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@Skandha

4) We’ll try these things again.

7) Perfect!

8) Brilliant! I knew about that tool, but had not explored it much yet.

Well, I think that’s all at this time. You’ve been a HUGE help. We’re planning to officially launch the site very soon.

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@Skandha:

You’re a miracle worker! #3 and 6 worked amazingly well!

#4’s issues are still occurring – the hyphenating titles and titles sometimes being hidden underneath (plus, on The Photo Gallery page, the list with the words being written horribly). The beta-tester and I did clear our caches, but it didn’t work.

Here are some more screenshots in a cloud folder: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AlV_P2U9b7-9go9uNebbJ7esiusb6w

And here are the pages they correspond with:

http://ybo.ewq.mybluehost.me/
https://ybo.ewq.mybluehost.me/resources/grants-awards/
https://ybo.ewq.mybluehost.me/resources/photo-gallery/orthopterists-and-their-allies/vintage/
https://ybo.ewq.mybluehost.me/about-us/international-congresses/
https://ybo.ewq.mybluehost.me/resources/photo-gallery/
https://ybo.ewq.mybluehost.me/resources/photo-gallery/orthopterists-and-their-allies/international-congresses-other-meetings/

7) A new issue – now that the hero content has been successfully hidden, I think it broke the almost-invisible down arrow towards the lower middle of the header media. Can this be removed since it no longer does anything? Even though most will never see it, it CAN be seen on some images.

8) Also, do you have any advice for learning the names of things, so I can alter their coding. For instance, I wold try to work on #7 myself, but I’m not sure what that arrow is even called. Should I just search all over W3Schools for mentions of arrows?

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@Skandha:

2) It worked! Very nice.

3) I tried your suggestions, but I didn’t like them as much as just using an image as a background. My beta-testers and I really love having that hidden image there. It makes the page quite unique. So, back to my original issue: is there code that will remove the small white gap of space between the Header Media and Featured Content?

4) I put the code in, but I can’t test it while at work (where I am most of the day) because I only have browsers that the issue can’t be seen on. I sent the beta-tester who had the question some links to look at. He just got back to me and says it’s still not working and sent me screenshots showing hyphens. Plus, he and I are both occasionally seeing some titles partially hidden under the top menu bar – for me, it happens when I put my phone in landscape mode and this hides the homepage title. For him, it happens on another page. Is there a code to disable this?

5) I do know W3Schools – I’ve used them for other things. I’ll go look some more.

6) Something new – is there a clever way to have the Header title (The Orthopterists’ Society”) shrink to fit the box/screen or move to other lines on smaller devices? A beta-tester and I have noticed that some of the letters in the second word are cut off or just the apostrophe in portrait mode depending on which phone is used. On all other pages, the title words/letters are shifted to other lines to fit screens nicely, but the title on the homepage does not do this. I found a code to adjust the font size, but I can’t seem to find a good size that works well on most screens. I like the current size the best, so I am hoping there is another way to fix this.

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@Skandha – just checking in on my last post. Thanks!

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@Skandha:
1) That’s too bad, but understandable, which is why I tried to put the images towards the center.

2) I’m confused – I definitely have it enabled. I checked the site on multiple platforms and here is a screenshot showing that I’ve enabled it:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlV_P2U9b7-9go5tpXHa0WFuc6MqXw

3) Same as above:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlV_P2U9b7-9go5uIQvOaEABScIfkQ

In case you’re curious, I’d prefer to embed those as images, but the img tag function doesn’t appear to work for me.

4) I have another odd situation for you that you may have an answer for: a colleague tells me that some page titles do not look very pleasing in Safari and Firefox while they look great on mobile, Chrome, and IE. Here is an example of what he is seeing:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlV_P2U9b7-9go5vjd7GmNaiE49HVg

vs. the actual site and what I see on Chrome (which is perfectly aligned words that do NOT bleed onto multiple lines):
https://ybo.ewq.mybluehost.me/wp-admin/customize.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fybo.ewq.mybluehost.me%2F

Is there a way to write the code, so that it looks as clean as it does on Chrome/IE on other browsers or is this just the nature of how these things work sometimes?

5) I asked about CSS coding tutorials/sites to learn more – do you have any recommendations?

Thanks!

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@Skandha – great news! I contacted my site host and they were able to easily clear the cache, which fixed the refresh problem instantly! Very exciting!

1) Oh, good, I definitely created all 12 header images using a 1920*954px template, so I don’t know why they sometimes get cut off – top, bottom, left, and right; it’s very random and only occasionally. Here’s a picture of the cockroach image from my template:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlV_P2U9b7-9go5spkcyRT2ZeSwjQg

You can go to the homepage (https://ybo.ewq.mybluehost.me) and refresh until you get the same image to compare it to. Currently, on my PC screen on Chrome/IE, the image is shorter at the top compared to the template version. Also, I just checked the mobile version on my Samsung phone and the site title banner is partially hidden under the menu banner for some reason. Very strange. It’s almost as if the coding for this section of the site is somehow unstable.

2) Unfortunately, this code didn’t work, and I even tried some variations to experiment. The image still links me to the post I would like to keep hidden.

3) Same with this code, although it DOES do something – it hides the Logo Slider that I placed between Featured Content and News, and I definitely want to keep it. I also tried variations on this code, but no luck.

4) Same with this code, but I think I don’t need it after all. I added a button to Featured Content that fills the extra white space nicely.

Thank you as always! Also, can you recommend a good site to learn CSS used for this site? I can “read” your codes and understand what they are doing, but I don’t understand how to know what key words to use in the code and it’d be interesting to learn.

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@Skandha: Can you please advise me on how best to clear the cache? I did so on various browsers, but it didn’t help. If you mean clearing it on WordPress, my basic understanding is that I need a plugin to do that. Can you recommend one?

Meanwhile, the refreshing issue continues to persist across multiple computers, networks, and other devices I’ve tried. A colleague in Argentina said it works for her pretty well on Chrome on a PC, but only when she refreshes the homepage and not when she visits a page and then comes back to the homepage. Very odd.

Also, a few more things that I am hoping you can help with.

1) What size is the box displaying the Header Media? I need to know, so I can create images that fit perfectly with Photoshop. The options seem to suggest 1920×954 pixels, but this can’t be right because when I do that the images are still cut off sometimes. I even tried making images smaller than that and they are STILL cut off sometimes. The process seems random.

2) Is it possible to disable the Featured Image link in Feature Content? I have looked through all the options, but can’t find a way. I want the Featured Content to stand on its own permanently on the homepage and not bring anyone to a separate page when you click on the Featured Image. The easiest way to do this is to disable the linking ability of the image.

3) Is it possible to remove the excess space between the Header Media and Featured Content sections? The site would look much cleaner without it.

4) Same as above, but focused on removing the excess space at bottom of Featured Content.

Thank you! The site is not yet live, but the people I’ve showed it to are really liking it, especially the header media portion and general lay-out made possible by your theme.

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Skandha, that code is great! I even managed to add more color to it and move the title around with some additional code I found. Wonderful!

However, the refreshing problem is still an issue. More people have been testing it and all are experiencing the same issue I explained. When it worked for you, were you logged in as an admin? If so, then it works perfectly. If not, it doesn’t really work and only seems to change with time. I.e., you go to the homepage, go away, come back in a few minutes, and only then has the image changed. Very strange. I most definitely have the “Randomize uploaded headers” option selected, so that can’t be it.

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Skandha, I’ve almost completed my site and have been beta-testing it with people around the world. Unfortunately, there seems to be something wrong with the coding for one of the theme’s great features and I’m hoping, once again, that you have a solution. I uploaded 12 images to the Header Media option and set them to randomize. My understanding was that this means a new image will appear each time the site is refreshed or a subsite is accessed and then you return to the Homepage. At least, this is what happens when I am logged in as an admin and it’s been great. However, my testers report that, on multiple browsers and device types (tablets, phones, PCs, Macs), this is not what they see. I logged out and check on a few devices myself and I experienced the same thing – a random image loads when you first arrive and then it only seems to change after you leave the entire site and come back some time later. Any idea why this is? I really love how it’s set up now and want the ability I described at the beginning.

Also, I added a plug-in called Easy Google Fonts because I needed access to fonts not found in the theme and also gained the ability to create a nice box around the title of my site on top of the header media. It’d be wonderful if you know of a way to add some transparency to this box, so the header images can be seen. Originally, I was not going to use the box, but I realized that I could never find a good color to be seen on top of all desired images. I think this would be a great option to add to the theme for that reason.

Thanks!

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Thank you, Skandha! I must admit, though, that I really don’t understand what “When disabled/shown only on homepage, Site Title and Tagline will only be removed only from user view for accessibility purpose” means in terms of English comprehension because it really doesn’t make much sense, mainly the last portion “will only be removed only from user view for accessibility purpose”. I tried all those options early on and saw their effects, but the logo itself was unaffected. Your code, though DID work, which is great because I tried variations of that code that I found on the web with no results. However, the giant black box remains and I’m not sure why that is:

https://ybo.ewq.mybluehost.me/wp-admin/customize.php?return=%2Fwp-admin%2Findex.php

When I remove the logo entirely using the option in Site Identify, then this black box goes away, so it must be linked to that option, but I’m not sure why. Suggestions? This should be the last hurdle I need to overcome before I begin building this site in earnest.

Also, maybe you know this answer: I am tempted to buy the full version of this theme since I like it overall, and especially now that you are helping me with the main issue I have, but can you summarize what’s different? What I mean is that I have read through the list of what’s included, but I don;t fully understand how it’s different from what I already have for free, but I assume it can be summarized as : “more options and greater control”. Is that correct?

-Derek

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I am actually having the reverse problem of the OP – I choose only enable the logo on “Homepage/Frontpage” and it still appears on every other page along with a big black box, which are driving me crazy. I may have to switch themes if I can’t figure this out. Any help, Skandha? I am very new to this and I’m hoping the solution is obvious. A work in progress: https://ybo.ewq.mybluehost.me/

Thanks!

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