[Zed]

Those fields pass through WordPress’ sanitization functionality, so some data that is considered less than safe will be filtered out. Scripts almost always removed, but that bit of code appears to be plain HTML, and should mostly pass.

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[Zed]

For Cyrillic, the identifier would be
Open+Sans&subset=cyrillic,cyrillic-ext

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[Zed]

Previous Parabola versions used a lot of fixed font sizes for various areas – we’ve tried to improve their customization by making them relative to the configured general font size. If fonts are too large after the update, try lowering the general font size.

Menu items size can be reduced with custom styling:
#access a span { padding: 3px 8px; }

Previous theme version can be found either in WordPress’ repository (you’ll need to guess the links or browse the old tickets) or in our archive.

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[aaimonetto]

I am experiencing the same problem.
Only custom css that I applied was for coloring the menù background. The menu was working good since the update.

[Louis]

Got it to work for now. Maybe not a pretty solution due to my very limited PHP skills.

For who might be interested. Created a modified version of “template-page-with-intro”template. After changing the loop from:
$the_query = new WP_Query(....
into:
query_posts(....
and from:
while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post();
into:
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
seems to made it work

Hopefully somebody else with experience in PHP will create a cleaner solution.

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[spamjack]

I have the exact same issue with my site when viewing in Google Chrome. Looks perfectly fine in Safari…
Any one any answers here please?

[scott6840]

Thanks for the reply.

I commented out the two offending lines of code:

// if (WPLANG != ”)
// setlocale(LC_ALL, WPLANG.’.UTF-8′);

and all is now good with the child theme.

There doesn’t seem to be a problem with the plug-in so I/m thinking that this is just some left-over code from earlier versions. The strange thing is that there was no problem with it under WP 4.5.7; It jumped up when I upgraded to 4.6.

Thanks again for your help.

[Zed]

Is the sermon-browser plugin related to the child theme? as it is the one causing the issue:

( ! ) Notice: Use of undefined constant WPLANG – assumed ‘WPLANG’ in C:\wamp64\www\FBCTestsite.net\wp-content\plugins\sermon-browser\sermon.php on line 188

This tells you that the plugin relies on a (now deprecated) WordPress constant WPLANG, which is no longer used (since around 4.4 I think).
Either contact the author to update the plugin or try to manually add that constant (with the right value) in your wp-config.php file to see if it helps – other issues may remain, though, if the plugin was written for an older WordPress.

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[northelf]

Make sure to include the needed character set(s) in the identifier.

Would you, please, show how exactly I should fill in, for example, for Open Sans to get both Latin and Cyrillic sets in my site? Before I only filled in Open Sans, and it did not work for Cyrillic.

[Zed]

Most of the bundled font files don’t include extended character sets. If you need them, use Google fonts (you can use the same font name as one that’s already bundled, filling in the Google font identifier field will make the theme load the font from Google). Make sure to include the needed character set(s) in the identifier.

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[pmdelgado1]

@Shannon,
It’s easy, first make sure you work on a child CSS, then find this line and change it to left, right, center:

/*————————————————————–
## MAIN MENU
————————————————————–*/

#access {
display: inline;
float: center;/*here is were you change it*/
}

You find the css inside the fluida folder, is call “style.css”. Make sure you work on a child, otherwise when you update your theme it will go back to default.
@Fluida, your designs are awesome, can’t believe you could not provide this simple solution!

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[dbabe13]

I know this might seem dumb, but how do I find the error log? I tried finding an error log, but couldn’t find it!

[Zed]

The comment form is generated by a WordPress function that the theme barely touches.
The comment count you’re listing is not part of the form (you previously mentioned the form) and is correctly identified by WordPress’s Glotpress:

What are you making the translation with? Your program might not support (or incorrectly handle) translations with plurals.

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[cjmakin]

Thanks again for your reply. There was nothing changed in the post editor, no fixed sizes applied. I just deleted the plugin Jetpack and the images returned to their normal size. So if this problem happens for anyone else, that’s the fix: nix Jetpack.

Thank you for your help, Zed!

[Steffen]

I first made some experiments with private pages. That seemed to work for my purpose (site accessable via link, but not visible in menu), until I tried to access the page with an other browser where I was not logged in as WordPress administrator. 😉 Hmm, I’m a WordPress Newbie and didn’t really think about what ‘private’ means. 🙂

The I tried to create a custom menu – I stopped this action a few days before, because I thought this would ruin the automatical Nirwana menu layout. But I learnt yesterday, that it is possible to model the complete menu structure and it behaves exactly sumilar. So this is an easy solution: I do not add the page to the menu, therefore it is not visible in the menu but accessible via link. Adding new menu items manually to the menu is a little bit more work than doing this in the page attribute section while creating the page, but it will not happen often.
Thanks for your advice…

[passportandpixels]

Hmmm. interesting that you can’t see a difference! Maybe they were just displaying wrong to me, but actually working fine in the published post?

Anyway, they seem to be behaving again at the moment, so I won’t worry about it too much for now, and I don’t want to take up too much more of your time since you have already been so helpful.

My main concerns now, in order for me to be able to ‘launch’ my site on my adoring public (!) are just two:

1. The speed at which the whole thing is running. I have contacted my web host, they said to ask you! Someone else said plugins might be slowing it down but I think I need all the plugins I have. I did a performance profile report which is below. As previously mentioned, I’m also worried that if it’s slow now, how much worse will it get when I add 50 more blog posts, each containing 20 photos…?

2. The thing about the posts not lining up which looks pretty bad.

Otherwise, I’m really pleased with it, I think it looks great and I do love the theme 🙂 I just want to share it now! But I don’t want to do that if it looks weird or if people are going to get bored because it takes too long to load…

Thanks again for your help.
Bella

[Zed]

If you’re viewing the site on a screen narrower than 1280px the sidebars will be repositioned below content.

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[astrobloke]

Hello Zed, I tried this many times but it did not work for me. So in colours section in the nirvana settings, I enter rgba colours and replace the hex entries? Do you have any samples, examples of this? Thank you.

[Zed]

Use a custom menu and use a placeholder menu item with an empty link field (see the link in my signature).

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[passportandpixels]

Hi Zed
They’re at different sizes because when I was having issues with the ones at 825×550 I tried resizing them bigger (in Lightroom) and reuploading them at 1000×1500 in an attempt to solve the issue. Generally I’ve been batch-resizing all my pictures for the blog in Lightroom with a watermark on and a short edge of 550 pixels because 550 seems to be the height that looks about right on my computer screen. Then I resize the portrait shaped ones within the site/post to be the same height – 550px. So the larger ones you can see are where I uploaded some bigger ones to see if that would solve the problem. It’s not the site that’s making them 825×550, it’s me!
As you can see if you looked at the Test post, it just randomly seemed to make some of them really crap quality, but I have no idea why.
I’ve been writing another new post this evening and it seems to be behaving again now – though I haven’t done anything differently.
Very odd.

One thing that is worrying me is that this is a photography blog, and while it may be a manageable size now, I’m going to keep adding images to it all time them. Is it going to get to a point when it’s completely unwieldy? It’s really important that I don’t make the pictures too small, after all what is the point if they look terrible?!

Thanks for your help – it’s really appreciated – and I’m sorry if I’m being a clueless annoying newbie!
Bella

[MauriceUK]

Ah – my lack of clarity in my question. No, what I was trying to ask is how do I insert a “Read More” break in the “Bottom 2 Text” so that I have only the first few lines on display by default, but there is the ability for readers to get to see the full text in the “Bottom 2 Text”. It’s an attempt to hide most of the text for returning readers who aren’t interested in scrolling down, let alone reading the same text again before getting to the latest posts below. But so that first time viewers of the page can get to see the full explanation if they want more detail.

[passportandpixels]

Also, under Media and other files, these things are checked:

Set Last-Modified header
Set the Last-Modified header to enable 304 Not Modified response.
Set expires header
Set the expires header to encourage browser caching of files.
Expires header lifetime:
31536000
seconds
Set cache control header
Set pragma and cache-control headers to encourage browser caching of files.
Cache Control policy:
Set entity tag (ETag)
Set the Etag header to encourage browser caching of files.

Enable HTTP (gzip) compression
Reduce the download time for text-based files.
Prevent caching of objects after settings change
Whenever settings are changed, a new query string will be generated and appended to objects allowing the new policy to be applied.
Disable cookies for static files
Removes Set-Cookie header for responses.

[passportandpixels]

Have checked my plugin. I’m using W3 Total Cache. The only thing that is enabled is:

Browser Cache: Enable
Enable HTTP compression and add headers to reduce server load and decrease file load time.

Then in the Browser Cache settings, these things are ticked

Set Last-Modified header
Set the Last-Modified header to enable 304 Not Modified response.

Set expires header
Set the expires header to encourage browser caching of files.

Set cache control header
Set pragma and cache-control headers to encourage browser caching of files.

Set entity tag (eTag)
Set the Etag header to encourage browser caching of files.

Enable HTTP (gzip) compression
Reduce the download time for text-based files.

Prevent caching of objects after settings change
Whenever settings are changed, a new query string will be generated and appended to objects allowing the new policy to be applied.

Don’t set cookies for static files
Removes Set-Cookie header for responses.

Would any of these be causing the problem?

[passportandpixels]

Hi Zed, thanks so much for your helpful reply.

With the header image problem – I have tried keeping the header image aspect ratio as you suggest, but then I lose the text off the bottom as the text does not also resize. As it currently stands, the text fits perfectly well inside the header image, but the image itself is very wide (stretched) and there is a big gap at the top above the text. The image could definitely be half as tall and the text would still fit, then it would be much closer to the original aspect ratio. But if I click ‘keep the aspect ratio’ then the image becomes much thinner – it would be fine this thin and I think the text would still fit, but for some reason when I do this the text just drops off the bottom.

With the columns. The issue is has not been on mobile devices, it was on the computer. Each post is in its own little box and all the boxes are the same size, so they do fit neatly in rows. But some rows only had 1 or 2 posts in, then there was a big gap, and it started again on the next line. Eg:

Post Post Post
Post
Post Post Post

etc…

When I added a new post, the new one pushed everything down and it went back into neat rows again, but it may do it again next time I add another new post.

Posts should all have the same amount of text, as I have set the excerpt option – it give an except of 50 words. Of course, this may not be exactly the same volume of text if I have used longer or shorter words. Is there an option to have an amount of characters instead? Then the volume of text would always be the same.

Thanks
Bella

[Zed]

I was referring to the post editor (the one where you see the content of the post) where you’re inserting the images.

They have fixed sizes applied to them (which is possible to be set in there – just click on the images and check their attributes).

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[jgcordes]

Thanks Zed. I believe I have this under control now. It is useful to see your list of settings which don’t get inherited by a child theme. May have more questions later!

[Zed]

WordPress’ post categories are administered under Posts > Categories. Categories don’t have thumbnails by default so if this functionality is added by the plugin, then you need to look in the plugin’s documentation on where these are added (if they are not in the standard Categories administration interface).

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[northelf]

Pretty interesting: with today’s update of Polylang to 2.0.1 and Strings to 3.2.1 with Tempera 1.4.3, the translation for a) widget text did appear b) translation for this button did appear. So now it’s possible to use 2 copies of the widget and show each of them for each language. Normal translation (fully translated plugin) is still not possible, as a) widget’s title is not possible to translate b) though text is possible to translate, it still fails to switch.

[myrecipepicks]

No problem. I’ve updated to Tempera 1.4.3 and applied my custom items (via a new method) and confirmed the fix for the meta bar is working. Now I can easily edit posts without having to scour my admin dashboard.

[jgcordes]

Following up on my own post. After more searching of this Forum I eventually found what I think is the answer. Our site is using the header background image, set by WordPress -> Appearance -> Header (I had not appreciated that before). This seems to resolve my problem, so that I no longer need an edited header.php file in the mantra-child directory.
Apologies for the false alarm.

John Cordes