basics settings such as height, width, etc. After all the settings you have made, we go into the installation in the Thesis Theme.
Fit Smooth Slider in the Thesis Theme
The slider is mounted on the homepage. There are other ways to install the slider, for example, the individual contributions. We limit ourselves this time but only on the home page.
The following code is add into the custom_functions.php. The easiest is using the Custom File Editor.
//Featured Content Slider
function content_slider() { ?>
<?php if (is_home()){ ?>
<?php if ( function_exists( ‘get_smooth_slider’ ) ) { get_smooth_slider(); } ?>
<?php }
}
add_action(‘thesis_hook_before_content’, ‘content_slider’);
If you have installed the code, save the file and you can now use the Smooth slider.
Conclusion
To create a slider for the best article definitely has advantages. So you can pick up older items as back to front or to hold the visitors to the site. The bounce rate is falling and this is very advantageous for the blog. However, the slider also has the disadvantage that it the load times a little screwed up. But that’s what a lot of tools, you can use to reduce loading time of your blog again.