m4j4

Hi, thank you.
But what about if I would like to use the one used in the demo (desktop from above). Can I use it and where can I get it?

Okay. Great. its always nice to help somebody.

One thing I wanted to tell you about your images (not just the big one, but also the three widget ones. They seem very large – when you open the page they it takes a lot of time for the to upload. Have you noticed? If I was on your place I would re-size them. (make them much much smaller)

Here I’ve found some px guidelines regarding that:

Quick Specs (all measurements in pixels)
The main column width is 620 except in the full-width layout where it’s 778.
A widget in the sidebar is 250.
A widget in the Footer Widget Area or Front Page Widget Area is 320.
The featured image on the front page and on pages works best with images at least 1180 wide.
Featured Images for posts should be at least 820 wide by 312.

But be careful also about the resolution of your images. As far as I know, for we, 72px is enough.

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What about social icons in the footer Have you figured that out , too.
Yous should go to Appearance/Menus and create a new one. Than you should go to Appearance/Menus/Manage Locations and assign this new menu to the SELA’s Social Menu. Here you will notice that SELA supports two menus: Primary Menu and Social Menu. In the same way as we just assigned your new menu to Social menu, you can do for the Primary Menu.

Hope it helps,
Cheers,
M4j4

I think I know what could be the problem.

Try uploading your image again. Follow these steps.

1. Rename your image on your computer (so you destroy all history connected to it)
2. Go to to the page Welcome and on the left add Featured image.
3. When you add it, WordPress will ask you if you want to Crop it
4. Go crop it and then select it.

Look ate the page again. Is it any better?

It could be that because you did not crop it before the ratio between image widths and height is different than Sela’s default one. Sea’s default one is 1180x610px

If the above trick does not work, try uploading this main image that you have but in the exact size of 1180x610px. This could mean that you will have to cut some part of your image because of the different widht/height ratio.

Okay, now I see that your main image’s natural size is 4752×3168. That is very very big.

Can you re-size it to the width 1180px? And see what happens?

Hi, I’ve just checked https://www.theamblingblog.com

And it starting to look nice!!!

Just that big main image. Are you sure it is not less than 1180px width? Please check…

I think it SELA works. I’ve just downloaded it and managed to do things you cannot …. hmmm … what to do?

What is the name of the page that you want it to be front page? Yes, you should publish it to see it in Dashboard/Appearance/Customize/Static front page

Have, you – it the page editor – chosen a Front page template for her (there are 3 templates, I think: Full width, Grid and Front. Choose Front.

Anything better?

For the image I’ve found out that it works best if its width is 1180 px.

Hi, @deirdremagner,

I also love Sela!! Is it a new theme?

To solve the front page issue, do the following:

1. Create a page. Let’s call it My first home page. On the left (Templates) choose Front page. On the left there is also a filed Featured image – add any image you have – it will somehow adjust itself as long as it is not too small. But off course for the sake of the upload time, don’t upload the image that is too big.

2. Go to: Dashboard/Appearance/Customize/Static front page and choose:
Front page displays as: Static page
Front page: My first home page

And there you go, your site looks like SELA demo. Does it? If not don’t hesitate to write me back.

For the other two issues, I suggest to discuss them when we first solve this one.

Cheers, M4j4

PS the above guidelines assume that you wan’t your page look like SELA demo. If that is not the case, and you want at your front page to have your blog posts, than we should take a different way.

Hey @crouchingbruin, I’ve found out that the name is not displayed on the category pages (where all the posts from one category are displayed) but on a single post page, there the name is displayed.
So everything okay, actually.
Thanks for help!!

I’ve made it.
Every time you insert a new custom string you need to:

• Refresh .pot (in my case pho.pot) file by hitting Poedit/Catalogue/Update from sources. By doing this you grab new strings from the code and place them in the .pot file.
• Plus you need to refresh every single language file (in may case sl_SI.po) by hitting Poedit/Catalogue/Update form POT file (and choosing a corresponding .pot file – in my case pho.pot).By this you grab the new string from .pot file and you can translate it.

Hi, @dfactory,
Are you sure it has to do with the language plugin?

I mean. I install Cookie Notice. In the plugins/cookie.notice/languages folder there are sl_SI.po and sl_SI.mo files – so why is the plugin (Cookie Notice) not using them if they are there and translate the cookie notice in Slovene? Why it displays cookie notice in English no matter where I am – on English or Slovene site?

Or am I missing something here?

But for example I’m also using Very Simple Contact Form on my site. Same story: a plugin with languages folder where the sl_SI.po and sl_SI.mo files live. But this plugin translates nicely. So why is Cookie Notice not. Where is the difference?

Please help.

@imartins – I believe we have the same problem, that is why I’ve joined this discussion. But if you don’t think so and you would rather have me live, just say so and I’ll open a new post for my question.

Thank you, Guido. In this way it really works.

For example:
in 404.php file there is

<p><?php _e( 'It looks like nothing was found at this location. Maybe try search?', 'pho' ); ?></p>

I can easily crate a text like this on my own, for example Published by:

<p><?php _e( 'Published by', 'pho' ); ?></p>

but how do I get Published by in the Poedit where I would be able to translate it into other languages?

okay, but how do you add a new entry to a Poedit file?
There is no New entry button or something like that. At least I do not see it.
Thanks for help.

… just answering one of your questions above:

Your question: Is $title already translated at that point or does it get translated later?

Answer: Yes it is already translated when it gets into the function called title.