[daretoeatapeach]

Hi! First, I love Cryout themes and have recommended them to several people.

I have a simple question but searched the forums in vain for an answer. I want to put a slideshow on Verbosa, but that’s not a feature of Verbosa, so I installed one of the many slideshow plugins. However, I’m using “latest posts” for the home page, so there isn’t an actual page for the blog that I can add the shortcode to in Pages.

This makes me think I need to add the shortcode to the theme files. Will a short code even work in the PHP? And if so, where do I put it? And if not, how do people edit the “home page” of a Verbosa blog without a static page?

Thanks for any insight on this.

[Zed]

Editing files, while possible, is the messy way of doing this.

I suggest taking advantage of the theme’s Before Content widget area. Place the slider shortcode in a Text widget in that widget area, then control the widget’s visibility to only appear on the homepage.

PS: Shortcodes can be called in PHP using
echo do_shortcode('[the_shortcode]');

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