Parabola 1.3.0 touches responsiveness again

Kay

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1. I love this theme! Can’t tell you how long I was looking for a theme like this and now I am using it on multiple sites. A heartfelt thanks for your hard work!

2. I am trying to keep the homepage layout as you have for Parabola and trying to hide the posts (blog). Which, I want to view on another page. How do I do that? Kinda lost here.

   1. C17. What if I want to use both the presentation page and the blog page?

      If you’ve enabled the presentation page and also want to create a blog page (like the default WordPress homepage), create a new page and choose “Blog Template” as the page template. Then add a link to that page in your menu(s) (if it isn’t created automatically).

3. After upgrading from your former version of Parabola, my Presentation page when blank. All my data is intact, but my front page is now a plain gray. Can you tell me how to turn the Presentation page back on.

   1. You’re most likely using a static page. The behaviour of the presentation page was changed in the 1.2.2 update at WordPress’ request.

      Change the “Your front page displays” option to “Latest posts” under Settings > Reading.

4. Hello, please could you tell me… if it is possible … as I can add a video to the home page (exactly one of the columns) of the subject parable, I set up a pagian intentanto for my daughter who is a singer, and I really like the theme PARABOLA, thank you very much.

5. there is no miscellaneous button under the settings tab, to restructure the footer information, and there is no template, I would like to make a child theme.

6. After upgrading to the new version my presentation page has disappeared. I have reset everything to get it back to no avail. Help please?

   1. the same thing has just happened to our site.
      another issues is that our custom backgrounds don’t appear at all on tablets or mobile devices.
      have not been using parabola very long, are these fixable problems?

      1. This is what I see on a phone; the background is visible; what device/browser are you getting the issue on?

   2. Go to your WP dashboard >> Settings >> Reading and make sure “Your Latest Posts” is selected under “Front page displays”.

      Also a link to the site in question always helps.

      1. I have got the same problem with my presentation page. I use a static front page, that appears in the menu but after upgrading it only show the title of the page, not the contents of the presentation page

         1. I fixed my problem by make a new menu with the link to my page.

7. Hi,

   Currently setting up a new blog with Parabola – love the theme! However, I am finding that this latest update has actually made responsiveness worse with my blog!

   When I view on a small device like a phone, the menu bar turns into a dropdown box as expected, but the content remains the same width. It used to work fine, so it must be 1.3.0.

   I can provide screenshots if you are unsure what I am meaning. 🙂 This can be simulated in FF with the FF Responsive Design Mode.

   Many thanks!

   1. A link would be more useful, as I don’t see this on our test sites.

      1. Of course, sorry, I should have given that to start with! It’s just a test site, so nothing of any interest 😉 http://bsodforums.com/wordpress/. When the width is reduced to 650px, it changes to a drop down menu. However, I can’t get responsiveness to work correctly at any width tbh. The social icons disappear, the nav bar rearranges somewhat, but actual page width doesn’t change. Fairly clean WP install, with W3Cache and BPS as plugins. Only mods to Parabola are setting a specific height for the logo and a few colour changes. Thanks!

         1. Just done some more tests. Whilst the page initially renders too wide on my Nexus 7 tablet, when I go to a post, it seems to sort itself out, except on the homepage. I still cannot get it to work in FF or IE

            1. Please disable all plugins and check responsiveness then. You have some weird code on you site.

            2. Couldn’t reply directly to your comment Kay for some reason, the button wasn’t there.

               Right, I’ve disabled all plugins and it is working. Now to work out which one it was.

               Plugin list was:
               – Author hReview
               – BulletProofSecurity
               – Contact Form 7
               – Send email only on Reply to My Comment
               – Simple Local Avatars
               – W3 Total Cache
               – WP Example Content

               OK, it’s to do with W3 Total Cache. I think I changed some settings the other day.

               Right, after some investigation, it was the minify setting of W3 Cache. If anyone else has an issue with responsiveness, try disabling Minify in W3 Total Cache.

               Stephen

            3. I was able to use W3TC’s Minify feature and not break the theme with these options. May work for you or may not, depending on the extra plugins installed…

8. I am continuing to face to problem that I am told does not exist, but yet I keep crossing into it..

   The problem is
   – I cannot disable the display of Post Tags in the category and home pages without also disabling it in posts…
   (I am not talking about html tags)

   If I set the POST INFORMATION SETTINGS > Post Tags > to “Hide”, then it will also hide them in posts…

   Please test this and you will verify the problem

   1. Those options control post-related information on the entire site, not just in categories / home or in single post view. You’ll need to use custom CSS to hide tags just in categories:
      body.page .footer-tags, body.category .footer-tags { display: none; }

      1. That is awesome…on the homepage, though, the tags are still showing…
         What should be added to that code to include the homepage as well?

         Cheers

         1. body.home .footer-tags { display: none; } should cover that

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