Tim Nicholson

Hi, JMR. The issue is that the Link theme itself is a child theme of Flat Bootstrap. You can’t have a child of a child theme, but you can still accomplish what you are looking to do.

1. Copy the entire link theme directory over to new directory. Its fine to name the directory link-child like you want.
2. In the link-child style.css, change the “Theme Name” to “Link Child”. Make sure the “Template” still says “flat-bootstrap” (NOT “link”).
3. Add your functions to the link-child functions.php file.
4. Add your CSS to the link-child style.css.

When the original Link theme is updated (like to v1.2), it will update the one in the /link folder and not override your /link-child.

The parent theme is now fixed and I’ve uploaded it to WordPress.org. It usually takes a little while for someone there to review it and push it live, though.

Also, if you don’t want to go back to Link v1.0, here is the fix I made to the Flat Bootstrap content-header.php file.

Find the code that looks like this:

// Otherwise if we have a featured image, try to get text from the image
	} elseif ( $image_type == 'featured' ) {
		$attachment_post = get_post( get_post_thumbnail_id() );
		if ( $attachment_post AND ( $attachment_post->post_excerpt OR $attachment_post->post_content ) ) {
			$title = $attachment_post->post_title;
			$subtitle = $attachment_post->post_excerpt;
			$description = $attachment_post->post_content;
		}

And replace it with this:

// Otherwise if we have a featured image, try to get text from the image
	} elseif ( $image_type == 'featured' ) {
		$attachment_post = get_post( get_post_thumbnail_id() );
		if ( $attachment_post AND ( $attachment_post->post_excerpt OR $attachment_post->post_content ) ) {
			$title = $attachment_post->post_title;
			$subtitle = $attachment_post->post_excerpt;
			$description = $attachment_post->post_content;
		} else {
			$title = get_the_title();
			$subtitle = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), '_subtitle', $single = true );
		}

I just tested it again and it seems to be working fine. Just add a text widget to the “Page Bottom” widget area. Don’t fill out a title or any text. i.e. Use a completely blank text widget.

Hi, Diana. It looks like you figured this out. I’m not sure specifically how you did it, but for other that may be reading this…

If you choose a custom header that gets applied to the whole site, including the blog page. If instead you assign a large, full-width image just to the static page you define as the front page, then you’ll have that image there and the blog (or any other pages) won’t have that image.

As a follow-up, if you want to do it strictly in header.php with a hard-coded logo URL, you can refer to this post: Logo-in-header

Hi, sunk8. You can actually import the sample Spot theme landing page. Its in a folder called /samples under the Spot theme itself. Basically the idea is that you use standard Bootstrap markup coupled with some theme-specific color palettes and such to do it. That is, you build all the content on the single page instead of including pieces of content from multiple pages.

Hi, hartmutnz. The theme’s built-in navigation bar uses core Bootstrap navigation. Bootstrap has both those limitations you state above… Top menu item triggers the drop-down as opposed to being a link in and of itself and the menu system only goes two levels deep.

I’m not sure I agree with them, but the Bootstrap folks believe strongly that in a “mobile first” World, nav menus should be kept simpler and not rely on hover states.

If you want to roll your own menus, you can change the header.php file to not call the Bootstrap-specific “walker” and the theme will spit out standard WordPress menu HTML. You’d then need to add the CSS for those menus to theme, perhaps borrowing it from one of the Twenty-something themes.

That’s an interesting idea. I’m trying to keep my themes as pure to the out-of-the-box WordPress experience as possible. Currently that means using featured image functionality. It would be great if WordPress let you set a video as featured, like with images. Then it would be easy to display them in the page and article templates.

What you are wanting to do is probably fairly difficult at this point. I can point you to a few things that might help you think through how best to tackle it. The theme is based on Bootstrap an it does support classes that indicate whether to display on desktop or mobile. See Bootstrap responsive utilities. You would have to embed both the video and the image and use those CSS classes to determine which to display.

WordPress also has a function wp_is_mobile() that can be used server-side (php). You’d have to edit the page.php and/or single.php template. See wp_is_mobile(). That function returns true for tablets though, not just for mobile phones.

Then there are additional complexities depending on whether you want text to overlay the video (like the theme does for images), whether you want the video to auto-play or not, etc.