How to create a Full Page Slide Show in WordPress.com

Create a new page (or post) which will hold the slide show itself.
Using the Add Media button, select a group of photos for the slide show and make it a GALLERY. Don’t change any of the options – the defaults are fine.
An example is below – it isn’t a full page slide show but if you click on one of the images, you will jump into a slide show. The first image in this one jumps to the URL https://rosalindannmartin.com/2016/03/06/how-to-create-a-full-page-slide-show-in-wordpress-com/#jp-carousel-535 – THAT is the URL which is the full page slide show and you can use that anywhere in your website that you want to hot-link to this particular slide show.

Red ring round the standard form button

Most of the adding done now…

Removing the White Space above the content area in Twenty Fourteen

You see the problem – between the top bar of the site and the content there is a lot of wasted white space. The code below is said to work. Oddly, the space isn’t showing in the customizer…!

body.blog .content-area {
padding-top: 0px;
}

Moving the Page and Post Heading Down to stop it obscuring featured image in WordPress Twenty Fourteen

You see the problem – the image you chose is partly hidden behind the page title or post title. This code is tested with Twenty Fourteen. You need to add it to your custom CSS file.

.full-width .site-content .has-post-thumbnail .entry-header,
.full-width.singular .site-content .hentry.has-post-thumbnail,
.site-content .has-post-thumbnail .entry-header {
margin-top: 0;
}

Replacing the grey striped background of WordPress.com Twenty Fourteen featured image with white CSS

You see the problem – the image you chose is narrow so, on a computer screen, it has a nasty grey background. This code is tested with Twenty Fourteen. You need premium or business to make it permanent – but you can try it using your CUSTOMIZE option on a free blog.

body.blog .content-area {
padding-top: 0px;
}
.post-thumbnail {
background: none;
text-align: center;
}

Rosalind Ann Martin Website Designer

These are among my recent designs – all are WordPress, all are closely linked with either Facebook or Twitter.

http://wpbells.org/ the website of the Winchester and Portsmouth Diocesan Guild of Bell Ringers, now running to about 1000 pages, with about 2000 hits a week.

http://witneyshuttle.com/ The website for the Company “Witney Shuttle”, Airport transport to Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds, launched Jan 2016.

http://birminghambells.com/ – Birmingham School of Bell Ringing – a smaller site, for a local group of ringers.

Category: Website Design