Joe Streno

Ben …

No problem. I’m a “helper” by nature & I like that you support your theme so well.

I’ve built custom themes for years from blank WP templates, for myself & clients. So seeing the amazing amount of work & detail you put into your themes & support … for free … mega-thanks to you & glad to help out. ??

I also love that I’m leaning new bits of CSS to find creative solutions for issues as they pop up. One of the issues I had was in using Shareaholic to add post & page social sharing, I liked the look of having a set of small social icons floating left of a post’s first paragraph. They complimented your placing category & tag meta on the left of a post. Though in some of my posts I start with a blockquote. When I did the “.75em border bar” always appeared under the Shareaholic icons. Drat!

With some research I found that you can use CSS to act upon other CSS elements, like a first paragraph, et. al.. So with these two snippets of CSS I was able to change the color of the bar of all block quotes & also add a 3em left margin to any block quote having the class=”first” added to it.

There may have been an even more elegant solution … but this is what worked for me.

Just changing all block quote bars to red:

blockquote {
  margin-left: 0em;
  margin-bottom: 1.5em;
  margin-right: 1em;
  margin-top: 1.5em;
  border-left-color: #fc0011 !important;
  padding: 0 1.5em;
  border-left: solid 0.75em;
}

Acting on class=”first” blockquotes:

blockquote[class="first"] {
  color: black;
  margin-left: 3em;
  margin-bottom: 1.5em;
  margin-right: 0em;
  margin-top: 1.5em;
  border-left-color: #fc0011 !important;
  padding: 0 1.5em;
  border-left: solid 0.75em;
}

In the WP text editor my first paragraph blockquote HTML looked like this:

<blockquote class="first"> My quote text here ...</blockquote>

Pretty cool solution.

Sample here: https://go2jo.us/1DVA7Hy

Of course any additional CSS is done in my Tracks child theme.

Sorry if this is TMI for here. ??

HI ghostcri,

To show the automatic excerpts below the post title on the Home page, you must add text to the actual post page body. It can be above of below your photos. That’s where the automatic excerpts comes from. The default setting is to show 15 words, but this can be changed under WordPress admin Appearance > Customize > Additional Options @ the bottom of the section. The dimensions of your home page excerpt photos also change with the number of words you allow in the excerpt. You will see this as you tab out of the entry field. You will need to find the balance that aesthetically works for you.

As far as excerpt animations … the easiest way to do that is create your own animated gifs (you can do it in Photoshop) and make those your Featured Image for that post. This way you don’t need to add any other plugins or code if you’re not tech savvy.

I’m sure there are also small apps out there for whatever platform you are using to create animated gifs with or without animations.

Check out my blog, I’m a photographer & also using Tracks and have made quite a few alterations. I can help you with your site too. I’m a Mac & Web consultant. ?? (sorry to Ben if this not appropriate here) https://www.go2jo.com

I also use a java based gallery system that protects my photos from being copied. Check out any of my photos under my Bands menu.

Lastly … the remove the “Read More” button has been answered before here. Hope that helps. ??

Good luck … Joe

Hi Bojan …

Tried that previously & it didn’t work even after clearing SuperCache.

Tried it again & now works fine. Could be I tried it with opacity 1 rather than 0. Then again at 1:00 AM my mind may have been mush. ??

Thanks!

Joe

Hi …

Really liking Tracks a lot! Added a customer header & reformatted my entire site, including YEARS of old posts.

If I wanted the featured image of a post to be full opacity all the time what CSS should I add?

I tried

.featured-image {
  opacity: 1 !important;
}

in my child theme CSS, but that didn’t work.

I added your previous CSS addition for excerpts & that worked fine. (still deciding which I like more, the rollover effect or “bright” all the time.)

https://www.go2jo.com

Rebuild worked … thanks!

Can I get you to now rebuild my https://www.emacconsulting.com website, please? I had a translation plugin running that seems to have messed up ALL my post titles. I’ve removed it.

Thanks … Joe

Yes, please reindex my site. I will look into Open Graph Title tags.

Thanks … Joe

Where does Shareaholic pull the text string it uses for the title of the Related Posts link? Currently it’s formatting the string with the name of my blog like this:

{ go2jo.com } | The Clash @ Asbury Park Convention Hall 1982…

When I’d like it to be just the post title:

The Clash @ Asbury Park Convention Hall 1982…

At first I thought it was pulling it from my WP theme’s header.php Title attribute … but when I changed that line to just the title of the post, nothing changed in the way Shareaholic wrote those lines. Does it pull the text from CSS?

Any ideas? Maybe a fix?

Thanks … Joe

I’ve been experiencing the same the same exact issue. Images inserted into the HTML view via Media Manager with ‘HTML Editor Syntax Highlighter’ active just don’t show up. Visual editor works okay, but not HTML. I’ve taken to copying other image snippets pasting them into HTML editor, going into Media Manager copying the url of the image I want, then pasting that into the appropriate place. That’s no way to work! It’s easier to just disable your plugin altogether.

Wish WordPress developers would just include the functionality of your plugin into a new update of WordPress. So many people spend so much time in HTML … it would make life so much easier.

Thanks! ??

Igor … thanks for looking into this. I removed LenSlider for now until you update.

I would certainly like a custom skin. ??

I would like it to be very simple. The image area would be 930px x 260px, with no border or padding. Below the image in a white background 930px x 40px 22px gray dots for navigation.

Here’s an image of what it will look like.

https://go2jo.us/Thjuho

You can also check out my blog: https://www.go2jo.com

Thanks!

That works!

You might want to include that in the setup instructions to look something like this:

<?php if( class_exists( ‘LenSlider’ ) ) {LenSlider::lenslider_output_slider( ‘ your slider ID here – with lower case letters ‘ );}?>

But it would be nice if the ID was NOT case sensitive.

Just a thought. ??

Thanks again … Joe

Yeah I had tried all that earlier, before posting here. But still couldn’t get it to work, so I’ve tarted up WP-Slimbox2 … changed all the backgrounds to black, redid all the buttons. Now it looks better. Not WP-pP but tolerable. ; )

And so it goes ….

Wow that was fast! I also reported this directly to the AddToAny website & within 30 minutes or so there was a fix! ATA Update .9.9.5.6 was just released & fixed the PHP problem! Now that’s what I call service!

Thanks!

I tried doing an auto-upgrade and had a database fail with a huge list of errors all which start with “WordPress database error: [MySQL server has gone away]”, but at the bottom of the list is the button that says your update was successful. Click on it and it brings you back to the “You must update your database page again.

I restored back to WP 2.86 and my data was okay. I then did a manual update of 2.9 and I got the same result as the auto-update.

I looked at my server error log … OMG …. what a mess! I have t call my ISP to see what they can make of it. I’m reverting back to 2.86 & crossing my fingers.