Mark Sund
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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Hello Elementor] Compatibilty with Gutenberg column margin ?After a bunch of reading and testing, here’s the theme.json file I came up with. It adds all the layout, sizing, spacing features of Gutenberg blocks, but keeps them neutral so to speak, no pre-sets, so they’re available for use. This is all that’s needed; this theme.json file goes in the theme’s folder…
{
“$schema”: “https://schemas.wp.org/trunk/theme.json”,
“version”: 2,
“settings”: {
“appearanceTools”: true,
“color”: { },
“layout”: { },
“spacing”: {
“blockGap”: true,
“units”: [“%”, “px”, “em”, “rem”, “vh”, “vw”]
},
“typography”: { },
“useRootPaddingAwareAlignments”: true
}
}Caveat: I’m not a theme developer, so this theme.json file seems to be working for our current website in need, but your mileage may vary.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Hello Elementor] Compatibilty with Gutenberg column margin ?Elementor Pro tier 2 support says: “The Gutenberg settings you mentioned rely on a “theme.json” file with the “contentWidth” configuration. The Hello Elementor theme is meant to be a vanilla theme for Elementor, but please feel free to extend it by creating a child theme of Hello Elementor, and creating your own theme.json file.” They provided some additional help, but this confirms that Hello is missing important features for the Heading, Columns, and Cover blocks and probably more blocks too.
Eventually I copied the json file from the Twenty Twenty Four theme and removed a bunch of things to get what I want. Unless / until Elementor updates the theme with those Gutenberg settings, I think that is the only way.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Hello Elementor] Compatibilty with Gutenberg column margin ?Indeed switching to the Twenty Twenty Four theme fixes this – and other missing options for Heading, Cover, and Column blocks! Also turning off all plugins doesn’t fix this when using Hello theme, and neither does deactivating some of the theme settings for various stylesheets. Only leaving Hello in favor of Twenty Twenty Four fixes it. Using Elementor Pro, PHP 8.2, SiteGround.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Hello Elementor] Compatibilty with Gutenberg column margin ?We have the same problem for a couple client websites. We chose the Hello Elementor theme for its simplicity and compatibility with Elementor and WordPress. We’ve laid out page sections using Columns in the WordPress Gutenberg Block Editor, with no gaps between the columns (left-right). But now there are gaps between the columns, the controls are gone, and we can’t figure out the CSS needed to close those gaps.
OTOH, it’s hard to believe this is the fault of the Hello theme. I’m about to clone the site and start deactivating plugins and switching themes to a default WP theme, to see what I can figure out. Hopefully will report back here.
- This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by Mark Sund.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Admin posts list with Creation Date columnWe totally agree with @fabiorochafg . WordPress needs a variable for Original Post Creation Date. When a post is created in draft mode, then published later, we have several clients who would like to still know when it was originally created.
I can create a custom field for this using ACF or Toolset of whatever, but then either the poster has to enter the date or we have to find a way to assign the current date automatically. Whereas the WordPress database certainly knows when the original creation date was, or if it overwrites that info when it’s modified, it would be great to have a new field we-all can access with a function call.
Mark Sund, Agency Director, Sund + Co, Cincinnati USA
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Query Monitor] db.php conflict with W3 Total Cache?Oh – I found another support thread with the answer – apparently written by you guys. Thanks – I have the info I need!
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Login Security Solution] The best login protectionYes that’s a good point! I just donated.
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Pods - Custom Content Types and Fields] True relational content managementScott – it’s been about a year since our last Pods-based site, after building a string of them, but we’re finally working on a new one and familiarizing ourselves with the latest and greatest Pods has to offer. I’m sure we’ll have suggestions at some point. But for now all I can say is you rock and your team deserves a ton of credit for bringing true relational content to WordPress.
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Pods Alternative Cache] Really fastThanks Scott. We’re considering a move away from WP Engine – plan on using W3 Total Cache on a VPS, and if Pods Alternative Cache adds speed to that, so much the better.
Our site doesn’t get high traffic, but we have lots of relationships in the data, so there are a lot of database lookups on every page. WP Engine flushes the page cache every 10 minutes and only regenerates the homepage; inside pages wait for a visit to re-cache them, so most of our visitors are the first and have to wait. That’s what’s going on near as we can tell from our testing and talking to the WP Engine folks.
In any case, Pods Alternative Cache is part of our arsenal.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Incremental/Differential/Versioned Backup for WordPressVaultPress looks very promising – we didn’t see it when searching the ww.wp.xz.cn plugin directory!