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I’m having a problem with URL’s in MetaSlider
I’ve added a caption to each photo, and href’d it to the photo’s copyright owner.
I’ve also added target=“blank” to the link, but when clicking, it opens the link both in the same window and a new tab.
I’ve identified this as a javascript problem, because the link behaves as intended if I run the page with javascript disabled.
My web site is www.thesoulofwork.com – would you be able to help me?
Thank you,
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24Sorry – I am having two problems, and the title of this thread doesn’t match the nature of the problem I’ve described. My second problem is that my metaslider and vantage headline don’t show on the blog page.
sorry for the confusion.
Hi Laurie
Thanks for reaching out. Sorry for the hassle.
We recently found out about this bug and are looking into it this week. It’ll be resolved for the next update. For now you can hotfix by turning off Slider Stretch at Appearance > Theme Setting > Home and instead using Meta Slider’s built in 100% width feature at Meta Slider > Advanced > 100%.
The 100% width setting in Meta Slider, unfortunately, doesn’t render quite the same as the theme setting. Give it a try and see how it goes.
Still didn’t work. :-(
Any idea when the update will come out?
Thank you for trying.
Sorry, I see what the problem is preventing my fix from working (linking in the caption). We’re working on a fix right now.
Another possible hotifx is this:
1. Appearance > Theme Settings > Home: set the home slider to None.
2. Appearance > Home Page or Pages > Home. Insert a Meta Slider widget above all the other content and select the same slider.
3. Go to Appearance > Custom CSS and insert the following to remove the bit of padding at the top:
/* Home */ .home #main { padding-top: 0; }Let me know if that helps :) Thanks for your understanding.
With regards to your blog page problem. Try this:
1. Settings > Reading unselect your Blog page as the posts page.
2. Go to your Blog page and insert a Post Loop widget. That’ll pull your posts and still allow other content to be presented around the post feed.
To add in a little complication, if you want to use my home page slider link workaround for the blog page you’ll need to add the following rule to Appearance > Custom CSS:
/* Blog */ .page-id-x #main { padding-top: 0; }The letter “x” above needs to be replaced with your blog page ID. You can locate this ID by going to Pages > Blog and checking the URL. In the address bar you’ll see a single number. That’s the ID.
Hi Andrew –
Unselecting the Blog page as the posts page did enable the metaslider to appear (yay!) – however, the Post Loop widget which I inserted just shows a couple of lines of text from each blog entry, but does not show the title of the entries and does not allow the reader to read the entire post. What can I do about this?
Glad that helped a bit.
Edit the Post Loop widget and ensure you’ve select the Blog template within the widget settings.
It is set to the Blog template; still no luck.
Ok cool, next go to Appearance > Theme Settings > Blog > Post Content and change that setting to Full Content. The setting above will let you set your Featured Image size. If each post has a featured image added it should display on the blog page. Let us know how that goes. Thanks.
That worked to show the whole of each blog post; however, now none of the sidebar widgets will show. Is there a way to accomplish this?
Also, is there a way to show only the title of the post, and only a couple of lines, but then the reader can click to read the full post?
It looks like your sidebar is showing: http://www.thesoulofwork.com/blog-3/. Did you make progress on that point?
You can split your content using the “more” quicktag: http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/. Hope that helps.
I did make progress on that part; however, now the titles for the posts have disappeared. Is there a fix for this problem?
Apologies for the hassle. This bug arose as a result of attempts to help users with Google Authorship testing. To hotfix inserting the following at Appearance > Custom CSS:
/* Post Loop Title Hotfix: Remove after next Vantage update */ .page .entry-title { display: block; } .updated { display: none; } article.page .entry-meta:first-of-type { display: none; }Still no luck.
What on earth is going on? This is very frustrating.
There is an error in your Custom CSS. To resolve please, go to Appearance > Custom CSS and delete everything after this line:
Then add the following to the same location:
/* Post Loop Title Hotfix: Remove after next Vantage update */ .page .entry-title { display: block; } .updated { display: none; } article.page .entry-meta:first-of-type { display: none; }Hi Andrew –
Sorry if this sounds particularly dumb . . . but how do I use the quicktag?Is it inserted into the body of the post?
Thank you,
Laurie
There is a button available in the Visual tab that makes this really easy. WordPress run through the process here:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/
:)
Thanks! That did make it easy.
One last little problem: When I fixed the CSS code as you suggested in an earlier response, my blog page, consulting services page, and about me page are all showing a black headline above the headlines that I'd already put in. Is there a way to remove these additional headlines? (the black ones)?
Hi Laurie
On your consulting page, edit it and select the Full Width, No Page Title page template from the right column drop down menu. Same fix for your Blog page.
Hope that helps.
Hi Andrew –
That worked on the About Me and the Consulting Services pages, but it didn't work on the Blog page because it makes the sidebar disappear. Is there a workaround?
Sure, try the following at Appearance > Custom CSS:
/* Blog */ .page-id-136 .entry-header { display: none; }Hope that helps.
That worked – thanks!
For sure :) Glad to hear that did the trick.
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