Localbiz Site Builder Support Forum - Working With The LBSB Featured Panel

Removing The Featured Panel

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 10:34:34 +0000

Remove Featured Panel But Retain The Featured Sidebar.

This is easily done by simply selecting the "Page + Featured Side Panel" template from the Page Attributes (Template options).
Once done, you'll see the featured gallery panel disappear to allow the page content to move up into its place.

Creating a Video in the Featured Gallery

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 10:30:38 +0000

To feature a video in the main gallery is very simple.

Whatever page you are featuring as the page for the Video Featured Panel to appear; scroll down to the "Custom Fields" part of the Page editor (if you cant see it, then you might need to activate that section to show up by clicking the "Screen Options" tab in the top right corner of the page editor).

Once you have the Custom Fields section before you, you'll see 2 field entry boxes. One called "Name" and the other called "Value".
In the "Name" field, just type in the word "video" (exactly like that using all lower case letters). Then in the "Value" field, just paste in your video embed code and then save and you are done.

Now when you open that page, you'll see the video appearing in the featured gallery panel

Creating a Static Image For the Gallery

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 10:20:16 +0000

There is an option within the "Featured Panel" tab to "Use Main Feature Panel Image instead of Gallery Slider". When you select this option and upload an image (ideally 645x400px), then that image will appear in the gallery window.

You can use jpeg, png or gif images for this purpose.

Creating a Sliding Gallery

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 10:16:13 +0000

You can create a sliding gallery by selecting posts to appear as your content for the sliding gallery.

The images that will appear in the sliding gallery are determined by the "Featured Image" which you assign to any specific post. N.B. If you don't assign an "Featured Image" then nothing will appear in the sliding gallery.

The Sliding Gallery posts are controlled by nominating a post category so that all posts within that category will be rotated in the Sliding Gallery.
You can create multiple galleries simply by creating multiple post categories which you might name "Slider-1", "Slider-2" etc.

To create gallery slides from pages or that link to pages, just do this:
Example: To create a gallery slide for your "About" page, just create a Post and name it "About" (NB: the permalink path for the post must be identical to the one used for the page, which in this case we'll assume to be "/about".
You can copy and paste the first paragraph of the the About page, over to the Post, and then when your "About" post appears in the sliding gallery, it will look identical to the actual "About" page.
Now here the magic begins because whenever the "About" framed image within the sliding gallery is clicked, it will open up the Page "About".. and NOT the post!

Placing An Inline Text Linked Video

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 10:02:04 +0000

LBSB is set up so that whenever you paste a standard Youtube or Vimeo share link (E.G. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3uG4x7xrLs ) into any page or post, then when that text share link is clicked, the video will pop out into a lightbox and be ready for playing.

For example: To make this work, you would create some text like "Watch Video" and select that text to make it into a link. Then when you insert the standard share link of either Youtube or Vimeo, it will display that video automatically via a lightbox when the link is clicked.

How do I control text panel under Featured Panel for text and video?

Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:37:27 +0000

On all Featured Panel templates for the small subtext box under the featured gallery you control the content for that area (could be text, video, images or quote rotator widget) in "Custom Fields" which will appear on the Page editor if you scroll down (near to where the "comments on/off" is). If you cant see Custom field you need to go to top of page and check the box for Custom Fields in the "Screen Options" drop down menu.

Then create a custom field by inserting the word "text" in the "name" field, and then just drop your text or html code or WP shortcode into the corresponding "value" field.

Hint: a good idea is to write your text in the big main editor and there you can add bolding, underlines, links. colors etc,.. and then select the html view and copy to clipboard then drop into Custom Fields "value" field. Save and you're done.
Reason we use Custom fields is so that we can keep the main page editor free for content that will appear on the main page.

Placing a video in the Featured Text Panel:
To place a popout video in the Featured Text Panel you follow the same process as inserting text by using the page editor to create your embed code and then copy and paste that code into the custom field named "text". The actual code used to create a video that pops out from a static image can be seen below:
**IMPORTANT** YOU NEED TO USE YOUR OWN IMAGE (from URL or uploaded to media library) AND SWAP OUT THE YOUTUBE VIDEO ID'S WITH YOUR OWN!
(THIS CODE BELOW USES AUTOPLAY AND MODEST BRANDING (recommended) BUT YOU CAN MAKE IT MANUAL PLAY BY CHANGING CODE SNIPPET FROM "&autoplay=1" TO "&autoplay=0" )
NOTE THAT THE IMAGE SIZES HAVE BEEN CODED INLINE HERE TO DISPLAY A SMALL IMAGE OF 115h and 110w TO SUIT THE FEATURED TEXT PANEL BUT YOU CAN HAVE LARGER IMAGES FOR WIDGETS AND IN PAGE DISPLAY.

Code: