Syahir Hakim
KeymasterKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
When not perched on my workspace, I tremendously enjoy hiking in the bushes and climbing mountains. They serve as much-needed refuges from the pretense of cities.
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Can you provide a link to where that form is located? Will need to inspect the element and see which CSS code is applied to it. Alternatively, you can also do this using your browser’s Developer Tools.
Yes, that’s what I suspected, though it shouldn’t be affecting pages since by default pages don’t have categories. Have you by any chances added category to pages? If yes, can you check to see if the static front page is sharing the same category as the slider?
These can all be achieved with a little additional CSS for
margin,padding, andfont-size. You’ll need to identify the element’s selector to modify, which you can use the “Developer Tools” already built into most browsers these days. See this post for a good tutorial on this:As an example, for number 1, you can use this code to decrease the spacing between the list elements in the widget:
.sidebar ul li { padding: 4px 0; }These codes are specific to which element you’d like to adjust. There’s literally thousands of them so it’s important that you learn how to do this yourself, as we can’t provide the CSS code for every changes.
Yes Syahir is was a static page, and is still coded as that in Settings – Reading. Here’s a link from Internet Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20171020200634/https://www.aboutthemshoes.co.uk/. The picture is part of the slider. You may recall the site as I had an issue with the 5 widgets at the foot of the page.
Can you share the current slider settings for the site? Is it showing content from selected category? If yes, is the option “Exclude the categories from posts listing” enabled?
On a slightly separate note .. I know that there has been a lot of discussion on version 2 and the changes included. I use the theme on several sites and on a couple I wish to retain the last version 1. Can I suggest a checkbox in Graphene options to prevent the checks for updates to the theme. This would help stop me accidentally updating the theme to v2 on the sites I wish version 1 to be retained.
You can use plugins such as Easy Updates Manager to selectively disable update check for themes and plugins.
You can remove the account for now. I should be able to troubleshoot the Live Preview issue from here. Thanks!
Thanks, Gendji. The issue was caused by Page Builder setting “Use Legacy Layout Engine”. It’s now set to “Detect older browsers”.
Please confirm the issue is resolved.
How was the home page displayed previously? Was it a static front page?
Q1. My site title is centered in the middle of the header image and looks fine. However, I was wondering if it were possible to left justify it and if so, how?
Copy and paste the following code into Additional CSS section in the Customizer:
.header_title, .header_desc { text-align: left; padding-left: 15px; }In the future, we might add this as an option as quite a few users have asked about it in this forum.
Q2. I recently updated the theme to 2.2 which unfortunately messed up my fonts, colors and spacing. It’s taken me 4 days (don’t laugh) to put things back the way I like them. Now there’s version 2.3 to update to, but I don’t want to make the same mistake twice. All my customization is done through the GUI. I have not edited any underlying code, so I was wondering how I can protect my customizations and still upgrade? Is a child theme the answer and if so, how would you create one from a (customized) parent?
The big changes occurred moving from Graphene 1.* to Graphene 2.*, due to the changes that we had to make to the theme to make it relevant with today’s web technologies. In order to bring features like responsive layout, we had to dismantle the old CSS framework used in the theme and replace it with a modern one.
This caused some issues for the theme’s users, particularly those who had customized the theme heavily by using custom CSS or child theme. In fact, that was the reason we held out for so long before introducing responsive layout into Graphene – we knew we couldn’t make it without disrupting some portions of the theme’s users.
It’s now 2018, and users of the old Graphene were getting more and more disadvantaged due to the fact that the theme was stuck in the old framework. For example, Google had started penalising search ranking of websites that are not responsive back in 2015. Smartphones are causing images and icons in Graphene to look blurry. These issues and many others could not be easily solved with old technology.
So we made the decision that we had to move on. If it’s any consolation, it might took you 4 days to adjust your site again after the update, but it took us half a year to bring you a modernised Graphene with tools and features that eliminates the disadvantages that the old Graphene had.
Moving forward, future updates of the theme will not be anywhere nearly so disruptive since the major structural changes had already completed moving from 1.9.4.3 to 2.0. Therefore, you can continue making changes via the WordPress GUI as long as those are sufficient for your needs. If you run into any problem, you can always come here for support.
In reply to: Removing or changing the text "In this section" on the sidebar
February 22, 2018 at 9:18 pm #49134The first code didn’t work. I pasted it in the Extra CSS at the bottom of the live-preview admin page. I get a bunch of errorrs.
The first code should be placed in a child theme’s
functions.phpfile as it is a PHP code, not CSS code. We’ll add an option to customise the text in the next theme update.You can use the contact form here:
