announcement display issue

Author ignores support here maybe ?
i see other person has been answered who posted after myself
even a simple ” i havent got a clue whats wrong” would be better then nothing, at least that way i could move on and find a different plugin that works better for me

oh well never mind

Our free support is limited as stated in numerous locations. This forum does not get checked on a daily basis. If you require a more timely response, please consider purchasing the pro version for priority support. Otherwise, you will have to be patient while I work my way through other support requests.

To answer your question, I don’t know and I would recommend you do some debugging on your end to help pin point the issue. I have not used that theme and don’t have it on hand to test. If you believe it to be the theme, temporarily switch themes and re-test.

If you have no icons in the drop down, then there is most likely a theme or plugin conflict.

For the record, it hadn’t even been 24 hours before you posted back here twice asking for answers, which for a free plugin, I find to be a bit unreasonable.

Thanks,
Evan

Evan i have fixed this but im no coder, im not bad with CSS but php im really not so good at but given time i can work things out and find a way round but i now know this is not a plugin issue and technically not a theme issue either, ive come to conclusion this is a bit of bad work on WP core in how it handles the default sidebar
by default WP does not give admin option to switch off default sidebar but if it did nobody would have broken themes a lot of the time when they try new plugins.

this is the culprit code

<div id=”sidebar” role=”complementary”>

this is the left sidebar

if a dev makes a theme whereby you simply add your own widget and that itself replaces the sidebar with a theme sidebar then some ( quite a lot) of plugins will display incorrect when showing a single view which is exactly what what happening with your plugin on my site so in single view which is controlled by single-timeline.express.announcment.php file is laid out to pull in default WP view rather than the themes view so it will pull the default sidebar back creating a conflict in theme and ruining the layout

in my case it was the default sidebar then placing itself underneath the content of the announcement.

you may know more than me as a coder to make good solution because as said im not a coder so i have had to copy code from my theme template that would cancel the default sidebar and place the theme sidebars but this means ive hardcoded your plugin file so i could never update unless i do this again after an update. im not sure of any other way to get round this though, theme dev would have just as much problems because they cant code to suit every plugin out there.

why oh why dont WP just add a button in admin to switch off default sidebar and save thousands of users this headache ?

Keep up the good work Even, its improving all the time

Well I’m glad that it wasn’t our plugin causing you issues.

If you do find an issue with our plugin, feel free to post back here.

Thanks,
Evan

i thought it was fixed then a few days after it was back to same issue
i found that code had re appeared so i removed it again this time even adding some extra code to pull in the sidebars that i did want displaying ( the sidebars for the theme)

Everything was great but a couple of days later back to problem again.
original code had returned again???

seams that plugin updates itself without actual saying there is and update or manually applying one?

is this plugin doing callbacks and checking its own code and reverting that code if found to be not default code ?

i tried to be clever by taking copy of the file and putting it in theme route with my changes as recommended in the readme, guess what , a couple of days later problem back again

whats happening with code and why is reverting itself back to default every couple of days?

Yes, indeed it does. The plugin is set to auto update. Each time a new release is out – the plugin updates.

This is to keep everyone on the same page.

Ideally, you shouldn’t be editing the code base anyway – so you shouldn’t be noticing any changes. You should be building everything into your child theme so your changes hold. That goes for WordPress core as well.

If you don’t have a child theme setup, then you’ll run into issues as well.

Evan

thats the one
no child theme setup lol
oh well ??

If you’re not using a child theme, then any changes you make to your theme is going to get reverted when your theme updates. If you edit any core WordPress files, you’ll find the same thing happens when you go to update to the latest version.

I would recommend that you just write very tiny custom plugin that enqueues that script – which would work around both the Timeline Express auto updates as well as your theme/core auto updating.

The plugin could be as short as 2 files and 2 lines of code to enqueue your modified CSS file.

Or finally, you could use a third party plugin such as Simple Custom CSS and just drop your changes in there. That should get things in working order (unless the timeline express scripts somehow override the simple custom css styles).

Either way, you should be able to find a work around to prevent the revert each time something updates.

Evan