[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

[Fortuna Data]

If you view the source you can see that there are a number of bullet list that are not displaying.

[Votreassistante]

Indeed, I have the plugin “WP deferred javaScript” that, once turned off, allowing the icon to work again.

It was to speed up loading of my website, but I see (via GTmetrix) that there are other priorities that I can do nothing, because it concerns basic images of tempera theme for the majority.

Thank you.

[Zed]

Which theme? Zombie Apocalypse? It can be installed directly from your WordPress dashboard.

If you absolutely want to download it, you can find it in the official themes repository:
https://wordpress.org/themes/zombie-apocalypse/

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[Zed]

If you have previously purchased premium support, order the free Premium Support Access Retrieval and include any information relevant to the premium support purchase so we can locate it – then use the priority support form to get in touch with our support service.

I will need a bit more specific information about your questions (also, a website URL would be very helpful).

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[Zed]

Categories are found under Posts > Categories in the dashboard – also, categories don’t get listed in WordPress’ automatically generated menu. You should create a custom menu (see link in my signature) to properly control your menu’s content.

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[barak]

Hello, so the issue was caused by WP Menu Cart plugin.
After I deactivated the plugin the presentation page works! Should’ve thought about this earlier.

Thank you for support, please close this thread.

[garycascio]

Thanks for the response, Zed. In the meantime, I got with a programming friend of mine and we figured it out. Somehow, I had repeated a “/Word_Press” in the url for the header file in the index.php file. It’s working fine now.

[Adnan]

Thanks for your reply. In this case slider is disabled and removing the gap between menu item and column layer is the target to achieve which is still open. Any help will be highly appreciated. Please check this link SmartphoneCafe

[Zed]

The device’s pixel ratio is a factor in this. Browsers take this into account when they interpret media resolution queries (a browser running on a device with 3200px resolution and a 2.5 pixel ratio will follow styling specified for 1280px).
What size is your device’s screen? If your Windows is using a DPI setting larger than 100% that means your pixel ratio factor is larger than 1 (making your device follow CSS rules for smaller resolutions – how small depends on the pixel ratio).

There is currently no magic solution in CSS to perfectly handle all these devices.

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[barak]

Hello, the url was mandatory field when submitting, but seems it did not migrate.

it is: http://www.barak-dev.cz/
* Settings > Reading needs to be set to Latest Posts – YES
* The theme’s Presentation Page enabled in its own settings – YES
* make sure you are accessing the / URL (path) when viewing your site’s homepage and not a leftover /home or /homepage menu item with unknown content – YES – http://www.barak-dev.cz/

If it would help I can create account for you to access the wp-admin UI.

Thanks so much!
Bara K.

[Zed]

The Blog Template is a page template (a type of page, not a specific page that can be added to the menu) – it shows up in the list on the right side of the screen while you’re editing a (static) page.
It can be applied to any page to turn it into a posts list.

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[Zed]

CSS minification (and merging) will break Nirvana’s order in which styles are applied, causing issues.
It can be enabled, but you need to specify which files to exclude from minification (that’s how W3TC works). Exclude the theme’s style.css, style-mobile.css and the child theme’s style.css

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[Zed]

You may have additional plugins that mess with your authentication status (or the server is malfunctioning or incorrectly handling browser sessions/ cookies). Is the theme’s settings page the only one with issues?

What are you trying to display on the site’s homepage? The default blog list or a static page?
Check for and choose the desired content under Settings > Reading

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[Zed]

Do the colour codes in the fields still have the # signs or are they just the 3/6 digits?

If the # is gone then a plugin is interfering with the theme’s colour fields in the settings page.

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[Zed]

Since you did not mention the site URL I cannot check what your homepage is set to display, but if Nirvana behaved the same then the general settings are not correctly set:

• Settings > Reading needs to be set to Latest Posts
• The theme’s Presentation Page enabled in its own settings
• make sure you are accessing the / URL (path) when viewing your site’s homepage and not a leftover /home or /homepage menu item with unknown content.

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[Zed]

Style files don’t need to be copied over to the child theme. Use the @import to include them (or enqueue them with PHP) and only include the differences in the child theme’s style.css.

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[barak]

Hello,

yes, I did read this article.
However I believe I have all settings correct the presentation page doesn’t display and posts display instead.

I’ve checked all recommended settings – reading set to new posts, presentation page enabled, show posts on presentation page disabled.
I’ve installed latest updates.
I tried installing Nirvana, presentation page didn’t work either.
I tried removing both templates and installing Tempera again, presentation page still doesn’t work.
Would you please help or advise?
Thanks a lot!

[Votreassistante]

I know there is 2 ways to create css of the child theme :
– create a file with only differences
– create a copied file of the parent theme + the differences

I choose the second way to speed up loading.

But I just activated a few moments the parent theme to see if it worked and the magnifying glass reappeared.

So I will change the CSS when I have more time.

However, the problem of the hamburger persists despite the activation of the parent theme.