I must have used the layout builder when I added a Call To Action in Promo Box. I didn’t know that would make the title and image disappear. I can add them manually then or try to save it while the default editor is active if that will allow me to keep the promo box. Thanks for the response!

Thanks Yigit. That makes sense. I will try your method a little later today and let you know.
Appreciate your quick response and support.

Scott

this did not solve the issue either –
https://kriesi.at/support/topic/padding-layer-slider/

Here you go – I put the image in my media file online

http://laninlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/nyforeclosurelawyer-layerslider-screenshot-10-25-16.png

http://laninlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/nyforeclosurelawyer-layerslider-screenshot-w-explanation10-25-16.png

Please let me know if there is a way to remove the extra space above the slider.
Thanks!

Scott

problem solved!
it was not necessary to edit the functions.php file
all I needed to do was update the theme from the wordpress dashboard using the theme options menu
it was actually very simple
it appears that godaddy updated my managed wordpress software and the new software interfered with the function of the acordian slider
once I updated the theme to 3.5.2 and reloaded the home page, my acordian slider worked again

thanks!
Scott

Hi Elliot,

Thanks. I am concerned that updating might cause new problems. Is it safe to update?
I mean is the new version out of beta mode and fully tested to be compatible with wordpress?

Also – do you know if the older version could be the cause of the mega menu display issue?
Did the new version address anything to do with the mega menu?

Regards,
Scott

I tried different CSS codes that I saw offered on your site to resolve this issue but none helped. Maybe they need to be customized for the particular mega menu. I’m not sure.

The problem seems to be limited to certain displays. It only occured so far on a laptop with a 14″ screen. Not on a wide screen display. On the laptop the problem went away when I zoomed in to a 110% display but that workaround is not really good since I can’t expect viewers to do that.

Then I figured that I had added two plug ins yesterday. One was to add meta tags and the other was to allow me to choose which pages widgets display on. I just removed both of them and the problem seems to have gone away now. The mega menu is behaving normally on the 14″ laptop display. I am wondering if a plugin for widgets or meta tags could interfere with a mega menu. Thanks!

Thanks Basilis. I wasn’t looking to complicate things. Just wondered if there was any built-in function that would allow a top level menu image.

Scott

I have a workaround for this where I just made the menu titles shorter, which created more space on the left for the logo. Not my first choice but it works. I’d still like to know why the logo might overlap the menu on some displays but not others. Thanks.

I just found the answer – https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-a-the-color-of-a-single-menu-title

using View Source to locate the title ID number
but it also changes the color of subtitles
so next question – is there a way to change only the first level title color without changing anything else?

Thanks

I just found this which suggests that a link to an external site is not possible with the magazine element – but I am curious if anyone has figured a workaround –

https://kriesi.at/support/topic/have-posts-linked-directly-to-url-in-magazine-layout/

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Thanks Yigit. That did it! I am wondering if there is some additional code I can add so that the border will not be so long – to make the height of the left border only a little bigger than the height of the font used in the main menu – so that the vertical dividing line will not run from the top to the bottom of each cell, but instead will be shorter and centered vertically relative to the words in the menu.

I read online that to show the description in the main menu requires the Walker function coding – I thought turning on Descriptions in the menus screen options would be enough in Enfold but maybe that is not the case?

Thanks so much Josue for taking the time. I appreciate your effort. One of the things that always concerns me about editing the code in certain pages is that it may be lost or overwritten when the theme or wordpress is updated and I won’t remember what I did previously to change the page manually. I prefer not to do any hacking.

I actually tried Arvish’s suggestion to turn off active autorotation and that may serve my purposes. It will keep the images all the same width when the page loads – that allows a user to see the text overlay for each image at once – I like that because each image corresponds to a practice area for my law firm and I want visitors to see all of them. However, using the accordian also will allow a visitor to select one image (one of our law practice areas), have the image expand with a hover, or have the image link to more info on a separate page, if they choose. This is probably the easiest solution because it will allow me to configure this from within the dashboard without code changes that may be overwritten later. I don’t have the same concern about adding CSS code to the theme options general styling because that shows the changes in one location that is easy to just copy and reuse if I were to do an update.

For now, I am trying to develop the site using Enfold and am building it in Microsoft Webmatrix on my local drive so I don’t have anything to show you yet.

Regards,
Scott

• This reply was modified 10 years, 1 month ago by scottlanin.