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By robwfounder, 9 years ago. Last reply by Andrew Misplon, 9 years ago.
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Hello,

First of all thanks for all the great work you do with these free plugins…much appreciated.

I have 2 seperate but I think related issues:

#1) I watched your tutorials and in the Getting Started videos you do all of your demo page building with the “SiteOrigin Editor Widget,” and so have I.

But then I look at other screeshots and support threads and I see this “Visual Editor Widget”, which doesn’t come with your Plugin or Widget Bundle.

Has something changed since you made your videos and we are now supposed to be using some 3rd party widget for most of our work? If so, can you show me which it is and any documentation you have about how they work with your PageBuilder?

#2) The other issue is that when using that aforementioned “SIteOrigin Editor Widget,” the font color that I specify in your a”Widgets Style” sidepanel is not being reflected in the front end of the site.

I use Woothemes Canvas and I am pretty sure it is an issue of the theme typography settings overriding your widget…and if that is the case..how to do we fix that?

Or is this second issue related to the first one?

Thanks

Rob

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  1. 9 years, 9 months ago robwfounder

    I haven’t heard back yet, but wanted to update that I have found an issue with using the Hero Widget as well….text put into a frame is not matching the font settings within my theme (Woo Canvas)..

    I see you haven’t built full documentation for that widget yet, but at a glance I think you have confusing and contradictory settings…you have the ability to specify size and color within the frame, but also have those settings further down the widget for Header size, Text size, Font. etc…

    You should consider removing those and work on making the widget inherit the H1, H2, etc of the theme being used.

    In any event a solution to my original question (which I think they are all related) will be great..thanks!

  2. 9 years, 9 months ago Andrew Misplon
    Hi, I Work Here

    Hey Rob

    Thanks for reaching out.

    1. Before we developed our own TinyMCE field we recommended the Visual Editor widget. It’s still an awesome plugin support by Marco. If you don’t want to use our Widgets Bundle plugin then it’s perfect. You can get access to it by installing:

    https://en-za.wordpress.org/plugins/black-studio-tinymce-widget/

    2. We’d need to see this issue live to inspect the source code and see what’s happening with the inline CSS rules vs the theme CSS rules.

    3. I have found an issue with using the Hero Widget as well….text put into a frame is not matching the font settings within my theme (Woo Canvas)..

    Same as two. If we can inspect the Hero widget we’ll be able to quickly figure out a way forward.

    Hero widget documentation is on the way soon.

    For sure, you’re not wrong. The combination of TinyMCE design settings and overall settings is confusing. Unfortunately, once released and in use it’s super hard to roll back features without breaking users widgets. We’ll definitely keep this in mind moving forward. Thanks for your feedback.

    Send a link to your site, or test pages with the problem widgets mocked up with settings in place and we’ll take a look. Feel free to use the Private Reply checkbox bottom right to keep your URL private. We’ll be with you ASAP tomorrow.

    Thanks

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

    Standing by to lend a hand here, just need a few answers to the above questions and we’ll climb in. Thanks.

  4. 9 years, 9 months ago robwfounder

    Hi Andrew,

    As it stands now…I have also heard back from WooThemes about their Canvas theme.

    That theme has an admin page with widget specific font settings…type, color, size, etc…and it seems as if those widget settings will take precendence over all widgets not just their own…meiang that for all of your SO widgets that allow for font styling it will not work with that theme….

    ….UNLESS you use class IDs and style them via CSS.

    Woo’s response was just that..stating that it was intentional on their part to impose those widget settings on all widgets…personally I think they need to offer an easy admin screen way for disabling those widget settings.

    As for now I have spent a couple days going through the SO widgets and finding the IDs I need to use in my CSS.

    So I guess the issue is resolved..though not in the most user friendly way….but not your plugin’s fault..just another in a string of stupid practices by Woothemes.

    Thanks

    Rob

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

    Hey Rob

    Thanks for all the effort you’ve put in here. Page Builder and the Widgets Bundle are built to be as theme independent as possible. Greg is away at the moment but I’ll definitely raise these points with him in our next meeting. Working with theme styles is challenging and I hope we can improve our flexibility in this regard. If there is anything we can assist with moving forward, please, let me know.

    Cheers

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