WhirledPress
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Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Site Editor Custom FontsThanks for the reply. Unfortunately this plugin fails to work with the Site Editor. It works with Customizer, but not the Site Editor.
Not only that, but I try to avoid crippleware. I mean if you want to produce a plugin and charge for it, great. But don’t produce a plugin that has missing features that you have to pay for and call it free. It’s just an ugly, but common way of doing business that I find distasteful. I would rather go to the hassle of making a child theme and adding the fonts manually than to be manipulated into paying for a service that required the company to spend a lot of extra time to cripple their plugin. It would have been easier to just do it right and ask to be paid.
Still, thanks for your help. Maybe they will update it some day to work with the site editor (and to remove the crippleware in favor of doing it right and justifying getting paid for it)
Forum: Reviews
In reply to: [Twenty Seventeen] Looks pretty-Contructed PoorlyAnd here are a couple of other issues: There are a number of things that should be on every page displayed at all times. You should almost never be looking at a web page and wonder, “Who’s webpage am I looking at”. That is to say that every single second you are on a webpage, it is advisable to have some method for site-identity. Once you scroll up on 2017, it’s a crap-shoot. THere’s no telling whose site you are on other than the URL.
This theme needs the site identity to be displayed in the top navigation bar when it is stuck to the top of the page. When it’s not, the site identity information is already displayed at the bottom of the page so it’s not necessary.
I also think that every site should display on every page the contact information, location, copyright, search and social media links. They can all fit nicely in a tiny footer bar. Each item should link to its content page. Right now, there is no static footer and you get proudly powered by WordPress on at the bottom of the content.
Also, if you are going to have section headers (really page headers) that look different when you load the sections as pages individually as opposed to when you load the home page and scroll to the section, why not make the header sticky as well? That way, when I scroll to the second section if it has it’s own header image, it displays across the top of the screen above the menu and it sticks there until the next section scrolls in. It seems like common sense. If you want a seamless user experience, make the individual sections render as close to the home page sections as possible (and/or vice versa).
Also, don’t think you can change the css using the “Additional CSS” theme options. It don’t work. I tried to edit the h2.entry-title class to make the section headers visible..no luck. I can type the exact same thing into Chrome devtools and it looks perfect. Why even have the additional css option if it doesn’t work?
Also, you can’t just have your content sections for your home page, you have to have a homepage. So if you think you can make a blank home page, nope. They still carve out space for a home page and give you the fancy title home (of course it’s tiny and looks terrible, but it’s there). And under Home Page Options, that’s where you would presume to set up the homepage with its sections…nope. That’s under theme options. You still have to set your home page under homepage settings, but you set up your homepage sections under theme options. I know TLDR. Just wanted to point out some other really strangely implemented issues with this theme.
Forum: Developing with WordPress
In reply to: Understanding Core Logic:Template AssignmentThank you so much. That makes a lof of sense. I appreciate the reply.
Oh and get this: I installed the plugin and have tried a dozen times to deactivate it. No luck. It says plugin deactivated and then doesn’t deactivate it. I have tried deleting it, no luck. How is this acceptable behavior?