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Thank you. I think I’ll try the plug-in Search Exclude rather than have to make a child theme.

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Hi, thank you. That #content piece in the Custom CSS is stopping so many words from hyphenating. So if I remove it, tons of words get hyphenated, which is undesirable. So I put in <hr/>. Do you know of how I can make the <hr/> thicker/bolder? Is there something I can add to the Theme Options/Custom CSS for that? (I’d also prefer to not have so much space around the <hr/> — it adds more space (between above/below text) than ________ and doesn’t seem to respond to “line break”.)

The blog page ( [mysite].com/posts – (I emailed you the link) is still doing this (not fitting to screen), though not as much, and I don’t see any _______ on there, so may be for a different reason. It doesn’t matter much since it is only contracting slightly (per screenshot in email), but does there happen to be an easy remedy for it?

Thank you and all the best.

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Best wishes to you. Please let us know if we can help in some way beyond the donations we’ve made. I will invite others to donate again.

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I heard there was another earthquake as well in the last day. I hope you & yours are still okay. It brings tears to my eyes when I think of you folks there. Best wishes for safety, well-being, & successful rebuilding.

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I donated, and publicized the donation link to others also. Please let us know if there are any other ways we can be of help to you & yours there in Nepal. Best wishes.

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Hi – I made a donation and gave you folks a 5-star review also.
Best wishes to you & yours in Nepal.

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Great. I will donate and will also publicize it for soliciting donations from others. Thank you for how you have helped us with our online sites. Best wishes to you in the recovery process there.

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Sakin and Catch Themes — I’d like to publicize a way for people to support you folks at Catch Themes in your time of emergency. Is the /donate link above the best place to point people to?

~ Best wishes and let us know how we can help.

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I was going to ask what is the best way for us to help out the Catch Themes crew in Nepal – I will assume this is the best way unless I hear otherwise.

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Hi Sakin,
Thank you for your communication and help. I tested out the links you gave on the Phone version and they are behaving exactly the same way as my site – i.e. the Menu is not functioning properly, in the way explained in my original post — tapping a Menu item does NOT navigate to that page. I will message you with my site link and screenshots so they are not public here.

Thank you~

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Thank you! works perfect.

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Hi – since with your good help I managed to get those image sizes adjusted properly, I want to go ahead and make a Child Theme like you suggested I do. I submitted this question as a comment at the Child Theme instructions on this site but probably better to submit it here so I’m copy-pasting what I had submitted, as I need further guidance regarding @import (no longer recommended by WP) vs. “enqueue”:

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Since “enqueue” is the recommended method now over “@import” I want to do it that way but it is not clear to me how to do that since the WordPress Codex (that is linked to on this page) says:
“The following example function [that they give] will only work if your Parent Theme uses only one main style.css to hold all of the css. If your theme has more than one .css file (eg. ie.css, style.css, main.css) then you will have to make sure to maintain all of the Parent Theme dependencies. Setting ‘parent-style’ as a dependency will ensure that the child theme stylesheet loads after it.” I do not know how to do what they are saying since I do see other “.css” files in addition to “style.css” in the Catch Evolution theme folder so I don’t know how to proceed. I am not very familiar with code.

What is the proper code to enter in the Child’s functions.php for a Catch Evolution Child theme to do the “enqueue” instead of “@import”, since Catch Evolution has more .css files than just the style.css?

Thank you for your help.
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Hi – thank you for your help. I sent you the site and additional info with that.
Also I did just now update, and then I did “Check live version” via Google Webmasters and it is still giving the same citations as before the update.

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Hi – I have the Catch Evolution theme – is this (Reply #45774) the same fix for that same problem? – I need to remove the “Comments are closed” text from all of my Posts. I do not enable any Comments on my site. Do I use this same fix for the Catch Evolution theme? i.e. as follows:

Just add the following css in “Appearance => Theme Options => Custom CSS” box.
.nocomments { display: none; }

If not please let me know how I do that for the Catch Evolution theme.

Thank you very much!

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Hi Sakin –

Thank you very much for insisting about the “Regenerate Thumbnail” plugin – that did it! It is working now after installing that and putting in new values for the Height.

I made the following changes in the functions.php :

//Featured Posts for Normal Width
add_image_size( ‘featured-slider’, 754, 200, true ); // Used for featured posts if a large-feature doesn’t exist

//Featured Posts for Full Width
add_image_size( ‘featured-slider-larger’, 1190, 200, true ); // Used for featured posts if a large-feature doesn’t exist

I know I will need to re-enter these values when there’s an update if I don’t create a child-theme. I don’t know what the “Full Width” refers to but changed that value too.

Minor other question: I have a blog/posts page that is not on the homepage. It was functioning fine previously, but I happened to notice there is an option under Appearance/Customize/Static-Front-Page/Posts-page where I can enter the actual blog page so I did that (before none was selected there). Will this change how my site functions? I didn’t notice much of a difference.

Thank you!

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Hi ~ Thanks for your help. I don’t want to create a Child Theme at this time. If needed I would add back the fix after an update, or, add a Child Theme later once I had managed to correctly alter the code on the theme’s functions.php. However it is still not working when I try to do that. Following your suggestion I edited main functions.php as follows:
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//Featued Posts for Normal Width
add_image_size( ‘featured-slider’, 9999, 200, true ); // Used for featured posts if a large-feature doesn’t exist

//Featured Posts for Full Width
add_image_size( ‘featured-slider-larger’, 9999, 200, true ); // Used for featured posts if a large-feature doesn’t exist
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and it is still doing the same problem as previous attempts where it is contracting the WIDTH also. If I leave the height value at 400, the whole thing is still too big for what I’m aiming for.
I didn’t use the plug-in but it was altering the old thumbnails anyway – and – I did always try adding a new post and the new posts did the same thing of the width shrinking also even though it had the highest value. My understanding is that with the changed code a NEW post will conform to the updated code. But the Width is still shrinking when the Height is given a value less than 300. I want the Width to stay the same but with a smaller height. So it is not working.

Please advise. I want to test this out on the current theme’s functions.php and don’t want to do a Child Theme at this time. I will copy over the code when there are updates or create a Child Theme then. If we can get this to work.

I’m emailing you separately a link so you can see what I mean since I don’t want to post that info on here.

Thank you for your help.

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Hi Sakin,

Thank you for your help.
Rather than making a child theme, I tested this suggested change out within the functions.php of the existing theme – just lowering the value of the second number in that part of the code, on a test site, and changing the second value does not only change the height – it also changes the width even though I do not change the first # value in the functions.php, only the second one. So it is not working as suggested as it is compressing both dimensions even though I only change the value for the height. I only want to change the default height crop, not the width. Is there a way to do this so it will effectively leave the width as-is and just contract the height for the crop? if it’s helpful i can send you a link of example page (i don’t want to post it).

Thank you~

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Thank you for your help Sakin.

It is time-intensive to have to upload and edit a new image each time for each Featured Image for each new post when I know that I do want ALL my Featured Images automatically cropped to a smaller Height than the current default, on the Blog excerpts page. Therefore: is there some way to automate the process so the Featured Image is automatically cropped to a size with a smaller Height, since there is already an automatic cropping happening? For example maybe adding code in the Custom CSS portion to that effect?? You had given me custom code in a different instance to add there for a different issue.

Thank you for your help, it is appreciated.

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P.S. I hope it’s clear what I’m referring to…. not sure what the correct terminology is.

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Okay. So is a bug fix when it says something like “Fixed ______ issue”? Since changelog does not refer to any “bug” fixes at all. I’m guessing “fixed ____ issue” is probably a bug fix since I believe at least one of those was a “bug.” Thanks for your help, just want to be clear, I’m not super-literate in all the terminology.

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