That’s weird, I replied to this as well.. maybe my posts aren’t working from my phone.

The results were the same with elegant and business. With Grid it’s the two posts in a vertical line. With ALB there’s nothing there except a full-width slider (that doesn’t show in any of the other formats).

I tried with Large pic, and it stacks the picture above the text (rather than to the left where I want it).

I am SO out of ideas!

Thanks :)

Yes, tried all the different blog options – business, grid, big pic, ALB…

Tried disabling all of the plugins too.

Oh, I guess I don’t understand caching then! I thought that was it just getting stored on my browser for quicker access.

To folow your instructions if I have understood them correctly (add an element to a page using ALB) I added a post slider to http://www.normansrunningwild.com/index.php/destinations-2/

this shows up.

However if I add it to the blog page it doesn’t.

BUT – is this something to do with it being the ‘elegant’ layout (as Yigit suggested I use), as when I have it set to elegant, it doesn’t show any other elements I post on the page…

Brilliant! Thanks, picture great, side by side too so almost there…

What I need now is that instead of it posting the whole blog, it just posts whatever is entered into the custom Excerpt field on the blog post page…. and a read more button!

Thanks!

(you guys really are awesome)

• This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by vjward.

– oh, and sorry, but it still is showing the whole post not just an excerpt. I have it set to ‘Excerpt with read more link’ on the blog posts element…

Ok… you asked for it!

I tried to copy these changes over to the site I was originally wanting help with, and it’s all gone a bit pear-shaped!

http://www.normansrunningwild.com/index.php/blog-2/

Even though I have it set to show only excerpt and ‘read more’, I’m getting the whole text of the blog entry. And also… the image has gone strange and rectangular!

(also changed to elegant, single author small pic etc)

Ideas :/

This is the Quick CSS I have added

/* Blog layout */
.post_author_timeline {
display: none;
}

.small-preview {
width: 280px;
height: 280;
}

.html_elegant-blog #top .post-entry .post-title, .html_elegant-blog .avia-content-slider .slide-entry-title {
text-align: left;
}

.html_elegant-blog #top .post-entry .blog-categories {
text-align: left;
}

.page-id-913 .small-preview {
height: 100%;
}
.page-id-913 .blog-meta {
float: left!important;
width: 280px!important;
height: 280px!important;
}

.page-id-913 .small-preview img {
width: 100%;
}

Brilliant! That is *almost* there now… if you check back on my page

http://www.victoria-ward.com/news/

you’ll see I increased the size of the place I want the image from 180×180 to 280×280 because I want a larger picture there. However the picture doesn’t fill that space…

Any ideas?

here’s what I’ve got added to my quick styling so far…

/* Blog layout */
.post_author_timeline {
display: none;
}

.small-preview {
width: 280px;
height: 280;
}

.html_elegant-blog #top .post-entry .post-title, .html_elegant-blog .avia-content-slider .slide-entry-title {
text-align: left;
}

.html_elegant-blog #top .post-entry .blog-categories {
text-align: left;
}

.page-id-14 .small-preview {
height: 100%;
}
.page-id-14 .blog-meta {
float: left!important;
width: 280px!important;
height: 280px!important;
}

Hi!

No, not sorted unfortunately. That was just bodged together, a picture on the left and then some manually inputted text with a link to the individual blog page. So it has to be manually entered each time they post a blog…

We want a regular blog page that when a new entry is posted, it appears automatically like the screenshot above… is that possible?

All the options seem to bring the image above the excerpt, unless it’s a tiny thumbnail photo to the left.

Thanks

adding this to tick the email follow up box as I forgot

Excellent!! thank you so much for going to all the trouble of getting it back to how it was. What a star :)

V

Hi, thank you again. The header is still transparent white though… I see in the enfold settings that the header is set to black, and I’ve cleared my cache too, but it still shows as white transparent… any ideas?

Also, the lines are still there between the sections, which I had got rid of but can’t remember how. Thanks, I appreciate you taking the time to put this right again

v

I have replied in the private content box.

Also – I’ve tried it with the youtube embed link, and the normal you tube watch link, and neither come up in a pop up or autoplaying.

Also, when you looked at my site you have wiped my QuickCSS in the styling – and I don’t have a copy of that… the colours are all reset and the header transparency!!!

Hi. Nope, deactivated everything and it still opens out to fill the screen. (only got Mojo Market Place, JetPack, Akismet and Hello Dolly on, so not loads of plugins or anything)

I’ve left my login details, please feel free to look x

Also, if i used the You Tube link, I wouldn’t want people to be able to go to youtube to see it if they clicked on it, or there was a youtube logo, I just want it to play on the site… is that possible?