Setting up the front page slider

[mkoller]

I've done the following

• Click on Appearance → Widgets.
• Add two, or more, widgets of any kind to widget area “Hero”.
• That’s it.

Added some text boxes to the hero slider widget

Set a new page called home to the front page.

But I'm not getting a slider on the front page, there are no console errors.

npm install bower install gulp copy-assets and browserync all work flawlessly, anything I'm missing?

Edit do I manually have to add the slider to a page template?

 <div class="wrapper" id="wrapper-hero">
 <div class="owl-carousel">
 <?php dynamic_sidebar( 'hero' ); ?>
 </div><!-- .owl-carousel -->
</div><!-- #wrapper-hero --> 

[holger1411]

Hi!
The problem in your case might by line 17 in index.php (https://github.com/holger1411/understrap/blob/master/index.php#L17), which looks like:

if ( is_front_page() && is_home() ) {
It checks if it is the front page and the homepage.
The "is_front_page" checks if it is the blog page where all the articles will appear.
If you set a static page as homepage te slider will disappear, because it is still the homepage but not the front_page (in the WP terminology) anymore.
It was one of the coding standards requested by the WP Theme review team during the submission process for adding UnderStrap to the wordpress.org theme repository.

But you should be able to change it in your case just to:
if ( is_home() ){
Than the slider should appear even if the frontpage is a static page.

[2pixels]

Hi, I have the same issue with the hero slider. The hero widget doesn't appear on my static homepage.
Here is how you can fix it:
Copy these lines to page.php to the same place as index.php
if ( is_front_page() && is_home() ) : get_template_part( 'global-templates/hero' ); endif;

[brevelles]

For me the solution was to add if ( is_front_page() ) to the page.php file.

[dewolfe001]

Wow. This works like a charm! I keep tripping over aspects of the my work where I say, "I'm going to have to do a lot of coding and configurations..." -- only to find it's already built into Understrap.