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Hi Rok

You can see the screenshots for the iPhone and Android phones on the following links. The WP Related Posts setting for Mobile Phones is “Modern”.

https://focusingonwildlife.com/screenshots/WP-Related-Posts-iPhone.jpg
https://focusingonwildlife.com/screenshots/WP-Related-Posts-Android.jpg

Please advise how to resolve these mobile format problems.

There are approx 12 plugins with modifications on my site. Each time the theme was updated (approx one per month on average), I am forced to manually re-insert code into the plugins.

Therefore I decided to install a child theme to save the hassle of these manual updates every few weeks. The biggest problem is that each plugin modification is different, and it becomes a challenge to remember what to insert into each plugin.

The child theme is already working well for the style.css modifications, but for some reason the single.php file in the child folder doesn’t seem to work.

Please advise.

Justin, one more question on this topic if I may.

I realized that the modification to the single.php file in my theme’s folder is lost when the theme is updated. Therefore I tried to add the modified single.php file to the child folder of my theme.

Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to work. Please advise how to set-up the shortcode via the child folder.

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Hi Rok,

I have the desktop set on “Pinterest Inspired”, and that works really great.

As far as I understand there are only 3 options for mobile phones including “Modern”, “Infinite Stream” and “Plain”.

I have been using “Modern” but with the layout problems for Android and iPhones as reported above.

Changing the desktop to “Vertical Medium” does not seem to have any influence on the mobile phone layouts.

Please advise how to resolve this mobile format problem.

Justin, many thanks for your outstanding support in getting this excellent plugin to function.

Justin, after trial and error I succeeded by adding the following code to my theme’s “single.php” file:

<?php echo do_shortcode('[google_top_content pageviews="5" catfilter="3173" contentfilter="post" number="10" showhome="no" time="2628000"]'); ?>

Note the quotation marks (“”) around all of the filter values. Without the quotation marks it doesn’t work.

Justin

1) # page views – the second piece of code works great when added to the theme’s “functions.php” file.

2) shortcodes for all posts – I also tried adding the following code to the bottom of the theme’s “functions.php” file:

<?php do_shortcode('<h3>Explore These Popular Posts</h3>[google_top_content pageviews=5 contentfilter=post number=10 showhome=no time=2628000]'); ?>
}

Please advise what I’ve done wrong.

Justin, brilliant suggestion – the “catfilter” works perfectly when added into the html editor of a post. My shortcode is now as follows:

<h3>Explore These Popular Posts</h3>
[google_top_content pageviews=5 contentfilter=post postfilter=30681 catfilter=3173 number=20 showhome=no time=31536000]

Please bear with me and advise on the following questions:

1) where should the shortcode be added into a theme into have the list show up at the bottom of each post below the comments?

2) is there a way to get the number of page views to show up in brackets after each item in the list?

Hoping you have an answer on these issues.

Thanks again for your advice.

Justin, I have adapted my shortcode based on your suggestions to:

[google_top_content pageviews=5 contentfilter=post postfilter=23238, 26897,20233 number=10 showhome=no time=31536000 timeval=2]

The “contentfilter” works fine but the “postfilter” doesn’t seem to work with multiple posts. Is there a way to filter out more than one post?

The “time=31536000” is equivalent to 1 month, so I’m a little confused what the purpose of the “timeval” is?

Is there any way to filter out specific authors. e.g. posts published by myself under the “admin” name?

Hoping you can help me on the above questions.

Thanks in advance.

Justin, I also tried to add the “Top Viewed Content” into my posts using the following code:

[google_top_content pageviews=5 number=10 showhome=no time=2628000 timeval=2]

The problem is that several pages showed up in the list including my top page: https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/ – My questions are

1) how to limit the top-viewed content to posts only?
2) how to exclude specific posts?
3) how to include a title “Top-Viewed Posts” above the list with <h5>?

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Hi Ryann

Many thanks for the great support.
Your code tips worked perfectly and my Magic Action Box is working fine.

Hi Ryann, I’ve customized the CSS as far as I can using the following code:

.mabstyle-dark.magic-action-box.mab-id-31770 .mab-heading{ font-size: 20px; color: #FFFFFF; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif }

.mabstyle-dark.magic-action-box.mab-id-31770 form input[type=”submit”]{ background: #4444FF; color: #FFFFFF; border: 0px color: solid red; }

You can see the result on the link:

https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/why-is-the-nuthatch-so-aggressive/

There are still a couple of issues where I hope you can help:

1) The header “Get E-Mail Updates” appears to be bold and does not match the header <h3>Leave a Comment</h3> directly below.

2) the enter your email box has a white background – how can I make this #333333 with “enter your email” having a color #CCCCCC ?

3) the background color of the Magic Box appears to have a color gradient with #494949 at the top changing gradually to #222222 at the bottom. How can I eliminate the gradient and have a single background color?

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Hello bsick and hornets – I’m also looking for exactly the same thing – have either of you found a solution for this problem?

I also rely on the wordpress editing window to fine-tune syndicated posts. Without the wordpress editor the job would be almost impossible.

FeedWordPress is an amazing plugin and one I rely upon heavily. Hope you can re-install the editing window as a standard on this outstanding plugin.

1) Alignment of User Image – for some reason the image taken from the Simple Local Avatars (WordPress Users) is 96 x 96 pixels but ends up smaller and in the bottom left hand-side of the gravatar box – this problem has been completely solved by overwriting the previous version of wp-biographia.php by the beta version of WP Biographia that supports this at https://raw.github.com/vicchi/wp-biographia/v3.2.2-changes/wp-biographia.php.

2) Avatar Frame – the frame for the Avatar is white – is there any way to change this color?

3) Alignment of Contact Links – if we uncheck user’s email address, the line of contacts does not re-align with the left-hand side of the bio text.

Issue #2 and #3 have been solved by:

a) creating a custom.css including the following code:

@charset "utf-8";

.wp-biographia-pic {
background: #333333;
border: 0px solid #E7E7E7;
padding: 5px !important;
}

ul.wp-biographia-list-text, ul.wp-biographia-list-icon {
margin: 0.5em 0 1.5em 0;
padding-left: 0px;
}

b) placing custom.css in the WordPress Theme’s main folder
c) adding to the following code to functions.php in the same folder:

add_action ('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'add_custom_css');
function add_custom_css () {
    $uri = get_stylesheet_directory_uri ();
    wp_enqueue_style ('custom-css', $uri . '/custom.css');
}

An example of the final reult can be seen on the following link:

https://focusingonwildlife.com/test-platform/american-oystercatcher-in-a-tidal-lagoon/

Sincere thanks to Gary Gale for his outstanding support and patience in resolving these 3 issues.