[Glen Pavelich]

You should be able to see the Template option in post page above the featured image option. I logged into your site and edited a page I did see the Template option there. Can you please check again?

No there is no Template option on the post page. I have taken 2 screen shots of the side panel of the post page: http://test.shields.ca/post-archives/
See: http://test.shields.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/PostArchivesPageSidebar1.jpg
http://test.shields.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/PostArchivesPageSidebar2.jpg
There is an option to pick the sidebar, but under Page Attributes there is only “Parent” and no option to pick a template option. If you checked another page instead, and not the post page, then yes you will see the template option, but it is NOT ON THE POST PAGE.

I checked your About Us page and saw some posts. Is the post loop issue resolved?

No resolved. No there is no posts on this page: http://test.shields.ca/about-us/
Page Builder is activated and I have text on this page (row 1), but the widget for post loop (added to row 2) is not functioning. If you go into the backend of this page and do an edit on the post loop block you will see the message: “Your theme doesn’t have any post loops.”

If you want separate category option for posts on homepage and on posts page lot of customization needs to be done so if you really need I suggest you to hire a customizer to get it done.

As per this ticket: https://catchthemes.com/support-forum/topic/recent-posts-on-home-page/#post-232775
Where I asked:
“The feature for recent posts on the home page is a good one, but despite the fact that I have specified a category (called ‘recent updates’), all the recent posts are showing up (ie the category I called ‘Featured Content’ is also there). See http://test.shields.ca/
How can I get it to select only one category.”

I got the reply:
“@fireflywebs: It looks like there is an issue selecting categories when static page option is enabled on Homepage. The issue has been fixed and the update will be released soon. Thank you for informing about the issue. Let me know if you have any more issues.”

So if there is to be a new release then 1) the post page template option issue needs to be added to it, and 2) as does the post loop issue, 3) along with the option to add different categories to the post page (ie ALL posts) and to the home page a category only. This seems reasonable and would be most helpful for design.

Please confirm.

Regards.

[Glen Pavelich]

See 2 comments above since your post yesterday.
Also. PLEASE!! log into the account that I sent you the credentials for earlier
(test.shields.ca)
And confirm for yourself that there is no option for a side bar on the Post Page.

So there are about 4 bugs that need to be corrected in the next update for the template…. which I hope is very soon.

1) The home page (if a static page) will not accept a category for posts, instead it only shows them all, no matter what category is selected.
2) There needs to be a difference between what posts go on the home page and what goes on the post page. There doesn’t seem to be a way to do that since there is only the single setting on the Homepage/Front page.
3) There is no way to put a side bar on the post page. No option exists under page attributes as with the other pages.
4) Page Builder Plugin (with the Site Origin Widgets). The Post Loop Widget will not work. Error message says there is no post loop for the template, yet every other Catch template allows it. I have become accustomed to using this widget.

If you can give me a work around for any of these now I would appreciate it. Can you tell me when the updated theme will be issued?

[Glen Pavelich]

I see now that I needed to turn on the SEO in the Catch Web Tools to see what I was looking for. My error.

[Glen Pavelich]

For the post loop. I have added post loop to the About Us page as a test. If you go there you will see what I mean. See second row (click edit on the actual box that says Post Loop.)

This screen shot will show what it SHOULD allow me to do.
http://test.shields.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/PostLoopScreenShot.jpg
I took this test screen shot from another site which is using the Catch Theme “Clean Education Pro”

[Glen Pavelich]

The Select Sidebar option in each post/page will work if you change Template metabox option on post/page to Left or Right Sidebar. This should work.

I do not see a Template metabox option on the post page where there is an option of left or right sidebar. It shows only “select sidebar” and the dropdown shows default, or optional sidebar one, two, or three.’

Only one category of post showing up on your site.
For that
Go to => Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Homepage/Front page Settings => Turn on Display Recent Posts/Content on homepage then you should see Categories Select Box and Select All Categories
and then you can again turn off Display Recent Posts/Content on homepage and Publish.

Yes, that worked. Thanks.

Can you please explain what you are trying to do with Page Builder (Site Origin)?

With Page Builder turned on a page, there is a widget option called ‘Post Loop”. If you pull that widget into a page row you can then set up the post loop options you desire. IE a category of post. However, with this theme I get the message ‘your theme doesn’t have any post loops.’ I don’t understand why other Catch themes do and this one doesn’t.

[Glen Pavelich]

My sidebar issue only appears to involve the post page. I found the setting for the others pages under page attributes.
The other 2 issues are also part of this ticket.

[Glen Pavelich]

All the sidebars (on each page) are not listed, only Optional one, two or three.
I am trying to get a sidebar on my post page for instance. I have a widget in ALL the sidebars in widgets, but how to turn on sidebars for the page is the issue. There is only ‘select sidebar’ and no option under page attributes for a layout.

Also, note the second issue on this ticket for post loops, and the fact that all the posts but one category have disappeared.

These are HIGH Priority for me.

Thanks.

[Glen Pavelich]

All the sidebars (on each page) are not listed, only Optional one, two or three.
I am trying to get a sidebar on my post page for instance. I have a widget in ALL the sidebars in widgets, but how to turn on sidebars for the page is the issue. There is only ‘select sidebar’ and no option under page attributes for a layout.

Also, note the second issue on this ticket for post loops, and the fact that all the posts but one category have disappeared.

[Glen Pavelich]

There may be a second glitch with this template.
See
https://catchthemes.com/support-forum/topic/adding-sidebars-to-pages/#post-232779
I have added several updates here, but haven’t had anyone respond yet.

[Glen Pavelich]

Yes, in webmaster tools, but I am talking about on each page itself. There is only the one field for any SEO.

[Glen Pavelich]

Update. One more thing.
I often use the Page Builder (Site Origin) option for ‘post loops’. It’s a page widget to call in certain post categories to a page.
When I pull that into a page I get the message
“Your theme doesn’t have any post loops.”
I have never had this before with this widget.

This wasn’t attempted until now so it hasn’t been a conflict to cause the above issue.

[Glen Pavelich]

I have looked everywhere for a setting. This is a bug. All the posts except for my category called ‘recent updates’ do not appear on the post page at all. Further I have another ticket here (https://catchthemes.com/support-forum/topic/recent-posts-on-home-page/#post-232775) which is also an issue.
However, the posts were appearing on the post page I think. Now they are gone.

[Glen Pavelich]

Yes. This works. This should be added to the next update me thinks.

🙂

[Glen Pavelich]

Works perfect. Thank you.

[Glen Pavelich]

I have a sidebar selected under ‘Select Sidebar” under the template on the page in question, but no sidebar is showing (following doing the publish).
On EVERY page there is the ‘default side bar’ in this field, but no sidebar appears on ANY page even though there are widgets in that sidebar because I have the site set to ‘NO sidebar’. I don’t see how to activate the sidebar for any particular page… there doesn’t seem to be that option.

Re:
To have meta displayed on your posts page
Go to => Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Layout Options => Archive Display Meta => Select Show Meta and Publish.

It wasn’t the meta I wanted turned on. It’s that only one category of posts is on my main post page. How do I turn on the rest?

[Glen Pavelich]

It was only on 2. Missed that since I had 3 columns selected.
Thanks

[Glen Pavelich]

I took off the posts from my home page, in case you go to my site to see this.

[Glen Pavelich]

I realize it is because the menu line drops below the branding, but this is likely to happen to lots of sites. Is there a fix?

[Glen Pavelich]

Thank you – that will be helpful.

[Glen Pavelich]

Thank you.

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