[cvananda]

Hi there, I’m having an issue with the Sepetra theme, where the site is often missing any of the icons from the theme. For example, instead of the search box on the menu in the upper right, it shows this square box:

Also, and more noticeable is the icons that should be in the featured icons are instead showing square boxes:

I even see the same when I’m in the theme options where you would choose/change the icons to use:

This doesn’t happen ALL the time, but about 25% of the time and it will usually load correctly if I refresh the page several times. I have removed almost all other plugins to troubleshoot – the onlye ones left are the same I use on all my other sites that are working w/o issue. I have used the Septera theme for several sites and never run into this issue – in fact, they are all loading fine when I test them now on the same hardware behind the same firewall so I do not suspect an issue there. I’m on WordPress 6.7.2 and Septera 1.5.1.1. Any ideas? Thanks and have a good one,
Chris

[bedard5115]

More information. Please let me know if there’s a fix. Jetpack’s fix is to remove the mantra plug-in.

Themes Vulnerabilities
Mantra <= 3.3.2 – Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Description
The Mantra theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 3.3.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affects Themes
mantra
No known fix
References
CVE
CVE-2024-44056
URL
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ced6450a-7d5a-4091-8181-98c005e74346
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79
CVSS
6.4 (medium)
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
stealthcopter
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
bf10fd17-849d-404a-8da4-ad633e048c24
Timeline
Publicly Published
2024-08-29 (about 9 days ago)
Added
2024-09-05 (about 1 days ago)
Last Updated
2024-09-05 (about 1 days ago)

[MikeEckman]

I am experiencing the same problem after going to 6.3. It only shows on my Search Results page. I tried changing from 3×3 to 2×2 and it was still there. I am using Septera Plus. My site is:

https://mikeeckman.com

Website: mikeeckman.com

[Zed]

The not found / search form is displayed on the homepage of any WordPress site when it has no content (posts) to display. This can be avoided by publishing posts or setting the homepage to display a (static) page instead.

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[Zed]

Hi,

Hello Word is WordPress’ sample post which can be replaced with your own or deleted if you don’t intend to use posts.

I’m not sure what you mean by search box, the theme’s search fields are controllable through the available options (and only the header one is enabled by default).
If you’re referring to a search form displayed in the content itself, that’s placed there by WordPress because your site has no other content on the section where it is located. Add some content or reconfigure the section to display something else (like a static page) and the search form will go away.

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[Zed]

Hi,

The visual details can usually be tweaked with custom styling. If by white area you’re referring to the main content container, the CSS for that should be:

article.hentry, body:not(.blog):not(.page-template-template-blog):not(.archive):not(.search) #container:not(.bravada-landing-page) .main, body.bravada-boxed-layout:not(.bravada-landing-page) #container {
    background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
}

Adjust the values as necessary.

The accent color is used in multiple spots and places and in various ways. These uses were not necessarily designed to look identical.

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[Zed]

Hi,

1. Please see https://www.cryoutcreations.eu/docs/themes/multilanguage/

2. Our companion Serious Slider plugin only supports image slides. To create a video slider you’ll need to search for an alternative plugin that supports this and use it in the theme’s slider section.

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[Zed]

Hi @AB2021,

The ‘not found’ and search bar are there because your site has no content (posts) to display. Add content or set the homepage to display a static page instead to hide those.

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[AB2021]

Hi.. I’m not sure if this was answered but I also have a search bar across my homepage that I want to remove, as well as “Nothing found no search results for’. How do I remove this search bar? Thanks

Website: art-mbm.com

[Zed]

I notice the site still uses the theme’s example header image – as can be seen on the search page (which doesn’t have a configurable header image).

If you’re comparing the blog section’s header with that of the homepage note that the homepage, as currently configured, does not display the header image – but the different banner image – in its slider section.

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[uisdean]

Update on the Menu Question:
It turns out that the menu has more problems.
1.) Using a computer with a monitor I discovered that the menu will extend out of the window. So not all of it is readable/available. The way to overcome this problem is to make the window narrow so that the little ‘hamburger’ icon appears. Then the full menu is available…under the caveats mention in the first post on this subject (above).
2.) On larger screens the number if menu items is limited by the fact that if there are a large number they will form two rows…and the bottom rows will cover the first entry from the menu item above it. I have played with the menu and modified it so that there is only one row. Unfortunately, I have to hide the site icon in order to get the menu all the way to the left. If I could do that, it would probably work much like the menu in Mantra. I don’t want to remove the site icon, since everyone knows that clicking on it will return to the home page.

None of this is acceptable. I have put a ton of time into making Fluida work, only now I discover that the menu system is highly flawed. I am really glad I did not purchase the Plus version.

So far: Mantra has the best menu system of the themes I have used. I don’t like Verbosa’s system. (see https://foreverstone.alwaysrejoicing.com and you’ll know why.) Parabola had a good system, but it won’t work on certain iPhones. Now Fluida’s menu system is highly flawed.

The time spent implementing Fluida is not totally wasted, as I learned much about themes from the process. So, I guess I’ll have to search for another theme. Ultimately, this is my fault. I should have spent more time testing the menu system before I chose to implement the theme. Lesson Learned.

Rejoice Always!
Uisdean

Website: www.alwaysrejoicing.com

[Zed]

You can, of course, display posts lists inside (static) pages, but the theme’s job is generally taking care of how the content looks, not where it comes from or which one it is. It is more of a task up for plugins to provide additional widgets and/or shortcodes to let you choose what content is displayed where beyond the default functionality of WordPress.
You can go along two paths for this:
– search for a plugin that lets you customize categories appearance (header/background) separately from the rest of the site and make use of WordPress’ built-in post filtering capabilities.
– search for a plugin that lets you display posts list inside pages – but since this is beyond default functionality the plugin will also be in control of the posts’ appearance there.

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[uisdean]

Hi Zed,
You’re wondering why I’d want to have more than one Posts Page. Here’s why:
My website is where I publish my short stories, essays and poetry. The perfect thing would be for me to have a different “look” for each category. For example, the picture in the Short Story header, the background, etc. would be different. One for stories, one for essays, and so forth.
I actually thought about having a different sub-domain for each one, but that means lots of extra maintenance, I think.
Fluida has the option in the PLUS version to have different templates for pages. I think this means that these templates make it easier to design pages like “Log In” or “About Always Rejoicing” or such. Now, this is probably a WordPress.org question, but, after reading your answer, I’m wondering if I could set up a page with a template and a widget that would display the “Poetry” category…??? The “BLOCKS” on the Landing Page do this. I’ve set up my test site with the category “Favorites” and now I can have a block on the Landing Page that displays the stories in my “Favorites” category. I really, really like that very much.
Parabola has the “Categories” widget that I use as a menu device. But the Blocks in Fluida work so much better. (BTW…it’s because Parabola has problems on the iPhones that I started searching for another theme. I’m sure you’ll fix it. But I began to realize that my design looked dated. That started me searching for the ‘perfect’ theme for me.)
I wish I could test the PLUS version, but I understand that if I download the theme and it ‘does not fit’ I can’t ‘return’ it like I would a shirt or jeans.
It looks like I will have to subscribe to the extra support, as I’m starting to produce a ton of questions.
Thanks for answering my question.
Rejoice Always!
Uisdean

Website: www.alwaysrejoicing.com

[bassicsax]

Hi Kay. Thank you for this!

Yes, there are a lot of different types of saxophones. To be fair though, my site is one of the largest saxophone sites on the Net. Between this site, and its related blog-style site, there are about 5,000 pages of WP material. FYI, my site goes back to 2008, that’s why it is so content rich.

I ended up increasing to 10,000px and it could maybe even go higher still. Why?

Because if a person browsing the right drop down navigation menu doesn’t close the arrows for the child pages they have already opened up, even at 10,000 they could end up at over-lapping text as they continue browsing child pages further down in the menu.

On an unrelated, but still navigation issue, I updated the theme last night to the new version. I was happy to see that suddenly a navigation menu appeared in the header.

There is a small problem with this though. When an header image is present, the only option for menu position is “Over header image”. If “Normal” is chosen, child pages vanish behind the image.

However, if “Over the header image” is chosen–like I have currently chosen on my site–then some pages are covered up by the Search box and are not visible. Furthermore, the Search box is rendered unusable, because moving the curser over it, in effect hovers over the pages under it.

Website: bassic-sax.info/version5

[Zed]

I believe we have discussed this through the priority support service.

For anyone else having the same question: featured images are only displayed in (posts) lists – blog, categories, archives, search results. On single post or page sections the images can be included in the content at the appropriate desired location.

Separately, the theme is capable of using the featured image instead of the header image – this requires the activation of a general header image and large enough featured images (the size condition can be disabled, though).

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[PierreRaby]

I found a solution. I installed a plugin that is called 404page from the wordpress.org plugin repository. It lets you create a 404 page with whatever content you want in it. You can write whatever you want in any languages (or multipe ones if you wish)

The 404 page is a personalised page that lets you put whatever you want to show when a user mistypes a page adress on you site. The roseta theme has one made as part of the theme but it is coded into the theme so One cannot change it’s content (unless there is a way i am not aware of). If you dont have one, you get a server error page which is less helpfull.

Now the only thing left for me is the search. WHen you click on the search icon (the magnifying gass), you get an english text that says “To search type and press enter” and i would like to have that in french.

[elusive_elf]

If you want to change the point at which your site switches from desktop to mobile nav, this is what worked for me based on the above:

You cannot amend this using the custom CSS in wordpress, you have to amend the main Roseta stylesheet which you can find at $yourwebsite/wp-content/themes/roseta/style.css

Make a copy of it on your server, then download it via FTP. To make the change search for all instances of 800px and replace 800 with whatever width you’d like the menu to change at. The best way I’ve found to find out the px size you need is using chrome.

Right-click on the page, and click inspect which will open up the dev tools toolbar. Take chrome out of full-screen mode, then grab a side of the screen and start dragging it smaller. You will then see in the top right of the website window a width and height value appears. Drag the window smaller to see where you start to have issues, then use that value instead of 800.

I hope that helps

[Zed]

Your replies were saved, but because of containing code they got flagged for manual review.

The value of the action parameter action="https://belaviva.com/" indicates that the form will always submit to the homepage. This is the same on both embedding locations, and the search form works as intended in both cases (confirmed by the presence of the search form parameters in the URL).

On standard pages the plugin is able to override the output and display its own content (the search results), however on the homepage it cannot do this as the theme’s own landing page feature takes precedence.

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[encoreservices]

Thanks for the feedback, @Zed
1. the shortcode works as expected on other pages e.g. https://belaviva.com/luxury-property/buy-luxury-property/
2. the form code generated by the shortcode is as follows
<form method="get" action="https://belaviva.com/"><input type="hidden" name="action" value="epl_search" /><input type="hidden" class="in-field field-width post_type" name="post_type" id="post_type" value="all" /><input type="hidden" class="in-field field-width property_status" name="property_status" id="property_status" value="" />
So with the action set to the “homepage”, I’m guessing it’s doing something with the hidden parameters
Thanks for any further input.

[encoreservices]

Hi Zed
Thanks for the pointer.
1. the shortcode works as expected on other pages e.g. https://belaviva.com/luxury-property/buy-luxury-property/
2. the generated form code is as follows

<form method="get" action="https://belaviva.com/">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="epl_search" />
<input type="hidden" class="in-field field-width post_type" name="post_type" id="post_type" value="all" />
<input type="hidden" class="in-field field-width property_status" name="property_status" id="property_status" value="" />

So it looks like it’s doing something with the hidden fields, I guess
Any further pointers?
TIA

Website: belaviva.com

[Zed]

Does the site have a general header image set? The search page appears to indicate that it doesn’t.

When a general header image is set, that image will be used on the blog section (this is a special section for which WordPress ignores any page attributes set on the placeholder page) and on the ‘portfolio’ section (which appears to be a standard posts archive, not a static page using Jetpack’s portfolio shortcodes).
The featured image in the header functionality is only available for individual posts and individual static pages that display their actual content (and are not placeholders).

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[Zed]

Is such a quote currently visible on the site (I search for but couldn’t find any)?

Some sections apply more specific styling that can override the one set in the editor, but for general content locations (pages/posts), the editor layout should be uses accordingly on the frontend.

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[Zed]

The ‘hide post and page’ titles only refers to single post and single page sections. It has no effect anywhere else on the site. To hide titles for sections in the landing page custom CSS can be used:

#lp-text-two h2.lp-text-title {
    display: none;
}

The number of posts displayed in posts lists (on the homepage, in search results, in categories, so on) is controlled by WordPress’ general reading options: https://wordpress.com/support/settings/reading-settings/

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[Zed]

That depends on the search form markup that’s outputted by the shortcode – specifically the action parameter, which can either be empty (meaning self) or be a specific URL.

Does the shortcode work as expected inside other pages?

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[tpawa1997]

On my website the page excerpts from my other pages are not displaying on the landing page(below the slider where the three pages are displayed side by side), despite having trying all possible options. 
To which Zed, from Cryout Creations Team replied:
Do you use any multilingual or localization plugin on the site?
Could you try temporarily disabling all other landing page sections except the icon blocks to test if that makes any difference in the excerpts displayed?
and I replied
I don’t have any localization plugins active on the site. I also tried disabling all other sections and checking but that doesn’t help too. Do you think another plugin might be causing the issue? The plugins I’ve installed are as given below:

1)Accelerated Mobile Pages

2)ACF Content Analysis for Yoast

3)Akismet ANTI-SPAM

4)AMP

5)Classic Editor

6)CoBlocks

7)Contact Form 7

8) Cryout Serious Slider

9)Drag and Drop Multiple File Upload

10) Elementor

11) Elements Kit Lite

12) Essential add-ons for elementor

13)Force Regenerate Thumbnails

14) Full background Image Manager WordPress Plugin

15)Full Site Editing

16) Google Analytics for WordPress by mosntersights

17) Gutenberg

18) Ivory Search

19)JetPack by WordPress.com

20) Layout Grid

21) Listo
22) LiteSpeed Cache

23) OneElements – Ultimate Addons for Elementor

24) SiteKit by Google

25) What the File

26) WordPress Importer

27) WP Bodymovin

28) WPForms Lite

29) WPForms Widget for Elementor Page Builder
30) Yoast SEO

Its been 2 weeks since I have received a response. Kindly help.

[tpawa1997]

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[Zed]

There are two almost identical strings in the theme. One is used on the search page title (and has the %s placeholder in it), the second one is used in the breadcrumbs (and doesn’t use the placeholder).

Look only for Search results for and don’t include a trailing space.

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[Zed]

If you’re using the theme’s landing page feature, that’s not an actual (static) page, so the plugin wouldn’t be able to find the searched hooks/function calls.

If you intend to build your homepage using the plugin, you can turn off the landing page from the theme’s options: https://www.cryoutcreations.eu/docs/themes/options/landing-page/general/

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[killoverme]

did some more searching (did do some before) and found my answer.

body #container #main, body #container #main article.page .entry-content {
padding-top: 10px;
}

[Freem32]

Hi Zed,

You say that I am not using the “Site Title”… Can I use the Site Title by changing the Parabola Settings –> Header Settings –> Site Header… enabling the “Site Title & Description”? If so, I did that.

Am I correct to assume that Search Engines will now pick-up my Site Title from my text in my Parabola Settings –> Presentation Page Settings –> Extra Text –> Top Title?

If not, I need some help pointing me to the correct method…

* Also * I just noticed another problem… The text from my Parabola Settings –> Presentation Page Settings –> Extra Text –> Top Title… is not showing on my website. An older version of my Top Title is still showing instead. and no, this is not a “clear browser/cookies” issue.

Do I need to open a new ticket for this problem?

Please advise / Thanks,

Mark

Website: activecaribbeantravel.com