Problem w/ Blog Feed Post Display Format

Hi @thelucyspace.

Thank you for contacting us and for using our theme. We appreciate it.

Here are the answers to your questions:

a) As far as I can tell, it is not a post that gets doubled but the image. One is your post’s featured image and the other is the image you’ve put in the post’s body. Simply remove that other image and all should be well.

b) In order to change dimensions of those images, the best way is to use Simple Image Sizes plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-image-sizes/ Install it, set up thumbnail dimensions as you want and regenerate thumbnails. Please also check – https://help.lyrathemes.com/article/207-how-to-fix-uneven-images

c) You should be able to activate slider by going to Customize -> Front Page -> Banner /Slider and selecting “Post Slider” option. Have you published the change?

The CSS snippets that should answer your other questions should be inserted to Appearance -> Customize -> Additional CSS

d)

.widget_categories select, .widget_archive select {
	color: red;
}
#archives-dropdown-4 option {
	color: red;
}
button, input, select, textarea {
	color: red;
}

e)

.footer-widgets .widget-title {
	margin-bottom: 15px;
}

f)

.wpcom-goodreads-4, center img {
	display: none;
}

g)

.widget.widget_search {
	background-color: yellow;
}

Hope this helps, but if you have additional questions or some CSS code doesn’t work, feel free to ask.

Kind regards.

Hi @thelucyspace,

a. In most cases double image is displaying because there is image set as featured image and the same image inside post content. The best way to fix it is removing the image from post content. Please don’t remove featured image because it will remove it from other part of the website.

b. You should modify “kale-thumbnail” image to change all featured image in blog feed. Please regenerate all images to make sure all images will be resized to new image size. All your new images will be resized to this new size so you can’t display both vertical and horizontal size images.

c. Please make sure to select category inside Appearance → Customize → Front Page → Banner / Slider which has at least the number of posts you selected in “Posts Slider – Number of Slides/Posts” settings. If this category don’t have minimum number of posts there might be some issue with slider.

d. Please go to Appearance → Customize → Additional CSS and add the following css:

#wpcom-goodreads-4 div {
    border: none !important;
}

e. Add this css:

#subscribe-submit input[type="submit"] {
    background-color: #debab9;
    border: none;
    color: #fff;
    padding: 8px;
}

f. You can try something like this:

.footer-row-2 .widget {
    margin-bottom: 0;
}

.footer-row-2 + hr {
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-top: 20px;
}

Hope that helps.

Best

Hi @thelucyspace.

1) The reason behind this is that original images are smaller in size than the display images. The original is 265px × 400px and then it gets upscaled to 360px × 543px. That’s why the image gets blurry. You’ll need to use bigger images to start with, i.e. not smaller than 360x543px.

2) The featured image in that post is 1.066px × 1.600px. Bear in mind that the free Kale theme does not automatically crop featured image so you’ll have to do it while adding it. This should be useful – https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/crop-image-wordpress/

3) let’s see if my colleagues have any more ideas, if not you’ll have to contact us directly in order to resolve that.

Kind regards.

Let’s continue in the same fashion. 🙂

1) Please see this screenshot – https://prnt.sc/j07pos
You’ll see the original resolution being 265x400px. This might be caused by misconfigured Simple Images Size plugin if you’ve used it to adjust thumbnails dimensions.

2) Kale expects featured images to be of approx. 1200x800px in size. That way, all the thumbnails should be generated uniformly. You can prepare images in some image manipulation program in advance and then used it in Kale. That way, WordPress will not affect the original image size.

3) You can find the contact link in that post you’ve referred to, but here it is one more time – https://www.lyrathemes.com/contact/

Kind regards.

Hi there,

Please contact us via contact form and we’ll do our best to help you with this.

Kind regards