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  • April 23, 2013 at 3:38 pm #7618
    bobbafett
    Member

    Hi,

    I’m having some issues with access the menu links on mobile devices.

    I currently have only two links for Home (default) and an About page.

    I don’t have an Android or iOS smartphone to test on but for those that I have sometimes from the home page selecting the About link doesn’t function and it all cases once in a particular post page the About link doesn’t function for any of them.

    I have checked the Catch Box preview http://catchthemes.com/preview/?theme=catchbox on one of the devices and while the last item in the upper navigation “HTML Elements” appears first I don’t notice any immediate navigation related issues so I was wondering that given that I have added custom CSS to reduce the spacing in the header area so I was wondering has that perhaps broken something?

    April 23, 2013 at 9:52 pm #7665
    Sakin
    Keymaster

    @bobbafett: I don’t understand the issue. I check the demo of catch box http://catchthemes.com/demo/catchbox/ the menu is fine.

    April 23, 2013 at 11:14 pm #7679
    bobbafett
    Member

    Hi,

    I have  a Windows Phone 7.5 smartphone.

    I have looked at http://catchthemes.com/preview/?theme=catchbox using and the last item in the 1st level navigation “HTML Elements” appears as the first item in the dropdown menu representing the upper navigation on a mobile browser and is not selectable.

    I have also looked at http://catchthemes.com/preview/?theme=catchbox-pro using the same device and first item in the 1st level navigation “Home” appears as it should and is selectable.

    I have no idea why the free version of catch box displays the last item in the 1st level navigation as the first item in the browser on this particular device but it’s doing it and for my own site as well which is based on catch box free.

    Why is the menu a drop down to begin with?

    April 24, 2013 at 12:11 am #7680
    bobbafett
    Member

    Since I don’t have static home page created an entry for “Home” appears in the Primary menu  (which I refer to 1st level navigation above)  but isn’t accessible in the pages menu.

    I have created an About page so in the Primary menu I have Home & About.
    The About page is not selectable in Catch Box free using the browser on a Windows Phone 7.5 device.

    I created a custom menu and set About as the first option and a custom option for Home appearing after About. Once that was added About was selectable but Home not.

    I then reset the custom menu and added an additional third entry as a custom entry. So I now had Home, About and a dummy page. The dummy page being the last page now appears first in the dropdown representing the navigation for Catch Box free on my device and is not selectable where as About which is now in the middle is.

    Unless I’m mistaken there is something wrong with the Primary menu for Catch Box free or at least when compared with Catch Box Pro using the same browser on the same phone

    April 24, 2013 at 12:46 am #7682
    Sakin
    Keymaster

    @bobbafett: What’s your site URL? Also did you use your menu as the default pages or you added with custom menu through “Appearance => Menus”.

    April 24, 2013 at 1:21 am #7691
    bobbafett
    Member

    Hi,

    Site is http://www.thisconnected.com and I added a custom menu through Appearance > Menus like you said.

    Note I only just added a custom menu today following looking into the issue and then realised it was possible. For purposes of figuring out what if anything might be wrong I’ve disabled the custom menu for now as it anyway didn’t seem to fix the issue

    April 24, 2013 at 1:30 pm #7728
    Sakin
    Keymaster

    @bobbafett: I check your site from my mobile device it is showing home as main.

    April 24, 2013 at 3:22 pm #7735
    bobbafett
    Member

    Ok thanks. Must be my phone browser then. Is the About link accessible once the post page is open? I also had issues there

    April 26, 2013 at 4:44 pm #7841
    bobbafett
    Member

    Hi,

    I have just enabled the featured slider option. Is there an optimal image size for the slider in Catch Box free?

    Also I’m using the Subheading plugin from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subheading/
    Insert the following in content.php & content-single.php
    <?php if (function_exists(‘the_subheading’)) { the_subheading(‘<h4 class=”subtitle_head”>’, ‘</h4>’); } ?>

    I’d like to use the subheading in the slider as well. So the Title value, Subheading value and then “Continue Reading”  is this possible?

    April 26, 2013 at 9:01 pm #7850
    bobbafett
    Member

    Hi,

    I managed to hide the text excerpt appearing in the featured slider by enabling the Excerpt field in the post view and inserting an empty space.

    Is there a way to get the subheading to appear without needing to build a custom theme?

    April 26, 2013 at 10:31 pm #7854
    Sakin
    Keymaster

    @bobbafett: Sorry it’s not there. You need to build custom.

    April 27, 2013 at 12:48 am #7881
    bobbafett
    Member

    Ok. I assume custom code and created a child theme. Any tips?

    Also in the default home page I have the excerpt layout selected. And any image I have from a post appears full size, as big as any image in the featured slider above it. Is it possible to use custom styles to reduce the size of an image appearing in a post excerpt on the home page? I have seen a references to wp-post-image but I’m not sure if it’s the correct one or on how to apply it

    April 27, 2013 at 9:05 am #7890
    Sakin
    Keymaster

    If you want to change the image size though css then you can add the following CSS in “Appearance => Theme Options => Custom CSS” box.

    /* Resize For Large Screens */
    img.wp-post-image { max-width: 50%; }
    /* Resize back full for Small Sreens */
    @media screen and (max-width: 960px) { img.wp-post-image { max-width: 97.4%; } }

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