Christopher Anderton

Related thread (with the answer and workaround): https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/wp_mail-has-been-declared-by-another-process-or-plugin

It seems that the events-calender is using
require (ABSPATH.WPINC.'/pluggable.php'); causing the problem (or vice versa). The workaround is to edit the ”offending” plug-in file (a no no in my world) or use SMTP instead with the WP Mail SMTP plugin (using that one myself).

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/
https://help.mandrill.com/entries/21738447-Can-I-use-Mandrill-to-send-email-through-my-content-management-system-CMS- (don’t know if i breaking the forum guidelines reposting the last link from the related thread)

First of all, you got lot’s of scripts running at once. Also you are running Jquery from a CDN (Google). it could break things and blocks users from countries that blocks Google (sad but true). It seems that the scripts are not properly enqueued in some cases. The gallery output is from a script named ”galleria”.

General suggestion: Get rid of every script you don’t really need. Use the WordPress Core Jquery version.

Also, the theme you are using is a commercial one from ThemeForest, so you need to address the theme developer in their own support forums (as www.ads-software.com forums is not for support regarding commercial themes and plugins). As it seems like this is more of a issue with the theme itself than the plug-in.

However. Good luck!

See also: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/contentphp?replies=1

I replicated this issue on my devinstalls.

Quick fix (i suspect there is a better solutions. I was in a hurry).

In custom.js‘

Line 28, the line with: $video_container.show();
Add:

$('.et-play-video').hide();
$('.meta-date').hide();

Just below.

On my test install, testing with featured image (and without) with a plain text YouTube URL.

With Featured image and Youtube Plain URL: The ”Play button”?overlay should be there. However, you need to click the image and not the button. When clicking the image the play button will be hidden, and also the meta-date (as the container blocking the YouTube controls) and you can play your video.

Without Featured image and Youtube Plain URL: Should just show the video.

However (separate thread maybe), when uploading self hosted video (MP4). It just shows the URL, and in single view, the video shows up (in the content, just as in a standard post).

Cheers.
You need to go the menu section in your WordPress admin and add your page to your menu.
See the codex on this: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/WordPress_Menu_User_Guide

Good luck!
Christopher

1. ) Open functions.phpin your theme folder. Find this (line 627 to 628):

printf( '<span class="meta-post-date"><strong>%s.</strong>%s</span> <a href="%s"><div class="meta-comments-count"><span aria-hidden="true" class="icon_comment_alt"></span>%s</div></a>',

Replace with:

printf( '<span class="meta-post-date"><strong>%s.</strong>%s</span> <a href="%s">',

2.) Just below you will find this code:

esc_url( get_permalink() ),
sprintf( _n( '1', '%1$s', get_comments_number(), 'Serene'), number_format_i18n( get_comments_number() ) )

Replace with: esc_url( get_permalink() )
(we are just deleting the comment count here) and save.

3.) Open up the style.css file find the following classes and remove them (or modifiy them):
line 319: .post:hover .meta-post-date
line 372: .post:hover .meta-post-date (yes, same name as line 319)

Save.

The best way is to use a child theme for modifications. More in the codex: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

Cheers
/Christopher
(i’m not affiliated with the theme author if someone wonder.)

Line 622 to 637 in functions.php is where you find the Date function.

To modify the output of the date, find this code (line 628):

get_the_time( _x( 'M', 'post info month name', 'Serene' ) ),
				get_the_time( _x( 'd', 'post info day', 'Serene' ) ),

The first line here outputs the Month (‘M’). The second the day (‘d’) as you can see.
Let’s say we want to output the year, month and day together. Example: 2013-10-18

Replace the code above with:

get_the_time( _x( 'Y-m-d', 'post info date name', 'Serene' ) ),

Just above this code, on line 627, we will find this:

printf( '<span class="meta-post-date"><strong>%s.</strong>%s</span> <a href="%s"><div class="meta-comments-count"><span aria-hidden="true" class="icon_comment_alt"></span>%s</div></a>',

Replace that with:

printf( '<span class="meta-post-date"><strong>%s</strong></span> <a href="%s"><div class="meta-comments-count"><span aria-hidden="true" class="icon_comment_alt"></span>%s</div></a>',

You may want to modify the CSS of the date output to make it fit/look better in the box.

In style.css line 299 to 305 find this:

.meta-date-wrap {
	width: 165px;
	height: 55px;
	display: inline-block;
	position: relative;
	-webkit-perspective: 600px;
}

Change to something like this:

.meta-date-wrap {
	width: 15%;
	height: 55px;
	display: inline-block;
	position: relative;
	-webkit-perspective: 600px;
}

Here is a Pastebin link with everything wrapped up (just the functions.php part):
https://pastebin.com/P1CTGkL5

To use your own formatting of the date, see the codex: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Formatting_Date_and_Time

Also. Best practice, and also more convenient is to use a child theme for modifications. But that is a different topic. More about this here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes
Good luck!
/ Christopher

Cannot replicate that problem actually on three separate installs. You don’t have any plugin clashing maybe causing the problems?

I designed a fully functioning website with multiple pages, links and images in less than 1 hour on wix. My current site took over 12 hours to design by comparison and is so slow.

Again. You cannot compare a website builder service with WordPress. It’s like comparing eating out on fast food restaurant to cooking the food yourself.

Cheers.

UI: https://make.www.ads-software.com/ui/
It’s not just change the UI to make it look cooler. You have to think of user testing, compability, older browsers and so on. With that said, i agree that it’s pretty outdated. But, it’s being worked on.

You can not compare Wix (it’s a online service) with a selfhosted WordPress install. Two very different things.

When it come to your site, i must say there is no wonder it’s slow.

The first page it’s 3.4mb. It got plenty of scripts running (19), unoptimizied images (You can cut down the image file size to something like 80%).
Also. Your host IS slow. When i checked around and run a few tests, your host (Austdomains*) came up with very low scores. Actually, customers of that hosting company is complaing A LOT on slow access times.

*If i got the wrong host, sorry. But the problems are the same

So if i where you. Optimizie! Or if you want static pages. Use that webservice Wix, it maybe works out better for you. You could also try WordPress.com

Cheers.

It’s for translations.

Read more here:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/load_plugin_textdomain

You can changed it in init.js (JS folder) on line 100.
var numCols = 4; change the value to 3. However you need to tweak the CSS and maybe other things in the theme to make it look right.

Ah, interesting. Getting the same results as you in Chrome also.

Tested in Firefox 20 and 21 (Mac OS X) and could not replicate the issue using the same video (and no others. Also tested with Vimeo).

Using WordPress 3.6b3.

You don’t use any plugin-ins or scripts for Firefox that could be interfering? Like GreaseMonkey Scripts?

Similar problem and ”solution” here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/cant-login-after-installing-w3-total-cache?replies=3