Hi Mike,

Many thanks for the explanations and fixes – I’m getting my head around it, albeit a bit slowly! Thanks for your patience!

It’s working as I wanted, now, so that’s great. As I said before, there’s a lot of options in Enfold and you have to experiment a bit to find out how they work together. My main puzzlement was over the mini preview images attached to the links in the sidebar – but only on the main blog page; once you were reading a post itself the sidebar links didn’t show the mini preview image. That got me well confused!

I can wrap my head around a bit of CSS, the main problem is identifying the right selectors to be working with. I try and use the developer/inspect panels on the browsers – but I still struggle, there’s so much in there!

Anyway, job done for the timebeing, appreciate your help.

Hugh

Hi Mike,

Thanks for reporting back on the issues Ref. the ‘threefold’ reasons….

1. Agreed, that was the selected option – single post with small preview (featured) image.

2. Re. the div.blog-meta {display:none; }….. you gave me some CSS code on 18th March to hide the thumbnails in the sidebar. I can’t recall adding any blog-meta hide….I wouldn’t have known how to!! (although maybe I picked it up here…. https://kriesi.at/documentation/enfold/blog-post/#change-archive-categorytag-blog-style ….which I was advised to look at by Ismael)

3. Again, that custom function may have been added via advice taken from the documentation. Although I can’t honestly remember doing that. (it’s hard to log every move and keystroke!)

Unfortunately your pointers don’t quite resolve all my issues.

A. The micro preview images on the sidebar links are still showing. As I said earlier in the thread (18th March), I don’t want these ON THE LINKS. But I do want the featured image in the post.

B. When I have no featured image for a post…..why is a grey placeholder image inserted? No featured image means I don’t want an image….any image! The grey placeholder is ugly.

C. Can the featured image in the post be aligned left (with the body of the text), and with a bit more white space between it and the post title? Probably jusst some simple CSS, but not sure what the selector is.

The main thing is NOIT to have little square preview images (meaninglessly small) on the sidebar links.

Thanks
Hugh

Mike,
I’ll set up a login for you shortly – will advise as follow up in this thread.

* Correct, I don’t want to show newsbox widget thumbnails. I’ve applied your CSS fix and that works nicely. But all the same I’d like to know HOW this works and WHY thumbnails were only showing on the blog page (News Stuff) and not on a post . Each have similar sidebars, so …..??

* Single posts – yes, I want featured images to show. Or at least I want to know why they are not showing when I’ve specifically chosen for them to show in the post admin! So rather than just a CSS fix or whatever, an explanation of WHY is more important – then I can handle it better as the blog section gets more intensive.

* Version – yes, just notified by Theme Forest yesterday, I’ll update as soon as I have a moment!

regards
Hugh

Mike,

I should add that, separately to what’s going on in the sidebar, featured images are not displaying WITHIN posts.

If I go to the admin for any post where I use a featured image, towards the bottom of the right column is an option…”Featured Image. Select to display featured image for a single post entry.” – I have selected the option “Show on single entry”.

However, no featured images are displayed in any of the posts.

??

Hugh

Yes, thanks, I was aware of the Latest Posts widget.
But what I’m asking is why ithe latest post links display differently in different views:

A. View the main blog page (News Stuff) – in the sidebar each latest post link has a small thumbnail pic (if the post uses a featured image)

B. Click on a link to view the full post – sidebar links of Latest Posts no longer display any thumbnail.

Why? Why (and where was it set up) do thumbnails display only on the blog front page (News Stuff) ? This behaviour is not controlled by the Misc > Widget Links in Advanced Styling.

See link below for example

• This reply was modified 4 months, 1 week ago by dowlassmoss.
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Hi Rikard,
Checking the Enfold admin it looks like ‘News Stuff’ is the selected page for the blog.
So you’re saying if that is selected as the blog page it will impose a template that overrides any customisation I might do to the page?
That’s fine, I just didn’t know what would happen when I select the page for the blog in the Enfold options – it doesn’t say “don’t try and customise you page”…!!
regards
Hugh

Hi Mike,
No, I’m testing using my mobile not shrinking the desktop browser!
I’m sure it’s displaying ‘correctly’…it’s just not displaying sensibly. The red boxes completely overwhelm the header and slider, occupying 75% of screen estate in your image, which is silly for a couple of small messages.
I will try the duplicate grid row method, – glad to hear you confirm it should work. CSS is all very well, but I’m going to end up with loads of additional code which I don’t fully comprehend…and somewhere down the road may not even remember where in the admin I put it and what it’s fixing! The duplicate grid row approach is administratively a bit easier for me, and I can redesign the message boxes a little.
Will let you know how it goes.

regards
Hugh

Thanks! That was a painless fix!

With the buttons gone I still can’t get the positioning of the ‘caption’ quite where I’d like it. Although the selected caption position is ‘bottom without frame’, the caption sits too high up in the image window in the mobile view (the desktop view is fine).

Should I be using a more full-featured slider to get finer control of positioning?

cheers
Hugh