Hi,

After the major update of BlueGray last week I have updated theme again.

Unfortunately several changes that have been added lately may break your child theme and/or custom CSS. But to make this theme better, this is not something that can be avoided.

For users with a child theme:

• Extra container for main content area
• Have updated files header and footer

For users with custom CSS:

• Changed class postmetadata into post-metadata
• Changed class postmetadata-bottom into post-metadata-bottom
• Changed class readmore into read-more

For all users:

• Changes are made in the stylesheet (CSS)
• If website doesn’t look as expected after theme update, clear your (browser) cache and reload the page

In a previous version I have added the great flexbox layout method to the header section, but reverted this again. Although flexbox is great, this theme was developed before flexbox became the number one layout method. To be consistent only floats are being used throughout stylesheet. That’s why flexbox is removed again.

Rest assured, no more major updates in the (near) future!

Need help? Please open a topic in support forum.

Guido

Hi,

Yes, another update after almost 2 years!

In last update of BlueGray I have included new settings in the Customizer:

• Display or hide site title and tagline
• Display header image at homepage only or throughout your website
• Display featured image on the single post page
• Set length of the post summary
• Change label of the Read More button and Mobile Menu button

For users with a child theme:

• Because of the new settings in the Customizer you may not even need a child theme anymore
• Files header, single and single-full: updated to include new settings from above
• File footer: removed whitespace and such

For users with custom CSS:

• Changes are made in the stylesheet (CSS)
• Most changes in the mobile stylesheet (to make website look better in small screen)

For all users:

• Changes are made in the stylesheet (CSS)
• If website doesn’t look as expected after theme update, clear your (browser) cache and reload the page

Need help? Please open a topic in support forum.

Guido

Hi,

For users with a BlueGray child theme or custom CSS. I have added/changed several CSS classes.

File functions:
Changed class widgettitle into widget-title widgettitle.
Old class widgettitle will be removed in the future.

File header:
Added class="site-title" to the logo H1.

File content-list:
Changed class entry-content into entry-content post-content.

Files single and single-full:
Changed classes post-title-single entry-title into entry-title post-title.
Changed class entry-content into entry-content post-content.

Files page and page-full:
Changed class entry-content-page into page-content.

You may have to update your child theme and/or your custom CSS.

Guido

Hi,

In last theme update I’ve removed Google font (Open Sans) because of the GDPR. BlueGray now uses system font Verdana instead.

You can easily add your own font with one of the plugins that are available for this, such as the Fonts Plugin.

Guido

I have a problem related to the theme and https. On my website, the logo is not https. I uploaded it via the menu but it is used as http in stead of https. This gives errormessages in Norton and sometimes also in the browser icon.

One time somebody helped me and “hacked” the address in https but since there was an update, the hack is gone and back to http again. How can this be solved?

Thank you very much!

The + (plus sign) to show there are sub-items to a menu item is appearing against the item BEFORE the one with sub-items, in the mobile and tablet views. I have another website using BlueGray (which I really like by the way) and I haven’t updated to the latest version of that (still on 6.7). This error doesn’t occur with that site.

Hi Guido,
I’m using BlueGray theme.
When I include a youtube-url inside a column I get the result that you see in the example. How can this be improved?

Hi,

For users with a BlueGray child theme:

Sometimes you cannot avoid updating template files. This time I have updated files header and footer.

File header: added code for new feature in Customizer (logo width). And added ID to several mobile menu elements.
File footer: added code for new feature in Customizer (add content to footer).

Those changes might have broken some of your customizations, I’m sorry for that. If you want help to fix it again please open a topic in support forum.

Guido

Hi,

About the recent BlueGray theme update:

Main reason for last update is to improve accessibility and better support for screen readers.

Because of this I had to change the CSS of main navigation. Mainly the CSS of submenu and mobile menu.

Those changes might have broken some of your CSS customizations, I’m sorry for that. If you want help to fix it again please open a topic in support forum.

For users with a child theme, I have updated file header. Added a skip-to-content link and changed the div with class “mobile-nav-toggle” into a button.

Guido

Hello Guido,

may you can help me to create a child theme of blue gray theme please?

Greeting Mathias

Hello Guido,

i like your theme. May you can tell me, how to make the footer links in a single row?

So the footer widges (left, middle and right) are only one column?

With best regards
Mathias.

Hi Guido!
Could you help me? I want to disable google webfonts.
I know that the code needs to be in the functions.php – but I can not write it.

I hope for your help

Thank you alursru

Hi Guido!
When I do the update 6.3 my header css no longer applies… Do I have to rewrite the whole CSS? has been removed .header-first ?
Thanks for this great theme!
Best regards!

Hi,

About the recent BlueGray theme updates:

The last couple of months there where several theme updates to improve the quality of this theme. Lately there where many (minor) CSS changes regarding the width and floating of div elements.

When a div element contains floated child elements this div can collapse. In the past I resolved this collapsing by adding width and floating to this div, but using a so called clearfix is best practice. So that’s why I’ve removed the width and floating and added a clearfix instead.

Besides this I’ve restyled the mobile menu.

Those changes might have break some of your CSS customizations, I’m sorry for that. If you want help to fix it again please open a thread in support forum.

I’m not planning new theme updates anytime soon..

Guido

Hello!

I would like to remove the category heading.

It should be displayed like this: News

not Category: News

So I just want the title alone without the word category:
I would be glad if you helped me

Is there a CSS change I can make to make the background color of the post area white, while maintaining a yellow background color on the rest of the page? I’ve tried some CSS I’ve used on other sites, but no luck yet.

Hi –

I would like to sort all category archive pages by title.

Can you let me know what code to change. I have created and installed a child theme.

Why do I get these double menues.

See this picture: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7ct1wb85lccc43o/double_menu.jpg?dl=0

Hi,

This month I will update BlueGray theme, and add a fully new mobile navigation (navigation in mobile screen).

This means I will replace the (jquery) select menu with a dropdown (jquery) toggle menu.

If you’re using a child theme that contains file “header.php”, you should update this file after updating theme. Otherwise the new dropdown toggle menu won’t work. I have added some extra lines of code regarding the new menu in this file.

Guido

After making some changes in Style.css the colorchange of the site-title looks OK in Firefox, in Chrome no changes visible at all. (Working on localhost.) What is the right way to change the color of the site-title?

Hi,

For those who have customized BlueGray theme:

The last couple of months there where several theme updates to improve the quality of this theme. I have made lots of changes in many files. Please also check previous posts in this theme-forum. Lately there where many (small) CSS changes regarding margin, padding, float, clear, etc. To solve issues such as margin collapsing. Those changes might have break some of your customizations, I’m sorry for that.

Guido

Is there a git repository, where it is possible to fork your theme, I would like to do some small changes for me…

Hi,

In case updating BlueGray theme breaks your custom modifications:

Major modifications in version 4.8:

• Some logical changes in div elements
• Files style and header: changed #header-widgets into #homepage-widgets

Simply change the name of these divs/classes in your custom CSS / child theme files and you’re done.

Guido

Hi,
I saw in the documentation for the theme that there are tables. I have not found them on the dashboard. How can I use that feature?
Thanks!
uliuliuli

Hi,

In upcoming theme update I have improved the heading structure because of SEO.

This might have consequences in case of modifications you’ve made.

New structure is:

• Site title = h1 (not changed)
• Tagline = h2
• Page title = h1
• Single post title = h1
• Post title link = h2
• Widget title = h3

Guido

Hi,

Thank you for using one of my themes. I’m trying to check this forum once every week.

You can also reach me via my website, but only in case of emergencies.

Enjoy,

Guido

Hi!
Is the bluegray-theme compatible for WPML? Thanks

Guido,
The BlueGray theme seems perfect, but I’d like to have the default setting of my blog posts and photos be full screen under the 3-columns, and expand or shrink to fit user devices (PCs, smart phones, etc.). Could you tell me where the settings would be for this? (I’m an old coot with no web design experience. My website is BlueRidgeCruisers.com).
Thanks,
Steve

Is there something in the CSS that I should change in order to make my images responsive? Even if I delete the image size listed in the <img> tag, they seem to stay the exact same size and therefore dominate the screen when viewed on a phone.

I like many features of BlueGray but would like a little customization.

1. I want to change the blue accent color to red to go with my site at https://truckingmpg.com

2. I would like to get rid of the white space above the menu.

Thank you Guido for a nice theme.

Buck