Dominik Schwind

Yes, we test the plugin and it works fine with our test themes. We try to build it with specific classes and ids to make sure it doesn’t collide with other CSS rules, but that is something we can’t always rule out. Luckily this is something that can be fixed with a couple of lines in your theme’s CSS.

Furthermore, yes, I get it now what you want to happen with the links, I posted the solution – add target="_top" to your link. If you clicked that little box in your screenshot, the link should already have target="_blank" so you just need to replace blank with top – how hard can that be?

Hi Bernhard,

the latest update adds a button that makes sure there is always black font on a white background.

I’m still not too sure where you find the “Open in new tab” checkbox, but I think I finally get what you’re trying to do. In your case you want your link to look like this: <a href="https://example.com/" target="_top">Click here</a>– the target="_top" opens the link in the uppermost container, which is your browser window.

Hi,

well, it’s the whole concept of the plugin that the day sheets open inside the lightbox. I’ll put it on the list of feature ideas for next year, but we won’t do any conceptual changes this year.

Hi Bernhard,

I’ve had a look at your page and it seems like your theme stylesheet sets a font color of a dark grey and a background color of the same dark grey. I don’t have a clever solution for that problem except for editing the theme stylesheet to change those settings. I’m at a family event today, but I’ll try to come up with a better solution as fast as possible.

Yepp, basically that is the way for now. We’re thinking about adding a way to use remote urls as calendar day views, but we’re still not sure how to create the interface for that. It’s already not all that intuitive to use right now, so we want to solve that problem first before adding more functionalities.

We do load the theme stylesheets into the calendar day view, which works pretty well for completely self-made themes but seems to have problems with the more complex themes and theme frameworks that implemented their own way of loading stylesheets.

It is something we’ll investigate further.

I’m not sure what you are expecting, to be honest. We’ll probably do one more little bugfix release before the weekend, but nothing that has anything to do with the lightbox. And we can’t debug how our plugin and your site/theme work together. We think we found a solution that works for most people – if it doesn’t work for you, I’m sorry, but maybe the other plugins out there that do the same thing are closer to what you’re looking for.

There’s a button “Add Media” – use this one to add the picture. If you don’t insert anything else, it should work.

And there is no fixed aspect ratio – the calendar is written in a way that it works as best as possible with most themes out there. It takes the size from the theme and automatically adapts to that.

Hi,

you’re right – it is still a bit fiddly. We’re planning to make everything a bit more intuitive in the future.

There’s a whole blog post inside the lightbox – if you put only a picture in the size 900x506px it should do what you are looking for.

The calendar picture can be any size, really – it will grow/shrink to fit your blog theme.

The Vimeo-class comes from glightbox – the lightbox script can be used to natively embed videos, but we don’t use this feature, yet. (We’re planning to – but it is indeed pretty hard to create a good user interface for that.)

Try reloading a few times – looks like the old CSS is still cached in your browser. I just did that on your page and that gap is gone.

We just pushed the update – does it solve your problem?

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Hi Maggie,

thanks for trying our advent calendar! I’ll try to find time to diagnose this more closely as soon as possible – earliest for that might be Sunday, though.

From a first glance at least the second problem looks like an incompatibility problem with your theme. The error message doesn’t look like anything we’ve seen so far with the plugin and it does mention a file within the theme folder.

Do you see the image in the administration screen? Like on the screenshot here? Does it show up in the WordPress media library?

Hi Andy,

thanks for trying our plugin!

The squares will only be fully visible once that day is reached – e.g. square 1 will be fully visible on December 1st.
If you open that page in the WordPress backend editor and then use the “Preview Changes” button you can see the full calendar and preview each calendar day as well.

I hope that helped for now, I’ll try to make these things a bit more obvious for future versions.