Customising the readme theme

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MichaelShch
Participant
20 January 2015 at 09:26
#18414

Hey, guys

I purchased the readme theme because i believe nothing comes close to it in terms of design – it’s sleek and sophisticated. But i had very specific goals in mind, which i can’t accomplish due to it’s functional limitations. So i’ve started customising it to fit my needs and i’m here to ask you questions accordingly.

Goal 1.
Add a category criteria for the slider.

Theres a slider on the main screen, but it shows all the latest 5 posts i’ve done. I just need one, but from a specific category.

Here is the code, but i’m not sure how to modify it:

$args_main_slider = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 5 );

Goal 2.
Add several sliders to the main page

I have four categories and my goal is to display them in the following way

Featured Slider for the 1st category (Alternate view) (1 post)
Four latest posts for the 1st category (Masonry view) (4 posts) (under)
Featured Slider for the 2nd category (Alternate view) (1 post)
Four latest posts for the 2nd category (Masonry view) (4 posts) (under)
Featured Slider for the 3rd category (Alternate view) (1 post)
Four latest posts for the 3rd category (Masonry view) (4 posts) (under)
Featured Slider for the 4th category (Alternate view) (1 post)
Four latest posts for the 4th category (Masonry view) (4 posts) (under)

Help in code would be superbly appreciated

Goal 3
Menu mirrors the four post categories and when i click on the item in the menu (1st category) it should open all the posts related to it in the masonry view

Goal 4
Comments with login from social networks

If anybody could advise a good working plugin or the way to customise them – that would be incredible.

Thank you for your time.

Appreciate the input and really looking forward to advices on the case.
Mehmet S.
Keymaster
23 January 2015 at 08:03
#18542
Hi,

1.

– add this parameter to the query:

'category_name=staff'

Note: “staff” is a category slug (NOT name).

– and the query:
```
$args_main_slider = array( 'post_type' => 'post', 'category_name=staff', 'posts_per_page' => 5 );
```
2.

You can use the slider shortcode to add several slider:
```
[slider]
[slide title="" image=""]
[slide title="" image=""]
[slide title="" image=""]
[/slider]
```
image="" … An image url. Upload your image to your Media Library, then copy its url and use in this parameter.

3. ???

4. You can try Jetpack plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/

http://jetpack.me

Thanks

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