Hi,

After the major update of Shipyard 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 Shipyard 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 Shipyard 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. Shipyard 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

Hi,

For users with a Shipyard 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 Shipyard 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

Hey Guido

I have to say that the “Shipyard” template is the BEST template I have ever used.
I have used it on a ton of sites. My concern is since your no longer uopdating the theme what happens to my sites if there ever is an incompatibility with the WP core. Would I be out of luck or would I be able to get support somewhere?
The Theme is A W E S O M E

Thanks Tony

Hi,

About the recent Shipyard 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

Hi,

This month I will update Shipyard 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 Shipyard 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 Guido,
Thanks for your Shipyard theme. Looks great and works smoothly.
The only problem I encounter is errors that Google Search Console keeps showing me: hentry tags “author”, “entry-title” and “updated” are missing in the root page with posts list and in every post page. In the root page there’re as many errors as there’re posts on the page, e.g. in my case it’s 10.
I found a solution how to correct this in the theme code, but there’re so many strange words that I’m afraid to correct it myself. Could you please help me with this problem?
Thanks in advance!
Julia

How can I get rid of “pin, share, tweet, 1+, email” at the beginning of my post excerpts on “Shipyard” theme?

https://www.vintagesouthernpicks.com

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

when I create a child theme of shipyard and I want to add a call to an additional CSS file (for example, “blue.css”), I know that I need to create a functions.php in the child theme but how do I correctly code this? I know that I cannot just copy the code that is in the parent theme, but must modify the call in enqueue_scripts? I have been looking for some documentation on the net about how to do this and still do not find or understand what needs to be done.

thanks Guido

Al

First of all Shipyard is a wonderful theme. It’s just like I wanted a WordPress theme to be. Nice work by the developer!

Now the problem is that there is no space between paragraphs on single post pages. This makes text look all combined even if the article is divided in to one or more paragraphs via the post-editor.

I’ve tried altering the line-height, still couldn’t do it. Did a couple of searches but that didn’t help either.

Please help!