Nessan Cleary

I found another thread on this forum which appears to relate to the same problem:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/link-read-more-in-the-subscription-mail-break-the-database-access/

No solution but this at least demonstrates that this problem is more widespread.

I’ve had exactly the same issue. The link to read more of the post triggers a redirect loop, which then leads to the subsciber’s IP address being temporarily blocked and a message sent to the subscriber to say that I’ve locked them out. There’s nothing wrong with the website or any of the links, and links from X and LinkedIn still work – it’s just the link from the Jetpack subscriber form.

Thanks Jarret,
That has worked perfectly for me.
Best regards,
Nessan

Hi Jarrett,
That worked a treat – thanks. Just one thing, there’s still a gap under the picture captions but I’d like to close this up as well so that the “Continue reading…” is also right under the caption, exactly in the way that your code has done for all the other posts without pictures. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Nessan

Hi,
Thanks for all your help. Just to explain, the search icon didn’t appear in the mobile menu when I first tested it and first posted here. It has subsequently appeared above the mobile menu as Jarret described, so I’m assuming that’s a combination of a cacheing issue and my inexperience.
However, that doesn’t help if you use a very narrow window on a bigger device – I travel with an 11ins Mac so frequently work with very narrow windows.
The CSS code that Vinod Dalvi suggested worked perfectly, once I remembered to untick the Mobile icon from the Ivory search settings. So I’m going to stick with that and leave the colour of the menus alone.
I also want to say thanks to Jarret for the help with the width of the menu items – that’s been really useful.
And just to clarify martingolan’s point, I started with Coraline and then updated a couple of years ago to Colinear, which I believe was designed as a replacement to Coraline. I know that Colinear hasn’t been updated for a while, and I hope that Automattic will get around to it at some point, but so far it seems to be working for me. From time to time I look to see if there’s anything newer but I can’t find anything that I like better.
Cheers everyone,
Nessan

Hi Jarret,
Thanks – that’s a really good start. Your code for changing the widths of the menu titles works well, and I can see how I can play with the values to make any further changes. Is there any way to change the width of the sub-menus so that they match the same width as the menu titles, which I think would look a bit neater?

As for the menu colour, I realise now that this is more complicated than I had expected. Your code changes the colour of the menu, but only when its clicked on, and not for the mouse over stage.
What I’m really trying to do here is improve the way the menu handles the search icon. I’m using Ivory Search, which has given me a black search icon, but on smaller screens the menu changes to a box and the search icon becomes a black icon against a black background, which no one can see. My assumption is that the easiest way to deal with this is to change the background colour of the menu to grey so that all the text and the search icon will stand out but that’s only going to work if it includes all stages of the menu, with the mouse over and small mobile box menu.
Is there a way to do this, or is it easier to change the behaviour of the search icon to match the rest of the text on the menu?

Thanks for your help so far,
Nessan

Yes – I followed your instructions and used the HTML tab. I tried a couple of options but the Excerpt just doesn’t appear on the Homepage.
Nessan

Hi Sacredpath,
Thanks for your help. I’ve tried to follow your advice but I may be a little confused here. I couldn’t find a Custom Except option – only Excerpt. I’ve pasted the text from the first paragraph with the left-aligned image into the Excerpt box at the end of the text.
However, I’m obviously missing something. I’m assuming that the idea is to have the Excerpt appear on the front page instead of the first paragraph of the post but this doesn’t seem to work. So I guess that I’m missing a step but I don’t know what?
Any other ideas?
Best regards,
Nessan

Hi Kathryn,
Yes – that did work. I wasn’t sure at first – I had inadvertently added the date line to both the Colinear and child theme! Anyway, I deleted the line from both, which took the date off the site, and then I added the date line back to just the Content.php file in the Colinear-child theme and that restored the date back to the website.
So, thanks very much for your help. I feel that getting the child theme to work has made quite a big step forward in managing the site.
All the best,
Nessan

Ah- no. I didn’t think of that. It was just loose in the Colinear-child folder. I’ve made the template-parts folder and moved it into that now.
Nessan

Hi Kathryn,
OK – I’ve replaced the content of the Functions.php file with the text that you gave me above. It doesn’t seem to have made any difference to the site.
Nessan

Hi Kathryn,
Thanks for your help. This may seem like a silly question, but do you mean to copy the function for enqueuing the child theme exactly as you’ve written it, or do I need to substitute anything, such as my_theme for Colinear or Colinear child?
Also, no need to worry about the CSS and HTML changes that Siobhan mentioned – I abandoned that once I realised that it wasn’t working. I’ve tried to avoid mucking around with any code too much since I’ve little idea what I’m doing and don’t want to mess the site up!
Best regards,
Nessan

Hi Kathryn,
Thanks for your help. I’ve pasted the functions.php file into Pastebin – here’s the link:

https://pastebin.com/4jxYHKyk

The child theme did work in part for me – when I first set it up some of the changes that I had made to the site disappeared so I had to go back and redo them. But the date edit that Siobhan suggested didn’t work so I obviously missed something.
Anyway, I’d appreciate any suggestions.
Nessan

OK,
I’ve made some progress but could do with some advice. I have added this line:
<?php the_date(); ?>
to the content.php file in Colinear and this has done exactly what I was trying to do in the first place – put the date between the headline and the text. But this didn’t work when I tried to do it in the Colinear-child theme so I’ve obviously missed something in setting up the child theme – but what?
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Nessan

Hi Siobhan,
I think that I need some more help. I finally got around to sorting out the website and followed your instructions, but I’ve obviously missed something. I’ve set up the child theme and enqueued that, which turned out to be easier than expected.
However, I’ve not had much luck with the entry-footer. I moved it to underneath the header as you suggested but this hasn’t made any difference to the layout so I must have done something wrong.
Also, the entry-footer code seems to include several lines – date and author, plus the category and tags. But I just want to put the date between the headline and the body text so I’m assuming that there must be a different line of code to do that – so I’d appreciate it if you have any further ideas.
Thanks,
Nessan