[David]

I’m pretty much a WordPress newbie, so anything I offer may be wrong. Nonetheless, I wanted to make a change to the presentation page layout and found, within my mantra-child directory, an ‘includes’ directory containing theme-frontpage.php. ‘includes’ did not contain any other files, but if edits to includes/theme-frontpage.php would work, I’d THINK you could duplicate theme-function.php there.

However, when I edited theme-frontpage.php, it didn’t result in any changes to the site, so…?

[Jim]

Hi

Within the presentation page settings you can set slides to display latest posts, random posts or sticky posts. I don’t use posts on slider but I have just tried it out and it worked for me. I created an image the same proportions as the slider and set it as the featured image in a test post.

I hope this helps

Jim…

[Zazzy]

I thought the slider was supposed to be able to show recent posts. The latest post option does not give the custom slide settings. I did try deactivating all plugins – but really I don’t have much going yet since I’m still working on the layout.

On Mantra, the slider at least tries to show the posts. On Tempera, nothing shows at all. I like both of these themes and perhaps I will end up just using the slider for images I particularly like – or maybe I will find another theme that does a slider or gallery of recent posts.

Thank you for trying to help.

[Jim]

Hi

They are just in the demo, to set your own up you need to first set how many columns wide you want to have on the home page by going to presentation page setting and setting the columns number.

You then need to go to widgets and drag the Cryout column widgets into the presentation page area. Here is where you load images, titles, descriptions and links. SO say you want a similar 6 images then you set columns to 3 and as soon as the first row is full /(ie 3 across) it will go to next line.

I hope this makes sense and helps

Jim…

[Jfk]

@Jim:
You wrote:
“you could create an image to say something like “Read latest posts” and then set that image to link to you blog”.

I’m using Parabola Presentation Page as landing page and under “Read Setup” on WordPress the Home page shown as Last Posts. (I tried to change to static page but Presentation page disappear). Is it possible to set Presentation Page as static? I don’t think so.

So now I don’t understand which is the link to my blog because I can’t set a page to it (You can’t select any pages if “start page shown” is set to “Latest Posts”.
I would to link an image on the column to blog (because in there I’ll put news) but I miss the link (it seems that my blog IS the presentation page, or not?).
Thanks in advance, sorry but english is not my language
Ciao
J

[pete]

I did find a link somewhere that it is a feature of wordpress that requires HTML is stripped out from text boxes on the presentation page.

Cori I followed the instructions below, got confused and nearly delted the site – for once I backed up!

http://www.cryoutcreations.eu/parabola/parabola-faqs

C20. I want to add my own HTML to the presentation page / Why is my custom HTML stripped?
The theme uses WordPress’ built-in sanitation function to strip potentially harmful HTML data. Each field in the settings uses the wp_kses_data() function to sanitize user inputed content. (WordPress Codex has a good explanation concerning sanitation usage)

This is required for the theme to achieve approval by the WordPress theme reviewing team.

For a list of (default) accepted HTML tags and attributes, see the header of WordPress’ kses.php file.

This default behaviour can be overridden using plugins, theme or WordPress modding.

As far as modding the theme is concerned, you can edit the theme/admin/sanitize.php file and inside the [..]_options_validate() function you can remove the wp_kses_data() processing on every field you wish to remove the sanitation from (the field names are pretty much self explanatory).

[Jeff]

Also, I just put in “Connect” to the menu bar and it’s at that elevated level. I tried taking out the code (going back to the arrow) and it’s still at that elevated level. I tried it with the first round of code and it’s still high too. Ahhh.

[Stev]

Found the problem. I needed to set any page as the homepage even though it wasn’t going to appear. Wierd

[Jim]

Hi Jeff

Yes looks correct, have you to a site link I can take a quick look at for you.

After you pasted the code into that box did you save the settings and do a refresh of the site? I tried it on mine and it seemed to work OK

Cheers

Jim…

[kneighbour]

Sorry – your suggestions do not work.

My social media setting fields are all totally blank (they only had a # in there anyway).

The Social Media Settings in Tempura settings does not effect what is on the page. Only around the edge of the page (ie footer, right, etc). I actually want the social media icons to appear in those areas. But what is happening is that the icons are appearing after the text on every page. ie immediately after any text you happen to enter.

It looks to me like there are Posts (blog entries) being added to every page after my text. These blog entries are actually empty, so you do not see any text. But the social media icons that you add after every blog post are showing up. So I guess the problem is – how do I stop blog entries from appearing anywhere? I am using WordPress as a website tool – to to display blogs.

Just updated the theme to the latest 0.9.9

[Em]

I am having trouble with the icons as well in Tempera. I enter the link and all it does is open my websites home page with the link as part of the slug (example: http://www.mywebsite.com/http://facebook.com/myfacebookpage.com). It doesn’t show an error, it just acts like you reopened the home page in a new tab or page. I even tried taking out the http the www. and even the social website leaving only (again example) “myfacebookpage.com”. Nothing seems to be working. I just need the social media button to share the current page to the social media page of whoever is visiting the site. Please help!!!!

[Joy DeKok]

Do you know when this bug will be fixed? I updated a client’s site today and can’t get the social media icons out of the header. Also, the home page tab is blank. Here’s the site link – when you look at the tab, you’ll see what I mean. http://www.anewyouhairremoval.com

Thank you.
Joy

[gabriele]

OK. I tried and it actually made the trick. disabling responsiveness made the trick and now the page shows on ipad on the same way both in portrait and landscape.
i don’t know what other things responsiveness affects. I’m leaving it like this for now. and see in the future. thank you .

[pete]

I’m an idiot. It’s in widgets. Apologies for cluttering up a forum.

[ThornyJohn]

Okay, I finally figured out how to get rid of those silly borders on a table. There is actually a setting under Appearance/Tempera Settings/Graphics Settings called “Hide Tables” that achieves what I wanted to do.

Unfortunately, “Hide Tables” sounds a bit like it would hide all the tables, even though it only hides a table’s borders and default cell backgrounds (this is noted in the help popup). Perhaps the option should be called “Hide Table Borders” instead?

[Jim]

Hi Andy

I believe Pages and Posts use the same CSS class, you can change the colour in Colour Settings and its the second box within Content. So will change the colour for both page and post titles.

I hope this helps

Jim..

[Ramiro]

Hi Jim! i tried to paste this on my parabola settings miscelaneous settings and it did not work, the theme it’s amazing i just need to center the main menu as trey wants too.

[Jim]

Hi Stefanie

There are quite a few forum links to others raising the same question about a sidebar on the presentation page as it has been raised for Mantra, Parabola and Tempera. What is suggested in the link below is that perhaps use a slider plugin instead, which should then allow side bars and not use the set themes presentation page. As best a hack as I can find, the theme uses the Nivo slider.

http://www.cryoutcreations.eu/forums/t/how-to-add-a-sidebar-on-mantra-presentation-page

Hope this helps

Jim…

[Jim]

Hi Stefanie

As far as I am aware you can only add extra text after the slider before and /or after the columns.

A sidebar cannot be added to the presentation page, as I have seen people asking for the same thing and they have been told its not possible at the moment.

Sorry I can’t be more constructive but I hope this helps

Jim…

[Gerry]

Not sure what the forum rules are for bumping a topic for non premium members so apologies for the bumped topic. I’m happy to wait a bit longer if there is a set period for answers for non-premiums, but i thought i would ask as left a month now 🙂

[Jim]

Hi

If you put nothing in the social icon links i.e. blank the field totally they wont show, alternatively within tempera settings there is a section called social media settings and the bottom of that section you can choose where or here not to display.

I hope this helps

Jim…

[Ryan]

Any ideas how to make it transparent? I’ve identified the other locations I wanted to make transparent using the custom css, but can’t figure out which part affects the footer.

[Tim]

Hi. I’m having the same issue. If I reduce the number of displayed posts to less than the number of posts on my site, when I go to page 2 I get

“Not Found

Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help.”

I am still using Tempera 0.9.7 because my site needs pages, not a continuously expanding front page. Is there a fix for my site?

– Tim

[jaime120]

i am about to toss my laptop out the window. i have followed your widget instructions to the “T”, to no avail. the widgets were working find up the last theme update you guys made. i cannot make the widgets display on either 2 or 3 columns (prsentation page columns setup as widget columns). you have a great theme, but need to get this fix to finish. i even created the images to the specified dimensions depending on the number of columns i select. no luck.
i am working on a Mac Pro laptop. does the tempra theme not work properly ona mac? is this the problem??

what am i doing wrong? everything else on the theme works just find. please advise asap.
thanks for your help..

[John S]

Hi

I also having a problem with slider loading. I have 5 images on the slider and it seems to have a problem loading between the 1st and 2nd image. I tried deleting the first image and it moved the loading problem to between the new 1st image and the new 2nd image. Any help would be great as I love this theme and this is the last glitch before the site it complete!

Many thanks

[Shawn Blagrove]

Hi Cryout Creation!
I have to say out of all themes I have tried out, this one by far I absolutely love!!! It was the most user-friendly for someone who has no idea how to build a website. I have a couple of questions about the presentation page. Also, please check out my website that is still in its development stage, to better understand the questions I have below.

(1) I can’t seem to get my logo image to configure correctly on the header, I did read where you explain on the forum about checking the layout & header setting, but my custom logo dimensions is 1800×1200. How do I get it to show up within the header dimensions and possible more centered?

(2) The slider is my favorite feature but, it is not responsive when viewed on my ipad or tablet, the floating text box on the slider moves to the top of the slider hiding my content, even in landscape position. I have tried to even adjust the width & height of the sliders I inputted but to no avail! I would like the slider dimension to look similar to how the template was prior to me adding my slides. How can I fix these things?

(3) My drop down menu on my I phone has my main menu in reverse, so instead of “about us” being first as it is on the navigation bar when viewed on my laptop, the “Contact us” is first. How do I fix this?

(4) How do I add selection under my category drop down menu?

[Wayfarer]

Hi Nick

I see the indent on all the pages, including your Welcome page. 🙁

Have you tried setting your paragraph indent to 0px in Tempera Settings > Text Settings, to see if that resolves it?

~ Wayfarer

[Wayfarer]

Hi Gabriele

I checked on my ipad and confirm that I see what you’re describing – the cyrout images are fine in landscape and distorted in portrait view.

I don’t have any knowledge about these things, but it strikes me that because your site width changes in portrait, that the theme is re-sizing the image width accordingly. Have you tried disabling responsiveness to see if that helps?

I am just guessing with this stuff so if I am talking out of my backside, fair enough. I just wanted to at least let you know someone was listening. 🙂

Good luck. I hope it gets resolved for you.

~ Wayfarer

[Wayfarer]

Hi there 🙂

I know creating your own blog can feel overwhelming, but try not to be disheartened. I am no expert blogger but Tempera has been (by far) the easiest to use and most effective-looking theme I’ve tried. A little trial and error works wonders! Don’t be discouraged. 🙂

1. You seem to have resolved this yourself 🙂 (via Tempera Settings > Presentation Page > Extra Text).

2. Slider Graphic
Go to Appearance> Tempera Settings> Presentation Page > Slides and make a selection for your slide content. The graphics will be the images associated with the content you select. The text will either be custom or a post excerpt, depending on what you select as your slide source.

3. I am not quite sure if you mean the Cryout boxes (the four boxes with the dark hover-over text on my site) or general posts:

a) Cryout Columns (boxes)
In Tempera Settings> Presentation Page Columns, select the source of the content and how many columns you want in the row.

If you choose Widget Columns as your source:
Go to Appearance > Widget > Presentation Page Columns > Cryout Columns (drag the widget into the Presentation Page Columns box from the widget list on the left – you can have as many as you like) and then add your content within the Cryout Columns settings.

b) Posts
Appearance > Tempera Settings > Post Excerpt Settings > Home Page and set to excerpt. You could try reducing the excerpt character number to 0 if that’s how you want it to look? (NB It will only work for standard posts, not the specifically formatted ones).

I am not sure if this is what you were actually asking, but I hope it helps.

Check out the theme’s Presentation Page tutorial too: http://www.cryoutcreations.eu/wordpress-themes/wordpress-tutorials/how-to-use-the-new-tempera-presentation-page-columns

Have fun creating your blog! 🙂

~ Wayfarer

[Marcus G.]

Hi Camilo,

thanks for the tip. It worked. I tried it before but didn’t work. I guess it was a problem with a refresh which didn’t work. …maybe my browser.

Have a great day!