Image slider at the home page: Meta Slider & Featured news

Technical details

• Source: Divi theme
• Official name: Fullwidth Code module
• Official documentation: www.elegantthemes.com/documentation/divi/code/
• Featured news will not show up on the digital signages

How to prepare featured news

• Category: "featured_news"
  (The regular posts are registered under "Uncategorized")
• Featured image size: 1000 x 350

How to set a featured news slider

1. Login to Wordpress
2. Dashboard > Pages
3. Change "All categories" in the filter dropdown to "front_page" and click Filter.
4. Mouse over the title "Home - Front page" and click "Edit" underneath.
5. Remove "Fullwidth Slider" by clicking "X" if it exists.
6. Click "Insert Module(s)" in the Fullwidth Section (the purple section).
7. Click "Fullwidth Code".
8. Update with the following values:

   Content
   Content:	Engineering [metaslider id=13200]
   Admin Label:	Featured News Slider
   Advanced
   CSS Class:	topslider or topslider-blue

9. Click "Save & Exit"
10. Click the triple bar on the left of the Fullwidth Section (the purple bar)
11. Select "Design" tab and enter "2" in the Custom Padding Top
12. Click "Save & Exit"
13. Click "Update"

How to remove featured news from latest news on the top page

1. Login to Wordpress
2. Dashboard > Pages
3. Change "All categories" in the filter dropdown to "front_page" and click Filter.
4. Mouse over the title "Home - Front page" and click "Edit" underneath.
5. Click the triple bar on the left of the latest news module.
6. Add the red part to the content.

   <h4>Latest News</h4>
   
   <hr style="color: #eeeeee">
   
   [display-posts posts_per_page="4" include_excerpt="false" image_size="thumbnail" wrapper="div" category="Uncategorized"]
   <div style="clear: left"><a href="/newsroom">Enter Newsroom ></a></div>
   

7. Click "Save & Exit"
8. Click "Update"

Updated 20170531