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I appreciate you guys like the current theme so much, so I’d like to give you guys something even cooler. I’m making sure its done right.

Since there’s an interest from a few people (and I’m really liking the new version)… I will do my best to have it completed in the next 30 days, so April 22nd.
Ideally it would be launched by then too.

Thanks @mahwash

There’s a few problems and 2 solutions to that.
The 2 solutions are to either:

• float: left; the sidebar & float: right: the content column. I don’t remember if this presents any issues
• What is referred to as the “perfect layout” (google: “holy grail layout css”) to see how to do that

As you have probably figured out this is difficult to do. If you put the sidebar 1st in order of the HTML… the search engines scroll through that before they get to your actual content which isn’t ideal.
The solution is the “perfect layout” solved by using flexbox css.

The new version (working on it) will solve this issue where you can just choose which side you want the sidebar in the theme customizer.

The future update will fix this as it is re-coded to work and look better.

Hey @lilychu

Glad you like the theme ??

One way you could do it is in style.css change:

.row {
    -moz-column-width: 18em;
    -webkit-column-width: 18em;
    -moz-column-gap: 1em;
    -webkit-column-gap: 1em;
}

to:

.row {
    -moz-column-width: 25em;
    -webkit-column-width: 18em;
    -moz-column-gap: 1em;
    -webkit-column-gap: 1em;
}

as an example.

I’ll admit, this wasn’t the best implementation for a bootstrap grid but the new version (I’m working on) is a lot easier and works better.

@mahwash No worries.

Just a heads up… your social icons don’t link to your profiles.

Hey @mahwash

I think I see what your talking about.
For now, in the CSS change:

.sidebar {
    height: 100%;
    margin-bottom: 50px;
}

to this:

.col-md-4.sidebar {
    height: 100%;
    margin-bottom: 50px;
    padding: 0px;
}

That removes any padding for that section.
The layout is fully updated in the new version (which I’m working on.)

I appreciate the suggestion.

@phpexpert21 No one contacted you dude.

Thanks for the review ??

Thanks @mahwash,

Glad you like the theme.
I’m working on a new version right now where you can choose the order of icons + tons more icons… and other awesome features.

It looks amazing and I’m excited to release it.

Have a good one ??

Hey mahwash,

Its cool, That’s really easy.
I just tested it so it works.

• Click “Customize” which opens the customizer
• Click “Social Icons”
• Then you’ll see a list for the urls
• Copy your social url and paste it in the according box
• Click “Save” at the top of the customizer
• Close the customizer

The Social Icon will now show up in the sidebar.

I apologize for seeing this so late (I was away on a trip).

By “big blank” do you mean its not showing any more article links and it just says “Other Articles”?
Or empty space before and after “Other Articles”?
You said it shows a list which its suppose to do, so it sounds like its working.

If you could provide a link to a live site or a screenshot so I can see it… I can fix that easily.

Removing it is not recommended because its a required WordPress theme feature….however, I could help you customize the look.

Thanks @tomkmcooper ,

Those are incredibly helpful suggestions + great ideas.
I’ll add those to the very long list of theme capabilities.

Glad you like the theme.
The new one is coming soon ??

Thanks

adding a second menu or a dropdown menu is the best solution.

I don’t have an iPad to test that specific issue.
I would look at bootstrap menu breakpoints, make a custom one that overrides the boostrap breakpoint and add it to the end of the style.css file.

If you don’t code, take one of the menu items and add it under a dropdown menu of one of the others so you then only have 5.
Also ask yourself if it really necessary to have all 6 of those in the top menu.
2nd menus can also be added to footer widgets.

This seems to be happening to a lot of people (including me).
List of things that have been tried with no solution:

• Deactivating all plugins
• using a different theme
• uploading all 3 ways (add media/featured image selection/dragging image to upload area)
• even directly uploading the image to the uploads folder in hosting

Strangely nothing has worked which leads me to think its the updated release of WordPress. No issues were found until the update.
If anyone knows how to get into contact with WordPress admins for this fix… a lot of people could use the help.