[Zed]

The presentation page does not display the sidebar(s).

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[Jim]

Hi Gary

The only way to change the look of the main menu, currently, is via custom CSS. I have added below some below that I put in for my site. Rounding and shadowing mainly.

#access ul li a, #access ul li a span {
border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
font-family: Open Sans;
}
#access a span {
border-radius: 5px;
box-shadow: 0px 3px 5px black;
display:block;
padding:6px 13px;
}

I hope this helps

Jim…

[Brian Siano]

I’m having a similar problem on my Presentation Page. The main slider’s only displaying one or two posts, and I’d prefer to have it display roughly 5-7 posts.

I’ve tried the fix Kay described above, but it doesn’t seem to help.

[Jim]

Hi Val

I just went and grabbed the CSS within that element and changed things like font size, colour, font family etc. then saved it in the customCSS area within Parabola.

Ended up with something like this in the custom CSS area.

#front-text1 h1, #front-text2 h1 {
clear: both;
color: #FFF5EE;
display: block;
float: none;
font-family: marck script;
font-size: 32px;
line-height: 32px;
margin: 35px auto;
text-align: center;
text-shadow: 0 1px 2px #000000;
}

It does change the text to the same for both the top and bottom titles so you may need to investigate that further.

I hope this helps…

Jim…

[Avante]

Where should the custom CSS be added? I placed it in the Custom CSS field in your porabola template, saved, but the category labels still appear:

Miscellaneous Settings >
/* Parabola Custom CSS */
#content .category-archive-meta { display: none; }

Example: http://avanteideas.com/just4fun/category/minecraft/
You’ll see the “Category Archives: Minecraft” label just above the post.

[Lin McDowell]

This issue was resolved in the Parabola WordPress support forum:http://wordpress.org/support/topic/mobile-site-doesnt-display-properly. I had Jetpack’s Mobile theme enabled, which conflicts with Parabola’s settings. Once I deactivated the mobile theme setting in Jetpack, all was well.

Thanks again to Zed.

[Quintrala]

Hi! I want to do the same. I’m using a mantra child theme. The first time I installed Mantra, I was able to load a picture into the headline. the picture is still in my site files. Unfortunately, I had issues with the theme which made me remove it, and now, when I try to reinsert the picture, it does not let me. It asks me to crop it no matter how small is the size I make it, keep asking me to crop it. Can someone help me?

@Mr Shuttle:
If it’s the first time you install Mantra and you want to display a picture in the headline, just go into the Mantra Seettings>Header first. There you can choose if you want to change the Tittle and tag line information or want to add custom logo, clickable header or leave it empty. This is done by choosing in the drop down menu that says Site Tittle and description. If you want an image bigger than 800×250 px then choose empty and save. Choose header under Mantra Settings and insert your image there. It acepts only certain sizes so be careful to choose the right size or adjust your image size to fit the space.
Is you are in need to change the Site’s name and desciption, this is done trough WordPress by going into customize and in the left side choosing the Site and Tittle tab. There you can insert your new site and title site. Please mr Shuttle, do not close this ticket so they can help me with my issue which is a little more complicated.

[C Myguts]

I have a similar problem.
WHY are the photo’s being uploaded to the wrong folder?
On my website at broadstreetchurch.com no pictures are showing, not even the demo ones

[Kay]

I really think that if the plugin you’re using is creating another author info box, it should be the one to hide the default WordPress one as well. This is not theme related, this is normal WordPress behaviour.

Anyway, an easy way to hide it via CSS would be this:


#entry-author-info {
display:none;
}


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[Jim]

Hi Rachel

I seem to be getting the kind of information you are looking for appearing under my posts (avatar, name and bio), though I’m not quite sure how I managed to enable it, especially, if you aren’t seeing it. I’ve gone through all the relevant settings in Parabola and not been able to switch it off. Also looked through WP settings and not seen anything there either, apart from not displaying the Avatar. If I find any more info I will let you know.
In the meantime one of these plug ins may help you.

http://wpmu.org/9-top-free-wordpress-author-bio-box-plugins/

Cheers

Jim…
(a Parabola user)

[Jim]

Hi

This would be the custom CSS if you were placing the social icons at the side.

#srights, #slefts {
border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
border-radius: 10px;
display: block;
height: auto;
margin: 0;
opacity: 0.5;
padding: 5px;
position: fixed;
right: 0;
top: 40%;
transition: opacity 0.5s ease-in-out 0s;
width: 30px;
z-index: 99;
}

[Jim]

Hi

The following custom CSS worked for me.

#access ul li a, #access ul li a span {
border-radius: 5px;
font-family: Open Sans;
}

#access a span {
border-radius: 5px;
box-shadow: 0px 3px 5px black;
display:block;
padding:6px 13px;
}

obviously would need tweaking a bit.

Hope it helps

Jim…

[Zed]

Custom CSS:
#nav-above { display: none; }

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[Zed]

There’s no option for this. You can use custom CSS:
#content .category-archive-meta { display: none; }

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[Zed]

I think we overlooked this. We’ll add the display of featured images on pages in the next update.

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[Zed]

The blog page has pagination (and is split into multiple pages of posts).
If it seems too long for you, reduce the number of displayed posts (Settings > Reading).

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[Zed]

Those are links valid for the single post page, not a category page (which the posts list is).
Look into that file, there’s a
//if($parabola_pagination=="Enable") parabola_pagination(); else parabola_content_nav( 'nav-below' );
line. Remove the //
Please disregard this suggestion. While this will display the navigation on the presentation page blogs, the page links are invalid.

• This reply was modified 11 years ago by Zed. Reason: corrected

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[Zed]

That message only means trouble if it remains displayed after the page has completed loading (a couple of seconds?).
If it remains visible, then you’re having javascript issues (most likely caused by some plugin installed in your WordPress).

See here for a step-by-step guide to debugging.

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[Zed]

If you’re referring to the presentation page, that can’t be done unless you rewrite the entire presentation page file to static HTML.
Parabola has no way of reading information on the images set to be displayed on that page.

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[Jim]

Hi

You can change the menu text colour within the Parabola theme but it doesn’t look like you can in the Mantra theme. You could put the following into your Custom CSS area (under Miscellaneous Settings) and change the colour to what you want.

#access a {
display:block;
color: #5F5B5B;
text-decoration: none;
padding:0.2em 1.2em;
font-size:14px;
}

I hope this helps…

Jim

[Jim]

Hi DS

Hi

It can’t be done on the presentation page.

You can basically either use the Presentation page or not on which you can choose to display or not display the footer widgets. Other than that you can disable presentation page and create your own with sidebars.

Was discussed here:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-on-presentation-page

I hope this helps

Jim…

[Reema]

OMG, I’m so sorry! I didn’t even think to look at the rest of the site. I just assumed that it wasn’t working because it wasn’t on the presentation page.

Why can’t I see it on the presentation page? And is there a way to display it?

[Zed]

If you’re expecting the sidebar to be visible on the presentation page, that will not happen 🙂
On the rest of the site I see the sidebar being displayed just fine.

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[Jim King]

Hi
Can’t be done as far as I’m aware. You can basically either use the Presentation page or not on which you can choose to display or not display the footer widgets. I guess you could create your own model of the front page with a slider plugin.

Was discussed here:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-on-presentation-page

Cheers

Jim…

[Jim King]

Hi Sheri

If it was me, looking at your site I’d switch off the top menu via Customize > Navigation and set top menu back to -Select-. Also remove the social icons in Parabola settings > Social Display and un check header near the bottom. Then either tweak the CSS or put the phone number in a header image.

Hope this makes sense and is of help

Jim..

[Muqarnas]

Thanks for the reply Zed, I am on version 24 in Firefox as for internet explorer which displays everything fine I am on version 10.09200.16686.
How can I send you screen captures of what I see on firefox, I have prepared the jpegs but I cannot attach here!
Thanks

[Jim King]

ps I also added the shadow to the Social Display (which I have set on the right)

a couple of screenshots examples below:

Front:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByA89tW4X1n1Vl9lSWhjV0E2bk0/edit?usp=sharing
Content:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByA89tW4X1n1MktLMkdMemNlNk0/edit?usp=sharing

Cheers

Jim..

[Muqarnas]

Hi
I have the opposite problem my site looks fine in IE but not in Firefox. I have a page with an interactive “Adobe shockwave” file which displays in correct dimension(800×600) in IE However in Firefox only 718×540 of it shows in other words its not reduced but rather a proportion is missing hidden from view. Also the slide show page on my website (http://www.vectian-multimedia.co.uk/reference/) looks fine in IE but not in firefox. I know you might say why don’t I put the question in firefox forum I will in addition to here but I was hoping you may have a workaround for firefox.
Thank you in anticipation
Muqarnas

[Zed]

I don’t see your email anywhere in the comments.

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[Zed]

No FAQs apply to your case since you are using a separate plugin to add custom content to your site, content not in WordPress by default.

As a result, the theme has no support for such custom content. If you want to display “events” in your presentation page, you’ll need to get down and dirty and modify the source code PHP for that special page and adapt it to display the content you want it to display.

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