michelle cohen

Hi, your site seems to be running well. Did you resolve this issue and if so, how?
I’ve been having a similar problem recently and would love to know of anyone’s experience of what might be causing it.

thanks!
Michelle

Hi, I’m looking for something similar, I’ve been looking for ages; seems simple, but my only solution has been to hack up carousel and slider plugins. Have you found anything like this? Thanks!!

Hi there, I’m having the same problem:
Currently some of the items are really narrow and some wide. I would like the thumb and title to align evenly in a vertical row and the title text to wrap so it is justified with the thumb image.
haven’t heard from the plugin author, could you pls share what the solution to this was? Many thanks! Michelle

It does seem a little labor intensive, but the theme developer seemed quite responsive when I wrote to ask him a question.

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As a matter of fact I had the same issue, either as described above or, when I checked the forced rewrite box, doubling the site title. And I’m using a woo theme which clearly states that it supports the third party plugins like WP SEO. I checked “use 3rd party SEO plugin” box that my theme provides.

How I solved the problem:

I UNchecked the box for “forced title rewrites”
I changed my header.php title
TO

<title><?php wp_title(”); ?></title>

FROM
<title><?php woo_title(”); ?></title>
(if you are using a wootheme or maybe another theme that includes a lot of its own functions it may be something other than wp_title and checking the force rewrite box won’t work)

then I used %%title%% – My Site Title
for POST title (you can just use %%title%% as well.

This fixed the weird bug of having the title of the first post I went to “stick” for all subsequent posts–it displays just the post title followed by a separator and the site title.

I think anything to do with the code in the theme was probably intentional rather than “bad.”

Good luck!

Also: the site is coming up lowercase in Google search, which means it must be thinking the logo is H1 on the homepage, and our title is clearly title case, I thought I added the title to just about every applicable field correctly, how do I change this?

FYI I am using a newer Woo theme, Delicious Magazine. I have the “use third party plugin data” selected in the theme’s SEO area, and they even say that The Yoast SEO plugin is compatible.

This, below, is the part I was referring to re #2. Maybe don’t need to worry since i’m not a theme developer and it’s just suggesting how to incude extra functionality if I wanted to?
//

TIP FOR THEME DEVELOPERS. The fact that a child theme’s functions.php is loaded first means that you can make the user functions of your theme pluggable —that is, replaceable by a child theme— by declaring them conditionally. E.g.:

if (!function_exists(‘theme_special_nav’)) {
function theme_special_nav() {
// Do something.
}
}
In that way, a child theme can replace a PHP function of the parent by simply declaring it again.

Referencing / Including Files in Your Child Theme

When you need to include files that reside within your child theme’s directory structure, you will use get_stylesheet_directory(). Because the parent template’s style.css is replaced by your child theme’s style.css, and your style.css resides in the root of your child theme’s subdirectory, get_stylesheet_directory() points to your child theme’s directory (not the parent theme’s directory).

Here’s an example, using require_once, that shows how you can use get_stylesheet_directory when referencing a file stored within your child theme’s directory structure.

require_once( get_stylesheet_directory(). ‘/my_included_file.php’ );

Ok, I have some more specific questions that still aren’t clear for me.

1. Would WORDPRESS updates themelves ever overwrite anything or break my site in a normal situation?
Especially since I’m not using a theme that comes bundled in the WP install. I’ve always done the updates to my sites and never had anything change. I assume WP updates don’t affect the theme files. Is there something new with 3.0+ re this? Can I just assume that the only threat of overwriting theme files is if I update my theme itself or parts of it. Is this correct?

2. Understanding child themes would be easier for me if it were just a case of making the changes that need to be made on the child theme files, which correspond to the same ones in the parent. What complicates it for me is that you not only have to make the changes in the child theme files but make them *differently*, apparently, in cases other than .css file and page template files.

Specifically, what needs to be added to the code in the functions.php file? How do I handle that file in the child theme?

And which other files from the parent theme have to be copied or recreated in the child theme and coded differently?

3. Could the avoidance of overwriting be accomplished by checking the changelog after theme updates from Woothemes and just updating piecemeal based on the changelog files? Theme updates don’t tend to be too frequent nor sweeping, in my experience…What is the downside of this method?

Thanks for any answers you can provide on this!

Michelle

This:

body, background-color: rgb(8, 8, 8);

Change the numbers to 255, 255, 255

was it, it totally fixed it in firefox and iOS, thank you SO much for that insight!

Honestly how were you able to find that, i couldn’t look at it with firebug it went by so fast?

i couldnt find it in the stylesheet (or anything close to rgb(8, 8, 8)) either but the woo guys told me what to put in the custom css file and it worked.

However, it now seems to be happening, just for a second, in Chrome (where it wasn’t actually happening before? ffx and iOS are fine. and this time the box covers the whole site, not just up to the title. I’ve almost half a mind to ignore it but these things tend to come back and bite. any more suggestions?

michelle

thanks for the replies, I will try the bkgrd change…I do make the changes to a custom style sheet (though im not using a child theme, woo provides custom style sheet). hope this works!!

I tried isolating the plugins, and it turns out that the social slider cevherShare was causing it in a big way, and, annoyingly, Disqus is also causing it a little bit? I can find another social share plugin but really want to use disqus. I hope the background switch works…Since it happens on mobile iOS I find it hard to ignore, though.

Sadly I can’t seem to catch the screen in firebug, i can’t hit the button before it loads, it gets stuck with the black screen up, (in firefox) which i think is odd, too.
screenshot: https://www.livinggreenwithbaby.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Screen-shot-2012-02-21-at-2.06.51-PM.png

although it could just be that those make the site slow to load, esp the share bar with the external imgs and disqus boxes.

ALSO: This is only evident on a slower connection, apparently. someone with a very fast connection can’t even see it when the page is loading. Apparently a bkgrd image loads first while the page is loading?

here is a screenshot of what is happening
https://www.livinggreenwithbaby.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Screen-shot-2012-02-21-at-1.51.45-PM.png

I agree. This sucks. Please fix bug. thanks!

hey, did you ever get any feedback on this? I was thinking of going with Cadabra Press
https://www.wpzoom.com/themes/cadabrapress/
, one of their themes for something. They seem pretty good as far as what they offer, design, and they seem reputable, but pls let me know how your experience has been or if you heard anything else.

thanks!
Michelle