Blog page questions

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 Ismael,

OK, got you there – thanks for that tip. (there’s an awful lot of options in Enfold so it can be tricky to understand what needs switching on or off!)

One other thing…..
On my page the blog shows a list of article excerpts, and in the right column the latest posts etc. The latest posts have a small square image in front of the title, presumably a micro-thumbnail of the post’s featured image.
When you click to go to an individual post, the right sidebar is still there with its list of latest posts, but without any micro-thumbnails. ?? Why is that?

To be honest, the micro-thumbnails are way too small to be meaningful – the plain text link is perfectly adequate. So how do I get rid of the micro-thuimbnails on the main blog page? (and why are they there, anyway?)

Finally, how do I style those ‘latest post’ links in the right sidebar? By default (according to the Enfold colour scheme), all links on the site should be coloured red. These links are not coloured. Why?

regards
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 8 months, 1 week ago by dowlassmoss.
• This reply was modified 8 months, 1 week ago by dowlassmoss.

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your reply.

Ref.the no-news-thumb class, you say…”which is typically added when the featured image has been disabled on the post..” Featured images are ‘disabled’ by default – you have to enable a featured image if you want one, that’s a standard WordPress admin procedure.

You also say…”I see on your posts the featured image and blog-meta is hidden…” I can’t say why this is, either. I don’t think I’ve deliberately hidden featured images, although I may have selected a blog layout option which hides blog-meta? (what is blog-meta and is it the same as post-meta..?)

As you say, there are many different combinations of settings that could bve used and, not to be disparaging, that can make Enfold frustrating to use! I’ve posted you a link to my blog layout settings, perhaps you can see something there? Otherwise suggest me where else I might be looking for a setting.

Thanks
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

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