[Reema]

It’s ok on Chrome and Firefox but not IE. Is this just an IE bug which I can’t fix or is there something I can do about it?

Thank you.

[Zed]

You should not make changes to the theme files. Use translations instead.

And leave the link fields blank for the menu items meant to be placeholders.

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[Zed]

That message only means trouble if it remains displayed after the page has completed loading (a couple of seconds?).
If it remains visible, then you’re having javascript issues (most likely caused by some plugin installed in your WordPress).

See here for a step-by-step guide to debugging.

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[Zed]

Wordpress tried to do this via the “Customizer” (Appearance > Customizer), but that tool is far from supporting everything we need to build the whole array of options included.

The best way to do it is use two open tabs, one on the settings, one on the site and refresh the site tab after you make changes (and save them) in the first tab.

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[Zed]

Disable the installed plugins one by one until you Parabola settings start working again.

Then tell us the name of that plugin and we’ll see if we can come up with a solution.

Theoretically, themes and plugins should not interfere with each other or with the javascript libraries used in WordPress, but not all developers follow the rules (especially when the extensions are older versions).

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[Jim]

…. the above didn’t work for the Title field in the column 1 so you will probably need to leave that blank and make that part of the text area, and you will probably need to tweak the number of pixels within padding to get it spot on.

Jim..

[Jim]

Hi Jesper

I managed to do this by opening a Wordress draft page. I put the left justified text in the visual editor and then selected it and used the indent tool a couple of times. Then I went into the text tab and copied the code and pasted it into the column 1 text field, saved and it seemed to work.

I hope this helps…

Jim…

[Hong Wen Tai]

Hi Jim,

Nope, it’s always set to medium size. I tried your suggestion of changing to Thumbnail, but it’s still blurred. Thanks a lot for the suggestion though! 🙂

Hong Wen

[MrAwesome]

Only solution I found was moving the “custom text 4” field to the bottom of the page and put a text linking the page with the “blog template”. Just edit the /parabola/frontpage.php file and put this line at the very bottom (and remove the original).

if($parabola_fronttext4) {?><div id=”front-text3″>

<?php echo do_shortcode($parabola_fronttext4) ?>

</div><?php }

Then you can edit text from the admin settings

Regards,
MrAwesome

PS: I know, child themes should be used 😛

[MrAwesome]

I had the same issues. However, I solve most of them. Let me explain.

I use qTranslate, wich works quite well except for one thing: slugs and (I think because I don’t use it) tags can’t be translated. Despite this, you can manage to translate everything.

There is a “shortcode” you can use. Imagine you have tree languages (en, es, pt). The tittle of a widget can be translate by putting “[:en]English Text[:es]Spanish Text[:pt]Other Language”. It works fine. This can be used along all the theme options text areas.

Regarding the front page and what Zed says, we have a problem with the links. If you put “[:en]http://en.blabla.com[:es]http://es.blabla.com[:pt]http://pt.blabla.com” or whatever, it will not work as this doesn’t validate an URL and the link will not be saved. You will have to edit the files /parabola/admin/sanitize.php and /parabola/admin/settings.php and remove the esc_url_xx() functions of desiged configuration fields. For instance, in sanitize.php, for the URL of the columns of the front page, comment the line:

$input[‘parabola_columnlink1’] = esc_url_raw($input[‘parabola_columnlink1’]);

This is just an brief comments, but hope this help.

Regards,
MrAwesome

PD: Best option is to use a child theme, I know…
PD2: Great theme!
PD3: The theme can include this tricks by default! 😉

[Wen]

Ok, I don’t have a mobile device to test it out for you, however…there is one issue that I did find…and it was the same for both the responsive menu (shrunk my computer window to make it come up) and for the regular sized menu.

It looks like some of your top level menus are trying to go to “http:///#&#8221;. That isn’t a valid destination. Are those top level menu items not supposed to be links to anything? If they’re not supposed to be links, check the URL settings under Appearance > Menus. There should either be nothing in the URL fields, or only a “#” symbol.

Not sure if this helps fix your problem or not, like I said, I don’t have a mobile device to test it on.

[Singh]

Yes, you can easily do that Debbie. You just have to install plugin called SHARETHIS. Just install that Plugin, it will solve your problem. You can also do that with coding that you can get from sharethis(dot)com Hope this will help you 🙂

[Mag]

OMG…I am so stupid… I checked the Custom CSS and I hadn’t closed out an earlier rule with a final bracket… Everything is working now… just shoot me now. So sorry to take up your time. Thanks so much for trying to help me. I’m beyond help.

[Mag]

Thanks very much, Zed…I’ll be sure to test it out… I went with the header since the logo doesn’t seem to show on the site pages when I preview in responsive mode with the developer tools. I should probably look at it on a phone though before I say it isn’t visible.

[Donna]

Oh my gosh Jim, thank you! So much easier. I had actually tried that several frustrations back but it hadn’t worked; it seems I had omitted one little step: Refresh. Head smack.

Thank you again,
Donna

[Jim King]

Hi Donna

I know the frustration of that, I tend to open the dashboard then go to visit site and right click and open the site view in a new tab in the browser. Make the changes in the Dashboard and just click the site view tab and refresh.

So switching between the tabs gets easier than trying to do it all on a single page.

I hope this helps

Jim..

[John]

Thanks. That link works, and explained how to do it.

One other question. On regular category pages, it obeys where I put the MORE tag to cut the article and insert the Continue link jump.

However, in the Category Page with Intro template, it disregards where I put the More tag.It chooses its own place to insert the jump. (It also shows picture twice if article has one.)
I have tried changing the excerpt length in the Settings page but it doesn’t affect it.

Is there a code i can use to make it jump where I insert the More tag?

[lcerura]

It’s funny that this should be posted today and I happen to come here looking for the answer.

I myself am having trouble getting the text to wrap around after left aligning an image with a caption. I can get it done without the caption, but with it? Problem.

Mind you, I’ve other sites using Mantra and I can’t believe I never noticed this before. Just went over to them and tried the same thing and still can’t do it.

[Muqarnas]

Thanks for the reply Zed, I am on version 24 in Firefox as for internet explorer which displays everything fine I am on version 10.09200.16686.
How can I send you screen captures of what I see on firefox, I have prepared the jpegs but I cannot attach here!
Thanks

[Zed]

Muqarnas, all pages look identical for me in both IE9 and Firefox 24.

What versions of IE/Firefox are you looking at it with?

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[Muqarnas]

Hi
I have the opposite problem my site looks fine in IE but not in Firefox. I have a page with an interactive “Adobe shockwave” file which displays in correct dimension(800×600) in IE However in Firefox only 718×540 of it shows in other words its not reduced but rather a proportion is missing hidden from view. Also the slide show page on my website (http://www.vectian-multimedia.co.uk/reference/) looks fine in IE but not in firefox. I know you might say why don’t I put the question in firefox forum I will in addition to here but I was hoping you may have a workaround for firefox.
Thank you in anticipation
Muqarnas

[Zach H.]

My apologies, it was not our intention to offend. We’ve replaced it, however, would you be ok with us use “Created by: CryoutCreations” instead of powered by parabola & wordpress?

[Jim]

Hi

I think its under Color Settings then Site Tile then the 2nd of the two text fields called Site Description.

Jim…

[Zed]

I see nothing out of the ordinary with your website on IE9.

Could you post some screenshots with what you see out of place?

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[Zed]

You cannot use Parabola’s slider outside of its presentation page without a lot of work.

It’s a lot easier to simply install a slider plugin and add that on your own pages.

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[Zed]

Well the message tries to be pretty clear:
“If this message remains visible after the page has loaded then there is a problem with your WordPress jQuery library. This can have several causes, including incompatible plugins.”

You need to figure out if one of your plugins is breaking WordPress’ jQuery (javascript library). Best way to do this is to disable them one by one.

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[Zach H.]

Zed,

that didn’t work for me. I’ve tried it with parabola-child/functions.php and parabola-child/includes/theme-functions.php

It still shows “leave a reply”.

[Zed]

Michael, I believe we’ve established your issue is hosting/security related and is caused by something completely different.

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[Zed]

There are no built-in options for these. You’ll need to use custom CSS rules to achieve this.

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[Zed]

The 4th column is displayed just fine.

Fields that are empty don’t get displayed (like the text and link).

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