alexaclark

Sorry, this posted twice, I’ve marked this as resolved and left the other one open for help.

This has impacted me as well. I’d love to know if it’s coming back soon or if there is a work-around please.

Thanks Nicolas, that worked like a charm!

Sorry, it’s a client site which is still under dev. Maintenance mode is OFF now, and you should be able to see the issue with the circles being cropped at: https://marbillhillfarm.com/lab6/

Sure – https://marbillhillfarm.com/lab6/

Maybe the new release has changed the alignment of the image in the circle?

The theme I was using Magazine Basic version 2.7.9 worked great for doing this with Flickr images. It simply used the first image in the post at the featured image, which also meant if you composed your posts using something like Live Writer rather than in WP directly, the feature image features still worked.

With over 1500 posts on my blog, I didn’t want to have to manually assign a feature image to my back catalogue of posts and this worked wonderfully.

However, the latest up theme upgrade (to version 3.0) removed this functionality (since it introduces a performance hit.)

(Sorry about the rant – but help would be appreciated!)

Does anyone have a solution? At this point I’m even willing to do the manual fixes if I have to.

Thanks for the followup and for letting us/me know that that functionality is gone. I assume it’s not available on Magazine Pro or Magazine Flow either.

I’m aware of the hit in performance but there is method to my madness of hosting all my images on Flickr. In the last 9 years of blogging, I have moved hosts 4 times (and CMSs twice). Hosting outside the CMS makes migration SO much smoother, more reliable and predictable. It also adds an extra layer of SEO which has been great for me.

BTW – I do love the other enhancements to the new version. I’m disappointed I can’t jump right on board.

c.bavota, you are correct.

Even though my dashboard says I’m running the “latest version” I am running 3.0.1 of WP not 3.4.1.

Unfortunately with my hosting solution I can’t upgrade to 3.4.1.

Is there somewhere I can download the previous version of Magazine Basic to reinstall since Magazine Basic 2.7.9 doesn’t work with WP 3.0.1.

Yes, the dashboard says I have the latest version of WP, and that everything is up to date… The only, change I made was updating the theme.

I’m having a similar problem with https://www.alexaclark.com

Attempting to visit the site produces nothing but:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method WP_Query::is_main_query() in /home/alexacla/public_html/wp-content/themes/magazine-basic/functions.php on line 1233

For some reason it is possible to get to category pages (eg https://alexaclark.com/category/featured/), but then I get this error in the first summary post:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_trim_words() in /home/alexacla/public_html/wp-content/themes/magazine-basic/functions.php on line 943

It worked fine until I did the theme update and now the site is broken.
Help!