Stallion Theme Featured Slideshow Options

Stallion Featured Slideshow Height and Width

Not that long ago I worked on the Stallion Featured Slideshow code and already forgot what all the parts are, had to look them up

The file

/stallion-seo-theme/layout/featured-slideshow.php

Has the main image sizes for the Stallion Featured Slideshow.

For example this code sets the sizes for the no sidebar layout:

if (st_sidebar_lo() == '1000')
{
$st_feature_thumb_width = 970;
};
$st_feature_thumb_height = 300;

You could change the height ($st_feature_thumb_height) to 400 for example.

You also have to edit the CSS file for the layout used, if using the no sidebar layout (100px wide) edit the file

/stallion-seo-theme/style-1000.css

Find (near the bottom)-

#st_feature-wrap{
height:302px;
width:972px;
margin:10px auto 60px auto;
}
#st_feature {
border: 1px solid;
}
#st_feature #st_feature_content{
height:300px;
}

You’ll need to set the height and width to take into account your new sizes added to the other file.

If you want a height of 400px for example you’d change the first height to 402px and the second one to 400px.

Changing the width would be harder because the width set is based on the width of the layout used, maximised to fit basically (using as much space as possbile for the layout). You could make the widths smaller than those currently set, making them wider would ruin what the theme looks like.

If you use another Stallion layout edit the CSS file that’s used for that layout. style-200l200l.css is the double left 200px wide sidebars for example.

I think that’s it.

David

Stallion Theme Featured Slideshow

Stallion SEO Theme Featured Slideshow Setup

That’s not enough information to determine the problem.

URL of the site, what are you seeing, error messages, have you set Stallion Thumbnails for the posts you want to be part of the slideshow and ticked the use in the slideshow under those posts edit pages, have your turned slideshow on under the Stallion options????

The cache permissions is only part of the setup, that’s so specific sized images are generated to save bandwidth. Did you try 755, 775 and 777? Are other thumbnails working (if thumbnails features are turned on), if so it’s not a cache issue. You can also use FTP to look inside the cache folder, are there files present, if you are using a Stallion feature that generates thumbnails there will be files in the cache folder, which would mean you had to have set the permissions correctly.

David

Stallion Theme Featured Slideshow

Web Page Loading Slowly, How To Fix It

I loaded your site and it loaded in seconds. It’s probably not refreshing, but loading what the site uses slowly.

Assuming you haven’t turned off “Queries ON” on the Stallion Layout Options page, log in to your sites Dashboard, then go to the sites home page, scroll to the bottom and you’ll see something like this:

77 queries in 0.662 seconds (Memory Usage 3.91MB)

the above is what I see for my site (this one). Those are ‘very good’ numbers, though it’s not the actual loading time for everything since doesn’t take into account images.

This gives you an idea what WordPress and Stallion are doing, basically what’s happening on your site. If you see a LOT of queries (300+) you are probably using a plugin that’s poorly written and it’s causing a lot of database queries this will slow a site down. If you see loading time is taking 3+ seconds you’ve probably set something your host can’t handle or there’s another issue like a cheap host that’s over sold resources (not easy to figure out the cause).

This is a very basic check, doesn’t take into account images or other resources your page is using like ‘linking’ to Facebook, Twitter, Google+ (all those social media buttons are loaded from external sources, you have 30 loaded on your home page), Google AdSense, external images etc… Everything on a page has to load and if you have a lot to load or one or more external sources are slow it can cause a site to load slowly. If you had 10 images loaded on the home page and they are all 2MBs each, that’s a lot of data to load, looks like your images are around 30KB each, not that big, but there’s 10 of them so that’s 3MB of data to load in images. You might find for example in the bottom status bar of Firefox it takes a while for Facebook/Twitter scripts to load slowly. More things you use on a page more things that can go wrong.

If you find your site can’t handle everything you want to achieve you either have to remove features or pay for a better host, that’s assuming you haven’t made a poor choice with a plugin for example: there’s some plugins out there that are awful on database usage, I used one that added 300+ queries on most pages and 1,000+ on some, brought the site loading time to a crawl!!!

David

Stallion Theme Featured Slideshow