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Hi Mary Anne,

The issue is becoming an urgent one on my side as my Shareaholic counters are still frozen and are no longer reflecting the real activity of my website. I haven’t seen them updating numbers since I wrote you the first time, more than a week ago.

Is there any hope to resolve this?

Have you had the time to check the email I sent you and have a look at the issue on my website?

Any help would really be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Catherine

Thank you so much for your reply Mary Anne,

I sent my URL to the email you gave me last time.

I also added a detailed comparison between the numbers shown and the numbers that should be shown (the actual numbers).

Thanks in advance for your help !

Just sent you an email Mary Anne.
Thanks!

I finally found how to add a blank line in between the excerpts and the social media buttons that previously appeared right under the excerpts, but without any space in between, making the excerpts illegible. I’ll share it here in case it can be of use to somebody else. I just added two <BR :> here (in the plugin’s functions.php:

/**
* Returns a “Continue Reading” link for excerpts
*/
function fourteenxt_read_more() {
return ‘… ‘ . __(‘Continue Reading ››’, ‘fourteenxt’) . ‘

<!– end of .read-more –>’;
}
//End filter to the_content

Hi Zulf,
Thanks for the new update.
However, I confirm there’s a slight problem with this new feature.
The feature works fine in the combination descending/ascending with “Order By Post Name” giving alphabetical or reverse alphabetical order. However, it does not work for the “Default – by date”, neither in descending, nor in ascending order.
Actually, in both cases the posts are not ordered by date at all, but randomly.
I’ll give you the publication dates of my featured posts and their ‘real, correct’ order between brackets, so maybe you can identify a pattern.
15/3 (4); 18/3 (8); 16/3 (2); 17/3 (1); 15/3 (3); 14/3 (6); 14/3 (5); 12/3 (7). As you can see the post that should come either first or last (1), actually comes out in the middle. The post that should be last or first (8) comes out second.
So, contrary to what Firstracks sees on his site, on mine they never come out in ascending order by date, only in a seemingly random (but fixed) order.

PLEASE keep me posted if you come up with a solution to put a content widget area on top of the blog excerpts on the front page. 🙂

Would it be possible to obtain that same result with the “Quote” or “Status” post formats? Currently, if one selects the “Gallery” post format this automatically positions this post in the right content sidebar. Could it be possible to do the same thing for “Quote” and “Status” post formats, making them appear in the content side bar or as a sticky part above the blog post excerpts? As far as I know that’s how they were supposed to work in previous Twenty themes (at least in Eleven and Twelve), but in Fourteen the Quote appears in the Featured post grid, instead of in (or on top of) the blog post excerpts.

By the way, the “Status” post format has disappeared from the Fourteen theme. Is that something you could add back via the Fourteen Extended plugin? I may be wrong, but it seems that Fourteen offers less possibilities with the different post formats than Twenty Eleven. That’s maybe an area that could be ‘extended’? 🙂

IMHO, Twenty Eleven was really a great theme, which offered many more possibilities than expected at first sight (even featured posts). Fourteen is the first new theme that seems to offer really new lay-out possibilities, and it’s fun to work with, but some options seem also to have disappeared. I am not a programmer, but having a closer look at the options of Twenty Eleven might indeed bring up new ideas to further extend Fourteen and combine the best of two worlds. 🙂