[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.

[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