[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).

[Los]

Dawna is not making it up. It JUST happened to me and It freaked me out. I was tweaking the settings of a plugin and I saved it, refreshed the page and BOOM – every color is changed drastically.

I went into the color setting and all my colors are there the way I left them and I changed a couple and put them back to normal and nothing. No change. That’s what she means by no longer having control of the color settings.

I found Tempera about 3 days ago after setting up my blog with Parabola only to completely lose all my work after trying to switch url’s. I’m glad that headache happened because I absolutely love Tempera. But if this happened so often with Dawna it scares me that I’ll be having to change the colors every so often.

[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…

[Jamal]

I figured this out!

in the color setting for Content Background (via Parabola Settings), instead of using the color picker to assign a HEX, you can put in a RGBA value (Eg “rgba(234,230,214,.8)”) You can do the same for Sidebars Background if you want your Widgets to have a transparent bg as well.

Voila — content backgrounds will be semi-transparent.

Unfortunately… if you use a Presentation Page with Columns, the roll-over will likely be missing as it uses this same value with its own alpha (I’m guessing the redundant alpha value kills the effect.) But, I was able to go in and hard-code this effect to keep the hover state on the front page. This is probably not the most elegant solution — but it works.

Thanks,
– Jamal

[Ingo]

I’m using the Parabola theme- and it’s awesome! but i’m also searching for the “extra text” options. i want to add some custom css-styles (textshadow or textcolor) to it, cause it blends with my background image.
In the frontpage.php the “extra text” is refferred as “parabola_fronttext1-4” but i can’t find the style settings in the style.css.
thanks!

[Jim]

Hi Mali

I couldn’t figure how to do this within Parabola, however I found this plug in that seems to do the job.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/open-external-links-in-a-new-window/

Hope this helps

Jim…

[Jim]

Hi Mali

I’m sorry I am probably confusing you, the last comment refers to Tempera theme and not Parabola, I got my wires crossed.

Sorry

Jim..

[Jim]

Hi Francois

The hover link colours I think are set within Parabola Settings>Color Settings>Accents and here there are about 5 different colour options for various links you may need to check the help text (at the end of the line) there to see which is applicable for your need.

I hope this helps

Jim..

[Jim]

Hi Kenneth

I think if you go into Appearance>Customize and update the Site Title and Tagline the text should get updated. Alternatively you can create your own custom logo and upload it via Parabola Settings/ Header Settings which will replace the title and tagline. I would also double check the main dashboard Settings>General are to make sure your title and tagline are set.

I hope this helps

Jim…

[Jim]

Hi Cathy

Although this is in Tempera forum area it also relates to Parabola.
1. There are many ways of showing menus, the standard theme settings allow for 3, top, primary and footer. Only the primary text can be changed using standard theme Text Settings. The other two require some custom CSS changes. A custom menu can be put into a side bar using a widget and the page layout determines which side of page it is show. Look at page attributes for the different formats.
2. If you use the recent posts widget you can set the number of posts you wish to show.
3. You cannot set a sidebar onto the presentation page, only put widgets on as footers.

I hope this is of help

Jim

[Petec]

I came here via google search.
I am running the Parabola Theme and just realised, this is the Tempera Theme section.

Sorry 🙂

[Petec]

Found it 🙂

It’s wp-content/themes/parabola/frontpage.php

Line 40, I changed:

jQuery(this).find(‘img’).stop().animate({opacity:’0.7′},{queue:false,duration:600});

to

jQuery(this).find(‘img’).stop().animate({opacity:’1′},{queue:false,duration:600});

[sklinger]

I made some changes via the Parabola Settings (select a new favicon) when suddenly all the colors are gone. They are still in the boxes, but the # seems to be gone. It won’t allow me to type it in again. Also there’s a second color selector appearing which is unnecessary and probably the cause of the problem. Would love if you could help me!

[Jim]

Hi

I had the same question regarding the parabola theme and was advised that the top menu was only a single depth i.e. didn’t support sub menus.

I hope this helps

Jim…

[Sylvia]

I haven’t tried this in the Misc. area of Parabola but I found this snippet that could help you.

<?php
$time = time () ;
//This line gets the current time off the server

$year= date(“Y”,$time) . “<br>”;
//This line formats it to display just the year

echo “Copyright 2002 – ” . $year;
//this line prints out the copyright date range, you need to edit 2002 to be your opening year
?>

Source: http://php.about.com/od/finishedphp1/qt/copyright.htm

[pigsound]

hi,
still talking to myself in here… :-/
in the meantime i could verify, that i have not made any change to the frontpage.php – the lines i quoted in my last post are exactly the same as in the original parabola theme file.

i found out that the read more link works and appears after 20 words, as soon as i delete the “more” tag from the text.

i hope all this information i am posting here can help you, zed, or anybody else, to help me get rid of this annoying bug.

pigsound

[pigsound]

…and still trying to find that excerpt link bug…
in the frontpage.php on lines 10 to 16, i found the following code, of which i am not sure, if i had left it original or changed it – can you tell me if this code is in original version?

function parabola_excerpt_length_slider( $length ) {
return 50;
}

function parabola_excerpt_more_slider( $more ) {
return ‘…’;
}

[Sandino]

I put a template mantra, after editing the settings stored in the mantra setting, the notification said: Mantra settings updated successfully. But it also appears that the underlying error message: Checking jQuery functionality …
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. The Parabola Settings page can not function without jQuery.

Why is that when I do not use templates theme: Parabola.
Please help explanation.

thank you
Sandino

[pigsound]

hi zed,
i wonder if you could help me with that problem…
just to remind you: when i realized the problem, i changed back to your original parabola theme and there the excerpt links did not show properly either.

thank you in advance,
pigsound

[Sven]

Would be interesting for me, too. I’m working on it for over 4 hours now, but wasn’t able to find a working solution.

This is interesting for anyone who wants to optimize his Parabola-styled blog for Google!

[Richard]

Hi Zed,

I have been trying to find a solution to the OPACITY issue and found the code below on the web. I placed it in the Custom CSS area of parabola and it works but it makes the who page transparent. If i want to make just the widget and post background colours transparent where can i add this in the stylesheet

#wrapper
{
background-color: #FFFFFF;
opacity: 0.40;
}

Cheers

Richard

[95husum]

After some fiddling forwards and backwards I figured out a way to fix the problem. To reload the CSS you only need to change the color scheme to another scheme, then changing it back. Then it will work. You’ll have to do the same process every time you save changes to the Parabola theme settings

[Sylvia]

Hi Dr. Dave:

I’m working on a client site and just went through something similar.

1. In Appearance>>Parabola Settings>>Header Settings.
There, adjust header height from 120 to something smaller or larger. Adjust Header Content Spacing, which is basically the margins for the logo image. SAVE

2. In your graphics program resize the header image to your new larger size and upload it. SAVE

Make any further adjustments as needed. Remember to save!

Good luck!

[Mervin]

But the questions is, how can i install the Jetpack plugin without the conflict with Parabola. I have the same. Once i install Jetpack then im unable to adjust any settings of Parabola.

I hope to find an answer.

thanks all!

[Synthia]

i did removed the folder and re-installed it but again the same problem. if i change any theme option from parabola settings. the site broke down. PLEASE help ASAP.

[Kay]

Hi!

I see you switched to Parabola? Are you getting the same issues with it? Could you also give us some examples, links to what exactly is not displaying?

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[Ezekiel Carsella]

Well for us the main page doesn’t like pictures. Custom slide works but not from latest posts even though they all have pictures (albeit hosted elsewhere but still in the post) and posts on homepage have no pic icon.

[Kevin Fernando]

Hello again,

Also one more thing. How do I amend the background from grey to the dark purple of my theme for the scrolling social bar on the right? Again, thank you.

Kev

[Keyanna]

I have the Parabola theme and I want the header to display ‘latest’ posts. When I choose this option, there is just a load screen that displays but it never loads up anything.

It worked just fine on my server but when I did on on my live site, its not working. Can you help with this asap