Hi there,
This is happening because the Jetpack plugin on your site is not properly connected to WordPress.com.
That theme relies on the Jetpack plugin and therefore you need to disconnect and reconnect it again by following these instructions:
https://jetpack.com/support/reconnecting-reinstalling-jetpack/
Thanks Fotis. Yes, Jetpack self-disabled/disconnected yesterday (don’t understand what would prompt that) which led to all of this. Now I am fighting to set it back up – It either asks me to login with my Google account or WordPress.com site login, and when I attempt to go with google it says “An account with this email address already exists. Please log in using your WordPress.com email and password”. And the wordpress.com window just takes me to my Reader dashboard and the My Sites dashboard says I don’t have a site. Should I just delete plugin and reinstall? Setting up Jetpack again should be so hard? Not sure why it is not finding my account.
Hi Fotis – After many repeated attempts it connected to the WP + Bluehost account option and my slideshow is back. Thank you flagging the source of the issue.
I have a few more questions:
1. Post Excerpts: I am currently using a Plugin-In in order to provide a Post excerpt view since this theme only appears to provide the full view of a post. Is there a way to achieve this via CSS without plugin?
2. Live Links: How can I remove the line from the live links? And format colour?
3. Category Dropdowns, Homepage: Can you have a look at my dropdown set-up which I achieved by linking the categories and advise me whether there is a cleaner way to display the dorpdown sections? At the moment, my set-up leaves the main content page empty ex: “GO! Travel”
4. Post Headlines: How can I make a universal update to the font type (want to change it to cambria also) and colour of my post headlines? Would like that they are all in consistent format without manual colour change updates.
Thank you!
Hi,
1. I wouldn’t recommend trying to do this with CSS, since CSS only changes how the site looks but not the stuff that appears on your page.
2. Use this CSS, and change the color:
a {
color: #2590ec;
text-decoration: none;
}
3. Do you want to make the top links unclickable? If so, use a custom link, and set the address to just ‘#’
4. There are a few different ways to go about that, plus some design / performance issues to take into consideration. I’d recommend working with a designer on that or researching it since it can be a bit more complex. Or, you can start by using a fonts plugin to manage font families and what not.
1. Post Excerpts: Okay. Is there an alternate solution related to a “more-read” function? Are you familiar? Assuming it is a simple solution. (My plugin works exactly as intended but I’m hoping to reduce dependency on plugins for every roadblock!)
2. Live Link: Thank you! This worked exactly as I’d hoped.
3. Category Dropdowns, Homepage: That could work, yes! Will look into how to do this, thank you.
4. Post Headlines: Interesting. Re: design/performance, does that hold true for changing the font family across other parts of the website or specifically for the post entry headers? I ask because I implemented other font family changes previously such as:
.entry-content, .navigation {
font-family: cambria,Helvetica,sans-serif;
}
h2.entry-title, h2.entry-title a {
font-size: 26px;
font-weight: 500;
text-transform: none !important;
letter-spacing: 0.05em;
font-family: cambria,Helvetica,sans-serif;
}
5. Feature Image Size on Homepage: New one: How can I reduce the size of the feature image of the homepage posts? (The featured trio posts inherit a small neat size but the regular homepage posts are quite huge!)
1. Post Excerpts: Okay. Is there an alternate solution related to a “more-read” function?
Yes, there is a default block in the new WordPress block editor that allows you to “drop in” a continue reading link anywhere in the text you like: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/article/more-block/
Post Headlines: Interesting. Re: design/performance, does that hold true for changing the font family across other parts of the website or specifically for the post entry headers? I ask because I implemented other font family changes previously such as:
I believe that @supernovia was referring to using “system fonts” instead of “web fonts” as system fonts. I.E. specifying a font that visitors already have installed on their computer vs. a custom font the site needs to somehow “load” so that visitors can see it.
Cambria and Helvetica are common fonts most people have installed so those do not usually lead to performance issues. Here is a good article on the subject: https://www.machmetrics.com/speed-blog/web-font-performance-how-your-fonts-affect-page-speed/
5. Feature Image Size on Homepage: New one: How can I reduce the size of the feature image of the homepage posts? (The featured trio posts inherit a small neat size but the regular homepage posts are quite huge!)
You could try the following CSS, I chose 50% width at random but you can edit the code to make it 40%, 70%,etc. Basically whatever you want.
.site-main .featured-image {
width: 50%;
}
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Thanks, Jerry for the response.
Thank you for clarifying #5 regarding feature size. The recommended code works well.
The only outstanding question is what css code can I use to change the headliner font in my post. I understand that, for my basic needs, I should use a system / web safe font such as Helvetica (Jerry, that article was a helpful send) however I am not sure what CSS code to input.
Ah, I don’t have Cambria on my system.
But if you’re planning to use system fonts, something like this should get the headers and the site title and tagline:
.site-title, #tagline p, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
font-family: Cambria, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
Be sure to specify backup fonts: the system should choose the first font you list, if it has it, then try the second, etc.
Also if you want to look for more places to change the font, I’d recommend viewing your CSS and searching for font-family — you can copy and paste that into your Additional CSS, and modify it as needed.
Thank you for the tip on reviewing CSS to ensure universal consistency 🙂
The CSS for the font family worked so I am all set!
Sorry, I have a follow-up related to my homepage slideshow. I just noticed that on the mobile version only, the post title gets cut off. Is there a way to fix this so that the entire post headline shows on mobile view of slideshow? That’s where most traffic views the blog.
Hmm, that title is pretty long.
Please understand these kinds of CSS changes are outside the scope of support we can offer, since the fixes may cause other issues, and will need to be carefully considered.
I’d recommend hiring a designer. There are lots of helpful ones in the community.
Or, you can make the titles shorter.
Or, you can experiment with Inspect Element. You’d be looking for overflow and wrap, possibly whitespace settings too. And unsetting them. And then you would need to apply that and test it out on the site.
Agreed – a more concise verbiage is needed.
Thank you for all of your help! This has been an interesting discovery process (appreciate reminder that things can break since that hasn’t been top of mind as you prob already suspected). All set – for real this time!
