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  • March 5, 2014 at 4:25 pm #232772
    Bedros

    Hi Friends, I am Bedros from ActiveDen / ThemeForest.
    Thanks for such a wonderful product.
    Firstly, thanks a lot for your precious time and support.
    I have a couple of questions below; please give your answers as “clean” as possible as my English lacks a little bit.Thank you very much and please forgive me about it.

    1-It seems when I use Advanced Layout Builder when customizing portfolio items, portfolioItem’s FEATURED IMAGE doesn’t show up on portfolioItem’s own page (I am not talking about the PAGE dedicated to Portfolio Grid here. I am talking about portfolioItem’s own individual page). PortfolioItem’s FEATURED IMAGE only shows up when default editor is used. Am I missing something here? (if it is the nature of the theme, it’s ok ; I just wanted to be sure that I am not doing anything wrong. I can of course use ADVANCED LAYOUT BUILDER.)
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    2-I’ve created some pages, each of them are including their own portfolioGrids.
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    I hope I was able to make it clear for you.
    Thanks very much for your patience.
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    3- What is the best way to display “related portfolio items” in each portfolioItem’s own page as the demo?
    Using ADVANCED LAYOUT BUILDER and place a “portfolio shortCode in each portfolioItem?
    Please also keep in mind that, when I use ADVANCED LAYOUT BUILDER, portfolioItem’s FeaturedImage doesn’t show up as I have stated in my first question.

    Thanks very much friends and I am grateful for your patience and precious time.
    Wish you the very best,
    Bedros

    • This topic was modified 10 years, 9 months ago by Bedros.
    March 7, 2014 at 5:58 pm #233884
    Yigit

    Hi Bedros!

    1- Yes, as you can use Avia Layout Builder for creating your portfolio items like creating any other page, featured image is not shown. You are not doing anything wrong.
    2- Which version of Enfold are you using? You can add following code to Quick CSS in Enfold theme options under Styling tab to remove the arrows globally

    #top .avia-post-nav { display: none; }

    3- You can add “Portfolio grid” or “Fullwidth Masonry” element to bottom of your portfolio items to display related portfolio items. Featured image does show on thumbnails as you shown in your first screenshot. If you are having any issues with it, please post the link to your website so we can take a look. Please note that we may need a temporary admin login as well.

    Regards,
    Yigit

    March 11, 2014 at 11:17 am #235381
    Bedros

    Thanks very much Yigit , for your answer ; I really appreciate your response.
    If you have any time, I also have some additional questions ; thanks a ton for your precious time and support.

    1- Is a SITEMAP.xml is a MUST for google to crawl all of my content? (portfolio items, posts, anything)?

    2- What is the best way to have a S I T E M A P.xml for all the POSTS and PORTFOLIO items, WITHOUT using a plugin.
    I really do not want to rely on plugIns for anything.

    You can see my site’s structure below, it will have a lot of content..:

    3-Do portfolio items harder to “catch / crawl” for the sitemap / google for the SEO purposes?
    Or they are just like the Blog posts.?

    And please let me know how should I implement the necessary actions to build a sitemap which includes both PORTFOLIO items and BLOG POSTS and rebuilds itself dynamically when I add any posts or portfolio items.

    Considering my website will have a lot of content, I don’t want to have a PHP code which will loop and construct the whole sitemap.xml from zero again and again , I just want a php script that adds ONLY the very last portfolio item or blog post to THE ALREADY EXISTING siteMap.XML

    I am using a child theme , so please let me know which functions I have to add to which php files.

    4– Would it be so hard to create a sitemap.XML file inside my PUBLIC_HTML folder and update it MANUALLY by hand each time when I create a blogPost , or Portfolio item? (as described here , I am talking about adding each of my new content MANUALLY by hand to the xml file as described there.)

    http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html

    5– update (2.6) issues Note: I am using a child theme.

    a) And friends, after the update (the latest, 2.6) I have almost all of previously configured CSS fineTunings lost. (for example, UL list style type:none settings, PAGES Widget’s current page CSS formatting, Widget font stylings, footer / socket border stylings etc. doesn’t work.) Have an idea? Maybe you erased the responsible css selectors within the new update? I don’t use anything fancy, (no plugins right now, I don’t even use a slider, and I just use the font Verdana)

    b) firefox doesn’t load the portfolios’ featured images at first, they only appear when I refresh the page once again.

    c) internet Explorer 8 has an issue with logo imageSize , logo looks weird. Retina Logo image doesn’t look like as it should be ; it should look the half size of its original , but it doesn’t shrink.
    And IE8 also has some CSS issues.

    6- Is there a way to cancel the animation (fade in, and movement into the place) of the each portfolio item’s featured image?

    Thanks for everything, I am really grateful, and again please forgive me for being an headache :) .
    Sorry if all this sounds a little naive, that’s just because I don’t know PHP.

    Kind Regards,
    Bedros

    • This reply was modified 10 years, 9 months ago by Bedros.
    March 12, 2014 at 8:43 am #236164
    Dude

    Hi!

    1) No, sitemap.xml is not a must. Smaller websites do not require a sitemap at all, large websites with a complex page hierarchy may profit from a sitemap. However it’s hard to determine an exact threshold and I’m pretty sure that every seo expert would give you a different answer. However on the other hand a sitemap.xml will not hurt your ranking – thus if you’re not sure about it it’s better to generate a sitemap.

    2) WordPress is a CMS system and it uses themes and plugins to extend the core features. I’m not aware of a script which allows you to generate a sitemap without a plugin. The only option would be to build the sitemap manually. Personally I suggest to use http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/ or http://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-plugin/ to build the sitemap. You can also deactivate the plugins after the generation. As soon as you add a new post/page, etc. activate the plugin again and hit the “regenerate sitemap” button to generate the sitemap for portfolio pages.

    3) No, especially http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/ supports custom post types like the “portfolio entries” and it will generate a proper sitemap.

    4) No, you can also maintain it manually. However I suggest to build the initial sitemap with a plugin because I’m not sure which structure/syntax the sitemap uses and Yoast SEO will take care of this.

    5) Please update to 2.6.1 and check if the update solves the issues. I’m pretty sure a) is fixed now, I’m not sure about b and c.

    6) Yes, open up enfold/js/avia.js and replace:

    
						setTimeout(function()
						{
							currentLink.animate({opacity:1},1500);
						}, (100 * i));

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currentLink.animate({opacity:1},100);

    Best regards,
    Peter

    March 12, 2014 at 8:49 am #236166
    Bedros

    Thanks very much Peter , I really appreciate your effort, support and precious time. Have a nice Day. I will update to 2.6.1 and let you know if the issues about CSS are still valid. Kind Regards,
    Bedros

    Edit:Should I change the JS file (to terminate the animation) each time when I update the theme, or should I place the JS file into the child theme with necessary update in place.?

    Thanks a ton, Peter, thanks very much.

    • This reply was modified 10 years, 9 months ago by Bedros.
    March 12, 2014 at 9:49 am #236192
    Dude

    Hey!

    You can’t overwrite the js file directly with the child theme. If you want to remove the default avia.js file and register a custom avia.js file insert this code at the very bottom of the child theme functions.php:

    
if(!is_admin()) add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'avia_register_child_frontend_scripts', 100);
function avia_register_child_frontend_scripts()
{
	$child_theme_url = get_stylesheet_directory_uri();
	wp_dequeue_script('avia-default');

	//register js
	wp_register_script( 'avia-default-child', $child_theme_url.'/js/avia.js', array('jquery'), 1, false);
	wp_enqueue_script( 'avia-default-child' );
}

    and then place the modified avia.js into your child theme (enfold-child/js/avia.js).

    Cheers!
    Peter

    March 12, 2014 at 9:56 am #236193
    Bedros

    Thanks very much, Peter ; wish you the very best.
    Kind Regards,
    Bedros

    Edit: Friends, is it OK to choose more than one category for a Portfolio İtem?
    Thanks very much

    • This reply was modified 10 years, 9 months ago by Bedros.
    March 13, 2014 at 8:05 am #236723
    Dude

    Hey!

    Yes, you can select multiple categories :)

    Best regards,
    Peter

    March 13, 2014 at 11:33 am #236814
    Bedros

    Thanks Peter :)

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