I have created a Custom Post Type called service-providers

I have an archive URL working which shows all providers under /providers/ and shows individual providers as /provider/abc-company

I am now trying to build a specific archive page so have copied the category.php file and named it archive-providers.php

I have made modifications to archive-providers.php and yet none of the changes are visible. I’ve also tried renaming the file to

• archive-service-providers.php
• archive-service-provider.php
• archive-provider.php

None of these change the appearance of my archive results page on the frontend. Does quark ignore the archive.php file? Or do I need to use a different naming convention?

I’ve picked up a client who’s asked me to make some updates and changes to a site built by a previous vendor. The site is built on this theme, which I have not used before. I’ve been working with WP since 2009, but not every day. While I can say I know WP, I certainly do not know everything.

I cannot figure out, for the life of me when viewing https://harperandgracie.com/category/news/ why this happens:

• The “Business After Hours at Evergreen Habitat for Humanity” post shows both “more” and “continue reading”. But the other posts only show “more”.
• The “Best Coldbrew Martini” post, doesn’t doesn’t show any of the post text on the news page. I have no idea why.
• Possibly I’m confused by which php page is producing https://harperandgracie.com/category/news/

What clue am I missing here?

Followup question… is anyone reading the threads for this theme, or is it dead?

Hello there,

I have just been contacted to do a few basic changes to a website created with the Quark theme. I realize that this theme is no longer maintained but my client want to keep using it for now. One of the basic changes needed is updating the client’s address which I easily did on the contact page. However, changing it in the site footer has turned out to be a problem. I assumed I would find footer widgets but there is no content in any of the footer widget areas in the dashboard. I’ve looked through the WP dashboard menu items and still haven’t discovered where or how to change the footer info. Any suggestions would be welcome.

Many thanks.

Hello Anthony,

While doing some work on my site, I set WP to display warnings and low and behold:

“Deprecated: block_categories is deprecated since version 5.8.0! Use block_categories_all instead. in /public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 5458”

Since functions.php doesn’t have anywhere near that many lines, it must be an include ofsome sort. Any help finding where block_categories is called would be much appreciated. The fix is simple, just change the function to block_categories_all

TIA

Hello. Help increase the width of the content and reduce the width of the sidebar, and press it to the right side of the page. Is it possible? Thank you

Is this theme still secure to use since it hasn’t been updated in two years?

Hello, I am using the quark theme and I have an issue with anchor links on a page and hoping you could help.

On my homepage, I am using some “Id” to point different sections within the page. My navigation menu includes links to those anchors (Resources / Test Schedule / Contact us) and link to different pages (FAQs):

• From the homepage, when I click on, let’s say “contact us” (part of the page), it goes straight to the section.
• However if I click on “FAQs” which is a different page and then back to “Contact us”, it seems to redirect to the section but immediately go straight to the top of the homepage.

Hopefully that was clear…I tried with different themes like the default from wordpress and the issue only happens with your theme. Would you have an idea what could cause this problem?

Thank you

Hi, I’m trying to make some changes and can’t figure this one out. It’s already using a child theme. I found some instructions for making changes to either the archive, index or category.php files but the code they say to change isn’t what is in use. My .php is rudimentary at best. What do I need to do?

Thank you

I want to use a custom sidebar I have created for the woocommerce shop.
I want the sidebar to appear on the left NOT the right.
How?
I went into theme options and all there is to configure is ‘on’ or ‘off’
I tried to configure category.php – no effect.
I tried to create archive-product_cat.php – no effect
I tried to create taxonomy-product_cat.php – shop now looks like a blog.

I’m guessing there is a much easier way that I am just not aware of???

Theme Options -background colors can’t be overridden.

In function.php there is an action: quark_theme_options_styles() which applies a background from the Theme Options section to the bannercontainer (and footer) … however, there is no way to stop it outputting.

I deleted the background image and the color in Theme Options but it still prints css with empty values:

#bannercontainer {
    background: transparent url('') repeat scroll top left;
}

Therefore, when I add an actual background to style.css – the specificity of the inline style overrides and ignores my changes.

#bannercontainer {
	background: #a4e821; /* Old browsers */
	background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,  #a4e821 0%, #5aac24 100%); /* FF3.6-15 */
	background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,  #a4e821 0%,#5aac24 100%); /* Chrome10-25,Safari5.1-6 */
	background: linear-gradient(to bottom,  #a4e821 0%,#5aac24 100%); /* W3C, IE10+, FF16+, Chrome26+, Opera12+, Safari7+ */
	filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#a4e821', endColorstr='#5aac24',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-9 */
}

I want to avoid using !important so I tried:
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'quark_theme_options_styles' );

I want to remove the code from the functions.php but next update will put it straight back…

Can you enclose this in a if ( ! function_exists( 'quark_theme_options_styles' ) ) { so I can override? Or add an option to ignore it?

• This topic was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by SJW.

The mobile menu on this site used to correctly show “Menu” but now all I can see is the tip of the M. I would like to be able to see the M or else (preferably) get a more modern-looking menu icon in place of the word “Menu.”

Hello!

I’m hoping you can help me. I’ve got a CPT that I’ve created, I sort it by post title and display in an archive. This all works great, my problem is the next and previous links are now wrong as I THINK there still showing pages based on date. I’m having trouble finding useful documentation the wp_link_pages function. www.ads-software.com hints that sort order can be changed but doesn’t have any examples and what I’ve tried hasn’t helped.

Thanks for an awesome theme!

Reading Settings >> For each article in a feed, show >> Summary

When activated – the archive page still shows full text.

I have experienced this on 3-4 sites now – is this just an oversight? Or is this handled elsewhere?

• This topic was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by SJW.

Hello,

I have a custom post type called members.
I copied post-archives.php and put that code in archive-member.php. I edited archive-member.php to load the template part content-memberarchives and created a content-memberarchives.php and copied the code from content-postarchives into it.

Everything is displaying as it should and WP is loading my templates, BUT, the Member Headers are not displaying the Links to individual Members.

I start looking at the source and I see neither content file contains links in the headers, yet the links show up if I switch back to content-postarchives.php

Please help me understand what’s going on here and how to make it work with my own template.

Thank you!

Hi Anthony,

I noticed that all my featured images and headlines are not showing up on my blog page, so it looks like one long article. When I go into the edit mode for each post, the headlines and the featured images are all there, they are suddenly not displayed anymore.

Have deactivated all plug ins to check if there was an incompatibility but that didn’t change anything.

Not sure which WP upgrade this happened at.

I appreciate help with this as i am not super tech savvy.

Thank you!
Claudia

Have you given any thought to using fontawesome version 5 with this theme? I have made a number of themes from out of this theme, but the social media menu output gives the code <i class=”fa etc
So most of the fa classes in the theme need amending to fas for fontawesome 5, including several of the social menu outputs (fa-rss etc), but the brands (facebook, twitter etc) need class fab. I am trying to see if I can rearrange everything to get it to work, but having little success yet, because of the stacking of icons. Fontawesome have really complicated things…

I’m seeing the following error on all Post pages:

Warning: printf(): Too few arguments in /home1/cinelici/public_html/wp-content/themes/quark/functions.php on line 703

Please help!

Greetings! Very nice simple and clean theme.

When removing the logo in header and just showing site title, the font size is very, very large. I see class “col grid_5_of_12 site-title” but adding custom css has no effect for site-title.

How can this be changed via custom css?

I have used dev tools, but can’t seem to locate correct class to modify.

Is there any way to show both site title and tagline?

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

I read somewhere that the Quark Starter Theme will automatically load parent styles into a Child Theme. I did some tests and this seems to be correct.

My question is, how does it do this??

Regards,

Gautama

Another CSS question:

The text in my sidebar is jammed up against the text in my post. There’s lots of white space on the _right_ side of the sidebar. How can I increase the margin, or the padding, on the left side of the sidebar? I’ve looked at it using Safari’s Element Inspector but it’s all one div.

Thanks

Hi, I can’t figure out how to remove the meta data from my posts using css, or any other method for that matter. Any help appreciated. I’d prefer a method that hides the meta data for all posts including future posts.

Mike

Hi Anthony,

In the style.css there are 3 options to hide elements but keep them visible for screenreaders:

.screen-reader-text
.assistive text
.visuallyhidden

But I’m confused; How are they supposed to be used? This is my main question, but if it helps I split it up in separated questions:

1.
Why is class .screen-reader-text not used and / or replaced by class .assistive text?

2.
The class visuallyhidden in the style.css (taken over from html5boilerplate) looks almost identical with the code explained on www.ads-software.com, https://make.www.ads-software.com/accessibility/2015/02/09/hiding-text-for-screen-readers-with-wordpress-core/ .
a.
Why is the class .visuallyhidden used only once – in the header template – instead of assistive text, or the other way around?
b.
Why is the class .screen-reader-text not used?

Thanks in advance!
Sandra
Code snips below:
/* Text meant only for screen readers. */
.screen-reader-text {
clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);
position: absolute !important;
height: 1px;
width: 1px;
overflow: hidden;
}

/* Text meant only for screen readers */
.assistive-text {
clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); /* IE6, IE7 */
clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);
position: absolute !important;
}

/* Hide only visually, but have it available for screenreaders: h5bp.com/v */
.visuallyhidden {
border: 0;
clip: rect(0 0 0 0);
height: px;
margin: -px;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 0;
position: absolute;
width: px; }

Help, Mobile menu on quark theme is not friendly by default. How to makeenu on mobile is friendly like can make drop down. Mas css php and js is not pro.
Plesae how tutor to make drop down menu. See www.ads-software.com menu is cool if i open on mobile. But quork not cool only for mobile menu.

I have modified the search so that it only searches post_type=product to limit search results to shop items only.

1. After adding a marker to each file I discovered that the woocommerce doesn’t use a template – it is coded into functions using Theme Options.

2. I want a sidebar for the search results only BUT in theme options, it only allows for Shop sidebar or Product sidebar.

How can I activate the sidebar ONLY on search results page.

Hello Anthony,

Please could you help / advise me, it would be very much appreciated?

I have a requirement for CMS using posts, the user can not have page editing rights. So far achieving this using a post category and displaying on the page by category query.

Any posts in this category need to be excluded from the main blog view and single post view.

I have a function:
/** Exclude Specific Categories From The WordPress Loop */
add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_specific_cats’ );
function exclude_specific_cats( $wp_query ) {
if( !is_admin() && is_main_query() && is_home() ) {
$wp_query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-4’ );
}
}

It removes posts in the category from the main blog but posts in the category can still be viewed in single post view using the rel nav previous/next. I’ve also tried editing the single.php file and excluding by post ID’s without success.

Have you any advice please, or is there a better way of achieving this with Quark?

Kind regards and thank you as always.
Nel

Hi

How can I manage the pagination for the category, i.e. show 10 excerpts per page?
Right now it’s showing 3 on page 1, and 4 for page 2 and 3, and 0 on page 4.

Also did I do it correctly, or is there a better way to show only excerpts of the posts in the category page?
By searching, I found this
https://www.dailyblogtips.com/how-to-make-category-pages-display-post-excerpts/
so I changed the category.php like this:

<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php // following is the original quark code showing full article
// get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>
<?php // this is to show only excerpts
the_excerpt() ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

Thank you

Hey. First of all, a great theme. I have used this theme in countless of sites but only now I have noticed that the back button always takes the user back to the top of the page. This happens at least in Chrome. Firefox seems to work properly. This also happens in the demo blog page so I don’t think the problem is in my sites. Is there a fix for this?

Anthony,

Below I have 3 questions (5-7) and four assumptions (1 – 4). They raised when examining the working of the grid and my purpose to extend / change it (but keep it basic and keep it float based).
Can you tell me if my assumptions are correct and answer the related questions?

Thank you!

Here we go:

1) Assumption:
The classes site-content, site-footer, site-header, home-sidebar and banner act as a “container” for the grid and one of it’s purposes is to center the grid (by setting margin: 0 auto; max-width and width).

2) Assumption:
The classes with the name ‘container’ in it – headercontainer, bannercontainer, maincontentcontainer, footercontainer – are for the general layout.

3) Assumption:
The combination of these settings:

“grid container classes” (see 1) -> margin: 0 auto;
col class -> left-margin in percentage.
row class -> margin: 0 auto;

structure the grid by making the content not touch the edges of the viewport and create gutters and is another implementation of the same but with settings like for example:

An equal sided padding (value X) on the “grid container” with
a negative margin-left (value X) on the row class and
equal sided padding (value X) on the col class grid to negate the container’s padding and create the gutters.

4) Assumption:
If replacing the grid (stylesheet grid.css) of the theme, the new grid may have a container and this does not interfere with the existing “grid container” classes (see 1). At most, it is kind of duplication on containing of the grid.

5) Question:
If replacing the grid, with a grid system that has an equal sided padding on the “grid container” and taking in account the theme structure, what is the best choice for row margin and column padding, pixel or percentage?

6) Question:
The classes site-footer, home-sidebar and banner do not have setting ‘position: relative;’. Why not?

7) Question:
The classes home-sidebar and banner do not have setting ‘clear: both;’. Why not?

Is there a simple custom css to move the sidebar content left or right? (quark theme) Thanks in advance.

Tam.

Hi,

I disabled the comments on my website. But “no comments” still appears (“pas de commentaires” in french, here for instance : https://korhom.fr/des-vacances-a-buno/).
(I am not sure the issue is linked to the theme though.)

Do you have any idea to remove this ?

Thank you for your help !