Search Results for 'widget area'

[Brenda]

Brenda

#119371

Hi, all, One of my sites *Login to see link used to reside on blog.website.com and I moved it up to website.com yesterday because I’m going to start adding content to that site. With that change from blog.website.com to website.com, I had to go through and edit some widgets that referred to blog.website.com as well as change a slider. My husband went through the database and updated all other things from blog.website.com to website.com and it all works fine — the links to pages, etc are good. After the change, the sidebars were working but I decided to shut off unneeded plugins that I’m not using on this site: jetpack, as well as two plugins that work with showing or not showing widgets in sidebars.

Now, the only problem we have is likely unrelated to this change but the sidebars aren’t working/showing widgets. I went in and made a new custom sidebar and put new widgets there. Also emptied the sidebars of anything strange and confirmed that I had shut off the plugins that show particular widgets on particular pages. In theory, it’s pretty simple but the sidebars aren’t showing, just the space is left where the sidebar should be.

The footer widget areas–they’re fine and show widgets. I moved a widget down into the footer that wasn’t showing in the primary sidebar (recent blog posts) and it shows up fine down there.

Do you have any idea what this could be?

[Brenda]

Brenda

#119371

Hi, all, One of my sites *Login to see link used to reside on blog.website.com and I moved it up to website.com yesterday because I’m going to start adding content to that site. With that change from blog.website.com to website.com, I had to go through and edit some widgets that referred to blog.website.com as well as change a slider. My husband went through the database and updated all other things from blog.website.com to website.com and it all works fine — the links to pages, etc are good. After the change, the sidebars were working but I decided to shut off unneeded plugins that I’m not using on this site: jetpack, as well as two plugins that work with showing or not showing widgets in sidebars.

Now, the only problem we have is likely unrelated to this change but the sidebars aren’t working/showing widgets. I went in and made a new custom sidebar and put new widgets there. Also emptied the sidebars of anything strange and confirmed that I had shut off the plugins that show particular widgets on particular pages. In theory, it’s pretty simple but the sidebars aren’t showing, just the space is left where the sidebar should be.

The footer widget areas–they’re fine and show widgets. I moved a widget down into the footer that wasn’t showing in the primary sidebar (recent blog posts) and it shows up fine down there.

Do you have any idea what this could be?

[Rick]

Rick

#119249

Just to be clear, I’m creating the Latest Blog Posts grid on my home page using this shortcode in my Home Widget Area: [blog_grid orderby=date items=4 columns=2]. Doing this shows a small calendar icon after the image and before the excerpt.

What I want to include, instead of the calendar icon, is the usual box with the date (just like what appears on the blog page).

Thoughts?

[Hannah]

Hannah

#119217

Try using a shortcode like this: [blog_grid orderby=date items=4 columns=3]
You can either paste it into your page content area or into a text widget. Does that work for you?

Hannah

[Douglas]

Douglas

#119146

Hey Thanks for the helps. I did find the widget area for the origin site widgets and I am now working through them to see what each one does.
You are right that if I don’t work through this myself I will never learn and always have to rely on someone else.

I am going to spend the next couple of days playing with widgets and hopefully get a workable site that I can put live.
doug

[Ben Ritner]

Ben Ritner

#119096

Hey,
It’s is much easier to help if we can see the site so while your on a local it does make it tricky for example I don’t know where your “holes” are in your header and thus I don’t know where you are wanting to add an image… What you can do through the theme options > main settings > logo layout is use the 4th option to enable a widget area beside your logo (this will move the menu below). Then you can add any widget into that header widget area.

With the logo and site title you can’t have both, it’s either a logo or site title.

assets/css/ is where you would find the css I a strongly recommend you not touch those files. Anything you change there would be lost with an update. You are so much better off if you adjust things through the theme options or a child theme.

You can always use chrome inspect to see what css is effecting certain things. : https://www.kadencewp.com/chrome-inspect-tool/

Just so you know to increase line spacing is to increase line-height and you can set that in your theme options > typography settings. Body font is your standard content font. No css needed for that. Also that is the best place to set a site wide text color.

Wordpress certainly has a learning curve. finding someone that knows it already you would save yourself a lot of time in the setup but then you would still not know it and not know how to edit it so if you interested in managing your own content and site I suggest you keep pushing through. There is a great 101 video series here: https://leveluptutorials.com/tutorials/wordpress-basics

If you are more talking about customizing code to change how things work then that it hard to answer. It more depends on what you are wanting to change. For example you wanted to write code for the line spacing but really you don’t need to do that so if there are more things that you think need code but really don’t it’s not really fare for me to say you need a wordpress developer or not.

Pagebuilder is a great tool and how you can incorporate all those widgets. I encourage you to check out this tutorial to start: https://www.kadencewp.com/using-page-builder-virtue-premium/

Let me know if that helps,

Ben

[Hannah]

Hannah

#119093

Hi Douglas,
1. You can add an image to your header by using the header widget area. You can enable this layout in Theme Options > Main Settings then add a widget from Appearance > Widgets. Then you can use css to position it as you like. I can help with that once your site is live.

2. If you’re wanting to add css I would advise just using the custom css box in Theme Options. Otherwise you would need to use a child theme if you wanted to edit the theme files.

3. This theme is designed to be highly customizable, but there definitely is a learning curve to wordpress. What kind of changes are you wanting?

Hannah

[Douglas]

Douglas

#119078

Okay, One more question. If i go into plugins there is a plugin called site origin widget bundle. Today I clicked on the manage widgets in the plugin area. I noticed that there is all sorts of interesting things. Hero image call to action button call to action. But I don’t understand where do I access these things? I have almost memorized the theme options area. It takes a lot to find things in there. I have click on everything 10 times now. But for instance this hero image widget where is that? One problem that I can see might be causing this is ever since I started on this theme if I activate the site origins widget bundle then I can never go to the widget thing under dashboard appearance. Explore just crashes. So in order to go to dashboard widget I have to deactivate the site origin bundle. Don’t know if that is a problem or not.

[Kevin]

Kevin

#118994

Hey Jennie,

Try going into Theme Options> Home Layout, and find “Homepage Layout Manager.” It looks like you’ve got the home widget area enabled, which is creating this large space between your content and footer.

Try disabling the home widget area and let me know if that works for you.

-Kevin

[Ben Ritner]

Ben Ritner

#118888

Hey,
A footer is already going to be included on all pages, you set up your footer through widgets by using the footer widget areas. The font color can be set in your theme options > basic styling.
The font size depends on your widgets that your adding. So for that I need a link to see what your adding.

Ben

[Kevin]

Kevin

#118818

Try using page builder for the page content, and placing the slider in to a visual editor widget inside a page builder row that is set to “fullwidth stretched” under the Layout section within the Edit Row area.

Does this work for you?

-Kevin

[Elaine]

Elaine

#118675

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[Kevin]

Kevin

#118551

Hey Darren,

You should be able to place the function into your child theme’ functions.php file. then, the CSS he posted should go into Theme Optinos> Advanced Settings, if you’re trying to hide the icon in desktop as the other person was.

You could also add icons to your topbar using the top bar widget area, depending on where you want the icon to appear.

Let me know if this is helpful.

-Kevin

[Ben Ritner]

Ben Ritner

#118518

In your theme options > home layout you can enable the “home widget area” then go to appearance > widgets and add a text widget into the home widget area.

Or in your theme options > home layout you can enable “page content” then you can go to admin > pages and edit the page you have set as your “front” page. Any text you add to that page would show where you enabled page content in the layout manager.

Check out this tutorial as well: https://www.kadencewp.com/creating-a-home-page-with-virtue/

Ben

[Ben Ritner]

Ben Ritner

#118381

Hey,
1. Widgets and menus are saved on a theme by theme basis in wordress. When you activate a new theme (child themes are there own themes) you have to re-assign widgets and often re-assign which menu goes to which menu location.

The widgets are not destroyed just moved to the inactive widget area.

2. If your breaking the site by the code your adding your either adding bad code or adding the code incorrectly. For example the functions.php file should start with <?php

If it doesn’t and you then add a php function into it that would break the site. Also before you can add the same functions into the functions.php file of your child theme you must remove whatever you’ve added into the parent theme if you don’t then that would crash your site every time.

Ben

[giuseppe]

giuseppe

#117901

Hi there,

I have a problem of visualization of my Home Widget Area, but only in the Italian part of the website. The English part works well.

The IT version (which doesn’t work) is: *Login to see link
The EN version (which works) is: *Login to see link

Please, let me know what could be wrong.

Thanks!

[giuseppe]

giuseppe

#117901

Hi there,

I have a problem of visualization of my Home Widget Area, but only in the Italian part of the website. The English part works well.

The IT version (which doesn’t work) is: *Login to see link
The EN version (which works) is: *Login to see link

Please, let me know what could be wrong.

Thanks!

[Ben Ritner]

Ben Ritner

#117881

I don’t see why your using the topbar. You should use the main header. If you need to add filters you can add a widget area below your header using the sitewide header shortcode area (theme options > main settings) or add inside the page content itself.

You can use a plugin like this to add a widget area anywhere: https://wordpress.org/plugins/widgets-on-pages/

You should NEVER have css like this:

.col-md-6, .col2-set .col-1, .col2-set .col-2, .span6 {
    width: 75%;
}

THose are core framwork classes and your breaking the whole framework by overriding like that. You need to use more specific classes for the specific things your wanting to do. For the sake of your site remove that bad css.

Ben

[Kevin]

Kevin

#117850

Ah I see now. the link above didn’t take me to the correct page, so I was unable to see the filters in your header.

1. I believe that a child theme will be necessary to accomplish the removal of the cart text. Are you currently using one?

2. I’m having a bit of difficulty with this CSS, but try this and let me know if it works for you:

div#topbar-search {
    float: left;
    bottom: 50px;
    position: relative;
}

.kad-topbar-right {
    float: none;
    margin-right: auto;
    margin-left: auto;
}

3. I think it may have to do with the spelling of categories on your site compared to the url you posted see:
http://pin.indiva-kashmir.de/produkt-kategorie/schal/

4. How are you adding this to your page header? Would it be possible for you to add it to the header widget area instead?

Hopefully this is helpful. I’m sure the theme dev will be able to clear this up better when he sees this thread.

-Kevin

[Kevin]

Kevin

#117664

Hello Jeffrey,

You should be able to place gallery shortcode within a visual editor widget within your footer widget area.

Placing a visual editor widget into that area should also allow you to create a new gallery through the “add media” button in the wp editor.
Let me know if this is helpful!

-Kevin

[Hannah]

Hannah

#117552

Hi Jessica,
There isn’t a built in option for this. You can add a widget area to your header and add your social icons there. Or you can create a secondary menu (appearance > menus) and use custom links menu items to link to your social networks. Then you could add icons if you wanted (see here- https://www.kadencewp.com/add-icons-to-your-menu-virtue-theme/ )
Hope that helps!

Hannah

[Hannah]

Hannah

#117528

Hi Debra,
1. Not sure I understand. The home widget area is for widgets…you can enable the home widget are in theme options > home layout and add widgets to this area from Apperance > Widgets.

2. You can find documentation on the theme widgets here- http://docs.kadencethemes.com/virtue-premium/widgets/

3. You can create a mosaic gallery using the Virtue: Gallery widget. This doesn’t have to do with breadcrumbs?

Hannah