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Your solution is a good one and I considered it and I'd have done it for my own site.
However, for a client site I think it best to give them a widget area so that if Soliloquy goes out of business OR if some version will not work on Genesis OR if Mr. Griffin sells out to someone who won't honor the lifetime support level we were grandfathered into (as an early buyer of the product,) the client (with our help or that from any design shop) can easily and quickly swap in the FREE Genesis slider, create some posts with their 5 pictures and that's that.
Or they can easily pop in a slider from a different vendor (i.e. Layer Slider )
Soliloquy is a new vendor, only a year (or two?) old now, and how many plugin vendors last five years? Or even three?
And there is no guarantee that they won't change their contract terms. If they decide to terminate the 'contract' we are under (probably by some legal fine print in the TOC no one ever reads) what are we going to do? Incur legal costs to sue them? I don't think so!
The new "Adobe paradigm" of 'renting' software which many theme and plugin vendors have adopted has made us look much more carefully than in the past as to which platforms we want to adopt.
We don't want to take the risk that if we adopt (standardize on) a theme or plugin or framework and later on a vendor decides to triple the support cost AND when WP does something to break the vendor's code, AND client's are calling us... we have no choice but to PAY what the vendor MAKES us pay. (Some call it the 'cable TV business model'.... some called it extortion!)
I don't know about other design shops but this is a risk we want to mitigate as much as possible... thus putting in a widget area for a client instead of hard-coding in a slider (or any plugin,) gives us a little bit of flexibility in the event that the vendor goes under, or prices themselves beyond what we think is fair and equitable, or sells out to another firm that simply ignores past contracts.
Like Apple, as much as possible we want the "own the stack" and not be "captive" to any one vendor, much less many of them via an array of recurring payments on plugins, themes, skins, frameworks, services, etc.
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devParticipantThere are a lot of points for failure here... could be the code in how you created the widget area, it could be some CSS somewhere.
You didn't show us the media queries. I assumed you modified those for your new widget area? If not, well that is probably your problem.
If you don't know how to code a media query CSS selector there are a number of people on this board you can hire to get it done for you... (but not me... I'm way too busy right now.)
devParticipantYou site is taking these errors:
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.uktransactionalanalysis.co.uk/wp-content/themes/news-pro/js/drop-down-nav.js?ver=0.5
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.uktransactionalanalysis.co.uk/wp-content/themes/news-pro/js/sticky-nav.js?ver=3.9.1
Uncaught TypeError: undefined is not a function custom-scripts.js?ver=1.3.1:4
I don't know why those Javascript files are not found. Did someone do a restore from a bad backup? Maybe a permissions issue? I'd check permissions.
I don't know much about the News-pro theme. Maybe you should re-install it? If not, at least find those files and install them in theme directory. (I'm kind of surprised they are not in the tabs plugin directory but maybe the theme comes bundled with the plugin and StudioPress decided to put all the Javascript files in with the theme.)
Let us know what you find.
devParticipantBrad (or anyone): This is close to what I want to do on the Eleven40 theme.
The default is for it to pick up EVERY category on home page. I want to exclude ALL but one of them. Another way to say this is that I only want to show just one of the categories.
What magic code will do that for me?
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============ UPDATE ===========I found it. The minus sign means "exclude" I took it off and that means "include":
$query->set( 'cat', '3' );
(3 is the category ID of the posts I want to display.)
Hope this helps someone.
devParticipantI went into one of my test sites which has an old Agency theme and had the social icon plugin and I had same problem as you. New settings would not 'take.'
I dragged the widget out of the footer area and dragged a new one in and made some settings on font size, color, etc. and it worked fine. So try that.
Also, if you are using the icon twice... say in a header and in a sidebar, whatever style settings the the system finds first are the ones it is going to use. So maybe you are using the widget twice on the site?
Anyway, at least try to dump the current one and bring in a new one. My guess is it had something to do with WP 3.9.
This is why I don't like plugins and their settings and if possible I try to do as much styling in CSS as possible.
Let us know.
devParticipantBasically we build out all our sites in a sub-directiory because it is more flexibile and less cluttered. We often get clients who need 2 sites... one for most of the year but one they only run for 4 months during the holidays or during an election or during the summer (season) etc.
Yes, the WP Multisite woud be ideal, but that's an added learning curve and level of complexity our clients don't want or need.
They can have a web person working on the second (i.e. 'holiday') site while the regular site is up and running. Yes, there is duplication of data and yes there are other ways of doing this, but having two build-outs is what works for our victims (oops, I mean clients!)
We also get people who come to us with maybe huge Joomla or Drupal install in their root... a hundred or so files. I don't want to erase those files even if they say they are not ever going to use Joom again... too much liability. And I don't want to add more clutter by installing WP there, so we install in a nice, new, fresh, clean, empty directory and just re-direct.
On a new client without a site we put in a tiny "common soon" html static page "system" (a few images, .css, .js, etc.) in the root while we build out in the /wp subdirectory. When ready to go live we just rename the "index.html" (very important you do that!!) to "index.html-not-used" and put in the .htaccess file with the redirect and that's that. If we want to go back to a 'coming soon" and make a "site is down for work" message it is easy to modify the "comming soon" flle, fix the index.html file and comment out the redirect in the .htaccess.
[Note: I am not preaching this method/practice. This work for us and our clients. YMMV]
devParticipantYou have one drop-down menu on http://asylkampanjen.se
"Lagliga vagar"
Works fine in Chrome on my iMac.
devParticipantAs noted, our shop always builds its sites with a new install of WP in a sub-directiory. We never build in the root. We have lots of reason to do that but they are not relevant to this thread.
So, if the domain is "www.SomeDomian.com" we will install WP and build the site in "www.SomeDomian.com/wp"
Of course we don't want anyone to have to key in the sub-domian as part of the URL.
In order to get the viewer (browser) to 'jump' to the sub-directory when "www.SomeDomian.com" is entered we use the simple redirect in the .htaccess file that we put in the root directory. (If you are not familiar with the .htaccess file just research it... tons of info on it out there... easy to create and use.)
Redirect 301 /index.php http://www.somedomain.com/wp/
(you need at least one space between the arguments of the command.
This basically tells the browser "Yo. Browser. Don't load the index.php in this directory but jump over to the '/wp' directory and get that one instead."
devParticipantWhy are you using Style Trump? Deactivate it and see if that fixes it.
You have Jetpack installed. I would not be surprised if that is causing a problem. Try deactivating.
Try putting this in the theme's style.css and see if it works:
.simple-social-icons ul li a, .simple-social-icons ul li a:hover { font-size: 100px; }
(Why would you want the icons so large?)
devParticipantWell, you are using the column classes in a post and I'm wondering if they only work on pages? I've never tried them in a blog post. As I remember there is a lot of 'voodoo' HTML that gets inserted into posts.
devParticipantSorry, no way I know to have the WordPress in mydomain.com/wp but have the URLs in the browser window just show the domain without the subdomain (/wp.)
Why would you want to do that anyway? No one cares if the URL shows a subdirectoy.
Maybe there is an Apache .htaccess rewrite directive that will do what you want, but beyond the basic .htaccess commands, I can't be of any assistance.
April 27, 2014 at 2:24 pm in reply to: Can I set/edit a default link for an image in media lib? #102639devParticipantI dumped the database and did a search on "amazon'. Here is a slice of the output:
sed.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<img src="http://buildwealthandspenditall.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/smashword.png" alt="smashword" width="126" height="40" />\r\n\r\n<img src="http://buildwealthandspenditall.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/amazon.png" alt="amazon" width="120" height="42" />','default-sidebar','','inherit','open','open','','58-revision-v1','','','2014-04-26 05:40:35','2014-04-26
perhpas if I replaced:
src=\"http://buildwealthandspenditall.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/amazon.png
and put an href in there...
it might work. Or I'd screw up the database! (Yeah, keep a copy!)
The way that WP serializes it's data in the database, you are just asking for problems messing with it externally.
April 27, 2014 at 1:55 pm in reply to: Can I set/edit a default link for an image in media lib? #102637devParticipantThis is a well-known tool and I use it when migrating WP sites from one domain to another.
But if you have a image button (i.e. Buy from Amazon) on the site now and it is NOT linked... what would you search and replace?
I've looked high and low and can't find a solution. I'm going to have to go into every page and change (edit) each button with the link to the Amazon page. It's not that big a deal... but I was hoping to find a better solution.
April 26, 2014 at 12:50 pm in reply to: Can I set/edit a default link for an image in media lib? #102489devParticipantI don't think it works with 3.9 (at least not with the old Agency theme)
I edit the image in Media Lib. and add the Gallery Link.
Using Insert Media I put the pix into my page.
When I go to 'edit' pix, none of the plugin add-on areas are shown (under advanced)
I think it has something to do with the new media editing stuff that WP put in for 3.9.
It only works if I put in a [gallery] shortcode in the page... which is what I don't want to do.
Thanks anyway.
April 26, 2014 at 11:32 am in reply to: Can I set/edit a default link for an image in media lib? #102470devParticipantThe plugin only works with a gallery, as I understand it. And with 3.9 who knows were galleries have gone to?
I have these Amazon buttons insered in lots of pages and sidebars (at bottom) and if I throw in a [gallery] shortcode it works but it kind of throws off the spacing and I think I'd have to put in a ton of CSS to align it right. And besides, I would have to put in the short code on every page. If I'm going to do that I may as well just edit each Amazon button!
Do you have stronger magic for me?
Thanks.
devParticipant@Sridhar, that was a good idea but while the widget title was not linked, it did not render in the same place as the featured page title and since I was doing some box-shadow CSS I was too lazy to figure out how to get in the box... 'default sidebar' at:
Instead I used a different plugin which give an option to turn off the page-title link:
I really didn't want a whole plugin, just some code so perhaps when I have a chance I'll look in the plugin and maybe see what filter they used to turn off the link.
The main questions is why does the StudioPress version make the page 'hot.' Who would want that?
Thanks.
devParticipantI fixed it. I re-pasted the content and the trouble went away.
The had been a paste from Word and maybe there was some unprintable junk in there.
April 2, 2014 at 12:57 pm in reply to: How do I display products like this on an interior page? #98121devParticipantCarley, I think a blog will work, but it won't be as 'nice' as the sample I showed without a lot of CSS formatting... which I can do but don't want to!! Maybe there is a blog formatting plugin?
There is a testimonial plugin that might work for this... we use it on our site http://newmediawebsitedesign.com/wp2/testimonials-3/ but it does not have quite 'the look' client is seeking.
Thanks for the interest. I hope some other solutions surface for me.
March 16, 2014 at 1:26 pm in reply to: Add custom.css and or font with code or header link. Best practice? #95196devParticipantThanks. The code method works fine for both .css and fonts. I'll do it this way from now on.
March 16, 2014 at 8:57 am in reply to: Add custom.css and or font with code or header link. Best practice? #95140devParticipantThanks, but can you give me some technical reason for why you think enqueueing is more efficient than the "link" method?
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