Hi Air,
As I'm a videographer, I really need videos on my home page instead of photos!
I need to be able to get this kind of effect:
https://www.annekairelandvideography.co.uk/This is my home page:
https://www.artoflifefilms.com/I'd like to replace all of the photos with very short video clips.
At the moment when I try and upload videos, they show for a second and then go black. If I try to link to Vimeo, it shows vimeo branding and a border which I don't want. I don't mind losing some of the video edges as long as I can achieve this.
I can't find anything in the theme documentation to help me with this.
Please can you help?
Thanks,
Heather
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Please create not linked page where you could show me what you are experiencing.
Are you trying to use them in a slider, or in the background in Elementor widget, or somewhere else?
With kind regards.
https://www.artoflifefilms.com/?post_type=album&p=10844&preview=true
Sorry, but I can not view your preview of page. I need a link to existing page, not the preview.
Anyway, you will not be able to do what you want with the slider.
You should rather use a video background feature from the Elementor like explained here https://apollo13themes.com/basic-elementor-plugin-tricks/#videobg
With kind regards.
But yes, it's not right, doesn't autoplay, doesn't fill the space...
I'll read about the video background feature, it just felt like I should have been able to do what I wanted with the slider!
Thanks
Heather
Okay.... I've used the video background feature and I've got it to work, I used another type of page to do it, but it won't accept a vimeo link, only a YouTube link. Please could you update the theme so I'm not forced to use YouTube please?
They got these fatal errors when running any command with WP-CLI (also registered in PHP's error log):
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function get_option() on null in /home/heath881/public_html/artoflifefilms.com/wp-content/themes/rife/advance/sidebars.php:54
This was the first indication to them that there was a problem with the Rife theme, which they felt was causing the issue.
They told me to reach out to you and provide you with this information:
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function get_option() on null in /home/heath881/public_html/artoflifefilms.com/wp-content/themes/rife/advance/sidebars.php:54
Stack trace:
#0 /home/heath881/public_html/artoflifefilms.com/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(286): apollo13framework_add_sidebars('')
#1 /home/heath881/public_html/artoflifefilms.com/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(310): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array)
#2 /home/heath881/public_html/artoflifefilms.com/wp-includes/plugin.php(465): WP_Hook->do_action(Array)
#3 /home/heath881/public_html/artoflifefilms.com/wp-includes/widgets.php(1715): do_action('widgets_init')
#4 /home/heath881/public_html/artoflifefilms.com/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(286): wp_widgets_init('')
#5 /home/heath881/public_html/artoflifefilms.com/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(310): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array)
#6 /home/heath881/public_html/artoflifefilms.com/wp-includes/plugin.php(465): WP_Hook->do_action(Array)
#7 /home/heath881/public_html/artoflifefilms.com/wp-settings.php(525): in /home/heath881/public_html/artoflifefilms.com/wp-content/themes/rife/advance/sidebars.php on line 54
Please could you troubleshoot this issue and give me step by steps on how to fix it? I'm happy to give you temporary access to my WP site if that's easier - please could email outside of the forum if you need this.
Thanks,
Heather
Wow, how many posts over the weekend from you. Let's go with them:
This is Elementor feature, so the theme has nothing to do with this.
I see there is a feature request for this https://github.com/elementor/elementor/issues/1903
You don't have to use YouTube, you can also upload a video on your server, and add in Elementor a link to this video.
More like there was weekend when no one was available. But we should be able to sort it out :-)
Albums are not editable in Elementor, so you will not get an option to edit it with Elementor.
If you want to use part of an album, like a slider or bricks, then create a normal page and embed album with our theme widgets https://rifetheme.com/help/docs/content-management/elementor-widgets/
Your current homepage is an album, so you should rather make it a normal page, and then tweak everything to your needs.
We will sort it out together :-)
With kind regards.
I copied the About page to make a new home page but I couldn't get it to display properly so I had to revert back to the Album so that clients weren't presented with a 404 page for my home page!
The normal page isn't displaying correctly, it feels like something is not set correctly but I can't find any guidelines on your site for all the settings I need to change, perhaps something is missed?
Thanks
Heather
1. Here are instructions on how to set a page as the homepage: https://rifetheme.com/help/docs/basic-setup/front-page/
2. Instruction on how to prepare page for Elementor: https://apollo13themes.com/rife/tutorials/#elementorpage
For now, you can set this new page as some not linked page, so we could make it look proper before you will set it as your new homepage.
Let me know what other details I can provide to you.
With kind regards.
Thanks so much for this, I was positive there was a missing step. I'd set up the Read settings and already followed your instructions on the Elementor page set up correctly, but didn't know I had to customise the theme Front page to complete it.
That was the missing instruction I couldn't find!
It appears (fingers crossed to be fine now).
You can see the page here, it's now live:
https://www.artoflifefilms.com/
Best
Heather
With kind regards.