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I installed Advanced Custom Fields plugin but from the videos I've seen on YouTube, you still have to go edit the theme templates. How sad...
benjaminParticipantI'll go for the plugin after all, I'm not going to manage this one.
benjaminParticipantIs it possible that this function or some other function it depends on is not active?
I've been looking & trying out every variation I can find on the search engines but none have worked.benjaminParticipantThe plugin hasn't been updated in over 2 years, doesn't looks safe.
I'd rather go with the codes. Just can't make it work this time round.benjaminParticipantYes within the content even in the middle of it.
benjaminParticipantI went back to the functions file of the previous theme to try and figure out what I did the last time.
I think this was the piece of text added.// Create customer field
function field_func($atts) {
global $post;
$name = $atts['name'];
if (empty($name)) return;
return get_post_meta($post->ID, $name, true);
}add_shortcode('field', 'field_func');
I added it to the functions file and now the [field name=”PBBanner”] that was showing up in the post instead of the banner has disappeared leaving a blank space a little bigger than the banner that is supposed to be there.
What else should be done?I've been looking through the styles sheet but it's much longer,
I've run out of ideas.benjaminParticipantFirst I didn't understand the position part of the tutorial and as for hooks I don't remember what those are.
I spent months fidgeting with one hook after another till I felt I'd brought the site up to a point I felt I could live with.
Now starting that all over again is overwhelming,Where can I find those hooks and how do i apply it, I really have no idea.
benjaminParticipantThe banner uses javascript code below that allows it to update with the latest text and images.
<div id="_TC_PB_BANNER"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
_TRIPLECLICKS_PB_BANNER_URL="//www.tripleclicks.com/pbBanner.php?sfiid=&view=W&curr=USD";
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//tc.csidn.com/common/pbBanner.js"></script>Such can easily be placed into a text widget but I want to place it with the post text.
benjaminParticipantI'm almost there but there's one thing I've failed to do.
The demo has posts appearing in summary but I've failed to reproduce this on my blog.
The set up instructions however say that it uses a grid loop that display 2 full posts and 4 posts that display the first 250 characters. But the demo has the all of them showing just some and not the whole of the post.
How can I make it show just some of it.I selected the Summary option instead of Full text in the Settings>Reading page but it still wont change.
Meanwhile, can't the hyperlinks colors be set as the standard blue, red and brown for active, hover and clicked links instead of the unusual colors the themes come with? One can then change it to whatever colors they want after that.
It took me several days to set that up with my old theme and I'll have to do again. I managed with the help of the forum but that thread is gone after the forum platform was changed.benjaminParticipantI wonder how I failed to notice them. Life would have been so much easier.
Anyway, better get to work putting the site together.benjaminParticipantHey this is great!
How long have such guides been around?
The time I got my first theme it took me about 2 years to get it close to what I saw in the demo.
Thank youbenjaminParticipantWhat are the challenges with using a plugin to make the site mobile responsive?
benjaminParticipantI want a widgetized front page. How can I know if a theme has that? I'm trying to decide between Focus Pro and Prose but I do not want the continuous blog roll on the home page which both of them seem to have. I'd like a home page when I can replace that with widgets which I did with my old lifestyle theme. Not the new Lifestyle theme or the lifestyle pro theme. If not then set it to show just one blog post instead, the latest post.
The layout of Parallax and altitude is not suitable for my kind of site and I prefer the one in Focus and Prose. That is if the demos are a 100% depiction what the theme will look like by default.
benjaminParticipantIt's the housekeeping that worries me.
It took me quite a while to make the site look neat and tidy and the thought o doing it all over again bothers me.
I switched to the sample child theme for now and the site has lots of white empty spaces.
Things are so far apart and the the homepage does not fit in without the need for scrolling.
Hopefully the theme I want to get will have an easier solution to this without editing codes.benjaminParticipantThe banner does not appear on that page though i set it up to do so, and that is also part of the problem
The second URL shows what the banner and the rest of the page should look like if every thing was OK.
I can't figure out what is stopping it from appearing and why the page is messed up.I tried the new version of lifestyle and found it needed a lot more work and
knowledge which I don't have to make it appear the way I want. So I stuck with the old version. -
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