[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.

[MarkCimino]

Thanks Jim, I got bluehost to go to an earlier back up. But I like this rollback plug in! thanx!

[deadparrot]

While I understand wanting to be paid for support, this is NOT the approach I would recommend – and considering how many people ask about this (based on a search of your posts) and the replies you got, I’d say a fair number of your potential users feel the same. I don’t mind paying for a little support. I don’t mind paying a bit for a GPL version (I can use on All our sites) with extra features/customization’s.

BUT turning that text off should be a standard feature.

Speaking as a Corp. running 500+ WordPress sites and tens of thousands of users, the “powered by WordPress” designation is a BIG security risk. We used to test/hack sites for organizations. There are scripts on the dark web that identify potential WP sites to attack quickly, by just checking the main page for those words. It’s like putting up a sign. And easier to look for that sign, than to walk the site looking for the wp-admin directory (which Plesk and CPanel now put in a SUB-directory now by default).

No offense, but the fact that you use the easy removal of this text as a sort of strong arm to get people to buy support, is the main reason my review on wordpress.org will not be as positive as it could be, once I finish testing your theme. So far, everything else seems to work well.

Sid
VP, Dead Parrot Software, Inc.

[AlanB]

Since posting this I’ve discovered the Plug-in “Advanced iFrame”, this easily and neatly embeds Lightroom galleries into a Mantra Page or Post.

[Zed]

There is an easier way, and that is provided as part of our Priority Support service.

With the theme being released under GPL you are free to modify the code in any way (as long as you don’t claim the derivative work to be your own in its entirety). GPL however does not ask us to provide instructions on how to remove our link or to provide support for the modified theme 🙂

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[tstenger]

Thank you for your quick response. This worked perfectly when I on my dev version http://www.diabladesigns.com/sm

Unfortunately, when I tried this fix on my client’s live site http://susannemarie.org/ hosted on GoDaddy, I cannot get a full-width image as the header.

When I use firebug, it seems that even though I am uploading a 1920x400px image, it keeps displaying a 1280×400 px image.

I disabled all the plugins and nothing changed. I would really appreciate any ideas you may have. Thanks

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[jimuk69]

Hi MarkCimino

Looks like the slider not working is an issue with the latest Parabola upgrade to 2.0.4, I reported the issue earlier within this “Bugs” section but if you check out the responses below my initial reporting you will see that there are ways, using a WP ROllback plugin, where you can roll the version back to 2.0.3 where it is working. Until it gets fixed.

Hope this helps

Jim…

[my247restore]

candykane:

If you have cpanel access in godaddy you can do a site restore from your file manager from applications site restore back a day.

But if you installed WP Rollback, this is by far the easiest way to just roll back to previous theme version.

Dashboard go to:

Appearance > themes > parabola theme details > Rollback (corner right) > select v 2.0.3 Rollback

This will do the trick for anyone experiencing this issue

Russ..

[MarkCimino]

Hi Zed,

I am a big fan of parabola. and tempera. I just upgraded to the latest WP install WordPress 4.6.1 and found that the presentation slider doesn’t work at http://www.doubleconnect.net/. There is a white space where the slides were and the revolving circle rolling in the middle of it.

I contacted a techie at Bluehost and he could not what the problem was. We disabled the 4 plug-ins but that didn’t affect things.

Do you have any suggestions as to what might be the problem?

thanks,
mark

[artopera]

Thanks! I’ve installed WordPress in its own folder under www directory on my web server. Maybe the different directory structure occurs the problem. However, the theme icons correctly appear with Safari under iOS, while they are displayed as missing icons under Chrome and IE. Following your guidance I’ve installed CORS plug-in for WordPress and added *.domain, but it works not. Should I move the whole directory of WordPress to main directory?

[Zed]

You are accessing the site via http://www.artopera.org but your WordPress believes it is located at http://artopera.org/ (no www). This causes most browsers to hit a security limitation: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
Correct the issue by making the URL the same in both instances.

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[Zed]

Can you mention your website URL? Something else must be applying styling to the categories list.

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[Zed]

To remove the header background, leave the header background color field empty in the theme’s settings.

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[jimuk69]

Hi

OK, they do tend to get used a lot by hotels and pubs etc. especially Trip Advisor these days, no worries I’ll look at creating the child themes in order to add them automatically, I did create the images to the identical specs. as can be seen on http://www.thecrosskeysupwood.co.uk site.

Thanks

Jim…

[Kevin]

In addition to this code you gave me, I needed to add id=”s” to the search input field. Here is my final searchform.php code:

<label for="s" class="screen-reader-text"><?php _e('Search for', 'parabola'); ?> </label>
<form role="search" method="get" class="searchform" action="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>">
	<input id="s" type="search" placeholder="<?php _e( 'SEARCH', 'parabola' ); ?>" name="s" class="s" value="<?php echo get_search_query(); ?>" />
	<input type="submit" class="searchsubmit" value="" />
</form>

This was able to clear the WCAG/508 error for the form.

[Kevin]

I thought I had replied to this a couple days ago, but I guess it never went through.

Thanks for the reply and the news that it will make it into the next update. When can I look for 2.0.3 to be released?

I’m well versed in CSS so adding the underlines was trivial. I’m going to give the PostCSS plugin pxtorem a test to see if it can automate converting the fonts to relative units.

[Zed]

Change the theme’s Comment Field Label option to Labels under Post Information > Comments (in Customize) and see if that solves your issue.

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[Zed]

Use can use either the Custom CSS field or the child theme’s style.css file or both for your customization. However note that they get loaded in different order (related to the theme’s other styles) and customizations that work in one location may not work in the other directly (and will need to be made more specific).

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[Zed]

If you have a plugin providing that functionality, simply place it in the desired theme text field. Otherwise, placing the iframe HTML will not work (due to WordPress’ security sanitization functionality on the fields).

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[Zed]

Are you using any kind of caching plugin?
If the new social icon works fine on the homepage and you’ve copied the sample code exactly (and only modified the socials names) it has no reason to not work on other pages.
You did not mention your site’s URL so I cannot take a look at what is going on.

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[AlwaysSunny]

Kaaaaaay! I might never’ve found that – thanks SO much for the help!

Fast, effective, friendly support for your free-version users? I’m sold. You’ll have a new customer when I take this site live.

[Kay]

Hey AlwaysSunny (in Philadelphia?),

The easiest way is to hide the mobile menu completely. Here’s the CSS you should add to your Custom CSS area in the Tempera theme settings (or a child theme’s style.css)

a#nav-toggle {
    display: none !important;
}

Good luck!

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[Kirilo]

Hi Kay,

thak you for reply.
My site: http://soks.sk/.
I mean, a problem is in font formatting. After changing background-size for chess diagram in css file in some browsers it was displayed correct, but in some browsers not. E.g. in Firefox and IE on my computer it was fine, but in mobile browser not. Only in Opera and in mobile “UC Browser” it worked right.

[Kay]

If you edit theme files you will lose the changes in a future theme update. However, if you only used theme settings and the Custom CSS field, they will be kept intact in the next update.

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[jimuk69]

Thanks Zed

I tried the upgrade and put the general font down to 12px and that helped, I also added the custom CSS which also helped. I use a specific font with the text above and below the slider, as well as the font within the slider itself (nivo caption), and when I upgraded that reverted back to a normal font and justify, does that mean I will need to redo all the custom css for the front page if I upgrade?

Thanks

Jim…

[Zed]

Responsive styling is applied based on screen size (/resolution) not mobile device type, so it would be very difficult to exclude a specific device.

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[Zed]

Chris, your solution applies to all social icons, not just the header ones. This identifier is for the header socials:
#sheader.socials a::before { ... }

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