Rough Pixels

Hi Thierry,

I have good news and bad news (for the moment).

First, the bad: I’ve done a theme check (test) which is needed each time I am about to upload an update to the ww.wp.xz.cn theme directory. I got notices that I cannot include demo content files in the theme. I posted this in the Slack Chat for the WordPress theme review team Admins to find out if I can include demo content.

Second, the Good news: I used my local test site and was successful with a complete import of demo content.

Now, I just have to wait to hear from the review team at WordPress if I can include the demo content files, or not. I’m not sure how long it will take for their response.

Best Regards,
Andre

Hi Thierry,

I am assuming you want to import the live demo for this theme…however, the live demo being displayed is the premium version. What I can do is try an import package that imports only the free theme version content. I will have to test this out on a test site to make sure it works.

There are a few ways to import content, each having its pros and cons. I was planning to look into a method of including “starter content” such as themes like TwentyTwenty has. Although this works only for newly installed WordPress (on a blank website).

I’m not sure how fast you need this, but it might take me until tomorrow to ensure everything will work using the method you mentioned in your opening post.

The other option is that if you decide to bypass the import, I can help guide you through setting up content–as it relates to the free version of unBlock. I also have detailed tutorials for this theme that you can also use.

https://www.roughpixels.com/documentation/unblock/

Best Regards,
Andre

Hmmm…I thought I had a setting to disable that; I made a note to do an update to add one. In the meantime, copy and paste this code:

#top-bar .search-icon-wrapper {
    display: none;
}

Paste it into the Customizer’s Additional CSS tab and click the Publish button.

The pro version actually has that functionality, but to hide this, you can do it this way:

Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Additional CSS

Copy and paste this in and Publish/Save it:

.entry-meta .byline {
    display: none;
}

If your reference to “Published by” is for the author details below the post article, also add this:

.author-content {
    display: none;
}

Hopefully, that helps.

Regards,
Andre

Good to hear 🙂
However, if you want this to be more responsive based on screen size, you can do this code for various devices:

#site-branding {
   padding: 20% 16% 16% 16%;
}
@media (min-width: 992px) {
 #site-branding {
    padding: calc(3rem + 12vw) 0;
 }
}

What that code does, is that on smaller screens, it will use your custom padding. Then, if your website is viewed on a screen that is 992px wide or larger, it will use the default padding values.

However, if what you did works for you, then you can leave it as it is.

Best Regards,
Andre

No worries…and thanks for the link!
Is it the front page top image that you are referencing too?

So far in my IE Edge, Safari (mobile phone and iPad), plus Firefox, your image is responsive (at least on my end).

The image is set as a background for that container. To make it always fill that area, the image is sized to “cover” the area–which helps with the responsiveness.

Is it still not filling the area for you? If not, perhaps try clearing your browser cache?

I’ve never used any “image rotator plugins” per se, but have used sliders in the past. I would suggest checking out the Smart Slider 3 plugin; probably overkill for what you might want, but I know this is a good one. I just loaded this into my local test site with Alurra and seems to work, although it might take a bit of time to get used to the tons of options and settings. I noticed that it comes with several free slide-styled layouts. **There is a pro version, but I think the free one would work just as well.

https://en-ca.ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/smart-slider-3/

When using this, it has a widget you can simply drop into the “banner” sidebar position. If you don’t want this on all pages, check out my article about showing widgets on select pages:

Show or Hide Widgets on Select Pages

As for alternate slider (Carousel) plugins, I did a WordPress Plugins search with the keyword: Carousel

https://en-ca.ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/search/Carousel/

You can check out the others that show up.

Read through reviews and see what people are saying…every slider will have good and bad issues.

Hi Sharon,

Actually, that is done from within the theme’s customizer and going into the “Other Options” tab.

Best Regards,
Andre