SD – Edit hero image and widget

Hi Joel,

Do you mind sharing the URL of the site in question so we can take a look? Also, please elaborate a little bit more about what you’re trying to achieve there. You can use the private reply option below.

Thanks!

Hello @proshark,

1# It sounds like you are using Supreme Directory child theme, is that right?

We have a page that talks about all the features for the Supreme Directory theme here:

https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/supreme-directory-overview/

Are you wanting to make changes to the home page? If so, you are in luck because you can set a subtitle. The detail are at the link above, but it comes down to adding a custom field with key ‘subtitle’.

As far as Widget areas, you can find those in Appearances -> Widgets, and as you can see there are a couple, Home Top and Home Content. Does that answer your question?

You can find all the options available for changing styles including colors and typography in the Customizer; that was a big part of the recent update.

As far as customizing your style is concerned, we have a great page that talks about how to add your custom CSS here: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/customizing-your-style/

With Supreme Theme child, you can take advantage of all the theme features for the Detail page, and also have some freedom with your WP Front:Static page and your “GD Home” page. By the way, are you using a different page for your “WP Front Page: Static Page”? That’s a great way to make use of a builder on your frontpage. In that case you can use GD Shortcodes to insert listings on your home page for a great custom layout.

Maybe the way the GD Home page is setup feels limited, but you do have the two widget areas. You can do a lot with them, but it sounds like you are really wanting the freedom of the front page mentioned above. That’s why we recommend using your builder on the Front Page. The GD Home page is also the layout of the “Location” page, the page that is used to display for each city or country location. It’s a template used by GeoDirectory, so it’s not really a page at all. GD uses WP Pages so that the URLs are flexible, and available for other operations on your site, but any content you add to the page is overridden by GD.

However, you can still open up some options for the GD Home / Location page in Supreme by making a simple change to the layout: Remove the Featured Area. Completely remove the Hero area there. Then you can do all sorts of things with widgets in the Top and Content areas.

You could start with this CSS to hide the Featured area

.sd.home .featured-area {
    display: none;
}

You’ll also need to assign a color to the header because it will be transparent

.sd-homepage .site-header, .sd.sd-location .site-header {
    background-color: #333;
 }

Now you can add more widgets to GD Home Top and really show them off. You can add a new Advanced Search bar and control the options:

[gd_advanced_search]

anything you like. You can add widgets, and then ‘hide’ those widgets for location pages, so they only show on the home page, too, using Widget logic.

https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/useful-plugins/#logic

You can even use shortcode in widgets with this snippet:

// Enable shortcodes in text widgets
add_filter('widget_text','do_shortcode');

Find out all about GD Widgets and Shortcode at these links:
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/widgets/
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/core-shortcodes/

Let us know if you have any more questions about Supreme Directory child theme

Hi Joel!

WordPress has a lot of built-in options, including custom fields. Here’s an introduction to custom fields that will show you how to view the settings:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/wordpress-custom-fields-101-tips-tricks-and-hacks/#customfieldsintro