[Orlando Mergal]

I was reading through the copy on the “Essential Content Types” plugin page and the “Catch Themes Demo Import” plugin page. The way that I understand it I can create my front page as a draft and activate it when I’m happy with my results and ready to switch from my latest posts page to a static page.

Am I right?

[Orlando Mergal]

Thank you for all your help.

As you will recall, this is my podcasting site. I produce my podcast weekly, between Tuesday and Wednesday, and publish it every Thursday at 5:00am AST. That means that now is not the time to tinker with my site.

I will work on this next weekend.

I’ll let you know my reults.

Thanks again,

Orlando

[Orlando Mergal]

Perfect.

Please let me know how we go about it.

[Orlando Mergal]

Hi Skanha:

Maybe I should start by explaining what my objective is. That way you could tell me if I’m on the right track or if I’m wasting my time.

My whole issue has to do with bounce rate. I’m perfectly happy with the way my site looks now ( https://www.hablandodetecnologia.com/ ). It looks clean, accesible and chock full information. It includes a podcast with almost 300 episodes, a blog and close to 100 videos which I serve from Vimeo and YouTube. The videos that I serve from Vimeo only play on my site.

However, I have a bounce rate of 88.31%.

According to Google, Bounce Rate is defined as: “single-page sessions divided by all sessions”. In other words, if a person comes to your site, and doesn’t click on anything else, your bounce rate will be high even if he/she stays there for an hour.

Now, here’s my theory. WordPress gives us the option to use a “static page” or a “latest posts page” as our landing page. I’m using the “latest posts” option. The problem is that that lends itself to the problem that I mentioned above. People can land on my page, listen to an entire show and leave without ever clicking on anything else. Hence, my bounce rate goes through the roof.

The idea behind switching to a design like the one that you have on your “demo” page would be to force them to click on something. The way I imagine it this page could have a welcome video at the top followed by several active areas that could say something like: “listen to our show”, “read our blog”, “watch a video”, “learn more about us” “our books” , etc. Any of these actions would require a click, thus reducing my bounce rate. Of course, I understand that this also introduces an element of “friction” into the equation.

Be that as it may, is my thinking on the right track here or is it just “wishful thinking”? I realize that this is an SEO question, but either you or someone else at Catch Themes might be knowledgeable on this subject.

[Orlando Mergal]

Hi Skandha:

When I first installed Catch Responsive Pro it came with a page similar to the one that you have as demo on your site: https://catchthemes.com/demo/catch-responsive-pro/ . That page is basically a collection of images and text pointing to different points on a site. It doesn’t have a title and a body like a regular page would have.

Instead of sending my traffic to that “static page” I decided to send it to my “latests posts”. Now, several years later, I’m starting to believe that that was a mistake and I would like to revert to the static page option. The problem is that I erased the page that came with Catch Responsive Pro, and when I try to create one I have a Title and Body Text area that weren’t in the original version.

So I guess my question would be: how do I get a page like this one again: https://catchthemes.com/demo/catch-responsive-pro/

[Orlando Mergal]

Actually, lets forget the whole thing. I did it on my own as best I could.

[Orlando Mergal]

In what country are you?

[Orlando Mergal]

I just went to https://www.puertoricophotography.com and everything seems to be working fine. Lets just gorget the whole thing. Thank you.

[Orlando Mergal]

What do you mean? You told me to enable right click and I did. What do you need now?

[Orlando Mergal]

Right click is enabled.

[Orlando Mergal]

Hi Skandha:

Like I said above, I need CSS code that will give me the ability to make the size of my images exactly to my liking on smartphones.

The one I have was written for me by one of your techs for the Catch Reponsive Pro theme. I would like one that will work with the Create Pro theme.

Thank You.

Orlando

[Orlando Mergal]

Never mind. I fixed it on my own.

[Orlando Mergal]

I deactivated the plugin: “No Right Click Images Plugin”

Please let me know what you find.

[Orlando Mergal]

Better, but still not there.

Take this page from site: http://www.accuratecommunications.com/e-book-publishing/ . It’s the perfect example.

The image at the top (aligned left) and at the bottom (aligned right) do not resize. The ones in the middle do.

The CSS that you suggested works when the image has a caption only. I tried the following iterations and they didn’t work:

@media screen and (max-width: 480px) {
.wp-image {
width: 50% !important;
}
}

@media screen and (max-width: 480px) {
.alignleft size-full wp-image {
width: 50% !important;
}
}

It should be obvious by now that I know nothing about CSS!!!

[Orlando Mergal]

Once again, I think we are not understanding each other.

This new code would only affect attachment_3978. I want something that will affect all the images on the site.

[Orlando Mergal]

I think I understand what’s going on here. The CSS code is only affecting the image called #attachment_5579.

If that’s the case, would there be a way of affecting all the images that start with #attachment_ ?

I’m not an expert on CSS, so maybe my suggestion is stupid, but what I would like to happen is that all my images would adjust when viewed from a smartphone.

[Orlando Mergal]

Stop the presses!!! I used the CSS code that you suggested on my main site http://www.accuratecommunications.com and it worked like a charm. However, I used the same code on my podcast site http://www.hablandodetecnología.com (which also uses Catch Responsive Pro) and it doesn’t do a thing.

Any idea why?

[Orlando Mergal]

It wuuuuuuurks!!! Thank you very much!

[Orlando Mergal]

Yours truly is me: Orlando Mergal. My photo is on the front page of http://www.accuratecommunications.com/ . It is 200px wide on a computer. It also takes up 200px wide on a smartphone. Isn’t it supposed to shrink on a smartphone?

[Orlando Mergal]

Yes, it seems to work. But when I activate the child theme all the settings and custom CSS that I have on my regular theme disappear and I’m left with the theme the way it comes.

Right now I don’t have the time to go over all my settings one by one and figure out what I had done in the original.

Unless there’s a way to export all those settings and import them into the child theme I think I’ll be better off leaving things the way they were.

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