Bugs/New Settings Responsive Layout & Body Colours

I have now managed to hack the code to solve the box padding and margins with CSS overrides.

This DOES NOT SOLVE the main body content colour and the bottom page elements: Post data, previous, next and footer loosing their colour.

For those wanting hint to make page or post heading images flush I have had to use the following CSS overrides:-

.page div#content { padding: 0px;}
.panel-grid-cell{ margin-top: -15px;}
.wp-block-image { margin-top: 0px;}

You may need to play around with these for your own sites.

I still need an answer to the colours for the bottom elements.
This issue is NOT resolved today.

I have not hacked the rest of the problem with further CSS overrides.

The colour issue at the bottom of pages has been solved only by hacking the relevant classes.

Not the ideal issue but site is now fixed until it’s trashed in the next update to Responsive theme.

If anyone has similar problems I have had to code the following classes.

.post-data {}
.navigation{}

@worldmaker
I have noticed that recent updates of Responsive Free suddenly mess up some of my child settings. Normally I can adjust it under Appearance -> Customizer -> choose whatever section you want. With the last update there suddenly was a container (or is it called box?) where I had none on my homepage (=transparent). But this time I cannot find the solution in customizer.

Now I see your flaws, I just wonder why the recent updates mess with our child themes?
I use Responsive free for 6 years and never I had to adjust something in customizer.
It seems very strange (and annoying for all the hard work I put into my site) to me!

Good luck with your site!

@magdigit

Thank you for your comments.

After spending time on the changes I did master it and find it better than previous versions with the ability to improve the styling for the site.

The addition of a controllable containter/box does give me more colour options and this IS SOMETHING I was looking for a few weeks ago.

Your comment about the way all this is messing with child theme is interesting. I see that the developers are adding many new functions and options in the parent theme. If we have created child theme they will not have included these new elements in the child. Each time there is an update it is adding to or by-passing the previous settings in the child. Using CSS overrides can help control the process once we have all spent time digging into the code to find the new features that need overrides.

@worldmaker

Thank you so much for your explanation! Now I understand that Responsive Free is recently totally renewed! So I must be prepared for more strange changes in my site…

On your other post I also have answered, though a little late, since a notification of your reactions were not emailed to me.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Thank you @worldmaker for addressing queries.

We constantly making changes in the responsive theme to make it better. We have modified all the function names and the hook names as per the latest WordPress standards and it may cause to break the child theme changes. Please refer the documentation for the same-

https://docs.cyberchimps.com/responsive/faq

Can you try those changes, let us know if you face any issue.

About the footer color, we will add the color option for footer in the next release.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by CyberChimps.

@cyberchimps

Thank you so much for the FAQ ánd the fact you’re working so hard to ever improve this lovely theme!
Since I cannot find the css to make the homepage container/box transparent again (or delete it all together), can you please give me the css, so I can fill it in the extra css section in your wonderful Customizer?

Thanks in advance!

@cyberchimps

According to your FAQ and Customize-section, one only can change the size of the container.
NO possibilities to make the container transparent, or deleting the border or change colors there.
We hope that you will add these possibilities in 3.16.5!!

@cyberchimps

Thank you for getting back and updating us, and the new news about further developments.

I will track and test the changes as best as I can but work launching my own business means I can only spare a few hours a week.

If I notice anything serious I will try to solve and document it when I have a moment free.

@cyberchimps

Dear Responsive Makers!

So sad, version 3.16.7 is even worse! Again is tampered with the width of the containers, which I had adjusted in your customizer. And still there is no possibility to make the container on the homepage TRANSPARENT. So I rolled back to the safe 3.16.3.

Keep on trying, though it takes quite some time off of my real content work, and of my peace of mind… ??

Sorry, I mean version 3.17.

@magdigit Sorry to keep you waited. We will update you about the transparent background feature earliest.

@cyberchimps

Thank you in advance! I’m so excited how it will be!

@cyberchimps

I saw you published version 3.18! ALAS, that version does not give us the possibilty to make the container on the homepage TRANSPARENT!!
Also again you’ve tampered with the width of the container.

So I rolled back to safe 3.16.3. But I feel quite outdated in this way.

Why is it so hard to let my transparent homepage container in my childtheme intact??
All these try-outs make me nervous and take quite some valuable time…

We understand the frustration @magdigit

We assure you we want to fix container width issue on priority, can you please provide us more details about steps to replicate the issue?

Our developer team is working on the transparent header option, we will update you soon.