[alanaburton]

Many thanks for the input!

I've tried both and the https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-shortcode/ is yielding better results so far. There's a lot of parameters that can be changed clearly to pimp it up a bit and I don't understand all of them but the basic settings have at least given me a featured image and a title.

I haven't managed to get it to auto-populate with all sub-pages of a certain parent page but what I have is a good step forward so thank you very much!

I'm not too good with shortcodes so I've had to try a few things to get what I wanted, some examples in their plugins would have been great, so In case anyone else wants to know to modify/update the shortcodes with own parameters, I have got this:

[content type="page" name="loving-tulle" field="title-link"]
[content type="page" name="loving-tulle" field="excerpt"]
[content type="page" name="loving-tulle" field="image" size="thumbnail" ]
[content type="page" name="panama-hats-summer-staple" field="title-link"]
[content type="page" name="panama-hats-summer-staple" field="excerpt"]
[content type="page" name="panama-hats-summer-staple" field="image" size="thumbnail"]

This then shows a thumbnail image, title link URL plus excerpt for any pages specified so as sub-pages grow I imagine I will have to manually add another 3 lines of shortcode unless I figure out in the meantime how to auto-populate it to show all the above info for all new sub-pages in the same way.

Thanks again!

Alana 🙂

[alanaburton]

In the absence of feedback I've re-uploaded the original css files and tried to start again.

Previously I had modified things to get the logo to show up centered. This meant the responsive header logo code for some reason then did not work. Now the logo is in the default location on the left and the logo shows up well on the iPhone....

[alanaburton]

Hi, - Follow up and addition to last post:

Can anyone let me know if the following media queries css code is correct for this site?

@media only screen and (max-width: 250px) {

.header-image .site-title a {
background: url(http://www.beautybynat.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/BeautyBYnatalie_logo250x64.png) no-repeat;
height: 64px;
width: 250px;
}

.header-image .site-title a {
background-size: contain !important;
}

.site-title {
font-size: 26px;
font-size: 2.6rem;
}

The logo does (almost) show correctly but I've not long reduced it from 270px to 250px wide, changed the css code but nothing happens. Does it take a while to update or is this not the right code and has no relation to the fact that the logo manages to show up 90% correctly on an iPhone?

Thanks,

[alanaburton]

Hello all,

I still have this issue and am using it on another website that is currently still on a temp URL that also has this issue. I realise that apparently Nick the Geek's responsive header plugin cannot be used effectively with the Studiopress Pro themes and that apparently I need to customise the header css in the media queries with variable logo sizes for the image to appear correctly on mobile and iPad etc. but I don't understand why something so fundamental is not openly available for the Executive Pro theme - or any general Studiopress themes.

I'm able to modify a css file but just need to know the code with which to do it.

Thank you,

[alanaburton]

Thanks for you input so far!

I do think the Facebook & Twitter icons looked nice where they were but to get the site looking nicer on mobile I've removed them as well as 1 of the divs for the contact information.

I put an image with the contact details into the Header Right widget but even that is not responsive. The logo is too big and isn't resizing so that's one issue but for the moment it can be largely seen but it would be good to have the contact details at the top but even with finding the responsive header image upload section via the Dashboard (that doesn't appear to work) the use of the top right widget should be avoided altogether if a responsive header is desired??

Thanks again for help thus far,

[alanaburton]

As a follow-up, I've since seen the responsive sizes nicely tucked away in the Appearance >> Themes >> Customise.

I have added them there but again, nothing changes even though I've also removed the code I added previously.

The "Contact Natalie + phone number" can remain the same but I don't understand why it is not moved down slightly to accommodate the correct size header before it appears??

[alanaburton]

Thank you!

I have used your suggestion and added some to get:

.css-facebook a:hover {
background-image: url(http://192.185.27.6/~natalie/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/facebook-square-2.jpg) !important;
background-repeat: no-repeat !important;
background-color: #fff; !important;
}

I just couldn't work out the .css a:hover bit & was trying .css-facebook .a hover etc. type thing, almost but not quite!

It's still not perfect as there's still a flash of pink when you hover over but at least the icon is also now bigger on hover and you can see it so that's a step in the right direction!

Thanks again 🙂

[alanaburton]

Hi again,

Believe it or not I've just come across yet another site we've done that has the same issue, again with the Associate theme and a site we have running Agency does not have the same problem at all but a more programmer minded contact has managed to source the problem.

In his words:

"In short there is an index.php file in your child theme which is blank. This was overriding the genesis theme and giving a blank page."

So there we go! Not sure if we have been uploading the same corrupt theme folder or whether this is an issue in the main download of the theme?

Problem solved for the moment though!

Thanks,

Alana

[alanaburton]

Hi Brad,

The blog posts from the previous website for http://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/ were imported, hence the new blog directory and we've had it working fine on other sites in similar situations so is it that they are actually wrong - or just incompatible with the Associate theme?

It's currently being looked at by a programmer to see what the issue is as we're convinced it's an Associate theme issue. While brightonandhove may have a blog sub-directory and windowshutters may have a custom permalink plugin to modify the URLs (again, because it's a revamped site and we wanted to preserve the previous URLs), we also have it here:

http://www.coachtransportgroup.com/category/european-destinations/

This site again uses the Associate theme and again, has blank pages under the categories but has been a new site, no revamp, no imported blog etc. Not all 3 sites are using the same version of WP or Genesis but they are all using the Associate theme.

The programmer will hopefully pull out something as we build a good amount of websites using Studiopress themes and Associate is a very flexible one so it would be a shame to be put off using it if we can't find a reason why this is happening. Will see if there's anything I can come back to you with after someone has had a look into each of those sites, unless the new info helps or gives an idea as to what this may be?

Thanks again,

[alanaburton]

Update:

I enabled debugging and found that one of the functions was now deprecated. I updated it but it's still not showing but the theme (both these problem sites use the ASSOCIATE theme) was no longer compatible after WP 3.4. We are now at 3.6.1

I'm pretty sure this is happening because we are running an old version of the theme.

I bought the theme again but....it's the same version and still the same error:

Notice: add_custom_background is deprecated since version 3.4! Use add_theme_support( 'custom-background', $args ) instead. in /home/brighton/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 2900

I have updated the code and the error has gone but now no errors and still a blank page.

Any feedback at all??

Thanks,

[alanaburton]

Hi,

I am still having this issue on this site and the blog category pages are still showing up blank.
E.g.

http://www.thewindowshuttercompany.co.uk/blog/category/product-information/

As an additional issue I am now having the same issue on another site!!

http://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/blog/category/counselling/

Both have the latest versions but the B&H site does not have any different permalink structure that the Windows site does so it has to be something different surely?

In addition, this morning I updated the Genesis Simple Hooks plugin and suddenly the Posts page via the Dashboard went completely blank and knowing the Simple Hooks plugin was a culprit another time I deactivated it and suddenly the pages issue has now been resolved but I am wondering whether it has some knock on effect to create this blank category (and archive) page issue??

On this page for example: http://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/blog/
If you click on any blog category or archive entry they come up blank.

ADDITIONAL INFO:
http://www.thewindowshuttercompany.co.uk/ is running WP 3.5.2 and Genesis 1.9.2
http://www.brightonandhovepsychotherapy.com/ is running WP 3.6.1 and Genesis 2.0.1

Any ideas anyone??

Thanks

[alanaburton]

Ah GENIUS!

Thank you!

I went into phpMyAdmin and as they instructed in that post I;

- went into the WP database in play via the control panl
- clicked into wp_options
- found blog_charset which did have UTF-7 next to it
- changed it to UTF8

Error message has now gone!

Many thanks 🙂

p.s. I have readded the Genesis Latest Tweets for the moment as I'm not sure yet whether that had any gremlin part to play in all of this but I will definitely bear in mind your advice about it being a good alternative. Thanks again!

[alanaburton]

Thanks, I've retweeted you!

I had to start a new reply on wordpress.org and it is here:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-error-wordpress-36-genesis-200?replies=1#post-4511532

A 🙂

[alanaburton]

Thanks,

I also saw that post and hence I deactivated the plugins to test.

I have now attempted to use the default theme to rule out the theme issues and get this error on activation of it:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function gltw_api_config() in /home/seovirgi/public_html/wp-content/plugins/genesis-latest-tweets/genesis-latest-tweets.php on line 51

OOPS!

I went in via FTP to delete the Genesis Latest Tweets plugin to get back that page.

Then I activated Twenty Thirteen but the problem is still there.

I have posted on wordpress.org now too but this error appeared after I upgraded to Genesis 2.0.0 NOT to WP 3.6

Thanks

[alanaburton]

Hi, nope there's no custom page templates at all, just using the standard template offering. No caching plugin either??

[alanaburton]

I have found the plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-title-toggle/
and using this I can "hide" a page title per page but ideally it would be good to use as few plugins as possible correct? Therefore should I continue to use this plugin or is there a better suggestion for the code to be modified? Would it be using custom css?

[alanaburton]

Hi again,

I thought this was resolved but it's not! Deactivating the Genesis Simple Hooks plugin does indeed get me the blog post titles back up but it puts each page title back into each page and I don't want that.

See: http://www.thewindowshuttercompany.co.uk/window-shutter-ranges.html
The images on the sub-pages carries the page title anyway so I would prefer not to have it duplicated. How can I get the page title to show up on the blog posts but not the sub-pages??

Thanks,
Alana

[alanaburton]

Thanks brad,

I'll look into the redirection plugin for those pages and in the meantime I have deactivated the custom permalinks (which is this one: http://atastypixel.com/blog/wordpress/plugins/custom-permalinks/ ) but nothing changes and the category and author pages are still blank.

I know that plugin states there's no support offered so it may be worth doing the redirections as you suggest anyway in addition to finding out why those pages are blank?

[alanaburton]

I have the custom permalinks plugin installed to be able to keep some of the page URLs the same from the original site as this is a revamp (e.g. http://www.thewindowshuttercompany.co.uk/book-a-shutter-consultation.html) so without that I wouldn't know how to keep some of the pages with a .html extension otherwise I only ever use the postname structure.

Is there any other way around the permalinks settings?

[alanaburton]

Hi again,

As a follow up, I have deactivated all plugins and reactivated one by one. The culprit is the Genesis Simple Hooks plugin. Is there any reason why this would do this? I haven't seen it happen before?

Thanks,

Alana

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