How can I organise my blog posts properly please?

Hello Sally,

To make the categories separate, you need to create category-hot-family-holiday-discounts and category-thrill-seekers-holidays.

For details, follow template hierarchy.

Hi there

Thanks for getting back to me.

My links are currently already called https://lovefamilyholidays.co.uk/category/thrill-seekers-family-holidays/ and https://lovefamilyholidays.co.uk/category/hot-family-holiday-discounts/ which I think is what you mean?

I also asked the theme developer (kyma theme) and he said there is no way of doing this in this theme. Is there nothing at all I can do? Would really love to find a solution if at all possible, otherwise it’s going to be virtually impossible to have the sections on my site I want to.

You can see the developers response at https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/how-to-stop-blog-posts-getting-jumbled-together?replies=3

Thanks so much for your help.

Best wishes

Sally

Hello Sally,

I saw the Kyma theme developer’s response. There are basically no way to fix the white box issue and LATEST OFFERS WE’VE COME ACROSS section’s issue without coding.

To fix the white box issue, navigate to wp-admin->Appearance->Editor. Then click on StyleSheet (style.css) from Templates file list (right from editor). At the end of this style.css file you can paste this code (change the color value ‘red’ as your choice)

.menu_button_mode:not(.header_on_side) #navy > li.current_page_item > a, .menu_button_mode:not(.header_on_side) #navy > li.current_page_item:hover > a {
    background: red !important;
}

Need to run two separate loop in LATEST OFFERS WE’VE COME ACROSS section. It can be achieve by editing blog-content.php file.

Thank you! I finally have the white box issue solved ??

Hmm, the two separate loop thing has me a bit stumped. Could you elaborate please? Sorry, not great with code

Hi,

Please explain in more detail with screen-shot.

Thank You

Am I able to send you a screenshot directly? I can’t find a way to attach one here?

Basically, when you go on my site at https://www.lovefamilyholidays.co.uk and click on any of the top menu tabs except for home, the menu tab becomes completely white on the resulting page.

Thanks

Sally

Hi,

In order to change the active background color, enter this into your custom css area or into style.css if using a child theme. Cahnge the hex value at the end to whatever colour you would like.

ul#navy li.current-menu-item a {
  background: #444444 none repeat scroll 0 0 !important;
}

Also, on your menu, when you click on “home” it always opens in a new tab. I would definitely change that.

Thanks innuvo

I’ve finally managed it ??

Well spotted with the homepage opening in a new tab. Only thing is I can’t find where to change this for the life of me. Don’t suppose you have any clues? Been a long day…

Maybe check in the “Appearance >> Menus” section. Find the “Home” menu item and see if it is a custom link. If not, then you could always delete the Home menu item and create one called “home” again, set it as a “custom link” and then just use “/” as the link, thus taking you straight to the homepage.

Also – On the theme issue, i have no idea why the theme developer has not included such basic functionality in the theme as category archive pages. Seems very strange. It is quite simple to modify however using PHP

Genius! Thank you! Never knew I should just put /, so that was my fault ??

Is it really that simple to set the categories? Even for me? (I don’t even know what PHP stands for let alone how to use it, but I’d love to have it working, is a big factor in what I want to do with the site)

Thanks ever so much again for your help ??

Its not simple simple, but if you have a child theme then it can be implemented pretty easily. I can help but I am not allowed to advertise here or tell you how to contact me.

It is something that would take me 2 minutes to implement but if you are not confident then its probably not that easy.

Basically, if using a child theme, then you need to look for a certain file within your main theme, copy it to your child theme and replace 3 lines of code. Ive already done it on a test site here:
https://example.shaunl-demo.co.uk/blog

Click on the categories on the right hand side or underneath the title and you can see how it works.