[Zed]

The 4th column is displayed just fine.

Fields that are empty don’t get displayed (like the text and link).

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[Kay]

The default WordPress behavior uses as the front page whatever you selected in the admin section under Settings >> Reading >>Front page displays,  where you probably have selected a static page.  Reset the value to  ‘your latest posts’ and everything should be back to normal.  It is a small bug on our part but it only happens if you misuse or do not understand this WordPress feature. This will also be fixed in the next theme version.

@Tim R: So before you start using words bigger than yourself in an area where your knowledge is clearly lacking you should not change any settings that you don’t know the effect of, or in case that you do, you should remember to go back and check them again.

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[Tim]

UPDATE: I thought I would post my progress to help any others with the same problem.
After switching themes to “Mantra”, I noticed that that theme was fine, the only difference is as follows;
In Mantra (which is almost the same theme) under settings, reading, the front page display must be set to your latest post instead of static homepage. So I thought I would try that in parabola theme and “Boom” it worked! So from the WP dashboard just click on settings, then reading, then click the (your latest post button) for a fix. Not sure why this changed in the new version, but I’m sure they are looking into it. Thanks.

[Thomas]

Hi,

After update, the Home page doesn’t display the slide show and the presentation page columns.

Thank’s to tell us how to do.

[chuckles]

In their v1.1.0 notes they say the following:

“breaks the sidebars by displaying all widgets twice; we’ve already fixed this and the fix should become available very soon as v1.1.1;”

Here’s hoping v1.1.1 is coming very very quickly as I too have a site ready to launch!tedchs

[habannah]

My presentation page is also not displaying properly since the update — neither the slider nor the columns or any extra text are displaying, just the header and footer… Hoping the new update that fixes the doubles widgets fixes that, too!

[Johnathan]

Comment code is below:

<?php

/**

 * The template for displaying Comments.

 *

 * The area of the page that contains both current comments

 * and the comment form.  The actual display of comments is

 * handled by a callback to mantra_comment which is

 * located in the includes/theme-comments.php file.

 *

 * @package Cryout Creations

 * @subpackage mantra

 * @since mantra 0.5

 */

?>

			<div id="comments">

<?php if ( post_password_required() ) : ?>

				<p class="nopassword"><?php _e( 'This post is password protected. Enter the password to view any comments.', 'mantra' ); ?></p>

			</div><!-- #comments -->

<?php

		/* Stop the rest of comments.php from being processed,

		 * but don't kill the script entirely -- we still have

		 * to fully load the template.

		 */

		return;

	endif;

?>

<?php

	// You can start editing here -- including this comment!

?>

<?php if ( have_comments() ) : 

			

	cryout_before_comments_hook(); ?>

	<ol class="commentlist">

			

		<?php cryout_comments_hook(); ?>

	

	</ol>

	<?php cryout_after_comments_hook(); 

?><?php else : // or, if we don't have comments:

		cryout_nocomments_hook();

 endif; // end have_comments() ?>

<?php comment_form(); ?>

</div><!-- #comments --

>

[Zed]

#content .page-header { display: none;  }

will hide it via CSS

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[Zed]

It’s the second option in the second row next to Site Title.

Hover over the fields to see their names (or click on them to open the color selector which also displays the names of the fields)

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[Zed]

A bit of CSS knowledge and using the browser’s developer tools (or better yet, Firebug), really eases up the work on websites.

1. #access .menu { display: table; margin: 0 auto; }

2. #access { margin-top: value; }

3. .slider-wrapper { margin-top: value; }
#container { margin-top: value; }

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[Michael]

I’m not sure if this solves the problem anyone is having with the Slider not working in Parabola, but it should work fine with the following settings:

1) Go to Parabola Settings > Presentation Page > Slides. In the “Slides Content” box, select “Sticky Posts”. In the box under this you can select the Maximum number of slides you want to appear in the Slider.

2) Make your slides (images) a “Post” instead of a “Page”, etc.

3) On right hand side of page under Publish > Public > (Check the box: “Stick this post to the front page”)

4) Under Format, select “Image”

5) Under Featured Image, select the same image as in step #2, to be displayed in the Slider

You can add as many Posts (images) as you like as opposed to being limited to only (5) if you select “Custom Slides” in step #1 above.

That’s it!

[Fulco]

Hi Zed,

Thanx for your reply. This clarifies a lot to me. As I wrote somewhere in my previous posts, I already discovered that WP generates cropped images automatically (in an FTP client you can see that). I also figured out (after that post) that it crops to the dimensions that are set in Mantra at that time for any image uploaded after the header dimensions settings become effective.
So I can follow your story on this.
However, for a non seasoned websuite owner, and as shown by your header image, automatic cropping does not always provide a nice view. Your header image is only a part of the big image. When the header height and width are not in the same proportions as the original image, you will end up with a part that you might not like.
Unless there is a possibility to enter height and width for the chosen header image and an option to maintain aspect ratio of the original image, which is already uploaded to the media section, there will be no other option than to upload only images cropped to the correct size.
Another option would be to crop outside of WP, upload through an ftp client and select a picture by using the right url (which is somewhere in your mediasection of WP or whatever location on your server you might choose).
This last method is in my opionion not a valid option since WP advocates that it is a platform for users without knowledge.
In order to make things really user friendly, it would be neat to have the possibility to have the option in the header settings to enter height and width of the header image, an aspect ratio select/check box for cropping purpose, after which the selected header image is cropped.
This way images can be displayed as original, in whole, resized in a user friendly way.
All this of course besides the possibilities already at hand, and as shown by your image.

Again, thanx a lot for the nice Mantra theme and keep up the good work.

Regards,

Fulco

[Zed]

Hi.

I would have replied to your previous forum topic, I just didn’t get around to it.

The checkbox you mention does a totally different thing than the issue you reported. It’s meant for the mobile/responsiveness view of the site, it has nothing to do with featured images used as header images.

The fix we included in Mantra 2.1 / Parabola 1.0.1 makes the theme use the image with the exact size as the header to display there. This works when the uploaded image is bigger or at least exactly the size of the header (as configured).

The trick is that WordPress generates cropped images on upload, and it generates them on the sizes configured at that exact moment. If in the meantime you changed your header size, the images are no longer valid and it reverts to using the full size version.

I tested this behaviour (after implementing the fix) and as you can see in the image below, the 1920×1080 image (which is also displayed in the post, but also set as a featured image) is cropped and resized to fit in the header at the correct size (as configured in the settings).

If you still encounter issues getting the wrong image size after the updates, try to delete that image from the library and re-upload it (to force WordPress to re-create the smaller versions).

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[Zed]

You already hid the header. You might want to hide the menu as well…

body.home #access { display: none; }

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[Zed]

Use the name of the font as it is displayed on the embed code at Google. If the font name is made up of several words, the correct name will most likely contain pluses instead of spaces, eg: Font+Name

If the font features several styles, the name is even more complicated, like Font+Name:300,300italic,400,700bold

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[Gernot]

Hi Mauro,

I also started using the Parabola Theme and I wanted to display the blog beneath the presentation page. I couldn’t find any option in the Settings Page to do so, but a very small modification of the template code seems to do the trick:

Get the index.php in your Parabola folder
in line number 16 in that file, instead of “else :” write “endif;”
in line number 59 delete the “endif;”
Upload the modified index.php to your Parabola folder

I’ve done it this way and for me it works, so far nothing seems broken.

[Zed]

0.9.9 should fix the mobile menu missing on mobile devices.

And please don’t use the header image to display logos. It is not intended to be used that way.
Use the logo functionality instead.

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[Leon]

Good day! Thanks for a great theme 🙂 Our school uses it for our website and all the lastest news we have ons the “Gebeure” post page (News Page) and then we have static pages for al the different sports, etc.
Will it be possible to develop multiple post pages? For example we want to add a post of the lasest soccer news and it automatically gets added to the news page AND soccer page. By a single post you can choose where that post should be displayed, etc.
Thank you 🙂

[Zed]

I don’t see excerpts on your website at the moment. Could you turn them on?

The theme displays the “featured image” as post image when displaying excerpts.

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[Fulco]

Extra info: I discovered via Filezilla FTP access to the upload map, that WP stores several different file sizes of the images that are uploaded. One of the stored image sizes is exact the size of the header with * header height. When I change the header height and upload a new image, a new file is stored with this new header height, so it seems. Nevertheless, the image is not displayed properly.

[Jeff]

go to Appearance> Parabola Settings> Miscellaneous Settings> Custom CSS (text box)

Copy and paste what’s below in to the text box and save the settings.

#access, #access .menu { text-align:center; } #access ul li { float: none; display: inline-block; text-align:left }

[Rebecca Dooley]

Hi,

I also want to remove slider. I have added the code from above in Misc. Settings -> Custom CSS but it’s not removing the slider. I checked source code and I see “.slider-wrapper {display:none; }” but it’s still there. I have inspected the element, etc. I’ve even gone so far as to delete any/all references to the slider section in the editor and it still doesn’t go away. Any words of advice? Much appreciated!

Rebecca

[Pantelis]

Question on that, cause i want to have also more “custom slides”.
I’m ok to create post generated slides and to put featured image and leave post empty.
Where should i change the code so i won’t have linkable/clickable slides/post (just slideshow of images as you can do on a custom selection of images)?

and also what class/id should i configure, so i won’t have nivo-caption appearing in the slideshow (the title of each post) ? i tried on custom css to add .nivo-caption {display: none; } but it kept appearing.
thanks in advance

[Zed]

The header image does get a bit squashed. That’s expected behaviour since the header needs to keep a particular minimum height to fit its content (like site title or logo) and an image cannot remain a particular height and shrink in width and keep its aspect ratio at the same time.

If you’re using a header image with text, perhaps you should move your text in a logo image, as that one is resized while maintaining its aspect ratio.

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[Jeff Seevers]

Love this theme, but I’m having the same issue with my header image. Looks fine on the website, but when I go to look on my iPhone using Chrome on my iPhone, it’s squashed.

Currently using 2.0.5.

[Zed]

I see your custom style is displayed in the source of the page and is active on the rendering.

Did you solve the issue? The only wrong thing i see is that part of the header image is missing. But you can easily fix that by increasing the header height to about 140px.

The JavaScript related messages is only a problem if it stays there all the time. You should only see it for a moment while your website is loading and then it should go away.

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[Carole]

I have managed to sort it, by changing the text size under “mantra settings” from 14px to 16px but that doesn’t explain why it was displaying in two different sizes when it was set to 14px???

[Zed]

I tested this and the feed displays fine on my test site.

Double-check your feed code, you might have an error in it or pasted it wrong.

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[Zed]

If you get to see it for a second, that means your admin area is just loading a bit slow but there’s nothing wrong.

It’s only a problem if the errors stays displayed after the page load is complete.

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[Zed]

Browsers don’t refresh the favicon instantly.

I see your favicon just fine (a styled “SK”), so the favicon works fine.

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