Hi there,
First I would like to congratulate you for your work developing Vantage, it’s a very handy and powerful tool.
I’ve been progressing quite well on the development of my website using it (artemisandco.net/v3) however I face two issues:
1) I’ve noticed a bug regarding the search bar below the menu, it only appears when scrolling down and seems inactive in the initial page position (extreme top). That happens both on my computer and on my mobile. Do you have any idea how to solve this bug?
2) While I’ve set up well the loop carousel on my pages, I would like each box to direct to the pictures associated to the articles instead of the articles themselves. I’ve set up a lightbox plugin and would like it to be launched when clicking on the pictures of the loop carousel. What would be best is to have it in the shape of a gallery including the pictures of all the boxes instead of showing a single picture. Could you help me with this too?
I hope my message was clear enough and I look forward to hearing from you.
Best,
Search bar visibility and loop carousel link change
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Hi Artemis
Thanks for reaching out. Your site looks great.
It looks like you might have modified the Vantage style.css file. All WordPress themes completely overwrite their folder when updating. Please don’t update to the next Vantage version (whenever that comes out) without first sorting this problem out.
I run through step by step how to sort this exact problem out on this thread: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sub-menus-always-expanded-how-to-fix-it?replies=20. Hope you find that helpful.
1. This relates to a change made to style.css. When I replace style.css with the default the problem is solved. The thread above covers how to use DiffMerge to see your changes to style.css. Once you have your customisations separated you can start to remove them one by one or add them back one by one until the search bar works/breaks again. That should let you know which edit is causing the problem.
2. The carousel is unfortunately pretty static in it’s operation. It lists posts, each post is represented by a featured image and a title. We can choose which posts will be displayed and how many but that’s it. You’ll need to try find a plugin to handle the functionality you’re after. I unfortunately don’t one to recommend at this time. https://wordpress.org/plugins/ is a good place to start.
Dear Andrew,
Thanks for your message.
1. I’ll have a look to the thread you are mentioning and this issue should not be too hard to fix.
2. I found the solution to this one if anyone is interested. Simply replace the code below in the loop-carousel.php file by the revised one.
Initial code:
<a href="” style=”background-image: url()”>
Revised code:
<a href="” rel=”lightbox” style=”background-image: url()”>
Thanks!
Gordon
Hi Gordon
Thanks for your feedback.
Please keep in mind that all WordPress themes completely overwrite during theme update so changes directly to theme files aren’t update safe. You’ll need to add “loops” folder to a child theme and copy loop-carousel.php into that folder. Let us know if you need a hand with that.
Hi Andrew,
I noticed that the code posted in my previous message is only part of what I published. I guess the php part was not supported in this thread. Is there a way to display it fully so people can use it if they are interested?
Regarding the child theme I’ve never set one up but I guess I can find a step by step tutorial easily. It would just be to create a style.css and function.php files and add the loop folder too right?
Best!
For sure, please see below the comment field there is a line that reads “Post code snippets between”. If you use the tags as indicated your code will print.
Here is a starter theme to get going with:
https://siteorigin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/vantage-child-starter.zip
Let me know if you have any questions about the process.