bryanhiggs

The website is https://uucm.org/ – it’s live.

I added a Cloudflare page rule that I think will bypass caching for files in the protected folder.

It didn’t have any apparent effect. But I don’t know if there are any propagation time issues. I’m new to Cloudflare.

I have tried various changes to my caching plugin (disabling it; deleting the cache); no change.

I’ll have to check whether there’s a server-based cache.

We have checked the contents on the server using FileZilla and we see the updated file. It indeed is replaced. It’s just that we don’t get the updated file via WordPress.

Thank you for your response.

First, let me make it clear: I like the Blocksy theme a lot, and I appreciate the amount of effort that has gone into creating and maintaining it. My comments were intended to be constructive criticism (combined with my thought processes as I delved into trying to solve the issues I was having).

I understand the need to maintain the WordPress sidebar structure. As far as I am able to tell, the Content Aware Sidebars does not do what you say. I have compared the <div> structure from a Blocksy website that does not have the Content Aware Sidebars plugin with my current site, where I have the plugin installed, and causing the contents of the left sidebar to be displayed with a sidebar created through that plugin. See https://ibb.co/yccjgTgQ .

My first submission, to which you replied with a display of the <div> structure, did have an inserted <div>, which was my fault; I chose a Content Aware Sidebars plugin option which I have since removed.

I would love to use your Blocksy Pro sidebars extension. Unfortunately, I am working on this website on behalf of a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that has a very limited budget. I am trying to keep the costs down as much as possible. I believe I did determine that your extension has the capability of displaying different sidebars on posts with different categories, which is what I need. Thanks for the suggestion!

I have no problem with your decision to make the sidebar controls separate from the main controls. I understand the need for flexibility. What I do not understand is why the sidebar controls do not, by default, inherit from the main controls. I would have thought that would be the main use-case for many websites. Also, why the area of link rendering seems hard to find, and once I found it, it was hard to visualize what the links types would do (yes, I could see the changes in link rendering on the page, but it was subtle), and finding the link color for the sidebar was a little obscure. If the default could be made that sidebars inherit the same rendering as the main website, with the user option of making them different, it would have save me a lot of time going down an unnecessary rat-hole.

I saw your response to another forum post (https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/blog-sidebar-and-quote-blocks-are-not-underlining-the-hyperlinks/), which indicates that others are experiencing similar difficulties. I do not understand the relationship to HTML output from page builders, as I would have thought that whatever you do to render links in the rest of the website would be subject to similar restrictions. Why are sidebars different? In both cases, we don’t want to underline links that are buttons or icons.

Summing up, I have great respect for the creators of Blocksy. Please consider my comments as an attempt to provide constructive criticism, especially in the areas of making the Customizer clearer in certain areas, and perhaps making the default behavior easier for the simple case.

Thank you for listening.

Bryan

Thank you for your quick response.

I indeed am using a plugin, Content Aware Sidebars, and yes I had told it to insert that <div>.

So, now, I have temporarily disabled the Content Aware Sliders, and am using the Main Sidebar widget temporarily on that post. It now looks like this: https://viclaf.dreamhosters.com/center-ossipee-tax-aide-at-ossipee-public-library/

As you can see, the styling is there, except for the links. For comparison, here is what the Main Sidebar looks like in the Widgets area of the website (note the links are present):
https://ibb.co/LD16CwQs

So, can you tell me how to enable the links in the sidebar?

Once I’ve figured that out, then I can proceed to do what I need to do with Content Aware Sidebars.

Thanks!

Bryan

Thanks, Yann.

I grew tired of waiting for a response, and found an alternative solution.

I tweaked a SpeedyCache setting (turned on Mobile Override), and it magically fixed it!

Thanks!

Bryan

I’m sorry, but I can’t find anything related to changing the image in the header of the blog page in the pages you referred to. Could you please be more specific?

Thanks