[jistwp]

Yes I did a CNTL F5 and it still looks the same on Google Chrome. However it looks fine on Microsoft Edge. Could it be the fact that I’m using Windows 10 on Google Chrome to view it?

[Kay]

@dneale123 You’re not doing the whole child theme thing properly. The child theme’s CSS shouldn’t also contain the parent theme’s old CSS. You are not including Tempera’s styling (which in the last version changed quite a bit, as it always does) and you’re using old Tempera styling (from version 0.9.8?). You need to only leave your Custom CSS in there and include the parent theme’s CSS via @include (which you commented out).

And yes, style-frontpage.css has been moved inside the main style (style.css). If you just want to copy that code into your child theme’s stylesheet (which is something I strongly advise against) you’d have to copy the section in style.css from /* Presentation Page */ up until /* Style HTML5 tags for IE8 and lower */ .

Again, you’re doing things wrong and further updates will probably cause other issues. The reason child themes exist is so that you can update the parent themes without having to worry about code changes. Keeping an old version of the style in your child theme and not using the current theme’s stylesheet is a bad practice and kind of renders null the use of a child theme.

@jistwp Could you show us a link to your site?

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[jistwp]

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[Wayfarer]

I also just updated and have an almost identical issue using the Child Theme:
1. the presentation page Cryout columns align vertically in one column, rather than horizontally in one row.
2. the Top Text and Second Text font sizes appear reduced.

However, if I live preview the site using through the main Tempera theme, the font size seems fine, and the Cryout columns do align horizontally. In the preview, however, it only displays Cryout columns 1, 2, & 4 – Column 3 vanishes altogether.

I also notice a search box in the main navigation bar in both the child and main theme, but cannot see how to disable/otherwise manipulate it.

Infidelity Help Group

(As an aside: I haven’t been to the site or the forums for a while, but I’m loving the new look!)

[mapperboy]

Workaround to my quest…
Found a good plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/q2w3-fixed-widget/
Its simple to use. After installing it, under Appearance->Widgets, there are check boxes labelled “Fixed Widget” displayed under each widget so that each widget can be ‘fixed’ or floated separately. On our site rtfzine.org I also installed Display Widgets from https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-widgets/ which allows each page to have it’s own selection from your available widgets -or NO widgets at all displayed. This is probably an overkill workaround to our need to have a special piece of floating text appear on only one page. Using Display Widgets I’ve created a widget which is just plain text which will display a message on just one page. I did this because all the other floating element plugin I found required a unique document element ID and I don’t know how to determine Mantra element IDs. There is probably a custom CSS snippet which could be included in the Mantra Options->Miscellaneous Settings section?
If anyone can tell me now to determine the element ID or tags that Mantra’s PHP dynamically generates On-Load I would be very appreciative.
Cheers,
-Mike

[firstbite]

Hi,

First of all, thank you for making such a beautiful theme available for free.

I’m having the same trouble where my images are not showing up in the grid view as per demo. I have enabled featured image and it is still not showing up.
Thanks.

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[colinlaughton@me.com]

Thank you Zed… seems a little complicated alas.

How about putting posts above the cryout columns? is that an easier job?

Colin

[oese@collabfl.org]

Updating Theme Parabola (1/1)

THANK YOU! All things solved. Column issue and slider issue. I completed the following two updates and have an even better “Parabolo Settings” experience than when things were working. Much obliged!

Downloading update from https://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/parabola.2.0.7.zip…
Unpacking the update…
Installing the latest version…
Removing the old version of the theme…
Theme updated successfully.

and,,.

Downloading install package from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/cryout-theme-settings.0.5.7.zip…
Unpacking the package…
Installing the plugin…
Plugin installed successfully.
Plugin activated successfully.

[franius]

Thank you.

It works on various Android smartphone in portrait mode only.Turning the device in landscape (2 rows and 2 columns), the images are distorted.

On tablets instead, tried on Ipad Mini 2 with ios 10, in portratit mode (2 rows and 2 columns) the images are deformed (in landscape is displayed desktop version, one line with four columns)

[RHCRAU]

Thank you for your answer Zed.

I found out friday night what was the origin of the problem.

It’s the “WP-Properties” addon that overwrite the css of a part of the frontpage, so it makes disapear this text. I totaly forgot to disable this one when I was trying your troubleshooting guide 😐

As i were away for the weekend, i couldn’t send a message saying that problem is now partially solved (in fact, when i “deactivate” (or more precisely, when i change some stuff on the presentation) the default WP-Properties’ css, there is now another problem, but only in “properties”, so i’m working on it).

[Zed]

The theme uses WordPress sanitization functionality on all input fields (including social URLs) – and as whatsapp:// is not a valid protocol identifier is it most likely filtered out.

The code looks right. How is the new social icon malfunctioning on sub-pages?

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[Zed]

The theme’s presentation page Extra Text fields support shortcodes, so you can place that in one of them.

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[Zed]

You may need to look for a plugin that lets you pick which categories of posts you can list in a certain place (like in a page).

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[Zed]

What you’re looking for are categories.

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[wahelen]

Your replies are set private, I can’t see them

[penny royalty]

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[joseseo]

when I want to see the preview of a page. It shows me the home.

[jacynthe]

I got it to work but I needed to add some CSS that wasn’t anywhere in the theme.

.theme-default .nivoSlider a.nivo-imageLink {
	background-color:#fff;
	filter:alpha(opacity=0);
	/other than IE/
	-moz-opacity:0;
	-khtml-opacity: 0;
	opacity: 0;
	z-index: 101;

[jacynthe]

Hi Jim,

That link does not apply to the whole slide as in the background image.. it only applies to the caption. But I’m not using captions so the links do a whole lot of nothing.

Jacynthe

[jimuk69]

Hi

I think where you set up the slides in the Presentation Page settings for each slide there is a link field at the bottom.

Hope this makes sense and helps.

Jim…

[penny royalty]

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[blue-outsourcing]

100% agree.
Theme is great and lacks just one thing: to display sidebar under the content in mobile view.

I wonder one thing: how did you manage to set the sidebar over the content on mobile, because on my website I never see sidebar on mobile. But all in all it does not matter, because it just would be great if everything was displayed under the content.

[Wongfei]

Tried it afer your post woithout any effect :/ I can´t understand how they are created – if I delete the disclaimer page it vanishes, but the “Startseite” is a page I didn´t even create, but it wasn´t there automatically after I activated parabola and I couldn´t find any settings according to this issue.

[jacynthe]

Hi Zed.

Thank you for your reply. The problem is that I would want the Blog page to show content from categories Blog, Fitness Journey, Reviews and Traveling, while the submenus will let you see posts from just one specific category say like Fitness Journey.

Even though Fitness Journey, Reviews and Traveling are children categories of the Blog category, if I link the Blog menu to category Blog, it does not show the children categories post and only show the posts in category Blog. So that doesn’t work.

Thank you for your help and I really do love that theme a lot! I’m just finicky with what I want. lol

Jacynthe

[Zed]

The blog page template is designed to be used just for what its name says – a blog page replacement that lists posts from ALL categories. If you want to display categories separately then you have no need for this page template – simply link individually to each of the categories you want directly from your menu.

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[Jochen]

Somehow the Settings field for the WhatsApp button seems not to accept the string “whatsapp://” and filters it as not allowed. Do you make any proof for Special expressions somewhere??

[deadparrot]

Guys, facts are facts. There ARE scripts for that – we have seen them. It IS an extremely fast and extremely easy way to find a WP site – there is a reason that some of the biggest sites using WP do NOT advertise that fact!

And we manage 643 sites – and every one that had that designation still in it, over the past 2 years, was attacked.

But I am not here to get into a great debate with you over what lazy hackers do and don’t do. Even without that reason, we would remove the designation.

As I said, there are other ways to get some money for your efforts without using that – and my rating is about the defensive and caustic replies I have experienced so far, and have seen elsewhere here to others, that is affecting the rating. It is not just about code – but also about who creates and supports that code.

Sid

[Kay]

@deadparrot Just to put a bit more emphasis on what Zed said, if you think that removing the “Powered by WordPress” text helps in any way you are mistaken. Check out this post by one of the lead developers at WordPress.

WordPress is by far the most used CMS at the moment and apart from the varied ways in which a bot can tell if your site is WordPress-powered, most times it will just assume it, due of its popularity, and look for all the right files in all the right places.

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[Zed]

There are plenty of ways for bots to check if a site is WordPress-powered, removing one instance of the word “WordPress” from it will not make it magically safe(r).

The code is not hidden or obscured in any way, the theme is GPL which means you can edit it as you see fit.

So the theme is not worthy of a good review despite all its features and functionality (most of which others lock behind a ‘pro’ purchase) because we’re not offering one extra drop of blood for free…
That’s an interesting view on free (as in free software) and open source, wouldn’t you say?

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[chipcainin]

The simple fix is to use the “Title Attribute” field instead of description. That gets me what I need.

Great theme btw! I should have shared that in my original post.