marvmckay66

Hi @yingscarlett

Thanks for your feedback. Yes, I tried disabling plugins, and while I had these issues with a GeneratePress Child Theme (downloaded from their own GP forums, which I’ve successfully used before), I also checked with activating the parent GeneratePress theme, and the same limited “Customize” options were there in both/all circumstances. The parent GP theme is version 3.5.1. If it helps to further explain, when I click on “Widgets,” it doesn’t actually let me work with widgets, but rather says “Your theme has 10 widget areas, but this particular page does not display them. You can navigate to other pages on your site while using the Customizer to view and edit the widgets displayed on those pages.” And below that it only says “Premium Modules Available.” As far as the “Customizer” as noted in the Widgets item, there is a “Customize” link under “Appearance” (as it always has been), but I don’t see the separate “Customizer” link or button anywhere.

I have been using GeneratePress for years, and just installed it on a new WordPress install (6.7), and when I go to Customize the theme, as I’ve always done – now it only shows “Widgets” and “Premium Modules Available.” All of the usual options to customize the look (upload logo), font styles, etc. are not available. Reading this thread, I thought maybe I need an earlier version of WordPress, so I rolled it back to 6.6.1, but none of the Customize options are there. There is still a free version of GeneratePress from what I understand, so I’m not sure why I can’t customize the way I have for years.

I’m a little confused by this comment (and the lower version number) – so are you saying Lawyeria Lite was developed by someone else up to version 1.1.6 but now you control it and your latest version is 1.1.5? And since this theme (1.1.6) is currently being used on my site, when it comes time for theme updates, do I need to switch away to a different version? Or will your updates override what is in 1.1.6?

• This reply was modified 8 months, 1 week ago by marvmckay66.

Thanks for your reply, but on my Lawyeria Lite Version: 1.1.6, I don’t have anything that looks like your screenshot – also, perhaps there is a misunderstanding, I’m not trying to change the width of the layout, I was looking for a “full-width template,” meaning a page format I can use that doesn’t have a sidebar. From what I can see now, Lawyeria Lite Version: 1.1.6 expects a sidebar at all times?

Thank you so much for finding this!! I really appreciate it. I had forgotten that I had made the toggle bigger and didn’t realize that was causing the text alignment to shift … thank you, I really appreciate it!

https://congenitalhi.org/

thanks in advance for offering to take a look –

I found the answer, so I’ll just add it here – one version of the site was set to “flexbox,” and the other was not, once I made them both flexbox, the situation resolved itself and both sites match up perfectly.

I found them in my spam folder … sorry for the false alarm.
But now that I see how they come through, is there any way to customize this notification email? It might be nice to have the notification at least list who the applicant is before one has to click through to get into the dashboard to see who it is submitting the application.
Thanks

In case anyone else is reading this, in addition to all of the great help that kbatdorf has given me, I also learned something about how GoDaddy is hiding the php.ini file here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16140917/how-to-access-the-php-ini-file-in-godaddy-shared-hosting-linux

So, using your advice, I went ahead and created my own php.ini file and added “max_input_vars =99900” and uploaded it to the server. The slideshow started working but had some PHP errors, so then I thought that maybe there was a conflict since I still had the max_input_vars changed in the wp-config file (which did nothing on its own), so I cleaned that up, and have the change made ONLY in my new php.ini file … and now it works!!

Thank you so much for your patience and persistence in helping me get this fixed!!!

I just checked the slideshow settings for the 4 images, checked “autoplay” and “Print JS” and “Print CSS” and saved it, and it retained the settings and the slideshow now works perfectly.

I did the same for the big slideshow, but it won’t retain those check marks for any of those same 3 options, and the slideshow still shows up blank. I also tried saving it to FlexSlider and it doesn’t retain that change either.

Thanks for the explanation – 50 variables per slide definitely explains the problem when it comes to 160 slides!

Here’s the link to the test slideshow with only 4 images –
https://congenitalhi.org/highlights-from-the-2019-chi-chop-philadelphia-conference/

I used the advice you gave me from the link here (https://themezly.com/docs/how-to-increase-the-max-input-vars-limit/) and changed wp-config to this:

@ini_set( ‘max_input_vars’ , 99950 );

I made a test page and re-inserted the shortcode for the big slideshow, and it comes up blank here, although if I look at the source code, around line 252, I see the code generating the images:

https://congenitalhi.org/160-image-test/

Still struggling with this – for my own understanding and logic, if all of my other Metaslider slideshows are working perfectly without updating the max_input_vars, but just the new one isn’t working, then is it really an issue with max_input_vars?

I thought for curiosity’s sake I would try building another new slideshow today, this time with just 4 images (vs. the 160 in the last one that doesn’t work), and the images show up, but only show up as stacked static images, not as a slideshow.

Any thoughts based on these last two points? I appreciate your patience and help!

GoDaddy said it wasn’t a server config issue on my Managed WordPress account and told me to increase the max_input_vars myself in either php.ini or user.ini, but neither they nor I could find either file within the FTP folders. So then it was suggested that I add “@ini_set( ‘max_input_vars’ , 4000 );” within my wp-config.php file and increase the 4000 to something higher (so I put in 999999) and after refreshing this file on the server, nothing changed.

Not sure if I just got a clueless GoDaddy support person or if this might still be another problem somewhere that I need to address?

Ok, thanks, I’ll check with the host now. I appreciate the quick replies and the help!!

I clicked both the “Print JS” and “Print CSS” buttons to match the same settings on other working slideshows, and then clicked the “save” button, and get notification of the save, and they show as being still clicked. But if I navigate away from this slideshow and go anywhere else in the dashboard and then come back to the same slideshow and open the “advanced settings” again, those two items are no longer checked, even though I’ve checked and saved multiple times now.