A few questions

  • Dear Ben, recently I installed the Startup Blog theme to try and so far so good. But It would be great if you could help wih a few things. I managed to edit the h2 thanks to the ticket here. But others:

    1. Read more button – I noticed you recommended to install the Child theme for this. Any risk using Child and not the main? Is there any way to translate “read more” to my language?

    2. Lost formatting when using “continue reading” block in writing. I have two paragraphs as you can see in this post
    https://granatovyjablko.cz/jak-vyuzivat-spotlight-hledani-v-ios-naplno/
    After the two paragraphs I input continue reading block. In full article everything is ok, but on homepage you can see, that formatting is lost for the preview.

    I use the continue reading block as the easiest way to force the excerpt of the article for preview instead of copying the text to special excerpt.

    3. Any tips for ideal measurements of the image for the main picture of the article? I am having trouble to somehow fit perfectly with the desired cropped object.

    Thank you for all your help.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Theme Author Ben Sibley

    (@bensibley)

    Hey there.

    Thanks for trying out Startup Blog!

    There’s no risk in using the child theme. The child theme just adds a little bit of additional code – Startup Blog is still technically the theme being used. In this particular case, you can translate the “read more” text by editing it directly in the child theme.

    As for the “more” block, I’m sorry this isn’t working properly. Let me look into it and I’ll come back with a solution.

    The ratio for the Featured Images is 2:1 and they display at 680px wide at their widest, so if you upload them at 680px by 340px, they will be uncropped and unpixelated. If you want your images to be perfectly sharp on 4K screens and remain uncropped then please upload them as 1,360px x 680px.

    Thread Starter dammster

    (@dammster)

    Dear Ben,
    I appreciate very much that you are trying to help. Thank you!

    1. So in case some future updates come to the theme, there won’t be any problems? Is there any way I can configure the theme upfront without using it on the site first and adding the logos, colours etc later while running the site?

    2. More block will be appreciated, thank you.

    Have a wonderful day.
    David

    Theme Author Ben Sibley

    (@bensibley)

    That’s exactly right. Child themes were created so that you can customize files in the child theme without losing any of your changes when you update the parent theme.

    Inside the Live Customizer (Appearance > Customize), if you click on the gear icon next to the “Publish” button, you’ll see an option to save a draft of your changes. This will let you customize your site’s logo and colors privately without publishing right away. If you need a more comprehensive solution, you might want to look into a “staging” website.

    Thread Starter dammster

    (@dammster)

    Thanks Ben. After all, I managed to edit the original theme a bit with the help of my friend and right now I have the read more button in place.

    But I am still having the trouble with formatting the text before the “more” black. Any idea about that? Thank you.

    Theme Author Ben Sibley

    (@bensibley)

    Okay glad to hear that. Just make sure to move the template file you edited (I’m guessing content-archive.php) into a child theme soon. Here’s a link to a starter child theme: download child theme. There’s an update coming out for Startup Blog on Monday, and if you update before securing your changes in a child theme, you’ll have to redo your work since it will be overwritten.

    Regarding the formatting, I was able to figure out why this wasn’t working properly with the “more” block. Once you update to the new version coming out on Monday, the more block will be working correctly so all formatting from the post will show up on your homepage.

    Thread Starter dammster

    (@dammster)

    Dear Ben,
    the formatting now works fine for Read more block. Thank you. However I found out about a different issue with the Media and Text block. Please look in the screenshots. The text gets somehow overlayed on top of each other and is unreadable on the web.

    This is how it looks in editor:
    https://granatovyjablko.cz/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/ineditor.png

    And this is how it looks on the web:
    https://granatovyjablko.cz/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/ontheweb.png

    Any suggestions? Thank you!

    Theme Author Ben Sibley

    (@bensibley)

    I see what you mean. Here’s a snippet that will correct the line height:

    .wp-block-media-text {
  line-height: 1.5;
}
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