cdmonline

I’ve applied the update (after restoring my WordPress config to its previous state). I don’t see any significant change to the plugin after the update. Should I?

Ok, I will restore my VM to yesterday (prior to the updating of the theme) in the meantime – just to get everything back and working. Please let me know what I need to do after that to sort it all out. Thanks ??

I think the problem is that I applied those changes to get the HTML text entry fields to the theme’s functions.php file. Now that I have updated the theme, that text field is no longer there. I do hope the data is still preserved.

I’ve updated my theme but have now lost all the text contents of the announcements. Are these stored anywhere so I can re-build them?

If I’ve done this correctly, it looks like version 4.1.0?

Screenshot

The web-site this is taken from is here.

– Chris

How do I check that?

Weird indeed. Here are some screenshots that I just took to show you what I’m seeing:

1. Shows that the missing icon is actually displaying when viewing the all announcements page:
https://portallas.com/wp-content/uploads/TImeline-express-screenshot-1.png

2. Shows the icon entry is in the pull-down menu but just not displaying:
https://portallas.com/wp-content/uploads/TImeline-express-screenshot-2.png

3. Same thing but with the pull-down open:
https://portallas.com/wp-content/uploads/TImeline-express-screenshot-3.png

4. Same thing but showing that it’s not just the one icon missing:
https://portallas.com/wp-content/uploads/TImeline-express-screenshot-4.png

5. End result – with the ‘fort-awesome’ icon not displaying:
https://portallas.com/wp-content/uploads/TImeline-express-screenshot-5.png

Yes, it appears to be the same icons still. Just did another audit and here are the ones that have no icon next to the name in the drop-down:

buysellads
codepie
connectdevelop
credit-card-alt
edge
fort-awesome
mixcloud
modx
pause-circle
pause-circle-o
product-hunt
reddit-alien
scribd
stop-circle
stop-circle-o
usb

I tried adding that code snippet to my theme’s functions.php and re-loaded a few times but it didn’t appear to make any difference.

Great. Got it working. I’m now back to what it looked like with the older version.

Some of the font awesome icons are still missing, however. Wouldn’t any caching issues have been resolved by now?

I assume that #cd-timeline was a typo for a .cd-timeline?

Hmmm. That doesn’t appear to have any effect on how it’s displaying. I tried adding !important but still no change.

Ok, I followed the HTML excerpt instructions and that’s now working. It’s still not preserving newlines, but I suspect that’s a WordPress issue rather than a plugin issue.

The next thing that looks off is that the announcements are being drawn from the outside of the page in, instead of from the inside out. I have my announcement width set to 350px using this CSS code:

.cd-timeline-content {
  width: 350px !important;
}

That’s working fine and the announcement is showing as 350px wide but it looks like this is now being measured from the outside instead of from the inside of the announcement window. The net result of this is that there is a big space now between the vertical timeline and the announcement box – like the announcements are drawn too far away from the centre of the page.

I can compensate for this manually by making the announcement width bigger than 350px but is that the only way around this problem? Can I have the announcements drawn next to the vertical timeline regardless of how wide they are defined?

https://portallas.com/forestium-events-timeline/

– Chris

Thanks. I’ve just updated to the 1.2.3 release but the icons I identified above are still not showing on the page.

I’m also still not seeing the text formatting inside the announcement itself being preserved.

I’ve also just realised that the formatting of the announcement text is no longer correct either. Some new-lines and colours are not showing.

Not sure what you mean by ‘in separate containers’. My announcements are displaying fully and are each self-contained. However, the highest point of each next announcement is being displayed adjacent to the lowest point of the previous announcement, which makes everything stretch out much longer than is necessary:

https://portallas.com/forestium-events-timeline/

– Chris