Problems with Blog

Hey Katrin,
1: Sorry for the confusion, the blog options check boxes are for the blog posts, to remove the date & categories from the blog grid I added this code in the General Styling > Quick CSS field:

.avia-content-slider .slide-meta {
    display: none !important; 
}

2: The reason this category is not showing the excerpt is because the posts have been created with the advanced layout builder, to show the excerpts please look for the drop down at the top of your posts screen “Screen Options” and check the Excerpts box, which will give you a text area below your post area to manually create your excerpts.

3: I found that the contact form didn’t have a email address filled in, so I tested with mine, yet it still didn’t work, so I tried testing the “Easy WP SMTP” plugin settings using the “Test email” option and received the error “SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.” Please check your mail login & password.

4: Sorry I couldn’t find any posts that suggest a facebook widget, I did find that the top reason for these widgets to not work is the country restrictions on the users Facebook page and privacy settings. Please keep this in mine as you test different plugins, and please share your findings.

5: To show the blog grid one post wide for mobile devices, I added this code in the General Styling > Quick CSS field:

@media only screen and (max-width: 767px) {
.responsive #top #wrap_all .slide-entry {
    width: 100% !important; 
    margin-left: 0% !important; 
}
}

Please clear your browser cache and check that these solutions are satisfactory.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
I believe this is true, because it is getting a error message on submit, so it’s not telling you that it was successfully sent.
We will keep this open until you can test with the correct SMTP details.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
1: I removed the date from the sidebar posts by adding “.news-time” class to your “display:none” rule in your Quick CSS.
2: I removed the top padding from the slide show for mobile height on the two pages & checked you other pages. This is what I added to your Quick CSS.

@media only screen and (max-width: 767px) { 
.html_header_transparency #top.page-id-3295 .slideshow_caption,.html_header_transparency #top.page-id-3302 .slideshow_caption {
    padding-top: 0px !important; 
}
}

3: when you say “optimize” the site for mobile devices, what other issues do you see?
4: for you your contact form not sending, I installed the plugin “WP Mail Logging Log” to try to catch any errors, but found none.
Sometimes a webhost uses anti-spam software that requires the correct “from” address for SMTP so I added a filter to your functions.php that has worked in the past, but didn’t seem to work this time.
Please ask your webhost if they see any errors in the error log, or if there are any other requirements for their smtp.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
I see the fallback image is showing, this is the correct action for videos on mobile.
You can see this setting in your slide show element under your video link.
Clicking on the image plays the video. The best action would be to change your image to include a video play button. The next best action would be to remove the fallback image, but that may leave a blank space on some devices, that won’t load the video.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
Your image is wider than high, and the mobile screen is the opposite. If you created an image that used the same ratio as the mobile screen it would be better.
Then we could use it css to force the background-image to contain:

@media only screen and (max-width: 767px) { 
#top.home .avia-slideshow-inner .av-mobile-fallback-image {
    background-size: contain !important; 
    background-repeat: no-repeat !important; 
}
}

Best regards,
Mike