[Jim]

Just a sad Parabola user with way too much time on my hands! I think helping others, where I can, helps me learn that little bit more.
I’m glad it worked for you.

Jim…

[MrAwesome]

Bad formatting 🙂 Trying again:

if($parabola_fronttext4) {?><div id="front-text3">
        <?php echo do_shortcode($parabola_fronttext4) ?>
</div><?php }

[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! 😉

[Jim]

Hi

You can change the menu text colour within the Parabola theme but it doesn’t look like you can in the Mantra theme. You could put the following into your Custom CSS area (under Miscellaneous Settings) and change the colour to what you want.

#access a {
display:block;
color: #5F5B5B;
text-decoration: none;
padding:0.2em 1.2em;
font-size:14px;
}

I hope this helps…

Jim

[Jim King]

Hi Seb

Go to the colour settings in Parabola for the header background colour and remove the colour value and leave it blank. That should make it transparent.

Hope this helps

Jim…

[Wen]

On line 46 in the theme-functions.php file.

header: ‘ = <?php _e(‘Menu’,’parabola’); ?> = ‘ // Show header instead of the active item

[Lin McDowell]

I also just began having this problem. I had not changed anything other than trying out a few different uploads of logos. I had not changed my plugins. I don’t see this posted on the WordPress.org Parabola support forum, so I’ll post it there and see what comes back.

[Mag]

So sorry, one more dumb question in reerence to the page background… in Mantra there was the opportunity to remove the white which is now showing due to the custom CSS … there is no option to remove it parabola… is there a way to do this easily with CSS?

[Jason]

Kriss,

At least for the Mantra theme, the Mantra Settings section of the Appearance options has an accordian bar called “Graphics Settings”

Breadcrumbs can be enabled/disabled from a choice-box in that section.

I double-checked and Parabola has the same accordian style options and the toggle for breadcrumbs are in the same place.

Hope this helps!
Jason

[Jim King]

Hi Dana

If it helps you can change the sidebar widths in the parabola layout settings?

Jim…

[Jim King]

Hi Mag

For the first issue both are available in Parabola color settings….. footer background (last one in General) and content background (first one in Content) just set them to the same colors (colours.. :-))

Second bit if I find anything I’ll get back to you 🙂

Jim..

[Zed]

Parabola has colour options for the footer area. You shouldn’t need to use custom CSS for that.

As for the font, it’s all up to the CSS rule you use. Did you double-check it shows up in the source code of the page after you save it? Is it the exact rule you test in the dev tools?

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[Mag]

Thanks for the suggestion Jim King… it works nicely.

Dana, not sure what you mean by shrinking- I think it is supposed to get smaller. There is a settting in parabola to keep the header aspect ratio…

[Jim King]

Hi Sheri

If it was me, looking at your site I’d switch off the top menu via Customize > Navigation and set top menu back to -Select-. Also remove the social icons in Parabola settings > Social Display and un check header near the bottom. Then either tweak the CSS or put the phone number in a header image.

Hope this makes sense and is of help

Jim..

[Edward]

I am also trying to figure out how to make the blog posts appear on front page (presentation page) in a similar way to what I got on my parabola based site, where it works perfectly. Still didnt manage to get it done in Mantra, only shows the presentation page without posts.

The instructions above works for Parabol but the Mantra index.php file is coded differently and I dont know where or what I should edit.. Any tips?

[Jim King]

Hi Peter

Go to Parabola Settings > Presentation Page the information you want to remove is within Slides 1 to 5 they are pre-filled with Image, Title, Text and Link. Basically just go through each one and delete the info and replace with your own information (Images, links, titles etc.)

I hope this helps.

Jim…

[Zed]

Parabola (and themes in general) should never affect the dashboard side. Is that form in the dashboard or on the website?

I’d need to know at least the name of the plugin (so if it’s free to test it on my test site).

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[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?

[Michael]

Yes, I am using Events Manager plugin. Yes, the issue disappears if I switch to a different Theme. However, I prefer the Parabola theme.

[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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[Christina]

Thank you that worked.

I am now trying to copy/duplicate my blog page. I used the Plugin Duplicate but it doesn’t work on blog pages only regular pages. I want to split my blog posts into two separate pages, only one will be the blog and the other a regular page. Is there something in Parabola that would let me copy a page?

[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]

That option is now available in Parabola 1.1.0.

Mantra doesn’t yet have such an option, but the code change is similar.

Child themes – we’ll have our own tutorial about this very soon.

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[Zed]

We added this option to Parabola in 1.1.2.

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[Zed]

Double check your slides images URLs are correct.

The permalinks are WordPress, not Parabola. As an idea, WordPress requires write access to your website root to write to the .htaccess file when you change permalinks options. Check this file exists and is writable by WordPress (you’ll get an alert in the permalinks page if it cant write it).

The font and colours are the same as the general font and colours.

Aligment is always left except the column texts which respects the content text alignment option setting.

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[Kay]

Again, for shortcodes to work, you need a shortcode plugin. Parabola doesn’t come with any of its own.

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[Tim]

UPDATE: I thought I would post my progress to help any others with the same problem.
After switching themes to “Mantra”, I noticed that that theme was fine, the only difference is as follows;
In Mantra (which is almost the same theme) under settings, reading, the front page display must be set to your latest post instead of static homepage. So I thought I would try that in parabola theme and “Boom” it worked! So from the WP dashboard just click on settings, then reading, then click the (your latest post button) for a fix. Not sure why this changed in the new version, but I’m sure they are looking into it. Thanks.

[Betty Gott]

The double widgets started when I developed a child theme. I took out the child theme and the double widgets started. I re-installed the child theme folder but now Parabola doesn’t recognize it. What do you suggest?

[Dom Magerl]

I get the same maessage when I go to the Parabola settings page but it disappears after a few seconds and everything appears to be fine