LooseNeutral

Is this correct..you can’t modify the menu css in the child? (I haven’t downloaded this one yet. came to the support pages first, as I do with any themes I may be interested in.) If this is the case, how should I proceed to get news of an update. keep watching here? check to see if the Theme Author has a mailing list as well I guess.
Thanks

I should add I just saw a topic for this theme about child theme lol

Hello lucamoiana, The first thing you should do is learn about making a child theme. It’s there you’ll want to make your modifications to your theme. As was just mentioned, updating your theme will result in the loss of all your hard work to any of the sheets you’ve modified in the original theme. The first sheet your looking for is ” style.css “, there may be some hard coded styling in others such as ” Header ” , “Footer” ect. But for now I’d concentrate your study on the style.css sheet.
There’s lots of resource available on the web to help guide you making a proper child theme, some video tuts on youtube as well. Depending on which browser you use there are website inspector tools available to examine web sites. You can experiment making changes without actually effecting any work. Usually right clicking on a page in firefox, on a mac opens up a little menu and you see “Inspect Element”.
w3schools.com is a great resource for learning a ton about site code and for what your asking about .. .css styling … It’s a site worth it’s weight in gold for folks like me. And please always backup your work often. Learn about commenting in the sheet your working on for self notes about your changes… you won’t regret it. Cheers

Did all the above mentioned troubleshooting in the foot as well. After the 341 update ..lots of strange issues – CSS styling went wacky. Some items are now out of position. The “Visual” tab in the post editor shows nothing half the time, even when I try to edit an existing post. None of this mess was present before the update :\ I’m going to regress back to 3.4 to check. Maybe some kind of incompatibility anomaly with some themes!? I’ve heavily customized mine…using a “Child” of course.

Thanks for update ??

I’ve have all the various copies of sheets I work on for my Child theme folder, including your Meteor css file for styling/editing. Was hoping you might have seen something I missed. I’m using that option as a logo place holder and need to have different picts/shows for the various pages much like the featured image function on pages. I’m now focusing on your multi-show format as a way to have the different displays. Currently, I see the shortcode mostly in discussion on your site, though there is a topic here that touches on what I’m looking to accomplish now. I need to do a bit more homework on the matter, tinkering with the child header.php to set up multi-shows in those areas – so far it’s the various show sizes I’m having problems with. All shows want to display to the largest show size. No matter what I set the template tag metadata to, or styling in the Meteor.css
Thank you for taking a look at the header .. I’ll be in touch on any current issues if needed. Again – Thanks

Change that..what happens is I end up with the slider in the “main” area under the header-logo, and I can place it in the ” Head” area. I’ve been able to place the slide show everywhere except in the header. Including running (multi) separate faux “headline” tickers in different menu items atm. Following post remarks here and the information provided on the website has been very helpful. I spoke with the theme dev about the issue. Not much help there as he says he’s unfamiliar with your plugin. any insight at all would be very welcome. Even if it’s bad news lol
my test site https://thelooseneutralzone.losias.net

Thanks for such a quick response! Ah, so I didn’t need to include the extra [meteor_slideshow]in there as I showed in the post above. you’ll most likely see me post up questions on some other topics you’ve covered, I just need a bit more clarification. I’m also interested in running it as a back ground. Just want to keep options open. The topic was posted here but was vague in answer as you pointed out it’s more involved. Any other posts here or information you could point me to would be much appreciated. Again, thanks for the quick response, this plugin works well out of the gate you can add function as needed. Awesome!

:\ spoke to soon! Slide show now shows in area above the <div id=”main”> while the [meteor_slideshow] words are now seen on the page inside the <div id=”main”> . I placed a border around it in hopes to have the slide show inside of it. not above.
here’s what I used in a copy of the header.php file placed in my “Child” theme. @ line 124

<?php if ( function_exists( ‘meteor_slideshow’ ) ) { meteor_slideshow(); } ?>
<div id=”main”>
[meteor_slideshow]
</div>

this pushes the div bordered area down. and the slideshow appears in the area under the menu (which is what I want). I don’t want to see the words “[meteor_slideshow]” in the div .. would much rather the slideshow appear inside the borders. help me please! Thanks

Okay, I apologize …. I got it working! YaY ! “I love this plugin”. Thank you. Keep it simple JL. It’s better for me to add functions than to take one with all the layers built in and strip it down. Now to track down some adjustments mentioned here 1n these posts. ??

I think this topic is close to what I’m searching for, here in these forums. I’d like to place this (great!) slideshow in <div id=”main”> just under the nav/menu bar in my Twenty Eleven “Child” theme. I’ve expanded that area to be the size of the header banner. I’m clueless as to how to go about it. I see that bit of code @ line 124 in the header.php file. Would appreciate a little hand holding here on this issue. Thank you