Andrzej

Sorry, I linked to the wrong image. It should be:

http://bit.ly/2qPUtz9

Hi Colin,

Thank you very much. In the main, this worked quite well.

My demo home page using the new template is:

http://bit.ly/2prtQBB

The problems I had was that the CSS to hide the header image did not hide it but I managed to hide it by replacing that block with:

.header-image {
    display: none;
    }

I also had to adjust the CSS like this:

@media screen and (min-width: 1620px) {
.entry-hero, .site-content-wrapper .has-post-thumbnail .entry-header {
 min-height: 55vh;
    width: 2000px;
    height: 500px;
    text-align: center !important;
    font-family: lato !important;
    margin-bottom: -60px;
    }
}
.entry-hero .entry-title, .site-content-wrapper .has-post-thumbnail .entry-header-wrapper .entry-title {
    font-family: lato, sans serif;
    text-align: center !important;
    margin-bottom: 80px;
}

Anything less than 1620px was making the text flow off the right hand side of the screen on 15” laptops, although Google’s test was happy with the mobile friendly aspect at a 1020 breakpoint. I work on a 23” monitor so was trying to get everything displaying well on that and then making sure it was acceptable on smaller screens.

I also had to make CSS adjustments so that the 2000px x 500px header appeared the right size as otherwise the header image was being stretched vertically and horizontally and was fuzzy.

I also wanted the text centre aligned and wasn’t keen on the Poppins font so changed that to Lato. I also had a large gap between the header image and start of body text so I adjusted the margin under the header to 80px.

I’m aware that there may be some errors here, perhaps I have conflicting styles but it seems to work on both desktops, tablets and mobile phones.

Unfortunately, I have lost the ability to use, if I wanted, the original Shoreditch full width template and now in the customiser I can only choose from the Default, Panel Page and new Featured header templates.

Would there be any way of getting back use of the original full width template if I wanted to also use that on some pages?

Basically I wanted 1) to retain the original Shoreditch features and 2) have the ability to have the white text on the headers. So No. 2 worked but No. 1 didn’t.

On posts, header images did not show at all but I found I could use featured images instead and they displayed at the correct header image sizes of 2000 x 500, which I liked.

Once again, thank you very much for your help.

Apologies, the site in question is using the Twenty Sixteen theme. I have also deactivated all other plugins and am still unable to add the extra fonts. I have other sites using both Twenty Sixteen and Shoreditch, with the latest version of Tinymce Advanced and am able to change the font sizes with no problems.

I am puzzled as to why there is no 18 and 22px font size available as standard. This would let users use those and not have to go into the plugin editor to add them in after each plugin update.

Any help much appreciated.

With the help of Vaultpress I restored a mirror copy to an alternative URL as I didn’t want to risk compromising the live site. I was able to observe the same error on the mirror site.

I then disabled all plugins, reinstalled one by one and found the culprit. It is the Editor Menu and Widget Access plugin which restricts user roles. With that one deactivated I was successfully able to live preview and then install Shoreditch.

Interestingly, with that plugin activated, there was no problem in live previewing Twenty Seventeen and then activating it.

Thank you very much for your help.

Thank you for explaining this to me. Forums are full of people asking similar questions about excerpts but you are the first (that I have seen) to point out to me about excerpt core behaviour in WordPress.

I can see the advantage, especially from an SEO point of view, of choosing only the excerpts to appear on the blog roll page. Fortunately, the excerpt box allows HTML so in my case I have added an image and a Continue reading link in a new paragraph and it looks tidy.

If in the future I want to emulate excerpt behaviour of Twenty Sixteen in Shoreditch, I will take up your offer of help.

Many thanks for your help.

I activated the Content Options in Jetpack’s settings and within the customiser, set the content option to display excerpts. I now get the blog roll page (that’s the page of posts) to display the excerpt, which is good.

However, wherever in the post I add the more link (or indeed do not), there is no “Continue reading” link so a visitor cannot click to read the full post unless they know they can click the h1 entry title text to read the full post.

If I change the content option setting to full post and add a “more” tag, then the excerpt, as you explained, does not show in Shoreditch, but the blog roll page then does correctly show a continue reading link, at the point I inserted the more tag. So I am confused!

I was, ideally, wanting to emulate the excerpt functionality I used to have when using the Twenty Sixteen theme, which let me display an excerpt, followed by the post content, until I had entered a more tag.

I would be happy with just the excerpt showing in Shoreditch, as long as the visitor could see a continue reading link.

Using 1.7.6. Can I send you the URL privately please?