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Bumping this thread to see if anyone knows of other plugins or code snippets for this!
I use the Metro theme for my site (wittytitlehere.com) and the header just looks awful on mobile. I really wish I could fix this.
Cassie
[Witty Title Here]Thanks for the feedback! I've yet to have problems with the page loading time, but you're not the first person to tell me they have. I'm not a fan of the "more" button, because as a blog reader myself, I know I feel less inclined to read on when I have to click "more," vs. when all the text is right there. I wonder what other ways I could possibly speed this up?
Since my last post, I installed the Genesis Responsive Header plugin, and that fixed the size of the header on my iPhone! I'm seeing a weird space between that and the links below it, though. Will continue to snoop around for clues.
Cassie
[Witty Title Here]Thanks again! Roger, I'm flattered, but you'll be better off using a "real" designer. This was a lot of trial and error and I'm still very much a newbie. If I charge you hourly, it'd cost tens of thousands of dollars. 😉
Also, now that I've lived with this new design for awhile (and have had a chance to recover), can anyone recommend how I might be able to make the customized header responsive? When I minimize the size of my browser, all the blog post content responds properly, but the header begins to disappear and get cut off. Same goes for the mobile version - in fact, you can't see the title of the site at all when viewing on an iPhone.
Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks, guys.
Cassie
[Witty Title Here]Ah, figured it out with the help of support. Easy fix that others likely wouldn't come across unless they'd been messing with the code as I had.
Cassie
[Witty Title Here]Thanks, all, for the feedback! Cath, I haven't had any problem loading the background image on my computer. But maybe it depends on the system. I'll check into whether I can use a smaller file without compromising the image quality. Thanks for the head's up! As for the drop shadow, I guess it's just a matter of personal preference. I might be sick of it in six months, but for now, I'll keep 'em! Thanks!
Something just came to my attention that I'm not super pleased with - I noticed bold styling is not working for me in Firefox (I got confirmation from another user on a different computer getting the same thing). Everything looks as it should in Chrome, but Firefox doesn't seem to want to recognize <strong> or <b> tags in my posts. Anyone know of a fix for this? And why the heck wouldn't that be a standard piece of CSS to go in this theme? Help! Please and thanks.
Cassie
[Witty Title Here]Thanks for this tip, guys. Great feature, and I love the way it looks on my own site. I noticed, however, that this makes the widget headers in my sidebar look a little funky. The header text is surrounded in a white box that stands out against the transparent background. Any known way to apply the transparency to these so it blends in nicely? I know if it were an image in my sidebar with a drop shadow, I'd want to save it as a transparent .png. But not sure how to get the same effect with this.
Note: This can't currently be viewed on my site. The theme is not yet activated - I've only implemented and previewed these changes while working in maintenance mode.
Cassie
[Witty Title Here]Thanks so much! I hadn't run into that problem yet, but I know it would've been frustrating at some point.
Cassie
[Witty Title Here]Thanks for your help, dabyrom. That makes sense, but what a bummer! I'll play around with the dimensions, though. If anyone else knows of a way around it (I'm open to white space around the borders of the background image), feel free to chime in!
Thanks again!
Cassie
[Witty Title Here]Thanks for clarifying, Susan. That does make sense it would be overridden since that's what a child theme does. Inconvenient, though, that the new theme will have to go live (and therefore be incomplete design-wise) before I can add those widgets again. I want the final product to go live all together, not piece by piece! Is there a workaround for this I'm not familiar with? Thanks again.
Cassie
[Witty Title Here]I can't edit my original post, but adding a note to say I can, in fact, change the background image before the theme is made active. But why doesn't the preview of the site show the widgets I currently have installed? Will they disappear if I make Metro active?
Cassie
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