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Hello,
It sounds like the next logical step for you is to now setup a CDN and use a plugin like W3 Total Cache. Are you familiar with these concepts? W3 Total Cache is how you’d go about compressing all of the assets. And using a CDN service is how to reduce load times of images by dispersing them to different servers around the world (popular example of a service is Amazon S3).
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/
It’s an important when making a WordPress theme for public distribution that these kinds things like caching, merging of CSS and JS files, etc, are not done for you. These are things you need to control from your WordPress site as you see fit in conjunction with whatever theme you’re using and plugins you’re using.
I already cheat a little bit on this by minifying many of the assets for you in the theme. I justify this by educating people to make all of their edits to these things from a Child theme.
And also to the point about the videos being in iframes, that’s not something you can change, as this is how all the popular services like YouTube and Vimeo are doing it now. The act of embedding these videos specifically is handled interally within WordPress’s oembed system.
Hello,
So have you done this in your footer by using the mini post list widget in a floating widget area?
This widget just uses WordPress’s get_posts to grab the posts, so I don’t think this will adhere to WPML’s current query of the posts based on the current language. But honestly I do not know the answer to that for sure. You may want to ask them.
The good news here (I think anyway) is that our theme’s widget allows you to put in a custom query string to feed through to the posts. And WPML provides a good tutorial to show how you can display different widgets based on the current language. — So possibly you could have an instance of the Mini Post List widget for each language?
But what to put in the custom query to pull posts from a specific language only for WPML? — I don’t know the answer to that, unfortunately. That’s something you may want to ask the WPML support staff.
Yup, that’s how it works. See this article:
http://dev.themeblvd.com/tutorial/saving-theme-options-and-switching-themes/
See the last section of the article for quick fix.
Hello,
Nope, you’re right. There’s no way setup in the theme to do that. You’ll need to hook in your own custom content where relevant from your Child theme.
Checkout the actions map for the framework:
http://dev.themeblvd.com/tutorial/primary-framework-action-hooks/
By the way I may have misunderstood what you were asking when you said the “navigation labels”? — Are you talking about the titles of the widget in the sidebar? I didn’t catch anything else with the text you referenced.
Hello,
Maybe if you play with your HTML markup in the text widget body itself you could have some more control there.
So, when configuring that text widget, leave the title blank and try playing around with adding the title to the widget’s content.
Maybe you could try something like this:
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In this theme you need to be careful with what you’re putting into header tags because we have the fancy shade class that gets inserted to all headers to give them that unique gradient look over your text.
Hello,
Welcome to our new support forums. 🙂
I don’t generally provide customizations, but this is such a common question, I want to make sure this answer is here for you and everyone else.
So, from your Custom CSS, whether in your Theme Options page or in your Child theme’s custom.css, I think something like this should do the trick.
.element-slider .slide .image-link, .element-slider .slide .image-link:hover { background-color: #fff; /* Triggers the anchor in IE */ background-image: none; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; filter: alpha(opacity=0); -moz-opacity: 0; -khtml-opacity: 0; opacity: 0; }So, why not just have the theme setup like this in the first place?
The design of the image link element not covering the whole slide is something I do in most of my themes that use this same framework. The reason is because there are so many possible scenarios a slide could be setup with. Having the “image link” as an icon in the corner makes it so everything flows together.
For example, if the you were to select to show a description and a button over the slide, but also selected to show an image link, now you’d have a clickable element on top of a clickable element.
Just curious, isn’t .header-shade used in the theme for something? Will this affect any styling in Alyeska?
Yup, the theme adds the class to all headers so that they can have a fancy little shade to them. If you wanted to target the header-shade class within whatever specific element of the jetpack plugin, then you could do that as well.
.whatever .header-shade { display:none !important; }The theme’s CSS style box size is kinda small to work with, especially if you include comments. Maybe make it taller and wider in the future.
If you’re making enough CSS edits to where this is relevant, you should have a Child theme setup and make your CSS customizations there.
See this video: http://vimeo.com/41331677
Try just putting this in your Custom CSS option on your Theme Options page:
.header-shade { display:none; }There’s not going to be any way to insert and be done with it, but possibly you could try just hooking WordPress’s search function to the theme’s action present there to get you started. This would go in your Child theme’s functions.php, for example.
add_action( 'themeblvd_header_menu_addon', 'get_search_form' );Resource: http://dev.themeblvd.com/tutorial/primary-framework-action-hooks/
From there, you’d need to make CSS customizations I’m sure to get it looking and placed exactly where you want. —
For CSS changes, it’s a good idea to use a tool like firebug or Google Chrome’s built-in developer tools to locate them and then put the edits either in your child theme or in the “Custom CSS” option on your theme options page.
Also, here’s a helpful tutorial on how to use Firebug – http://vimeo.com/20917974. The only thing I’d suggest not doing is actually making edits to the theme’s CSS files, as it shows at the end of that video. However, the video serves as a good introduction to Firebug and how it can be used to find what CSS is effecting certain areas of your site without ever digging around in any files.
Hello,
Is there any discount for purchasing multiple theme licenses?
No, apologies, but all theme licensing and pricing is handled through Envato (i.e. ThemeForest). I think that they don’t generally offer stuff like this because they price everything so cheap. Also, they’re not really setup to do “bundle” type of pricing structures that other online WordPress theme retailers do.
And even when they do occasionally offer those giant bundle so of products, they don’t have those setup in a way where you receive actual licenses for the items in the bundles.
Nice work on the new forum! would be great if you could somehow copy all the comments from TF.net somehow.
Yeah, I wish!
I’ve been doing this for several years now and I have certain terms and a certain system that I apply to everyone. When I tell you that I don’t customizations, I’m truly not trying to sell you anything. I just don’t do customizations or any kind of freelance work, paid or unpaid, for anyone. It’s just not part of my business.
This is honestly not a topic that comes up very often with any theme. I don’t believe most people ar actually using the logo that came with the theme in their finished products. It’s more of a placeholder for you to put in your own brand.
And I apologize, but I’ve always kepy a strict policy that theme support does not include customizations. It’s not that I’m trying to be a jerk or be “unprofessional” but it’s a very slippery slope.
