jessi.webb

@gary-barrett – You’re amazing! THANK YOU! Problem solved.

Thank you. I checked with Bluehost and they said that XML RPC was not blocked on their end. Still checking into how to fix it with Bluehost tech support. I’ll post an update if I get anywhere. Other suggestions welcome. ??

Thank you, but I don’t think it’s quite the same as the link provided. I have my site working now and Jetpack reinstalled, but the header still won’t show up. I deleted and uploaded it again under ‘Themes-Customize’ and I looked through my Custom CSS and Child Theme files to try to find a problem, but I don’t see anything that would be causing it not to show up. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Well, thanks for trying. I added the .hero code you suggested above to the Additional CSS, but it still loads at 1180×435. Who knows…I really appreciate your help though! I guess I’ll just have to leave it alone.

Hmmm, I don’t know. Nothing seems to be working. I even tried changing that line of code

// Full width and grid page template
	add_image_size( 'sela-page-thumbnail', 1180, 610, true );
}

in the parent theme, just to see if it would change anything, knowing that changing things in the parent theme is not ideal, and it still didn’t change anything, so there must be something elsewhere overriding it and forcing it to 1180×435.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by jessi.webb.

Thank you. So I tried this, but nothing seems to have changed. The image I have uploaded is 1180×598, so I changed the size to those exact dimensions to see if that was what was throwing it off, but it is still loading the image at 1180×435. Here is what I changed the child theme functions.php to:

<?php
/**
 * Loads parent & child themes.
 *
 */
function theme_enqueue_styles() {
    wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style',  get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css', array('parent-style') );
}

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_enqueue_styles' );

function commonsense_setup() {
	load_child_theme_textdomain( 'sela-child', get_template_directory() . '/languages' );
	
		// Full width and grid page template
	add_image_size( 'sela-page-thumbnail', 1180, 598, true );
}

add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'commonsense_setup', 11 );

/**
 * Register extra widgetized areas for text on home page.
 *
 */
function sela_child_widgets_init() {

	register_sidebar( array(
		'name'          => 'Home Full Width Text Quote',
		'id'            => 'home_full_width_text_quote',
		'before_widget' => '<div>',
		'after_widget'  => '</div>',
		'before_title'  => '<h2 class="rounded">',
		'after_title'   => '</h2>',
	) );

	register_sidebar( array(
		'name'          => 'Home Full Width Text Main',
		'id'            => 'home_full_width_text_main',
		'before_widget' => '<div>',
		'after_widget'  => '</div>',
		'before_title'  => '<h2 class="rounded">',
		'after_title'   => '</h2>',
	) );

}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'sela_child_widgets_init' );

And I added this to the custom CSS area as suggested:

.entry-thumbnail img {
	width: 100%;
}

Any other ideas or suggestions?

Thanks again!
Jessi

Of course! Here it is, and thank you!

<?php
/**
 * Loads parent & child themes.
 *
 */
function theme_enqueue_styles() {
    wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style',  get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css', array('parent-style') );
}

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'theme_enqueue_styles' );

function commonsense_setup() {
	load_child_theme_textdomain( 'sela-child', get_template_directory() . '/languages' );
	
		// Full width and grid page template
	add_image_size( 'sela-page-thumbnail', 1180, 610, true );
}

add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'commonsense_setup' );

/**
 * Register extra widgetized areas for text on home page.
 *
 */
function sela_child_widgets_init() {

	register_sidebar( array(
		'name'          => 'Home Full Width Text Quote',
		'id'            => 'home_full_width_text_quote',
		'before_widget' => '<div>',
		'after_widget'  => '</div>',
		'before_title'  => '<h2 class="rounded">',
		'after_title'   => '</h2>',
	) );

	register_sidebar( array(
		'name'          => 'Home Full Width Text Main',
		'id'            => 'home_full_width_text_main',
		'before_widget' => '<div>',
		'after_widget'  => '</div>',
		'before_title'  => '<h2 class="rounded">',
		'after_title'   => '</h2>',
	) );

}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'sela_child_widgets_init' );

Oh, thank you! Good to know. I will fix that too. Have a great 2018!

Thank you! I didn’t see any extra space at the top of functions.php, but I did have two <?php … ?> sections in there, so I took that out and it seems to be working! I really appreciate your help! Have a great day! Jessi

I hadn’t noticed! That’s funny. The settings on on my site are Image width: 1920 and Default image size: large. Hope someone comes through for you. There’s nothing worse than these tiny little things that you can’t quite seem to figure out!

Hmmm…I don’t know. There’s not much more than color changes in my custom CSS, so I don’t think that’s it. The only thing in my CSS which I do not know the purpose of (I’m sure there was a reason…I just don’t know what it was now!) is the following:

.front-page-content-area .with-featured-image {
display: none;
}

(I tried taking that out to see if it made my slides look more like yours but it didn’t…)

The slides themselves are set to full width (in the slide settings), but I don’t think that will make any difference in terms of moving the slider up towards the nav bar?? Sorry, I don’t really know. Hopefully someone else can help you from here?

Hope you can get it figured out!

I am using the Sela theme and the slide images I used are 1180×435, but it looks like the slider resizes them before they are displayed to 1024×377. I hadn’t noticed until you asked! It would probably be better to use the size it wants.

I don’t know if this is what you’re looking for or not, but I just installed a slider plugin (I used Super Hero Slider) and it worked like a charm. For some reason I did have to set a featured image for the home page, but it doesn’t show. The slider just takes its place once you create it and set it as the slider for the home page. You can see mine at https://www.franksfiddles.com to see if that’s close to what you’re after. Hope it helps!

Perfect! Thank you so much!

Thank you! That works perfectly. What numbers would I adjust if I wanted to play around with leaving some overlap, just not the full overlap that it defaults to? I appreciate your help!