How To Create a Pseudo One Page Site in Wordpress Pt 4

At this point the we’ve done the basics for setting up a Wordpress website and adding our Featured Content Gallery. This final post will cover some ideas for sprucing everything up, as well as cover any bits I may have left out along the way.

CSS Adjustments

The gallery gives you some great control in the plug-in settings. You might still want to adjust your font sizes, color, and that sort of things however. Digging inside the CSS reveals everything, but I’ll save you some time and hit a few highlights.

(As before, the CSS is found in featured-content-gallery/css/jd.gallery.css.php)

1. To make edits to the bottom text block, search the CSS for “slideinfoZone.”

2. I mentioned this yesterday, but to make edits to your drop down button, look for “a.carouselBtn.”

More and More Control

You can also bend the gallery to your will by opening up jd.gallery.js.php.  This is the inner workings, so use caution when making edits here. But don’t get too scared, we’re going to stick with a pretty low key area.

Scroll down and find “this.setOptions({”. Below here is a long list of features that you can toggle on or off with “true” and “false.” Further down you can make changes to the varying opacity of the gallery. You can also adjust the placement of your thumbnail images.

Experimentation should allow you to get what you want here, within the means of the gallery. Just pay attention to what you change so you can change it back if it all goes awry!

Control the Thumbnail Order

By default your nav thumbnails will be ordered with the most recent post on the left. (remember, these are “Featured” category posts from the blog.) Once your content is uploaded, you may need to change the post times for each Featured Post to get the order correct. I just edited second by second to get them lined up. And don’t worry, making future edits to the post does not change the original date; only the content will update.

How I Used the Plug-In

You can check out my project here. I needed to make Resolution Church a site that was easily updated but make good use of minimal content. The church is in a pre-launch stage, so visitors really just need a focus on basic information about the church.

The implementation is as good as your graphics. With a pretty basic template, I worked up some nice looking images for each slide and it becomes a fairly slick looking one-page site.

A bonus is the church has a blog that can be used for more detailed information and communication with site visitors. They also have an easily managed Wordpress site that can probably grow with the organization. The Featured Content Gallery can be adjusted in the future to be used in a more typical way, to draw attentions to special information on the homepage.  More pages can be added through Wordpress, and now that we all know how to use Custom Templates each page can have the proper look and feel.

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