jrbeilke

I believe the black bar you are referring to is a border added to the heading of the widget (ie H1), and is part of the css for .content-sidebar .widget .widget-title

If you’re using a child theme you could add the following CSS to remove the border:
.content-sidebar .widget .widget-title { border:none; }

Greg,

Which sidebar widget are you using for the “Series” section in the sidebar? Could you change the “Series” to be a custom menu widget instead?

The markup for the “Series” widget is different from a custom menu so the styles may not be 100% accurate, but this custom CSS should work:

.widget_seriestoc li {
	border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2);
	padding: 8px 0 9px;
}

.widget_seriestoc li:first-child {
	border-top: 0;
}

.widget_seriestoc li ul {
    border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2);
    margin-top: 9px;
}

.widget_seriestoc li li:last-child {
    padding-bottom: 0;
}

.content-sidebar .widget_seriestoc li {
	border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
}

I had the same problem with my site.

To fix it I had to go into the theme customizer and remove the tag name from the Featured Content section, save it, then enter a new tag name and that got the grid working.

If that doesn’t work you could also try using sticky posts instead of the featured posts by tag.

Just thought I’d post a follow up here to let everyone know that stylesheet_directory was deprecated as of WP 2.3.1

If you need to reference the theme directory you can now use this:
<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>

I’ve tried contacting the owner (Luke) to see if he can update the download on WordPress (WP has 6.4 for download, but there should be a 6.5 version with bug fixes).

I’ve also fixed the url file access problem for anyone using Dreamhost (or other hosts that don’t allow url file access).

You need to edit the ec_calendar.class.php file in the event calendar plugin folder at line #42 from:
$ecData = file_get_contents($ecFile);

to:

$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $ecFile);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$ecData = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

Please note that this fix will only work if your hosting provider has cURL installed and enabled on your site.

I will try and post back here once (if) I hear from Luke and we figure out a solution. In the meantime if you have questions/problems you can contact me through my site at: https://www.jbdesignandphoto.com