EricNikki
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Wp-Pro-Quiz] Start Quiz Button Not Working – I'm New to WP!Anyone? Would appreciate some help from the plugin author 🙂
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Lifestyle] Customising category pages effect on SEOOk so I think I’ve found the answer
Since I can’t find a way to customise the category pages on this theme, I have decided to hide them from the sitemap by checking the “categories” box in “exclude taxonomies” setting option of Yoast SEO Plugin: see here for detailed instructions http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-beginners-guide-to-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-final-tweaking–wp-34203
As far as I can tell from the info in the above link under the heading “Permalinks”, it’s ok to exclude the category name from the posts URL so that the posts urls just read http://sitename/postname – so I also activated this option using the Yoast plugin
This way people shouldn’t be able to access my category pages because I haven’t provided any links to them anywhere on my site and it’s now hidden from the sitemap.
Then I just updated the menus so that the header menu is sourced from my pages instead of categories, and I made custom formatted pages to function as category pages / archives for m posts.
The only disadvantage I can see is that I can’t use breadcrumbs now – because if I use breadcrumbs on my posts, it will show a link to the containing category and I don’t want that. Any idea how to give a parent page to a post so that breadcrumbs can read:
homepage > page (not category) > post ?Spent ages looking for these solutions so I hope this helps someone! If you disagree with what I’ve written please let me know!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Lifestyle] Limit Post Excerpt Length By CharacterOh I see! Thanks
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Lifestyle] Limit Post Excerpt Length By Characterwell, I guess using the Rich Text Excerpts plug-in can also fix this issue since you’re defining the excerpt yourself. https://wordpress.org/plugins/rich-text-excerpts/ But there’s no automatic number of characters setting with this plugin… still not sure why it wasn’t working initially when I tried to customise through the Appearance > Customise > Posts
For instance, you can see under the image grids on this page the excerpts are still quite long (over the 40 character limit I set) http://www.mylittleguangzhou.com/eat-drink
I deliberately didn’t use the Rich Text Excerpt for these posts so you can see…Ah I found a solution: this plug-in 🙂
https://wordpress.org/plugins/rich-text-excerpts/Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Lifestyle] Limit Post Excerpt Length By CharacterHmm I just tried that but it didn’t seem to work – seems to be overwritten by the default wordpress 55 characters limit – see the excerpt under the first image on this page.
http://www.mylittleguangzhou.com/eat-drink
any other ideas :-)? Thanks again for all your help!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Lifestyle] Remove Feature Image from PostsThanks so much!
Hmm I’ve contacted Visual Composer support but they don’t seem to know either. Some other forum posts I found recommended editing the single.php file or the index.php file
http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/removing-info-from-posts-author-categories-etc/
but I can’t find either of those when I go into the Editor for the Lifestyle theme. How can we access them?
Thanks CIP – it’s working now!
However I don’t quite understand how to use the plugin, I’ve gotten into the Edit Enhance Category section but then when I try to edit the page using the Shortcodes Ultimate plug-in, the shortcode items I insert aren’t displaying in the front-end preview style I normally get when I edit my pages and posts – it’s only showing the code, even when I click on the Visual tab of the editor.
Also, the original content from my default category page is still visible (so essentially I have duplicate text), and the URL has changed to http://www.mylittleguangzhou.com/eat-drink-2
How do I get rid of the “2”?Is there a tutorial file or video on how to use the Enhanced Category Plugin?
Thanks!
I’m having the same problem – using WP 4.4 on the Lifestyle Theme (Child Theme of Omega)
I can’t find the /htdocs/wp-content/plugins/enhanced-category-pages/classes/ecp/Enhanced_Category.php file mentioned above – could someone tell me where it is?
Also, once we install Enhanced Category can we format the Category pages e.g. positioning of post excerpts, length of post excerpts etc?
Thanks!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Lifestyle] Should I create a child theme to a child theme?Hi Simplify Your Life
I really like the category pages on your site like this one http://startsimplifying.com/category/blogging-for-beginners/
How did you customise it? Can you run me through how you centred the post excerpts and images, changed the font and got rid of the “By [AUTHOR]” line that seems to appear by default on my theme? And how did you insert the “Continue reading” buttons?
Thanks!
Nikki
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Lifestyle] Should I create a child theme to a child theme?Hi Simplify Your Life,
Just took a look at your site and I really like the category pages you’ve got setup. Could you tell me how you got them looking so nice – the centred formatting and the continue reading buttons? Did you play around with the css file on the Lifestyle theme?
Thanks
Nikki
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Omega] How to reformat Category Pages in Lifestyle Child ThemeI see… I’ll have a look when I’ve got a bit more time and might come back to you with some questions later. Thanks for your help again. I just realised you’re the one who made the theme right? I really like it, great work!
actually, no I didn’t put 230 for the padding… just for anyone’s future reference, my Visual Composer textbox settings on the page were
row: default width
text box padding: 20px on the leftAh I see, cos I played with the margin rather than the padding. Now I’ve put 230px in the padding instead of the margin and it works fine. Thanks for your help!