Hi,

After the major update of OneColumn 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:

• Have updated file header

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 OneColumn 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 and single: 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 OneColumn 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.

File single:
Changed classes post-title-single entry-title into entry-title post-title.
Changed class entry-content into entry-content post-content.

File page:
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. OneColumn 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

Dear Guido,
we are running your OneColumn Theme quite a long time and still love it. Will there be a an update for PHP8?
thx and best,
c–

Is it possible to increase the word length of the except on the home page?

Hello Guido. When I updated to wordpress 5.9 I was not able to add images anymore.
Best regards, lisia

Hi,

For users with a OneColumn 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).

Removed file sidebar and relocated footer widgets to file footer.
get_sidebar() is removed from all template files.

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 OneColumn 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!

Unfortunately some phrases are not translated to German, although I have a onecolumn-de_DE.po with the right translations

#: content-list.php:26
msgid “Read More »”
msgstr “Weiterlesen »”

#: content-postmeta.php:8
msgid “Posted on %s”
msgstr “Ver?ffentlicht am %s”

#: content-postmeta.php:9
msgid “By %s”
msgstr “Von %s”

How can I solve this?

I have found the file content-list.php, where I can change “Read more” to “Weiterlesen”. But I want to have a multilingual website very soon and so this method doesn’t work for me.

Best regards, lisia

• This topic was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by lisia.

Hello Guido! thanks for updating this wonderful theme.
I would like to change the Google Font.
I thought, I have to change the function.php and the style.css (of course in a child-theme)

function.php:

// Font family
function onecolumn_font_url() {
	$font_url = '//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto';
	return esc_url_raw( $font_url );
}

style.css:

/* BODY */
body {background:#fff; color:#333; font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif; font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; text-align:left; word-wrap:break-word;}

Unfortunately it doesn’t work. Anything else to change?

Best regards, lisia

• This topic was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by lisia.
• This topic was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by lisia.

Hi,

About the recent OneColumn 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,

When I view from mobile iPhone, the menu does not show.
How can I show it?

Thank you,

Hi,

This month I will update OneColumn 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

Hi,

For those who have customized OneColumn 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

Hi,

In case updating OneColumn theme breaks your custom modifications:

Major modifications in version 5.1:

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

Started a new WP site tonight in a subdirectory while the existing HTML site is in the root. I’ve set a static home page to Home, and blog posts to Blog page. WordPress address and site address are set to the subdirectory: https://pegasusts.com/ptswp (where the WP files are located).

Home has the blog page on top and home page below: https://pegasusts.com/ptswp/. Other pages are correct: https://pegasusts.com/ptswp/?page_id=9. Does something in the database need corrected?

I’ve tried just about everything to hide the submenu on mobiles. Seems like this should work, but doesn’t.

.nav-head ul ul a, .nav-head ul ul li, .nav-head ul li:hover > ul, .nav-head ul li ul li {display:none !important;}

Toni

I’d like to customize the submenu widths based on the text length for: Our Trips, Your Trip, and Canyoneers Story.

Site is here: https://canyoneers.com/wordpress/

Toni

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! I′m trying to use a header image for my OneColumn WordPress but it only appears in the main page.

What can I do?

Thanks!

Problem with WooSidebars plugin

I only want to show the Widget Area on Blog posts and blog categories. And different Widget Area for each category

Widged Aria for Blog categories For Homepage Sidbar Right of Left side does not show.

The main blog page is only showing the summary text (with the ‘read more’ link) despite the settings in the ‘Reading Settings’ being set to “For each article in a feed, show: Full Text”. How do I show the full content of each blog post on the main blog page?

With an other plugin update a field has changed in my website.

Reaction from the plugin owner :
Looks like the text is cut off due to some CSS in your theme. Thats a new multi-select input (before it was a select box).

The text is shown half in the field (multi-select input)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_P3pvTG3nUSTkQzNExjN3JVZDA/edit?usp=sharing

Before the update all did look fine (select box):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_P3pvTG3nUSNmIwUGlZLUl0S0k/edit?usp=sharing

Hi Guido, the author of this great theme.

I have a question about the widgets and search widget. Is it possible to have the search bar on top next to the menu (basic)? And can i activate widgets to the right or left? Any help would be good. Thanks in advance.

Cheers

Hi Guido,

Hello to Groningen. Very nice town, I’ve been there a few times, but years ago (as a student).
Thank you very much for the theme. Love the simplicity and color.
I am struggling, because I installed it a month ago and now can’t open/see my code or text (visuell/text)? It is there and when I mark and copy the content, get lots of code. Especially the images generate lost of crypted code.
“><img class=”aligncenter” alt=”” src=”data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAATYAAADUCAIAAACZJZjDAAAACXBIWXMAAAsTAAALEwEAmpwYAAAKTWlDQ1BQaG90b3Nob3AgSUNDIHByb2ZpbGUAAHjanVN3WJP3Fj7f92UPVkLY8LGXbIEAIiOsCMgQWaIQkgBhhBASQMWFiApWFBURnEhVxILVCkidiOKgKLhnQYqIWotVXDjuH9yntX167 ….and so on.

all images are stored in the mediatheke.

I deleted some code, because I wanted to get rid of the comment function.. But what happenend to the image data?
I also used a table which works with an mobile phone.
Maybe I can’t see the code, because it is so much?
home-design-inside.com (simple Landingpage)- just look at the source code:)

Many thanks! sunny from Hamburg

Hello, I am using this theme to build an artist website. I was wondering if there was a way to have the menu and logo stay in one spot when scrolling? Right now when you scroll down the menu and logo moves off the page. I would like to maybe have the logo and menu stay in the one spot and have the images move underneath when scrolling.

Let me know if this is possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you so much for the great theme!

Hi,

I’m using one column theme as a mobile site. My fonts in the pages i create are not being displayed in the template correctly.
If i use H1 in the page, the them doesn’t display it as H1, but rather a smaller font.

and breaks are not working either.

Why? Is there something I missing that is preventing this?

Thanks

Hello Guido,

I have recently installed your theme and I really love the simplicity of it. Up to now it has been easy to manipulate and change but I have run into a problem with the drop down menu.

It is dropping down behind everything else on each page instead of on front.

Can you help me with this?

The site is https://www.lo-fi.alanlambephotography.com

Here is the header and menu code from the style sheet.

Thanks in Advance, Alan

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