[David]

I’m pretty much a WordPress newbie, so anything I offer may be wrong. Nonetheless, I wanted to make a change to the presentation page layout and found, within my mantra-child directory, an ‘includes’ directory containing theme-frontpage.php. ‘includes’ did not contain any other files, but if edits to includes/theme-frontpage.php would work, I’d THINK you could duplicate theme-function.php there.

However, when I edited theme-frontpage.php, it didn’t result in any changes to the site, so…?

[Ed]

Nevermind… I found it…. Geezzz

LOL

[Jim]

Hi

Are you resizing your images to match the size of the slider as shown in the Presentation page settings? i.e. something like 1150px x 400px and then uploading them into the slide 1,2,3 areas etc. and setting the slider to show custom slides as the option?

I found that if pics aren’t resized they can look very weird as they try and expand or shrink to fit the settings.

Also check you dont have a Nivo slider plug-in that might be causing conflict so maybe try deactivating likely culprits.

Id you have done all the above and it still doesn’t work then I’m at a bit of a loss.

I hope this helps

Jim..

[Jfk]

I found how to 🙂
If you’ve enabled the presentation page and also want to create a blog page (like the default WordPress homepage), create a new empty page and choose “Blog Template (Posts Page)” as the page template.

Then add a link to that page in your menu(s) (if it isn’t displayed automatically).

Thanks
J

[Jim]

Hi Jeff

Yes I was thinking yesterday that your menu did look a bit strange, and out of alignment, I am just a humble user like yourself. I did try doing a comparison between the demo Tempera page and your site to see if I could spot any obvious differences but found nothing. So what I would try, if it were me, is to de-install the theme and re-install it again. Perhaps export your settings first then re-import afterwards. If the menu then looks OK try checking that custom CSS code again. Your existing pages should not be affected but you may need to reload images into the slider.

Sorry I can’t be of more help

Jim…

[Stev]

Found the problem. I needed to set any page as the homepage even though it wasn’t going to appear. Wierd

[Jim]

Hi Jeff

The option you found within settings was to switch off the navigation arrows either side of the main slider image.
The only way I know of to remove those down arrows is to set up some custom CSS coding. If you go into miscellaneous settings and then paste the code below into the custom CSS area, it should do the trick.

#access > .menu > ul > li > a:not(:only-child) span:after {
content: “”;
}

I hope this helps

Jim..

[Los]

Dawna is not making it up. It JUST happened to me and It freaked me out. I was tweaking the settings of a plugin and I saved it, refreshed the page and BOOM – every color is changed drastically.

I went into the color setting and all my colors are there the way I left them and I changed a couple and put them back to normal and nothing. No change. That’s what she means by no longer having control of the color settings.

I found Tempera about 3 days ago after setting up my blog with Parabola only to completely lose all my work after trying to switch url’s. I’m glad that headache happened because I absolutely love Tempera. But if this happened so often with Dawna it scares me that I’ll be having to change the colors every so often.

[Eric]

Hi folks,

I love this theme. I’m working on a new site using it, which uses widgets instead of posts on the presentation page. Under the Cryout widgets, there’s a search bar that gives the ‘Nothing Found’ message. I can’t seem to find where to remove the search box. Can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

[Ingo]

Found it! Jim answered it in another topic. you can find it here:
http://www.cryoutcreations.eu/forums/t/change-size-and-font-for-presentation-page-titles

[maren]

I found a way around it. It seems to be a Tempera problem.
At Appearance: Header ( Not the header in Tempera Settings)
Upload a transparent image as a header. This wil keep the space.
At Tempera Settings> Header Settings, play around with the Header Image Checkboxes, the height etc. until your logo is where you want it on mobile.
If Anyone has a better solution than this, please let me know?
Thanks

[Tim]

Hi. I’m having the same issue. If I reduce the number of displayed posts to less than the number of posts on my site, when I go to page 2 I get

“Not Found

Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help.”

I am still using Tempera 0.9.7 because my site needs pages, not a continuously expanding front page. Is there a fix for my site?

– Tim

[Jim]

Hi Mali

I couldn’t figure how to do this within Parabola, however I found this plug in that seems to do the job.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/open-external-links-in-a-new-window/

Hope this helps

Jim…

[Jim]

Hi Camilo

After a bit of investigation I think I have found what you want to do by using custom CSS coding.
I put the following code in the Miscellaneous/ CSS code area and it seemed to work OK, you may have to play around with margins to get the page height position correct and also I had to use z-index to ensure the menu remained as the top layer when I scrolled down. (For info, I was using a header widget that had a z-index of 251 so I needed to set the value higher.)

#access {
position: fixed;
z-index: 252;
}

I hope this makes sense and helps

Jim..

[Petec]

Found it 🙂

It’s wp-content/themes/parabola/frontpage.php

Line 40, I changed:

jQuery(this).find(‘img’).stop().animate({opacity:’0.7′},{queue:false,duration:600});

to

jQuery(this).find(‘img’).stop().animate({opacity:’1′},{queue:false,duration:600});

[Peter]

Hi there,

i am just starting with wordpress and i am looking for a responsive theme. i found yours and i like it a lot. there is just one issue with the responsivness of it.

it works fine on my phone, but i dont have a tablet to try it. anyway i did manually resize it on my pc.

if i open the browser as a full window it looks great, if i start to shrink the window it just doesnt shrink the images in the header slider of your theme until to a certain point, after that it works fine again and just minimizes everything, but from full screen (1920px) to about have of the screen size it just shrinks the website but the image of the header slider stays at the original size and it will display me a scrollbar.

this also happens, when i view a post itself. here it shows a horizontal scrollbar until i shrink it down as much that the widget bar (no matter if right or left) gets moved to the bottom, because of not enough space…

could you have a look into this. Yours is so far the best responsive layout i found. its only this little glithc

[wzy Media]

don’t bother i found the lines in mantra\includes\theme-frontpage.php and i commented them out

[Jim]

Hi

I’ve not found anything like this within Tempera itself, I would suggest looking for something like a post list plug-in that shows posts by category. A quick search of plug-ins by “post list category” showed there are a few about but wouldn’t know which to recommend.

I hope this helps

Jim…

[Sylvia]

I haven’t tried this in the Misc. area of Parabola but I found this snippet that could help you.

<?php
$time = time () ;
//This line gets the current time off the server

$year= date(“Y”,$time) . “<br>”;
//This line formats it to display just the year

echo “Copyright 2002 – ” . $year;
//this line prints out the copyright date range, you need to edit 2002 to be your opening year
?>

Source: http://php.about.com/od/finishedphp1/qt/copyright.htm

[pigsound]

hi,
still talking to myself in here… :-/
in the meantime i could verify, that i have not made any change to the frontpage.php – the lines i quoted in my last post are exactly the same as in the original parabola theme file.

i found out that the read more link works and appears after 20 words, as soon as i delete the “more” tag from the text.

i hope all this information i am posting here can help you, zed, or anybody else, to help me get rid of this annoying bug.

pigsound

[pigsound]

…and still trying to find that excerpt link bug…
in the frontpage.php on lines 10 to 16, i found the following code, of which i am not sure, if i had left it original or changed it – can you tell me if this code is in original version?

function parabola_excerpt_length_slider( $length ) {
return 50;
}

function parabola_excerpt_more_slider( $more ) {
return ‘…’;
}

[pigsound]

hi zed,
during my search for the bug causing the strange excerpt behavior i found out that when setting the excerpt “sticky post” to “show full”, the “featured image” will not be displayed. to make an image show, one has to place it in the text body.
is that by purpose?

pigsound

[Radek]

I found solution with Custom Content Shortcode.

I have page homepage (CZ) and its translation welcome-to-our-website (EN)

In Extra text -> Top Title I put this code:
[loop type=”page” name=”homepage”][content field=”title”][/loop]
and
In Extra text -> Top Title I put this code:
[loop type=”page” name=”homepage”][content][/loop]

I also tried it without the loop section, because my homepage is the “homepage” page.
So I tried this code without the loop, because it should show the current page:
[content type=”page” field=”title”]
But this is WRONG, because it displays last post (no page).

[Petec]

Hi Jim and thanks for the reply.

I found the following in the mobile.css

#front-text1 h1, #front-text2 h1 {
font-size: 2em;
line-height: 1.3em;
}

And all I had to do was change the the font size to to following ( I also changed the line height for a bit extra seperation):

#front-text1 h1, #front-text2 h1 {
font-size: 1.3em;
line-height: 1.5em;
}

Tested and this works for me. I know it’s the main mobile css, but this is such a minor thing to edit in future updates, I really don’t care 🙂

Thanks again for your help!

[Kat]

Found a solution for anyone struggling with the same issue.

Deleting the theme files from the server didn’t seem to help, restoring theme options didn’t help. Finally went into the MySQL database and deleted the text in the option_value field for the tempera_settings option_name. The background is back to normal and the transparency is gone.

[Kevin]

Had the same problem as Nyasha, “Not Found – Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help.” when navigating the slider. Found that the plugin for InBound Now (Call To Action from http://www.inboundnow.com/cta/) was interfering with the slider, and when deactivated, the slider is back to normal!

[Richard]

Hi Zed,

I have been trying to find a solution to the OPACITY issue and found the code below on the web. I placed it in the Custom CSS area of parabola and it works but it makes the who page transparent. If i want to make just the widget and post background colours transparent where can i add this in the stylesheet

#wrapper
{
background-color: #FFFFFF;
opacity: 0.40;
}

Cheers

Richard

[Nyasha]

Thank you so much for your wonderful themes.
I currently use Mantra on my taxation blog http://www.sataxguide.co.za. Its so fantastic.

I however wants to use the Tempera theme, I am encountering a problem when I want to change the Presentation Page, When I change the Slides and click Save Changes, it gives me an error below:

Not Found – Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help.

Please help.

Regards
Nyasha Musviba

[ArchMunky]

I usually show the social links in the footer but upon update I’m seeing a huge facebook icon where my banner should be. I’ve found a solution that works for me. I temporarily removed the social buttons area from the header using custom css:

Under Appearance-Edit CSS add the following:
#sheader { visibility: hidden; }

This hides the entire social area in the header and allows my banner to look normal.

[share]

I’m so glad I found my solution online.