Order of Speakers Widget

How can I adjust the order of the speakers in the widget animation so that my headliner comes up in the large circle initially, before it rotates? I'd also like to control who is immediately to the right of the large circle.

Also, on the main speakers page is it possible to have the top row be two large circles, centred, followed by the rows of smaller circles? I'd like it to be obvious who the main speakers are.

Thanks!

Hi,
Order of the speakers in animation is caused by speaker-post order (date). The easiest way to change it, is change date of post adding. The animation always shows 5 speakers, so large circle in the middle is always 3rd speaker. Immediately to the left are first and second speaker, analogously to the right 4th and 5th.

If you want to achieve top row with two large centered circles on the main speakers page, use e. g. this code in /css/extensions.css file:

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.speakers-page #post-799,
.speakers-page #post-797 {
    width: 50%;
}

.speakers-page #post-799 figure.featured-image img,
.speakers-page #post-797 figure.featured-image img {
    height: 240px;
    width: 240px;
}

.speakers-page #post-799 figure.featured-image,
.speakers-page #post-797 figure.featured-image {
    max-width: 256px;
}

,where #post-799 and #post-797 are yours first and second speaker (article id)

Hi Piotr,
I finally got around to making the two main speakers on the speakers page larger than the others. The css code worked great, and the two speaker circles are larger than the others, and are centered. Problem is, there are circles appearing above and below the larger main speaker circles. They are not at the top of the speakers page. Can you modify the code for me please so that they appear at the top?

See it here: http://burtonjazzfestival.com/cat/artists/

Hi,

It's enought to change article id to:

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.speakers-page #post-350,
.speakers-page #post-341

Remember that these rules can be used only for first and second speaker. If you want another order you should change e.g. date of publishing.

Thanks for your fast response! I updated the publish date for the two main artists to today, while all the others were published yesterday. They are still appearing in the centre row of three rows instead of being on the top of the others. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong please?
http://burtonjazzfestival.com/cat/artists/

Perhaps it's because the artists are being listed alphabetically?

Could you send me a PM with backend access?

Hi - Followed along and used your advice here to get my two featured speakers as larger circles on the speakers page and it worked well!

Question: Is it possible to do that and make them the 3rd and 4th bubbles on the GKspeakers widget on the homepage too?

Here's my speaker page (working well) - ipadpalooza.com/category/speakers-2

Is there a way to "trick" the widget to put my featured keynote speakers bubble 3 and 4 on the home page? Thanks.

Unfortunately this kind of modifications are beyond our support but I'll give you quick tip, you should edit Fest/gavern/widget.speakers.php file and modify the speakers loop (around line 76)

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$gk_loop = new WP_Query

http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query
You can combine order and offset attribute and try some values..