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If you want to apply a parent theme settings to a child theme:
- 1. Activate the child theme
- 2. With the child theme active, navigate to the theme options > Import/Export tab. Now use the Import Parent Theme Settings button.
Your changes won’t be lost if you’re using a child theme. You can download one here – http://kriesi.at/documentation/enfold/downloads/
The mods have also made a video tutorial available explaining child themes.- http://kriesi.at/documentation/enfold/videos/
The theme options allow you to set up a footer widget area with up to 5 columns, and a socket below that.
Another way to approach it would be to use the ALB, design the segment you want, and save it as an ALB template, then deploy the template on every page you build. It makes it a little less manual that some other themes, more manual than others. Downsides I’ve experienced with this approach are that full width coloured sections at the bottom of the ALB pages prevents some of the other functionality working properly. So for example if the parent/child automatic sub-navigation breaks, and the ALB blog post seems erratic to say the least. I’ve got a couple of open threads at the moment seeking ways around this.
In your WordPress admin area, go to the Appearance > Widgets page. Check that there are no widgets in the Displayed Everywhere sidebar.
Changes to functions.php in a parent theme will typically be overwritten (lost) when you update your theme. To avoid this, you should set up a child-theme and make changes to that instead of the parent theme. You can download a ready-made child theme here – http://kriesi.at/documentation/enfold/downloads/
The mods have also made a video available on this page – http://kriesi.at/documentation/enfold/videos/
Once you’re working with a child theme, in the admin area select Appearance > Editor, then click on Theme Functions (functions.php).
Dropping code into your functions.php has the potential to take your whole site offline. If that happens you’ll almost certainly need to have file access in order to resolve the problem. If you’re not familiar with using functions.php please ensure your site is fully backed up beforehand, and if at all possible test this out on a Staging/test site.
You can add your Google analytics tracking code into the field on the theme options page. You’ll want to paste in the whole code that Google Analytics supplies for you, not just the ID. Alternatively I can recommend the Google Analytics by Yoast plugin. It’s free and will give you some useful options in relation to managing Google Analytics. Please note you should add the Google Analytics code to either the theme options or to the plugin, but not in both places.
I’m not sure what you’re asking with the other query. If your favicon uses the old website name, you should remove it via the theme settings, and add a new one.
In your theme settings, on the Sidebar Settings tab, you can toggle this feature on and off – Page Sidebar navigation.
When the feature is on, it automatically displays navigation for child pages. If there are pages you don’t want displayed there, remove the link to their parent page. If you want other pages displayed, link them to the parent.
In your WordPress Admin area, access the theme options, then select the Import/Export tab. Click the export theme settings file button.
OK thanks. I use Contact 7 quite a lot already.
The theme’s contact form is much nicer though. Is there a possibility you’ll add the option to hook up Akismet to it in the future? It seems a really fantastic contact form option other than that being missing.
Thanks for taking a look at this.
I have a default WebMatrix WordPress install that I upgraded to WP4.0 en_GB version. With only Enfold + Yoast versions noted above it’s not working. I don’t know where we go from here. There must be something different between my install and yours. I guess I’ll try it again with a default WebMatrix install not upgraded to en_GB, though it seems highly unlikely that’s the problem.
The site is local. Since I’m only using titles on the magazine element it doesn’t work at all due to the problem described above, and I won’t be making the site live until this is resolved or I switch themes.
For me, the Contact form element of the ALB in it’s default state does this. Inside the Contact form configuration screen, the element that captures the email address Form Element Label is ‘E-mail’, the Element Type is ‘Form Element: Text Input’ and the Form Element Validation is ‘Valid E-Mail address’. Why don’t you try with the default element, and if that’s not working, deactivate all plugins, check you’re on current versions of WordPress, the theme, etc.
This could also be down to how your email client interprets the information sent to it.
I’m also not able to get this to work. I can create CPTs and taxonomies but I can’t seem to influence the archive template in any way. I’m just looking to create an archive list of linked titles, with a dedicated sidebar for the archive, e.g.
Enfold has a lovely feature built in that allows you to copy settings from the parent to the child. Of course that isn’t going to find the theme file modifications. Given it takes less than 5 minutes to set up a child theme, and the developer failed to do so, I wonder if you really want to find out what they did and replicate it? You may have a more solid footing going forward if you replicate the design and functionality that is important to you without necessarily following what has gone before.
That said, you could obtain a clean copy of the same version number of the theme, and you could then use a diff tool to find differences in the files.
The mods may have a better method, and I’m sure one of them will be along soon…
Try adding a margin to your items (adjust the px number to suit)
#top .social_bookmarks li { margin-right: 40px; }My host advised me to leave my WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) entries as http:// and to just use Regex to force https://. I can’t find any compelling reasoning for or against this, but moving to https:// makes more sense to me, and has resolved the issue raised.
I believe the problem raised could be resolved by altering the theme code to call the images using a different method. This would hopefully prevent other users with sites on http:// that are forced to https:// experiencing the issue.
Since my site no longer displays this issue, I’ve removed the access information.
Please close this thread.
You don’t say how your Coming Soon setup was created. If you’re using a plugin there is a good chance the plugin is set to deliver a http status code informing search engines that your website is unavailable (a code more appropriate for a maintenance page). Read more about SEO and https status codes here – http://moz.com/learn/seo/http-status-codes
Name server/ DNS updates typically update within hours, sometimes depending on your precise settings they can take up to 48 hours.
You can use http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx to enter your website domain and check what records are available for it.
Have you set up a Google WebTools account, and submitted a sitemap? If you’re not familiar with sitemaps or SEO in general, I’d recommend installing Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin. It’s very popular, very good, and there is plenty of help documentation for it. It will also make it very easy for you get sitemaps setup for your website.
Please let me know when you’ve reviewed as I’d really like to remove the SSL from that section until a resolution can be found.
Thanks!
Thanks Arvish, it was more of a general question to the community. I have a separate thread about the actual issue which I believe Kriesi will take a look at when he has time. I don’t seem to have the option to close this thread, but perhaps you would for me?
Ah, the blue was a little too subtle on my screen! If you scroll up to the top of the thread, I added the info in the private post there (that one says ‘private data’ so I felt safer) :-)
Hi Kriesi, thanks for taking a look at this.
All my other SSL sites on wpengine run fine without the plugin so I’m not familiar with it and would prefer to play around with it locally and understand what it’s doing rather than let it near my live site ;-) I will sort access out now to allow you to investigate, and post again when the details are ready. If it’s not a quick fix I can drop that section of the site out of SSL and wait for the next release. My main issue with the broken padlock is that my typical customer isn’t very knowledgeable about them, and a broken padlock frightens them more than no padlock!
BTW, the theme is amazing, I was particularly happy to find such a great theme with a good focus on SEO and on formats and I’m hoping to start using it a lot.
Regards,
SandieView the forum (as opposed to one of the threads), and at the bottom of the page you’ll find a form to create a new topic.
My entire site is already forced to SSL via a Regex pattern. wpengine.com have reviewed the setup, and confirmed that it is correct. Please could you confirm that you have tested the ALB portfolio element on an SSL enabled site?
http://www.w3schools.com/ is a pretty helpful site
Opacity – http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_image_transparency.asp
Positioning – http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_positioning.asp
Hover – http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/sel_hover.asp
