LODESTAR Theme – Suggestions/Requests

  • Hello

    I have recently soft-launched my music site (semitonal.com) using the WordPress LODESTAR theme. I am generally very pleased with it but thought, as a Creative Director, I would write with a few suggestions which could perhaps allow me to improve the site before I begin to promote it.

    1. The fact that the theme is responsive is great, and one of the main reasons for my move to WordPress. The Header Image, however, does not currently translate well to the mobile platform: as it has to perform as the site’s main image (rather than as a background), would it be possible to preserve the crop of the original image or even (if possible) to allow a different crop for each platform (desktop/tablet/mobile)? Or is there some workaround which I haven’t managed to stumble upon? (FYI, I believe I am not using a Title in this area)

    2. Still on the Header Image, it would be really helpful to have a Header Image template diagram specifying a suggested ‘safe area’ for crops which provides the best compromise across the various platforms.

    3. The Social Media links menu (which I have set at the bottom of each page) currently opens my first two links in a new window, but not the other four. Would it be possible to set a ‘best practise’ default where each link here opens in a new window? Or perhaps to provide the option to set this for each link?

    Many thanks for your time. Any help would be much appreciated.

    Best wishes

    Tomaso

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  • sacredpath

    (@sacredpath)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Hi there, I see your site is hosted at WordPress.com. These forums are for those that self-host their own installation of WordPress software. The best place to seek help on your site is at https://en.forums.wordpress.com/. Since you have one of the WordPress.com upgrade plans, you can also seek help via Live Chat at https://wordpress.com/help/contact/.

    For screens 30em and narrower, a media query is setting the top/bottom padding for the custom header image div to 10%. Wider than that, it is set to 20%. Add this to your custom CSS and it will set that padding back to 20% for screens 29.99em and narrower and keep the header image pretty much consistent on all screens.

    @media screen and (max-width: 29.99em) {
  .custom-header-image {
    padding: 20% 0;
  }
}

    For the social media links, open that menu and then open each of the social menu items like you were going to edit them, and there should be an “open in new tab” checkbox below the title attribute field. If that does not appear, go to Screen Options at top right and activate the link target.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by sacredpath.
    Thread Starter semitonal

    (@semitonal)

    Hi sacredpath

    Thanks very much for your advice – much appreciated.

    Hi Sacredpath,

    Me too.

    Thanks very much for your advice – much appreciated.

    sacredpath

    (@sacredpath)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    You are welcome.

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