kevincbrock

You nailed it. That was the issue. I didn’t realize the panels could be moved around and must have inadvertently dragged things into these odd arrangements. Thanks for the quick fix.

https://welladjusted.photo

Thanks so much for the response! Imagine my embarassment… in my exhausted state of mind, when I was trying to solve this, I didn’t realize that the ‘Email Notifications’ panel was scrollable and the settings I needed were just beneath what I was looking at. Such a silly mistake. ??

Thank you for your guidance. I’ll play with these settings now and report back if I have issues. But this is what I was looking for.

Cheers!

Okay, so I made a *little* progress last night on the Google Analytics Admin page. I made a new property for my second site and now have both sites, listed as separate properties there. I have a new UA code for the 2nd site now too. It’s just like the first code with a -2 at the end (where the other has a -1). Great!

However, I still can’t get the Yoast plugin to authenticate properly. When I try to authenticate with Google and paste in the code that is generated, nothing really happens on the Yoast plugin. Basically steps 9 – 11 here.

I’ve also tried using the “manual” insertion of the UA code, the one with the -2 at the tail. Same result = no tracking. What am I missing?

Thanks again!

Hi Dave,

Good news, I tried the new code on a test page, had someone check it out it on an iPad and from the screenshots I was sent — it looks great. As you would expect.

I think we’re all set. I’ll test a little more thoroughly later but I think we’re good-to-go!

Thanks so much for your help with this. I truly appreciate it!

Best regards,
Kevin

Hi Dave,

I really appreciate you taking the time to respond to this.

That’s kind of what I was suspecting, although I’m not quite sure how to fix it. Currently the slider is just parked inside of a page. And that page is set as a static homepage.

However, I made a page template, based on the built-in “page.php”. It’s code looks like this:

<?php
/*
Template Name: My Custom Page
*/

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="content">
	<div class="container">

		<div id="single_cont">

			<div class="single_left">

				<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

					<div class="single_inside_content">

						<?php the_content(); ?>

					</div><!--//single_inside_content-->

					<br /><br />

					<?php //comments_template(); ?>							

				<?php endwhile; else: ?>

					<h3>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</h3>
				<?php endif; ?>                    																

			</div><!--//single_left-->

			<div class="clear"></div>

		</div><!--//single_cont-->

	</div><!--//container-->
</div><!--//content-->
<?php get_footer(); ?>

If I wanted to insert the slider using template code, instead of the short code, how much of this other stuff should vanish? Is this even the proper way to go about it? Do I need some custom CSS too?

Again, I appreciate your time!
Cheers, Kevin

So I tried making two sliders, as per the advice here, The respsonsive slider doesn’t quite look right on a mobile device and used the wp mobile detect plugin to change the slider according to the device that’s viewing it.

No luck!

Still looks like this on an iPad. Meta Slider justified to the left.

Any ideas on how to center it?

Thanks for all the hints. Yeah, this theme is quite old now. And it was free, so you often get what you pay for. In fact “wordspop” is not what it once was. Whomever has that name now is certainly not dealing with WordPress themes.

And since this is really under the www.ads-software.com jurisdiction, I (and my brother—whose site this is) really appreciate all the efforts thus far. I’ll just have to keep tinkering with it and see if I can strike the right compromise. Fixing one thing, breaks another. But that’s sorta been the story of this theme the whole time.

Cheers!

Yeah, I asked the tech. support if I could bypass the caching by using FTP and modifying the css file directly. Essentially, when caching is turned on, it won’t matter. This roundabout method of editing won’t gain me anything when caching is enabled. Thanks for the idea though.

So, for now, I’ve made the suggested code insertion:

.sidelist h2 {
    min-height: 3em;
}

It works in closing up all those line-break gaps. Hooray. However, it introduces additional spacing that I’d like to clean up. Now, when there’s a single-lined title, there’s a big gap between it and the date. Before, the date was right underneath the title, even if the post title only spanned one line.

This is sort of a frustrating push-&-pull experience. We’ve pushed one thing into order, and pulled another item out of wack. I can’t seem to get the proper compromise of nicely-spaced text lines without introducing that silly line break because of the double-lined titles.

So, your suspicions were correct. The host had caching turned on, so that explains why my edits were not visible. I now know how to turn the caching on and off. I think’s it still cached now, but that should “wear off” soon. I’ll have another go with this later on tonight. Thanks again for your help thus far. (And to cubecolour as well.)

I’ll report back as I know more.

Yes, that was I was thinking, maybe the host is doing something unexpected on their end. I’ll check with them later on today. I truly appreciate your input thus far! I’d love to get this sewn up soon.

No, I have no caching plugins.

Wow, that’s bizarre! I don’t know what’s going on here. But you’re right. I’m editing the CSS the same way that I have many times in the past, in the Dashboard’s Appearance > Editor > Stylesheet (style.css) area.

But even after I update this file, WP says “File edited successfully”, but when I refresh the css file page, that you linked to: https://www.josephbrockphotography.com/wp-content/themes/bigsquare/style.css” the edits do not show up. Something is odd.

Thanks for the input! But I’ve modded the CSS many times before by going to Appearance > Editor and tweaking it there. Update the file, refresh the page in question: Boom, it’s changed. Not sure why it doesn’t seem to be working under these circumstances.

Here’s the page that I’m trying to modify (to remove the uncalled for ‘gaps’ in the flow of the content.) https://www.josephbrockphotography.com/category/family-sessions/

So sorry for the delayed response! I’ve been mired in a terrible family tragedy for months…

So I’ve tried tweaking the style.css file, in the “sidelist” area, but for some strange reason the alterations don’t seem to affect anything. Not sure what I’m missing.

The pertinent chunk seems to be here:

/* Category */
.sidelist {
}
.sidelist h1 {
	padding-bottom: 20px;
}

.sidelist .post {
	width: 220px;
	float: left;
	text-align: center;
	padding-right: 10px;
	padding-top: 20px;
	padding-bottom: 20px;
}
.sidelist .post h2 {
	font: normal 2.2em "Lobster", Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;
	padding-top: 10px;
}
.sidelist .post h2 a {
	text-decoration: none;
}
.sidelist .post .date {
	font-size: 1.3em;
}
.sidelist .cat-desc {
	font-size: 1.3em;
	line-height: 1.2em;
	padding-bottom: 10px;
	line-height: 1.4em;
}

What could I be doing wrong?