Vantage Pro Blog customizing

Here is a child theme to get you started:

https://siteorigin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/vantage-child-bazz-01.zip

Download the ZIP to your desktop and install from Appearance > Themes > Add New. Activating a child theme will reset menu location settings and Customizer settings. This is expected.

The child theme without taking any action will remove “Posted on” and will remove “Category Archives:” strings.

Hope that helps :)

Forget any PHP. The child theme I sent fixes easily two of your requests. You just need to right click on the link, save it your desktop and install from Appearance > Themes > Add New: Upload Theme. Done. Sure, there are some settings t redo, that’s just tedious. Give it a go.

Ok:

1. Yes, you are quite right. Apologies, I have made the appropriate fixes for the next version of Vantage. Apologies for the hassle. For now you can hotfix by adding the following to Appearance > Custom CSS:

/* Hotfixes: Remove after next Vantage update */

/* Post Loop */

.widget_siteorigin-panels-postloop h1.entry-title {
  margin-top: 0;
  margin-bottom: 0;
}

/* Pages - Entry Meta */
.page .entry-meta { display: block; }

article.page .entry-meta:first-of-type {
  display: none;
}

Hey Bazz

Child Theme

Not sure I’m following, let me try explain. Changes made to Appearance > Custom CSS in the parent theme won’t be lost when activating the child theme. When you activate a child theme it does reset menu location settings at Appearance > Menus and Appearance > Customize > Theme Design settings. This is normal. Those setting just need to be re-saved.

If you don’t want to use the child theme modifications, that’s cool, just thought I would explain what happened.

5. Try the following at Appearance > Custom CSS:

/* Entry Meta */

.page .entry-meta {
  display: block;
}

article.page .entry-meta:first-of-type {
  display: none;
}

6. The period/point looks to be in the text. Please edit the post in question and check that there isn’t one at the start of the post. Also check the Excerpt field and make sure there isn’t a period/point there.

Thanks

Thanks for the info. Please keep in mind that you can’t update Vantage as is. If you ever run a theme update all your code changes will be lost. All WordPress themes overwrite themselves during theme updates. This is where a child theme and or Custom CSS is applicable.

Using this form: https://siteorigin.com/orders/ you can retrieve your original order email. In there is a link to download the ZIP file for Vantage Premium.

You’ll then need to compare the original functions.php with your new functions.php to find the alterations. You can use a program like https://sourcegear.com/diffmerge/.

You can then move your changes over to a child theme to make them update safe.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

5. Sorry, change to:

/* Entry Meta */

.page .entry-meta {
  display: none;
}

.page .panel-grid-cell .entry-meta {
  display: block;
}

6. Edit the post concerned. Click Screen Options top right. Enable Excerpt. Then scroll down to the Excerpt field and enter your own manually written excerpt.

Your blog layout should automatically be inserting an image. If it’s not then please check that each post has a featured image added. You can add a featured image to a post from the right column link “Add featured image”. For more, please, see: http://en.support.wordpress.com/featured-images/.

Your excerpt should be only text. It’s usually the first paragraph of your blog post.

Got you.

If your images are aligned left then you could remove the caption and try this at Appearance > Custom CSS:

/* Left aligned images */
.entry-content .alignleft {
  max-width: 100%;
  margin: 5px 30px 0 0;
  border: 1px solid #e0e0e0;
  padding: 8px;
  box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.09);
  -ms-box-sizing: border-box;
  -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
  -webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  text-align: center;
}

Win :) Glad to hear that helped. All the best.