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I use a static page and the custom page feature won’t shut off

By Kathy, 9 years ago. Last reply by Andrew Misplon, 9 years ago.

Working with the Vantage theme has been a nightmare. It’s taken me 5 times longer to make the site than it should have and I got the premium.

After all this crap, I believe the problem with fonts, minor changes having to be done ten times (or more) and all the rest of it is I have and want a static home page and the custom home page feature of Vantage continuously turns itself back on after I turn it off.

So changes don’t take and I have had very little success repeating everything I do in my actual homepage in the “custom home page”. And I’ve had problems I shouldn’t have had with Google Fonts.

So what I want to know is how do I FIX this static page and intrusive custom home page situation so I can get something done.

Also the Heading 2 font changes just don’t take at all, in fact 2 – 6 I am unable to alter. How do I do that? I go in, do what you’re supposed to do, and nothing happens. It doesn’t take the settings.

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  1. 9 years, 1 month ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Hi Kathy

    Sorry to hear you’ve had a tough time getting setup. I’m sure we can resolve these challenges and get the theme working normally.

    Custom Home Page

    Appearance > Home toggling back on suggests a plugin conflict. Please, try the following steps to resolve:

    1. Run all pending updates from Dashboard > Updates. Re-test.
    2. If the issue persists, de-activate all plugins not made by SiteOrigin. Do so in one go.
    3. Re-test.

    Let me know how that goes.

    Headings

    Vantage doesn’t have heading font size settings. Please, let me know how you’re going about changing h2 to h6 and I’ll try on my side and look into what the problem might be.

  2. 9 years, 29 days ago Kathy

    Thank you for replying so quickly.

    I don’t know what you mean by pending updates – can you be more specific? Looked at Dashboard>Updates and it says it was updated today, so it probably happened last night while I was working with it. Since there is only a few lines on that page I don’t know what you mean about “run all” from that area. And I want to be able to get this done in a normal way, the way you should be able to use it.

    Also, I already did the plugin thing. I know that’s a standard answer as I’ve spent a lot of time reading site origin answers to problems and have seen that one doesn’t usually work.

    Also, the changing headings 2-6 , I’m using Easy Google Fonts so its about Vantage. Why can’t Easy Google Fonts make the changes to these headings? Oh, sorry, I’ve tried several times to make changes to the headings in Customize>typography/default typography (theme) which is correct right?

    I would appreciate some help with this as it’s for a client and I ran over the time limit due to ongoing issues.

    Thank you,

    Kathy

  3. 9 years, 29 days ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Sure.

    We don’t know what’s gone wrong yet so our first step is to update the theme, plugins and WordPress. Dashboard > Updates will show you if you there updates for any of your plugins, themes or WordPress. That’s what I mean by pending. If no updates are there then none are pending and you’re all good with this first step of the process.

    Plugin troubleshooting accounts for the large majority of the problems we run into. Please, keep in mind that WordPress.org is a self-hosted, plugin dependent system. Problems often arise with other plugins that are completely outside of our control. Plugin troubleshooting helps identify where issues are coming from so we can being to solve them or find alternative solutions.

    If you send a set of temporary admin login details I’d be more than happy to login and take a look at the two challenges you’re facing. Instructions to follow.

  4. 9 years, 29 days ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Hi Kathy

    Would it be possible for you to create a temporary admin account for us so we can log in and take a look? You can create the account with the following email address:

    [email protected]

    Just navigate to Users > Add New in your WordPress admin. Enter siteorigin for the username and [email protected] for the email address. Make sure you’ve selected Administrator for the role and enabled the “Send Password” field so we receive the details.

    Once we’re finished taking a look, you can delete this account. We’ll let you know when to do that.

  5. 9 years, 29 days ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Easy Google Fonts is setting heading font styles as follows:

    h2 {
        font-family: 'Belgrano';
        font-size: 40px;
        font-style: normal;
        font-weight: 400;
    }
    

    This mostly doesn’t work with Vantage because Vantage sets this same rule with a more specific selector. The more specific selector beats the less specific selector:

    .entry-content h2 {
        font-size: 1.6em;
    }
    

    Once we’ve taken a look at your site we’d be happy to hotfix this for you with a little Custom CSS.

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  7. 9 years, 29 days ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Thanks.

    Inserting the following at Appearance > Custom CSS will resolve the heading challenges:

    .entry-content p {
        background-color:#fff;
        color:#000;
        font-family:'Roboto';
        font-size:18px;
        font-style:normal;
        font-weight:300;
        line-height:1.2
    }
    
    .entry-content h1 {
        background-color:#ed381c;
        color:#fff;
        font-family:'Roboto';
        font-size:39px;
        font-style:normal;
        font-weight:500;
        letter-spacing:-1px;
        line-height:.9;
        margin-top:18px;
        margin-bottom:6px;
        margin-left:19px
    }
    
    .entry-content h2 {
        background-color:#fff;
        color:#000;
        font-family:'Roboto';
        font-size:35px;
        font-style:normal;
        font-weight:300;
        letter-spacing:-1px;
        line-height:1.1
    }
    
    .entry-content h3 {
        color:#000;
        font-family:'Roboto';
        font-size:28px;
        font-style:normal;
        font-weight:300;
        letter-spacing:1px;
        line-height:.9
    }
    
    .entry-content h4 {
        font-family:'Roboto';
        font-size:10px;
        font-style:normal;
        font-weight:100;
        letter-spacing:-5px
    }
    
    .entry-content h5 {
        font-family:'Roboto';
        font-size:10px;
        font-style:normal;
        font-weight:100;
        line-height:.8
    }
    
    .entry-content h6 {
        font-family:'Roboto';
        font-size:10px;
        font-style:normal;
        font-weight:300;
        line-height:1.3
    }
    
  8. 9 years, 29 days ago Kathy

    Hi Andrew —
    I'm really nervous because I did the instructions so you can access and it's showing up on the public post.

  9. 9 years, 29 days ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Your static home page is Pages > Home.

    Appearance > Home Page is just a shortcut to the Page Builder tab on that page.

    Because your static home page is set to Pages > Home and Appearance > Home Page is a shortcut to that page. The toggle button will stay on.

    You don’t need to use Appearance > Home page. You can just use Pages > Home to edit the page.

    Hope that explains what’s happening there.

  10. 9 years, 29 days ago Kathy

    So Easy Google Fonts won't work for headings with the Vantage Theme?

  11. 9 years, 29 days ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Unfortunately, not. It’s targeting the global heading selector (h1). Vantage targets a more specific heading selector (.entry-content h1). Dropping the Custom CSS I sent into Appearance > Custom CSS will hotfix.

  12. 9 years, 29 days ago Kathy

    Thanks!

  13. 9 years, 29 days ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    For sure :) Glad we could help.

  14. 9 years, 29 days ago Kathy

    Heading 1 was never a problem, just the rest of them, so I'm a little confused. 

  15. 9 years, 29 days ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Not everything you’re declaring is being declared in the Vantage stylesheet. Declarations not included in this list should work:

    color: #444444;
    margin: 1em 0;
    font-weight: 500;
    font-size: 1.7em;
    

    So font-family for example, that’ll work. So will letter spacing and line-height.

  16. 9 years, 29 days ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    When I say “Not everything you’re declaring is being declared in the Vantage stylesheet.” I mean not everything being declared by Easy Google Fonts is in the Vantage stylesheet. If Vantage isn’t declaring letter spacing then the Easy Google Fonts CSS rule will work because there is no specificity issue.

    The issue overall arises because of this:

    https://css-tricks.com/specifics-on-css-specificity/

    Vantage is being more specific. But, only with the four declarations I just listed above.

  17. 9 years, 29 days ago Kathy

    Letter spacing isn't working. In fact, I just tried it again and while I'm trying to change something in the typography/default etc. section, the changes aren't showing on the page so can't see what I'm doing (except for Heading 1, as it has been from the beginning. There is still a problem, but I see you just got on the site – hope you can come up with a fix for this. Thanks.

  18. 9 years, 29 days ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    If you send a link to a page that contains a heading that has letter spacing set but isn’t reflecting that change, I’d be happy to take a look.

  19. 9 years, 28 days ago Kathy

    Hi Andrew —
    I wanted to thank you for all your effort on this! I have another issue now that's more important and started a new thread.
    Thanks again.

  20. 9 years, 28 days ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    For sure :) I’m a bit underwater at the moment but will be able to assist over the course of the evening. GMT+2. Thanks.

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