Having Fun With The Featured Articles Rotation

Your blog comes equipped with something really eye catching. The Featured Articles rotator.

All you need to do to get a blog post to show up there is tick the ‘Featured’ category just before you publish your blog post. You can also feature old posts too. ANY posts! All you need to do is add them to the ‘Featured’ category.

So what if you want to alter what the rotator does?

As always, it’s simple

1. Log in to your admin area.

2. Hover over ‘Manage’ and click on ‘Theme Editor’.

3. Look down the list on the right to find ‘Featured Articles on Homepage features.php’. Click it!

4. When the page refreshes you will have the features.php file open in the big edit box.

5. Scroll down to the bottom of the edit box.

6. Now, 3 lines up from the bottom is this line: var my_glider = new Glider(’my-glider’, {duration:0.5, autoGlide:true, frequency:8});

How To Edit The Speed At Which They Change:

If you want to edit the transition speed, how fast or slow the animation is between each change (the actual movement), then change the 0.5 to something else. 0.5 is half a second. So if you wanted it to change reeeeeeeaaalllyyy slowly, you could change it to say 4.5 instead. That would be painfully slow, but it’s worth changing it around a bit just to experiment. Doing is learning! If you want to make it transition faster, change it to something like 0.2. Super speed!

How To Edit How Long Each Featured Article Appears For:

Now that you’ve edited how fast or slow the change happens, you may want to know how to make each feature stay on screen for a longer amount of time. Or for less time! Either way, it’s worth experimenting. To edit this, change the frequency:8 to something else. 4 would make the articles stay up for only 4 seconds, whereas 12 would make them stay there for 12 seconds.

7. Now press Update File just under the big edit box you’re working in, and you’re done!

Play around and see which combination you like the best

Lewis