Logo issues – Edin Theme

Resolved V5G
(@v5g)

10 years, 6 months ago

I created an Edin theme site for my new consultancy business. I initially created my site on wordpress.com and found it pretty straightforward. I then transferred it to my own domain, which I had already purchased. The hosting package is a specific WordPress hosting of the latest version, 4.3.1.

On WordPress.com I had reached the point where I had one or two entries to complete, but was completely happy with how it looks, so I made the transfer. Having made the transfer there appear to be a few missing features. By this I mean that some of my initial site did not appear as designed, although all content transferred over OK. When I tread to add the features back in the options do not even appear in the Admin options on the WordPress.org hosted site. My issues are:

Vital – The logo vanished with no option to add it back in
Serious – My breadcrumb navigation vanished with no option to add it back in
Serious – The images on my grid pages were all cropped to be the same on .com, but not on .org
Minor – I inserted a slider image in the page footer, but cannot see the option in .org
Minor – I inserted a location map in the footer, but cannot see this option in .org

WordPress.com site – https://vision5g.wordpress.com/
Wordpress.org site – http://www.vision5g.co.uk/

Does anybody know why this has happened and how I go about adding these features, particularly the vital logo issue, into the .org site

Thanks very much for your help!
Colin

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esmi
(@esmi)

10 years, 6 months ago

Themes hosted on wordpress.com have often been significantly modified to add extra features that are not available in the WPORG version. Some (if not all) of this functionality can be added back in by installing plugins. For example, try searching https://wordpress.org/plugins/ for “breadcrumb navigation” or “location map”.

Thread Starter V5G
(@v5g)

10 years, 6 months ago

Thanks for the very fast reply.

Is it possible for somebody to tell me which plugins were used on the WP.COM site for the Edin theme? I asked because I looked at plugins for logo and breadcrumb navigation and downloaded a couple. Ultimately, when I downloaded them they did not actually give me the feature I needed. I would like to go directly to what WP.com uses for Edin rather than a ‘hit and miss’ trial exercise until I stumble on the correct one.

Thanks again in advance for your assistance

esmi
(@esmi)

10 years, 6 months ago

Is it possible for somebody to tell me which plugins were used on the WP.COM site for the Edin theme?

Plugins may not have been used. It’s more likely that the theme was modified to include this functionality – functionality that is not allowed in WPORG themes as it is firmly regarded as “plugin territory”.

All I can suggest is that try some plugins out until you find ones that suit your needs. You might want to start with Jetpack as it incorporates Photon image handling which you will have used previously.

Moderator Kathryn Presner
(@zoonini)

10 years, 6 months ago

Most WordPress.com functionality is available in the self-hosted version of our themes through the Jetpack plugin, which Esmi mentioned above. (Welcome back, Esmi!)

https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/

Vital – The logo vanished with no option to add it back in

You will see the option in the Customizer’s Site Title, Tagline, and Logo panel after activating Jetpack.

Serious – My breadcrumb navigation vanished with no option to add it back in

Same as the above, activate Jetpack to get them back.

Minor – I inserted a location map in the footer, but cannot see this option in .org

Activate the Jetpack Extra Sidebar Widgets module and you’ll find the Contact Info Widget available in the widgets area.

I’ll look into the last two issues shortly.

Moderator Kathryn Presner
(@zoonini)

10 years, 6 months ago

Minor – I inserted a slider image in the page footer, but cannot see the option in .org

This is the Gallery widget – it’ll also be available when activating Jetpack’s Extra Sidebar Widgets module.

Moderator Kathryn Presner
(@zoonini)

10 years, 6 months ago

Serious – The images on my grid pages were all cropped to be the same on .com, but not on .org

This one’s a strange one.

The theme is supposed to crop featured-page thumbnails to 330 by 240, which is what’s happening on your WordPress.com site. On your self-hosted site, they are all too short, one of them as short as 205px high.

Could you try re-uploading those three featured images from your hard drive to those three pages and see if that fixes it?

Thread Starter V5G
(@v5g)

10 years, 6 months ago

Thanks Esmi and Kathryn, this is really helpful. I will upload Jetpack, which sounds like it will fix almost all of my issues.

Kathryn, I also found the thumbnail images issues a bit odd. I found a setting that referred to cropping the images, so I have tried switching that on an off, but it made no difference. I shall try re-uploading the photos again and let you know how that goes.

Thanks again for your help!

Thread Starter V5G
(@v5g)

10 years, 6 months ago

Kathryn

Thanks again for your help, everything is fixed. When I loaded Jetpack it seems that it also fixed the thumbnail image size (or it somehow resolved itself).

Appreciate the help!
Colin

Moderator Kathryn Presner
(@zoonini)

10 years, 6 months ago

Excellent, Colin – I’m glad to hear everything is sorted out! Good luck with your new self-hosted site. 🙂

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