saucer78

Figured it out!

Allowing the Hatch lightbox to take over requires disabling the Elementor lightbox from the main WP settings panel and then setting each image to “default” from the dropdown within the Elementor editor within each page. I don’t know how I didn’t land on this combo sooner, but I’m just happy to have found a solution.

Thanks for the help!

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by saucer78.

Nothing is sticking.

I’ve once again checked my plugins to find nothing keeping a cache, and cleared browser data/refreshed the page many many times.

When I play with the toggles within the Elementor editor (switching to and from ligthbox: yes, no, default) and within its global settings, I can trigger the correct display where it shows ONLY the the Elementor lightbox. However, no matter what I do, I cannot get this to save. Every time I view the site from a new browser window (logging out of WP/incognito mode/clearing cache/other browsers/ctrl+F5) it will still show both lightboxes.

Something within Elementor has begun triggering Hatch’s lightbox, but I don’t have the know-how to comb css/html to figure out what it is :/

EDIT: Actually, I don’t believe Elementor has begun triggering the Hatch lightbox because the Hatch style is what I remember the site having when I originally built it. It actually appears to me that Elementor has ADDED a lightbox feature within a relatively recent update, which has somehow become intertwined with the Hatch code. Unfortunately, when I disable the Elementor lightbox it ALSO disables the old Hatch lightbox, simply leaving me with nothing.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by saucer78.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by saucer78.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by saucer78.

Thank you Obe1, I’ll look into this.

It’s a shame if Elemetor has broken compatibility with this theme through updates, as they were working perfectly well together for nearly three years.

Thank you Ben, but I’ve tried this within the Elementor style settings from the WP dashboard, and from within the Elementor settings for the individual elements on each page. If I toggle the lightbox on individual elements, I will see the old lightbox from the Hatch theme disappear, but once I save the settings and look at a live view of my site, it’s back.

If I turn the Eleemntor lightbox completely off, it will also kill the Hatch lightbox and killing the link. In short, it’s all or nothing: overlapping lightboxes or none at all.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by saucer78.

Okay, yes I realize this allows me to customize the widgets, but I was just curious if the default/example widgets that you’ve included with the theme could be customized. They include a logo, Recent Posts, Get In Touch, and Photostream.

Not a big deal. Thank you for the reply though!

https://www.tolliverandco.com/

Found a fix, in case anyone stumbles across this in the future. Place all of these snippets in your child theme or custom CSS field to correctly format a static home page AND posts page:

/*__________static front page: hide title__________*/
.home.singular-page .hentry .entry-title {
         position: absolute;
         clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);
}
/*__________static front page: content fix__________*/
.home.singular-page #content {
         width: 68.0851%;
}
.home.singular-page.page-template-fullwidth #content {
         width: 100%;
}
.home.singular-page .hentry {
         width: auto;
         height: auto;
}
/*__________posts page tweaks__________*/
.hentry a {
	display: block;
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
}
.hentry a img {
	display: block;
	margin: 0 auto;
}
.blog .hentry  {
	float: left;
	width: 23%;
	height: 150px;
	margin: 0 2% 20px 0;
	position: relative;
	overflow: hidden;
}

Found a fix, in case anyone stumbles across this in the future. Place all of these snippets in your child theme or custom CSS field to correctly format a static home page AND posts page:

/*__________static front page: hide title__________*/
.home.singular-page .hentry .entry-title {
         position: absolute;
         clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);
}
/*__________static front page: content fix__________*/
.home.singular-page #content {
         width: 68.0851%;
}
.home.singular-page.page-template-fullwidth #content {
         width: 100%;
}
.home.singular-page .hentry {
         width: auto;
         height: auto;
}
/*__________posts page tweaks__________*/
.hentry a {
	display: block;
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
}
.hentry a img {
	display: block;
	margin: 0 auto;
}
.blog .hentry  {
	float: left;
	width: 23%;
	height: 150px;
	margin: 0 2% 20px 0;
	position: relative;
	overflow: hidden;
}

Is there some way to affect ONLY the formatting of the home page, with a hashtag (id) rather than a period (class) before the selector?

I’ve also noticed my blog is currently pulling info from the “Layout” section of my css (line 521), rather than the “Posts” section, where the demo does (line 710). I have checked another site built similar to mine (Hatch theme, with front page tweak) and his blog carries the same code as me, with more blog posts illustrating the issue: https://alanbrandtphoto.com/blog/

There has to be some way to set a static home page without it affecting the posts!

I may have found some help here, but this is waaaay over my noob head right now: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page#Theme_Development_for_Custom_Front_Page_Templates

I guess I forgot about this issue as I’ve been so busy with other elements of my site.

The CSS tweaks you provided work great! I have, however, decided that I actually do like the look of the “archive thumnails” better, which retain the whole image even if it’s not a perfect square. I will keep this in mind though if I decide to post any images I want to remain square.

Sorry about the delay – I greatly appreciate your help!

Well I’m still very new but have messed with my menu settings, so I thought I’d try to help out to give something back to this great community.

However, comparing the code again, I’m probably in over my head – my custom css looks pretty much the same as yours and my menu works fine. Looking at your site right now, your header logo and menu are all the way at the top of the page. Do you need to add an upper margin or some padding? I’m having fun starting to understand things while inspecting elements, but can’t really tell what’s going on. Sorry, wish I could help!

Play with the margins though, if you haven’t already…

margin: top, right, bottom, left;

Just in case anyone is paying attention to this thread, I’ve discovered – as have others that have set their home page to static and applied this or similar tweaks – that this fix words for ALL pages, including the “Posts” page, which most people set as their blog.

So since it reformats all pages – including the blog – the blog posts are now formatted in a column along the left side of the page, with nothing else showing up to the right. No widgets, no nothing.

If anyone knows how to remove the posts page from this tweak, I’d be eternally grateful!

The links you provided seem to point back to the support forums here…?

Is this resolved? I found your site manually and the home menu and posts menu now seem to stay in the same place.

Thanks for the reply.

A mod in here told me my page was loading a stylesheet twice – that’s all I know – but assumed it was a bad thing since he brought it up, haha.

I went ahead and performed a full reinstall, as I feared I had several bits of css in different files (but I don’t understand how these changes are written or stored, so I thought things were getting jumbled). What’s so confusing about this to me (total noob) is that I have half a dozen different options for inputting custom code – of which I probably used four different methods before the reinstall. Within my theme (Hatch), there are 3 different methods for editing CSS within the Apperaance tab alone!

Since the reinstall, I have not created a child theme and have made sure to place ALL of my custom coding in the Custom CSS box in the Settings of my the Hatch theme.

I don’t know if this has done anything to affect performance, but my site is finally nearing completion if you feel like taking a look at the code:

https://getsrsly.com/