Jetpack–mobile theme module and display Issues

  • emoryever

    (@emoryever)


    8 years, 2 months ago

    I am using a modified version of Clear News theme by press75, v. 1.4.1.

    After wordpress updated to 4.4.2 I found I had many issues in my display of images that were not working. So I deactivated Photon, (part of JetPack), and all the issues went away.

    In doing so I discovered the Mobile Theme module. I tried it out and it has many great solid features. I would like to use it. But, it seems to have some conflict with my theme as well.

    If I choose in the module’s settings, to display features images, and tell it to use excerpts, then, the featured image shows up on front page’s thumbnail, (yay), but if I click on a post, and it goes to the post page, the featured image appears, (yay), except if the post is a video post, (an option with clear news), it ignores the video, and just shows the featured image.

    If, I then disable the featured image option in settings, no images show in the thumbnails on the front page, as expected. But also no video I added with the themes video post feature, shows up either. I did a test, and did see that if I embed a video, in the body of the post, then it shows up in the post. But the issue is that one of the important features of clear news, is its ability to make nice video posts, that fill the whole top of the post.

    So, as I said, if I just embed a video, in the body of the post, it will show up in the mobile theme module’s posts. So it has something to do with not liking the video posts created by the theme. But I have lots of these now, and it would be a major overhaul to change them out, and I like the way they look and work…

    I know that clear news uses background images as the featured images. It seems to work ok to use the gallery module, for slide shows, etc. this comes built into the theme. But it would be nice to be able to use the mobile theme module.

    I know CSS, and hand-code html. I can hack PHP, but dont know it very well at all.

    Please let me know if there is something I can do, to be able to see videos on the posts, that were created using my themes video post feature, when using the mobile theme.

    I disabled the mobile theme module, and all of my posts are now working responsively. you can view them:
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    Also I should add, there were only these issues with posts in Clear News, not with Pages, but then pages do not have the video post feature!

    Thanks!

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

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  • Plugin Author Jeremy Herve

    (@jeherve)

    Jetpack Mechanic 🚀

    8 years, 2 months ago

    After wordpress updated to 4.4.2 I found I had many issues in my display of images that were not working. So I deactivated Photon, (part of JetPack), and all the issues went away.

    Could you tell me more about this issue? What happened when Photon was active? Did all your images stop working, or was the issue specific to some images, or images in specific locations of your theme?

    Thanks!

    In doing so I discovered the Mobile Theme module. I tried it out and it has many great solid features. I would like to use it. But, it seems to have some conflict with my theme as well.

    That’s indeed to be expected. Jetpack’s Mobile Theme is a completely different theme, that replaces the Clear News theme on mobile. As a result, all functions and options specific to your desktop theme (like videos in video posts) won’t be available on mobile.

    Since the Clear News theme is already responsive, I’d actually recommend that you deactivate Jetpack’s Mobile Theme. You do not need to use a mobile theme, as your desktop theme is already built to handle all kinds of devices (desktop, tablets, phones).

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