Jose C

Greg,

I emailed siteorigin about a problem I have where WP does not alert me of premium theme updates, so I’ve had to manually guess to see if there’s a new update, which there often is. The last email was never responded to. I know that this is free theme support, but just want to ask if you can help me out with that one outside of this site. I have the premium code correctly in settings, just not sure why it doesn’t alert me of updates.

thank you,
Jose

You can add individual icon widgets in page builder and place them in a colum or two or three, etc. Otherwise you can install a plugin which will hopefully also come with a widget that you can just add.

accidental repost.

You’ll need to first register a new widget in functions.php, preferably in a child theme. If you don’t have a functions.php, simply start one with a note editor, add:

<?php
register_sidebar( array(
		'name' => __( 'Before Slider', 'vantage' ),
		'id' => 'Before-Slider',
		'before_widget' => '<aside id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
		'after_widget' => '</aside>',
		'before_title' => '<h1 class="widget-title">',
		'after_title' => '</h1>',
	) );

Where you change the ‘Before Slider’ and ‘Before-Slider’ to the name you want to assign this widget, preferably something that will help you remember its location.

Then you’ll need to place the widget where you want, in your case header.php

<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'Before-Slider');?>

Again, do this in a child theme in case you mess up.

After you do this, your widget will appear in the header, but then you have to style it and give it a class, which is more complicated to do and I am still learning about it myself.

These directions may be misguided and I am not a staff of vantage or siteorigin Use at your own risk.

Thanks..

Jose

Well, this is what I did:

I went into the brute login options in BPS and turned it OFF. Then I did automagic buttons again for secure htaccess and activated in root and wpadmin.

I then opened the root htaccess file created and it still had the information about the brute login attempts, so I deleted that code.

I also deleted the code about a redirect for BuddyPress plugin which I don’t have installed anyway.

I also deleted the “Head” from request before “trace”

Then I saved it and changed permissions to 404 to keep it that way.

And boom! I can log out now and BPS is activated along with the other plugins I mentioned.

It had to do something with that code. My guess is the BuddyPress code which specifically has a redirect for logging out, which is what was happening.

I hope that i am still protected well by taking those things out.

Also, currently, both rewritebase rules (in root and in install subfolder) point to:

RewriteBase /example/

AIT,

So if I have my site installed in examplerootsite.com/example

then the htaccess rewrite rule for both the htaccess in examplerootsite.com/ and examplerootsite.com/example should be:

RewriteBase /example/

?

I just turned off BPS login protection so that only wordfence could stay active, did automagic buttons again for secure access, and same problem. cant log out.

The issue is not logging in for me, it is logging out. I get:

403 Forbidden Error Page

If you arrived here due to a search or clicking on a link click your Browser’s back button to return to the previous page. Thank you.

AIT:

I create the secure access through automagic and enabled it in root of install and in wp-admin, and I get the same issue.

I do have other plugins: Wordfence security plugin which I believe also monitors logging attempts…but this was the case before and it was all working just fine?

I also have a plugin that makes you input a pin in the beginning, but it’s not a complicated plugin–that’s all it does. And this was also there before so not sure what changed?

One thing I feel could be an issue is just the fact that I have the blog installed on a subfolder. This just seems to complicate things.

One big question I have is:

if I have the install in root/example, then what should the rewrite base be on the root folder? Should it be:

RewriteBase /example

or

RewriteBase /

And similar question for the htaccess in the example folder (which BPS creates). Should the rewrite be:

RewriteBase /blog/

or

RewriteBase /

Should they be the same, or does the example folder have /blog and the root folder not?

I feel this creates an issue.

Thank you for your help,

Jose

Where do we add those custom field types?

Great!

Thank you.

But it is unclear on what to do/what you are suggesting we do.

What do you mean “if page builder”

that implies wishful thinking?

Jose

This also means that Vantage’s Apperance>Home Page link should no longer be used to edit the home page. It will now be “off” and if you click it back “on” it will do away with the changes done through WP settings.

To edit home page you’ll have to go to WP Admin Pages>Page edit from now on, if you do this change.

Jose

I also took off the featured image code from my content-single because my featured images are usually small maybe 300 x 300 but they would blow up under single views. I think that’s a good work around, Baker_Girl

Jose

Hi Greg,

Thanks for the response and theme updates.

Jose

Marking closed

@andrew,

Thank you for your input. You’re right. I tried it on my iOS device and when I switched between viewing modes, it would stay zoomed in to where it was before. But I didn’t mind this; I think it is even expected behavior since the user knows he was zoomed in and will then simply pinch out to get the adjusted view. Thanks for the help.

@anthony,

Thanks for the input. Good to know there aren’t issues. I like the change. Though I really don’t know why you would want to zoom in or out too much on say a smart phone because it is already read-able and responsive, but zooming is does let someone get the image or words even bigger. It doesn’t hurt I think.

But I did like that “solid” feel it had without the zooming in, though generally I think readers would find it odd that they don’t have that ability.

Thanks for the article, it was good to read some extra information.

Marking this closed.

Thank you,
Jose