Fancy Theme: How to set up feature post slider

Step one: Create “cache” folder

This theme (and this feature specially) uses TimThumb to resize pictures and requires the GD library, which is available on any host sever with PHP 4.3+ installed. Once installed and in-use, TimThumb will automatically create a /cache/ subfolder with proper write-permissions.

If your host server doesn’t allow this by default, be sure to manually create /cache/ folder in your theme’s root directory and set permissions to 777.

Step two: Open “Theme options” in administration panel

When you open “Theme options” you’ll see new group created here called “Highlighted areas / Settings for 4 featured posts/pages”. This is screenshot of all available oprions:

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What does that mean?

Let’s look at this screenshot of slider with all features displayed.

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  • 1. Highlight background color – color of filmstrip background
  • 2. Highlight overlay color – color of overlay panel
  • 3. Filmstrip Thumbnail image

Slider navigation

If you want simple slider navigation you have to insert these fields:

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  • Post/page Highlight ID’s: enter id’s of all posts and pages you want to display in slider (comma separated)
  • Highlight overlay color: enter hexadecimal color code for overlay panel
  • Highlight opacity: enter value from 0.1 – 1 to show opacity of overlay panel (0.1 = 10% opacity)
  • Highlight animation: choose Standard slider

Filmstrip navigation

Well, this navigation requires that you populate all fields.

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  • Post/page Highlight ID’s: enter id’s of all posts and pages you want to display in slider (comma separated)
  • Highlight overlay color: enter hexadecimal color code for overlay panel
  • Highlight opacity: enter value from 0.1 – 1 to show opacity of overlay panel (0.1 = 10% opacity)
  • Highlight animation: choose Filmstrip animation
  • Filmstrip thumbnail width: enter width of little thumbnail image (in pixels)
  • Filmstrip thumbnail height: enter heightof little thumbnail image (in pixels)
  • Filmstrip thumbnail count: enter how many thumbnails should be seen in filmstrip navigation

Conclusion

If you follow these steps everything should work perfectly.
Do not forget Step one. If you don’t create “cache” folder this theme will not work properly.