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@permeke,

The purpose of this support thread is request an Enhancement to the admin options to include the transparency either with: background-color:transparent; or by developing RGBA color (background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.5);)

…………..
Work-arounds for time being that I would use:

In how images work on the web…there are only 2 ways I know how to add transparency to the image:

1. By exporting original image with transparency using the PNG format, then uploading it
2. OR – Using the relatively new css3 property “opacity”. However, this CSS3 property affects the entire elements opacity…so if you apply it to the <div> or container holding the background image…everything inside of the <div> will be affected by the opacity property. Example below.

<div style="background-image:url('file.png'); opacity:0.8;">
     <div><p>I am other content inside the background-image container</p></div>
</div>

RESULT: The <div> and <p> tags inside the background-image container will be affected by the opacity:0.8;. Typically not desired.

INSTEAD:

<div id="background" style="background-image:url('file.png'); opacity:0.8;"></div>
<div id="content"><p>I am other content inside the background-image container</p></div>

CSS: (You may need to adjust the z-index of background to be behind all other content. In order to apply z-index, you need to define the position attribute)

#background { position:relative; z-index:1; }
#content { position:relative; z-index:2; }

CONCLUSION:
If you’re using a small image and file size is small (approx. 150-200KB), it is much easier to learn how to export your image with transparency in the PNG format. Otherwise, a large background image PNG is typically a very large file size, in which case solution 2 may work for you. Export as JPG between 150-300KB and use proper HTML + CSS to create effect.

Ugh…Seemed to resolve it somehow, but not sure how. And I thought I tested in mult. browsers before I made this post. (Took a while to document).

I did add the “SiteOrigin Features” widget into the mix.

…Closing Thread…

@permeke,

Try going to themes “Customize” settings: wp-admin > Appearance > Customize > Background Image

In there, you can upload an image and even has options for css styling. Pretty neat!

See this post from earlier today:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/sydney-theme-menu?replies=5

Hi thmoasrg1,

I don’t want to assume anything here, but there a couple of questions to specify the exact cause of your problem:

1. Exactly what update was it? Theme update, WordPress update, Plugin update?
2. Do you know what a child-theme is?

If you are using a child-theme, then please disregard the rest.

If the update you mention was a theme update and it completely disregulates your sites, it sounds to me that you may be making the custom changes to the ORIGINAL (parent) theme instead of a child-theme. I used WordPress for a couple years before I discovered this time-saving, brilliant concept. I hope this may help you in the future:

If this is the case, please reconsider your rating of this theme as the Sydney and Moesia “FREE” themes have benefited me tremendously.

WordPress Codex: Child-Themes

There are a few reasons why you would want to use a child theme:
If you modify a theme directly and it is updated, then your modifications may be lost. By using a child theme you will ensure that your modifications are preserved…

How To Create A Child Theme, And Why You Should Be Using One

How to Create a WordPress Child Theme (Video)

I am not 100% sure how to check for plugin conflict. But I am not using the “Anything Slider” that I am aware of. I am using the Moesia Theme which recommends your SiteOrigin plugins.

Here’s the list of plugins I was using on the site at the time:
Akismet
Jetpack
Moesia Fonts Extended
Moesia Above Footer Widgets
Moesia Above Header Widgets
Moesia Below Header Widgets
MOJO Marketplace
Page Builder by SiteOrigin
Post Types Order
SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle
Types by OnTheGoSystems
W3 Total Cache
WooCommerce

Here’s additional plugin(s) installed since:
Event Organiser

If I recall correctly, it “felt” like the javascript somewhere was writing the css: visibility:hidden; because it was inline css. It might have to do with the logic / selector?

Let me know if I can be of more help. Thanks

Brilliant!! Thank you!

dimikjones…that’s great and what I was wondering how to do.

However, I think boyco, is clicking a menu-item…it goes to that page and refreshes the “Welcome” area with the pages content below.

**This was confusing to me to for some time, but in the theme’s “Customize” settings…inside the “Welcome” dropdown there will be a checkbox that reads: "Check this box if you want to disable the header image and text on all pages except the front page."

In otherwords, only display the Welcome Area on the Front Page.

**Second Note**
After working with theme a bit more, I think each page should have a “Custom Field” at bottom that allows you to overwrite the “Welcome Area” with a custom image. And I have not tested if the checkbox above disables that or not.

Here’s a possible work-around I’ve discovered as learning theme and associated plugins + widgets:

The SiteOrigin Widget Bundle (makers of the PageBuilder recommended by the Moesia Theme) includes a “SiteOrigin Features” widget.

This allows you some different controls/settings such as “4” features in a row. Only setback might be manually linking the “Feature” to the desired “Service” post.

• However, there’s a handy “Select Content” button that opens drop down selection of all your posts/pages to link to

Hope this helps!

**Second Note**
I’m going to create another thread asking for help/requesting feature update for the logic on how bootstrap classes are applied…which would resolve the column issues over several widgets I’ve come across.

Thank you Justin for responding + clarifying. I was able to get the ThickBox loaded as you described. It may be beneficial to include your “Edit” instructions from above in your FAQ section “How Do I Setup?” simply because most likely people are going to want that functionality. And it’ll make it a smoother experience for new users to get up and running more smoothly.

Also, a suggestion for a future update: (And this might be out of scope for your plugin, so please disregard if it is.)

Can you build into the Cleaner Gallery Settings to replace the text in the #TB_secondLine div: The “Image # of #”

For example: We could remove “Image” with a blank space, and can replace “of” with a “/” so it would output: 1/5

I think this has a cleaner look and would add just a flavor to the default WP ThickBox Gallery viewer.

Thanks again Justin for all you do!! I’m going to go ahead and give this a 5-star. Definitely deserves it. Well designed + coded plugin.

Hi davidrosen,

Would you mind briefly outlining steps you took to “install those other gallery scripts”?

I agree the instructions don’t provide this, and would help me and everybody going forward to save time since the plugin does allow for their compatibility.

I have located and downloaded the lightbox script

Did you have to drop the entire “lightbox” folder into your plugin directory or did you simply drag the files into the appropriate “css”, “js”, “img” folder within theme directory and “Cleaner Gallery” automatically searches for them??

Thank you so kindly for considering to respond. I aim to create a support thread and copy and paste your instructions for all to benefit.

Thank you! Thank you!

This worked for me. I am fortunate to have come across this solution. Thanks again rado.at for sharing your solution.

I hope Page.ly will update this solution in their next release.

Blake,

I home this may help…but I ran into similar error code posted by Jan:

$ telnet whatsgood206.com 80
Trying 66.96.147.119...
Connected to whatsgood206.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /statement HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:11:02 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: close
Server: Nginx / Varnish
Last-Modified: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:53:07 GMT
ETag: "3bb2ce-9ea-4b039013a8984"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 2538
Vary: Accept-Encoding

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>

	<head>
	    <title>404 Error - Page Not Found</title>

		<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
<!--
var domainname = window.location.hostname;
var google_afd_request = {
    client: 'ca-dp-oversee_ncd',
    domain_name: domainname,
    referrer: document.referrer,
    session_token: 'create'
};
var param_name = '';
var param_value = '';
var frame;

var registrar_frameset = function(params) {
    if (params['a_id']) {
        param_name = 'a_id';
    }
    else if (params['o_id']) {
        param_name = 'o_id';
    }
    param_value = params[param_name];
    frame = document.getElementById(params['frame']);

    document.write('<title>' + domainname + '</title>\n');
    document.write('<meta name="keywords" content="' + domainname + '">\n');
    document.write('<meta name="description" content="' + domainname + '">\n');

    var token_url = 'https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/apps/domainpark/show_afd_ads.js';
    document.write('<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" ' +
                   'src="' + token_url + '"></' + 'script>\n');
}

function google_afd_ad_request_done(response) {
    var url = 'https://dsnextgen.com/?domainname=' + domainname +
              (param_name ? ('&' + param_name + '=' + param_value) : '') +
              '&session_token=' + response.session_token;
    if (frame) {
        frame.name = domainname;
        frame.location = url;
    }
    else {
                document.write('<table style="border: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204);" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" width="800"> <tr> <td style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <h1 style="margin:0px;">Page Not Found</h1> <p style="margin-top:0px;">The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please try the following:</p> <ul> <li>If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly.</li> <li>Click the Back button in your browser to try another link.</li> <li>Use a search engine like <a href="https://www.google.com">Google</a> to look for information on the Internet.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table>');
        document.write('<iframe src="' + url + '" frameborder="0" height="800" scrolling="auto" width="100%"></iframe>');
    }
}
-->
		</script>

		<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
			  registrar_frameset({a_id: 101686});
		</script>
	</head>

</html>

I received this error when loading external JQuery Script because my filepath was “wrong” due to the “foldername” on my server was capitalized as “FolderName”

For example:
wp_enqueue_script( ‘my.custom.script’, ‘https://DOMAIN.URL/foldername/my.custom.script.js’);

So I had to change to:
wp_enqueue_script( ‘my.custom.script’, ‘https://DOMAIN.URL/FolderName/my.custom.script.js’);

And now my Script works.

@andrew Ozz:
Thank you for insight. I am in need of your expertise. I tried using more specific css in editor-style.css such as

/*
TINYMCE-STYLE CUSTOMIZATION  [ Placed in editor-style.css || functions.php: calling at top as in twentyten theme default:
// This theme styles the visual editor with editor-style.css to match the theme style.
add_editor_style();]
*/

div.mceMenu.mceListBoxMenu td.mce_formatPreview.mce_h1 span.mceText {
	color:red;
}

* Still didn’t work
* Tried add_editor_style(‘editor-style.css’); and didn’t work

**My Goal: Simply to have [TinyMCE-Advanced Plugin] format dropdown match the h1,h2,h3,+ styles from theme/editor-style.css AND if possible the h1,h2,h3,+ styles will render in the content area. (Which you mentioned to put CSS in “Edit Post” Header)

**Is there a conflict with the plugin?

1. Am I going about this the right way?
2. Where is this “Edit Post” header you are referring to? wp-admin folder?
3. If so, when I update WP does it overwrite my wp-admin folder when I customize it? What is the best way to safe-guard this?

Thank you soo much for your help with this!

——-

@jhayes:
TinyMCE-Advanced Plugin Page
Pulled from FAQ section:

* I just added my css classes to tinymce.css but they are still missing from the editor.

Click on “Save Changes” on the admin page of the plugin, even if you did not change any buttons. This will force TinyMCE to reload the css files.

After re-reading what I think you’re trying to do: “Get the Styles Dropdown to reference the tadv-mce.css and/or your theme’s styles.”

• The Style Dropdown ONLY references the styles located in the tadv-mce.css file. If you want to bring in classes from your theme…you have to go to the Tiny-ADV Editor Settings and check the box that reads: “Import the current theme CSS classes”.
• Also, after making changes to the tadv-mce.css file, you have to clear your cache in order for TinyMCE-Advanced to show changes. This happened to me last week.

I’m currently doing my first web-project with WP and running into lots of things…but I believe when I tested “Updating” the TinyMCE-Advanced Editor…it overwrites any styles in the tadv-mce.css file which is unfortunate. Only Solution I know of: MUST place in styles.css and import…but that brings in all valid classes from your theme and 90% are unnecessary. Hope this helps

Hi,

I have been searching for several days as well. I am running into same issue.

[TinyMCE-Advanced]
My Observations: Possible Reasons
** The ui.css is being loaded after / overwriting the editor-style.css.

** Or possibly the load-styles.php isn’t working properly (Not 100% sure how that works)

** I’ve tried using several specific css rules and even the !imporant; in editor-style.css declarations to overwrite the ui.css but to no success.

/*
TINYMCE-STYLE CUSTOMIZATION
*/
.mce_formatPreview .mce_h1 .mceText {
	color:red;
}

.mceMenu .mce_formatPreview.mce_h1 .mceText {
	color:green !important;
}

.wp_themeSkin .mce_h1 span.mceText {
	color:orange;
}

.mceMenu.wp_themeSkin .mce_h1 span.mceText {
	color:blue;
}

.wp_themeSkin .mceMenu .mceText {
	color:blue !important;
}

** Referenced this to load in another css file…and still its being overwritten: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/add-custom-css-classes-to-the-wysiwyg-drop-down

My Goal is to not have to “hack” into the ui.css and change…because after any update it will be overwritten.

I’m out of ideas…any help is most appreciated.
Many Thanks!