kwbrayton

@appleattic I have nothing of real value to add to help you solve this situation. Just a couple of thoughts.

I’ve been using Hemingway on a site for a long time. Recently upgraded to WordPress 6.1. The site is working perfectly. I have the customization options working, sidebars, the whole works. I’ve never attempted to switch from an another theme to Hemingway however so I don’t know if that’s behind your problems or not.

Have you tried updating PHP to 8.0 or later on the server? Not sure that will make any difference but might be worth a shot.

Without a lot deeper dive into error logs and such, I’m not sure how much Andres (theme author) will be able to help much. He’s good though and might have some ideas for ya.

If you want to try something drastic (since you’ve got good backups), I’d be tempted to deactivate/delete all of your plugins and the MyPapers theme, reinstall Hemingway, and upload and reinstall your plugins one-by-one, testing the site after each install. The benefit of that is that file directories, database, and such get refreshed, just in case something is out of whack there. No promises that this will work though!

I hope you get some answers. Sorry I don’t have much to offer.

@nikitaanisimov – Now there is a company and product I could support and get behind! Thank you, Nikita, for your willingness to investigate this issue and work towards a solution. Tip of the hat to ya!

You’re very welcome!

I think the CSS class you want is header-inner:

.header-inner { opacity: 0.8; }

I tested it on my site and it worked. I rather like that effect, actually!

Well, darn. Looks like your using the most current version of the theme. Assuming you’ve cleared your browser’s cache. Beyond that, I’m afraid you’ve pretty much exhausted my ability to help.

Suggest you use Chrome’s Inspect Dev Tool to spot the CSS controlling the area you’re interested in then modify the code to suit your liking. You can enter the CSS code in the Appearance > Additional CSS section.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/css/

Hope that points you in the right direction.

@bilkish I know this doesn’t help but I use this theme and have a child theme set up where I keep my CSS changes. I just retested your pain points and everything is working fine on my site. I would suggest that you make sure all of your plugins are up-to-date and if they are, then deactivate them and see if that changes anything. Could be a conflict with a plugin.

I just bumped into this today myself. David, are you using the YoastSEO plugin by any chance? Lately, Google has added a mess of schema markup requirements for Events, including one called ‘performer’. Other examples are name, description, publisher, etc. The schema currently generated by the YoastSEO plugin is not including that element in its Events Schema. At the moment, I don’t know of a workaround except to turn on the “NoIndex” option for Event pages, which for my site is just fine. I’m still exploring this but I thought it might point you in a direction to look.

By the way, this is considered a Warning and not an Error by Google. Not a deal-breaker for Google.

I think Anders is pointing you in the right direction. Out of curiosity (and to learn something), I compared your ../themes/hemingway-child/style.css, which seems to be a cloned and modified version of the main Hemingway stylesheet, with Hemingway’s main theme style sheet ../themes/hemingway/style.css. There are differences in the Sidebar section (among others). Your child theme style.css states it is version 1.47. My main theme version is 2.1.1, implying that your child stylesheet might be out-of-date and in need of some updating.

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by kwbrayton.

@stevenslaughter – I’ve been using this sidebar plugin with success.

Custom Sidebars – Dynamic Sidebar Widget Area Manager

Pay attention to the installation instructions. It took me a bit of fiddling but I use it to create sidebar menus for different pages. See Oakville Presbyterian Church

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by kwbrayton.

@southcoastonline I was going to try your suggestions but now I can’t load the Block Editor Colors plugin by MotoPress. The page states “This plugin has been closed as of September 20, 2021 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.”. Unfortunately, I did a deactivate and uninstall so can’t reinstall the plugin without going to a backup. Since I’ve got it working using the theme.json method, I’m not going to bother. But I appreciate your update, none-the-less!

To follow up on my previous post, it turns out that WordPress 5.8 is implementing a new mechanism to configure the editor. You can read more about it here: Global Settings & Styles (theme.json). After studying this for a bit, I was able to apply my desired palette colors by adding this code to my child theme’s top-level menu. The code goes in a theme.json file. In the meantime, I going to have to disable the block editor plugin unless there is a fix posted for it at some point. It was a nice plugin to use so I hope it gets fixed.

{
  "version": 1,
  "settings": {
    "color": {
      "custom": true,
      "palette": [
        {
          "name": "White",
          "slug": "white",
          "color": "#000000"
        },
        {
          "name": "Black",
          "slug": "black",
          "color": "#FFFFFF"
        },
        {
          "name": "Fern Green",
          "slug": "fern-green",
          "color": "#718355"
        },
        {
          "name": "Moss Green",
          "slug": "moss-green",
          "color": "#87986A"
        },
        {
          "name": "Asparagus",
          "slug": "asparagus",
          "color": "#97A97C"
        },
        {
          "name": "Laurel Green",
          "slug": "laurel-green",
          "color": "#B5C99A"
        },
        {
          "name": "Tea Green",
          "slug": "tea-green",
          "color": "#CFE1B9"
        },
        {
          "name": "Beige",
          "slug": "beige",
          "color": "#E9F5DB"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by kwbrayton.

Any news on a fix for this problem? I’m stuck with a hosted WordPress site that upgraded WordPress from 5.7 to 5.8.1 this week and now my custom colors no longer appear in the block settings. I’m using the Hemingway theme and a child theme of Hemingway.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by kwbrayton.

Slight, but important typo @anlino, there should be a period before section:

.section.footer { background-color: #be4749 !important; }

.footer .widget-content { color: #fff; }

Tripped up this newbie so perhaps this might help others. Also, one needs to “Flush Cache” to see these changes

That said, I really do appreciate this way of implementing that request, so thanks!

• This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by kwbrayton.

@shoemakersgarden, I spent some time today “playing” with color schemes and I think I came up with something useful for you for the menu at the top of page. I first went to this website and created a gradient palette based on your primary background color:

https://coolors.co/gradient-palette/be4749-ffffff?number=11

FWIW, I have no affiliation with this website.

Then I modified the following style elements in my child theme style.css file. You could probably put them in the “Additional CSS” section of the theme customization. I didn’t try to adjust the footer elements but it’s basically the same idea I think.

Hope this helps!
Ken

/* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
/*	3.	Structure
/* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- */

.section.bg-dark {
	background: #BE4749;
}

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

/* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
/*	5. Navigation
/* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- */

.blog-menu li {
	line-height: 1;
	margin: 0;
	position: relative;
}

.blog-menu > li + li:before {
	color: #F2DADB;
}

.blog-menu a:hover,
.blog-menu .current-menu-item a {
 	color: #FFF;
}

.blog-menu li:hover a {
	background-color: #DFA3A4;
	cursor: pointer;
}

.blog-menu li:hover > a {
	background-color: #E5B5B6;
	color: #BE4749;
}

/* Sub Menus --------------------------------- */

.blog-menu ul li {
	width: 240px;
	background: #DFA3A4;
	color: #BE4749;
}