Hello,

My question concerns how to display a logo in the “Clean Yeti Basic” theme. I would like to place a logo in exactly the same place as the one pictured in the theme advertisement. (Clean Yeti left of Title.)

Tried adding the following custom css as previously discussed but substituting left vs center only places it way left of title. Left it center for time being.

#header {
background: url(https://timglore.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/TGLogo-Small.jpg) no-repeat center center;

The “Clean Yeti Basic” theme ad displays the logo beautifully and exactly where i’d like to display mine.

Any help appreciated.

Hello Richard — I am liking your theme a lot for its elegant simplicity, but I have run into one problem. It may well be something I’ve overlooked, but I can’t get the comment form to show up on pages. On posts, sure. I believe that I’ve checked all the necessary boxes for allowing comments, but without success.

Any ideas on what I need to do?

Many thanks

The site in question: thegildedhour.com
Just fyi: I’m using this WP installation as a pseudo-wiki, so I have only pages and no posts. I did create a post for testing purposes and to make sure the commenting feature worked there, which is did.

This is a great theme and it’s working well for me, or it was until yesterday. Now if I click on the NEW button and select ‘page’ (it’s all pages for me, no posts on this weblog), it takes me to the list of all pages instead of the screen where I could start writing a new page. The “add new” button is missing from all the usual places. I’ve been hobbling along by restoring pages in the trash and editing them, but I’d like to fix this. Any suggestions much appreciated.

thegildedhour.com is where you’ll find the weblog in question. If you need log-in info I’m happy to provide it. Thank you.

Hi, we’ve been having an issue with Clean Yeti Basic when the content of top bar 40.063em wide or wider. On browser windows between the size of 40.063em and that content the top bar is displayed on two lines. When this happens, the second line shows incorrect background color on those parts that are not covered by nav items.

Here’s an illustration of the situation. Content width: 55em. X = 5em of the correct background top bar color. O = 5em of body background color showing where it shouldn’t.

Viewport: 60em

Top bar is one one line as it should, because all elements fit inside it.

XXXXXXXXXXXX

Viewport: 45em

XXXXXXXXX
OOOOOOOXX

Top bar shows all items, but they don’t fit on one line, and the second line shows mostly body background color where it shouldn’t.

Viewport: 40em

XXXXXXXX

The top bar content is collapsed and only the logo and toggle button are showing at the corners. The space in between shows the correct background color.

Solution

We believe this is because cleanyetibasic.css, line 6410 specifies that the minimum width of not collapsing is 40.063em regardless of content width. The solution is to override this with JavaScript that takes into accord the actual width of .title-area and all the direct children of .top-bar-section.

Two alternative solutions come to mind: first, make sure the second line of the top bar uses the correct background color. It will still show on two lines, but it doesn’t look like a certain bug in the site’s design. Second option: add a theme setting to specify the trigger width, and move the width-specific CSS that is affected by actual content width into a file that is regenerated by PHP whenever the setting is changed.

Hi,
I would like to use the function Read more but I see any difference !
What do you do ?

I did a test post on Clean Yeti Basic using <h1>, <ul>, and <li> codes (entered using WordPress visual editor). When I click on preview post, the formatting is perfect. When I visit the site, all the codes have been removed and the headings and item list is one long line beginning with <p> and ending with </p>.

So I removed the theme, reinstalled it, created a new post with<h1>, <ul>, and <li> codes. Same result – looks right in preview post, single line on the site.
Is there any advice you can provide?

Brian

Hello,

How can I add a header or footer javascript statement to Clean Yeti?
I’m putting a sortable table on some of my pages, and I need to call a javascript to enable sorting.

Thanks,

Brian

I can’t seem to figure out how to remove the “Written by AUTHOR” text via a hook in the functions.php file. Can anyone lend a hand with this (NOT with CSS, but with hooks only please.)?

CssHero is an amazing plugin for testing your site on different size browsers (desktop, tablet, phone) and customizing it on the fly.

There are a bunch of themes that support CssHero, but Clean Yeti Basic wasn’t yet among them. CssHero isn’t free, so this isn’t a request, but rather a pointer that adding support to it might be a worthwile idea and might help sell more premium themes.

I’d like to add an image to the header.

What’s the best way of going about this?

Thanks,
Richard

Any reason for not using php namespace?

All these prefix ‘cleanyetibasic’ substrings are hurting my eyes and soul.

Nevertheless: keep up the good work…

I took a stab at using the Foundation icons with Clean Yeti Basic 2.1.2. Unfortunately, the following example code didn’t show the desired icon:

<i class="foundicon-search"></i>

How to use Foundation icons with Clean Yeti Basic in general? Is there an easy way to use that search icon as a background icon for a search field? Thanks in advance!

Our site has plugins that create textareas with a defined number of rows (HTML attribute). These don’t have any effect as cleanyetibasic.css defines on row 2971 that all textareas have a height of height: 2.3125rem;.

Why is there a pre-defined height for textarea elements that overrides the row attribute? Could it be removed so that rows have an effect?

The template file page.php currently adds an edit link in the end of each post that is of the type Page. Posts that are of the type Post can switch off the edit links with childtheme_override_postfooter_posteditlink and childtheme_override_postmeta_editlink.

It would be optimal if pages would obey the first of the abovementioned function overrides as posts do.

When having a dropdown menu for example at the top bar, the first level link behaves differently in different layouts. When the client is using the small layout (e.g. mobile) and after expanding the menu, clicking the first level menu shows the second level items and hides all the first level ones, including the one that was just clicked, so the page it links to cannot be accessed.

Example menu

My Friends
Write a Message
Invite Friends

In the small layout there’s no way to access the “My Friends” page, as clicking it shows the previously hidden second level links “Write a Message” and “Invite Friends” and hides the first level “My Friends” link. In layouts that don’t collapse the whole menu, clicking “My Friends” takes you to the appropriate page. All layout sizes should allow clicking the link.

One way to do this is to duplicate the first level link to be displayed below “Back” and above the second level links after being clicked on the small layout.

Tried to set up QTranslate language flags at the header of our child theme for Clean Yeti Basic 2.1.1. Ran into conflict with the theme’s default CSS at library/Foundation/css/cleanyetibasic.css. QTranslate displays the images with the background declaration of an a element, but the theme’s CSS overrode that.

The solution was to do a search and replace from “background:” to “background-color:” in that theme CSS file. Is there a particular reason why background was used instead of background-color, or could this fix be considered for the theme?

1. Settings for deciding which Foundation libraries to load may come handy. Version 2 of the plugin doesn’t seem to load any unneeded libraries by default, so the benefit would mainly be to give users an easy way to enable additional ones they want to use.

2. I remember Google PageSpeed Insights stating that small scripts are more efficient to be served as part of other scripts, or even inline, although that disables browser-side caching. The sites that need this the most usually use a specific plugin to combine scripts, but if there was an easy way to include the half-a-kilobyte library/Foundation/js/foundation.custom.js inside another file, that would avoid the overhead of one server request.

1. Library/extensions/comment-extensions.php contains neat options to override certain strings with own translations. There are a few strings missing this on lines 238-244. They’re all ran through sprintf, but that shouldn’t hinder translation at all.

The string to be ran through sprintf should be obtained in the same way as the other strings. For example it should be possible to override Logged in as %s with for example Kirjauduttu sis??n k?ytt?j?n? %s for Finnish.

Using a translation file is still a nightmare for many use cases as it gets automatically overwritten or deleted on plugin updates. WordPress core team is working on an update to allow better translation file management. In the meanwhile we would be best served with the override functions.

2. If you’ll switch the translated string Log out? to be Log out and then append the question mark, you can make use of WordPress core translation and be immediately translated to dozens of languages. I would also vouch for putting brackets around the text instead of a question mark after, so that we’d have it the same way as on here on www.remarpro.com: Logged in as Username (Log out). And when the brackets are inside the same span class="logout", the siteadmin can now theme this with CSS.

We made good use of the dropdown menus with our child theme of Clean Yeti Basic 1.1.1. Upgrading CYB to 2.0.1 broke them: mouseover doesn’t show the child-level menu entries anymore.

We want a sidebar that is not large-4. Almost all of the features of this theme are easily overrideable by a child theme by actions or replacer functions. Neither are available for cleanyetibasic_sidebar(), so the next best option seems to be to disable the default sidebar and re-add a customized one in cleanyetibasic_belowcontainer().

Could a similar way to override cleanyetibasic_sidebar() be added as almost all other functions have, e.g. either by adding a direct support for an override function in the same way as cleanyetibasic_body() has, or at least giving it its own action? Thanks!

We have custom post types (Events Manager‘s events and locations) and use custom code to display them. We’ve been able to override many other defaults in our child theme of Clean Yeti Basic, but haven’t yet found how to not display post images.

How can the post images be turned off?

WordPress suggests to update from 1.1.1 to 2.0.1. However, I couldn’t find any information on the changes. What’s changed since 1.1.1?

We would like to display a custom copyright text. At the moment this can only be done by overriding the default behavior in PHP. A more user-friendly and maintainable way would be to provide a theme settings screen where this is editable, as for example Elbee Elgee does.

Copyright law

Having the current year being automatically displayed in the copyright might cause trouble. A fundamental part for obtaining a copyright is the requirement of an original work. When a copyright is contested, the question is whether there was prior art that this work was based on.

Example: Person A posts an article in 2013. Person B copies it without permission to their blog during the same year. Year changes. Person A’s blog automatically generates the copyright date and states that the content is copyrighted from 2014 onwards. Person B’s blog doesn’t automatically update the copyright, and it shows that their identical content is copyrighted from 2013 onwards.

Copyright notices don’t have legal effect in themselves, but they can be misleading, which can have ramifications when trying to enforce one’s rights. When one is making a copyright claim it’s best to be accurate and at least not claim that the copyright is newer than it is.

Better defaults go only so far

A better automatic copyright notice would be from the site’s founding year to the current year. Of course, if site content wasn’t updated in 2014, there’s no basis to claim a copyright being obtained during 2013 to 2014. The only way to let users make accurate statements of their copyrights is by providing a manually editable field.

Finding this theme was surprisingly hard in the admin panel of WP 3.8. Searching for the exact name of this theme, Clean Yeti Basic, listed 209 themes, loaded some 20 at a time, and the desired one was many pages down. It took some determination to be able to install this, as it required scrolling to the end of the page some five times before it was possible to find with the browser’s Find feature.

Any ideas on how to improve this? I tried to give this a rating, but www.remarpro.com didn’t agree to saving it without some accompanying words. Having just installed it there isn’t too much I can say about this, and I’m not sure if www.remarpro.com allows modifying reviews later.

Visit the demo site here https://cleanyetibasic.serenethemes.com for some useful tips and how-tos for the theme. I would also appreciate any feedback about the theme and anything that could be done to improve it.