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Sorry, but I’m so disappointed and frustrated. I’m not getting how the ALB is easy to customized. Or how anyone with even a mediocre knowledge of WP will be happy with the options provided by this theme. It is completely different experience than dozens of other themes I’ve bought and sacrifices even the finest bit of customization to fit in your limited number of options. The marketing copy you have on theme forest is very misleading.
Here are some very basic things I wanted:
1. Add a double line (border) to “special header” instead of the single line
2. Add a semi-transparent background around a three-column layout.
3. Add some styling to a text frame – a shadow.If I use the ALB – I’m stuck with the options you give. Switching from the ALB to the default editor – I lose my work.
What advantage is the ALB if I lose my work whenever I try to look at the code. I can layout a page from scratch in half the time – IF I have examples from the theme developer. Usually I take an example (demo) page and look at the source code – then copy and paste to match my needs.
But when I look at a sample demo page from Enfold – all I see is the ALB. If I switch to Text view – blank page.
Without samples – I have to start from scratch (which I tried but found conflicts with the css styles from the theme.)
Do you have any of the THEME STYLES available without using the ALB? Why can’t I use the ALB to add the basic layout and then switch into text editor to style the content. ??This theme was sold on how EASY it is. But now I’m stuck building everything from scratch with no example pages. Big disappointment. Sorry.
So frustrated. This is not at all
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Thank you for visiting the support forum and I’m sorry if you’re having a hard time using the theme. If you want to customize something on the theme and you found no options to do it, you’re free to search the forum or post an inquiry yourself. Anyway, regarding the customization, I already answered number 1 on your previous post.
1.) https://kriesi.at/support/topic/a-double-line-for-special-heading-instead-of-single-line/
2.) If you want a transparent background on a three column layout, kindly insert a color section then add an id to it using the For Developers: Section ID field. Let’s put “transparent-background” for example. Now, insert 3 1/3 column layouts. Add this on Quick CSS or custom.css to create a transparent columns:
#transparent-background .flex_column.av_one_third { background-color: rgba(255,255,255,.5); padding: 10px 10px; }3.) When you say text frame, I assume you mean the text block. Note that you can add html tags on the text block. Create a container or div then apply a box-shadow property on it. If you can provide a screenshot of what you’re trying to do, we’ll be happy to help.
Thank you.
Best regards,
IsmaelDear Ismael:
I really appreciate your help and I’m sorry to be so much trouble. I do understand that you get tons of requests for everything under the sun from users. I always hate to ask for help until I’ve spent a couple hours trying to figure it out myself. But by that time I am usually a little exasperated – which comes through in my posts – sorry. On the other hand, scores of times – as soon as I post for help; I figure it out. LOL
I think I’m beginning to understand customizing using the Developer’s Section ID field. That’s pretty foreign to me – but only fair if the theme works that way. I’m so used to using the source code rather than input fields. But hey, like I said only fair.
Thanks for the help with the customizations. It is very nice and helpful that you post the code for us.
JUST ONE LAST THING.
Am I correct that I can’t switch between the ALB and the WP Visual/Text area without losing my code? I read here that the ALB stores input in a different directory than WP – so I guess you would lose code switching back and forth.
### If that is the case, then I will not use the ALB. If I don’t use the ALB – does that mean none of the Demo pages will show me example code? ###
Can you see where that leaves me kind of stuck using the ALB? Which, for many users, is like working in the dark.
Seems like a radical departure from the dozens of themes I’ve bought from theme forest for the last decade and I’m surprised there was no clue about this in the marketing materials.
It is too bad because I really like being able to drag things around. That is definitely easier than the regular way. :)
Please let me know about example pages not using the ALB.
thanks again
Hey!
If you want to see the code ALB generates you can activate this, a textarea will appear below the Layout Builder.
Regards,
JosueHey!
In one of your previous topics you actually found exactly what you need to see the code that the drag and drop editor creates: http://kriesi.at/documentation/enfold/enable-advanced-layout-builder-debug/ (https://kriesi.at/support/topic/disable-avia-layout-builder-2/#post-299512)
You of course can also always use the shortcodes manually but it isn’t needed.
If you have not already watch this video which is a basic overview of using the drag and drop editor to create a page: https://vimeo.com/channels/aviathemes/64927358
As for switching back and forth you are correct. The data is stored in a different field to where the regular visual editor content is stored. Its the same as storing meta data and pretty standard for drag and drop editors to do these days.
If you want to work purely with shortcodes you still can. You can even use a combination of the drag and drop editor and raw code by using the code element in your ALB layouts so that you can work with html+css and the shortcodes together.
Every single page is available as pure shortcodes if you enable the debug mode though editing that field to add in html or plain text isn’t advised. Instead add a code element anywhere you want to work with raw code. Add a text element if its simply shortcodes or text/headings.
For everything else you can use classes on elements and a bit of css to handle customization like you would when doing every day WordPress customization.
Regards,
Devin
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