mherbert

In case anyone is looking for anything similar…

I wanted to put a guest author of the timeline post. I couldn’t get the custom field to work, but if anyone is looking you can find a piece of code to put in your functions.php that will swap the author for a custom field generally.

I’m having a similar problem as everyone else. I don’t use CloudFlare and think it must be my hosting doing the caching. It’s frustrating, because the demo site shows the plugin working perfectly, so I’d love to understand what it is causing the problem.

The filter shortcodes all produce a tilde except IP address, which works. None of the conditional shortcodes work at all – they just remove the content whatever settings are made.

I found a solution here.

Does the job perfectly! Once again, thanks for your help though.

I don’t want to take up any more of your time, although I do really appreciate it. I have a feeling it’s something to do with the plugin that is making it fail as “standard” wordpress functions (get_the_author, get_the_date) are all working fine.

What I’m doing… We’re building a community website and we want to build a timeline of people’s memories. I don’t want them to have to create an account (I don’t think they would bother), but instead there’s a front end form that creates a post when submitted. Because I want the contributor’s name to be displayed, rather than the author’s, I use a custom field to collect that. All that side works, it’s just displaying it in the plugin. As I say, the custom field displays fine everywhere except the one place I need it!

As a hacker, can you think of a workaround where I can take a name and have it display as the post author without registration, or do you think I’m going about it the right way?!

As I said before, thanks again for looking.

PS. Should say that I’m no expert, so there is the potential for a stupid mistake!

Hi Radices, I’m not having any success with that either. It’s weird.

Would you put the $Var in the plugin’s code, or would you add it to a functions.php? I guess it’s not really a function and not needed anywhere else, other than the plugin.

Hi – yes, sorry, I was obviously not entirely thinking straight last night and have adjusted the screen sizes on the media queries and solved the issue!

Thanks for your help and great plug-in.

Hi – unfortunately the site isn’t live (online) yet which I understand does not really help much! Sorry about that! (I understand if you can’t help if the site is not online).

I want two columns normally, but when the site is being viewed on mobile phone sizes I want only 1 column. I’m using Safari and resizing the browser with different user agents to test the responsiveness. It’s the fall back to one column at the small size that isn’t working for me, but I can see the media queries in the CSS now so I’ll take a closer look at that.

I can get the solution I need using the list format, if only I could also get an excerpt using that! ??

Thanks for looking.

Thought I’d post this other one that I just noticed. Again, red background. Scrolling UP this time.

You’ll notice that the bottom of the background is fine – the bottom nav bar is there. But at the top you’ll see red seeping through the address bar where my logo isn’t.

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Hi James, yes will do, sorry I missed your reply. (I’m pretty sure it’s an iOS issue though, rather than the plugin!). The site is just about to undergo a domain transfer so it might go missing at any moment.

1. iPhone 5S, iOS7, Safari – just arrived on site. All good!
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2. iPhone 5S, iOS7, Safari – scrolling down. The white box at the bottom is static and appears when the bottom nav bar slides off screen. Not the easiest thing to see given I use white sections above the background – but it is static!
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And now with a red background so you can see it more easily.
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3. iPhone 5S, iOS7, Chrome – no issue with the bottom white bar, and I’m Chrome there is no bottom nav bar.
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4. iPhone 5S, iOS7, Safari on landscape. Again, no problem and no disappearing bottom nav bar.
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The Chrome issue is image resizing on scrolling. Not to easy to see, but hopefully you can see the difference in these two images.

5. iPhone 5S, iOS7, Chrome. On landing all good.
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6. iPhone 5S, iOS7, Chrome. Start scrolling down, address bar slides out at the top, still good, but if you compare the positions of the windows on the background image, you’ll see the image has zoomed in. It reverts back when the address bar reappears.
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Let me know if you need anymore. I’ve worked round the issue as you can see by setting the background colour of my sections white so it’s not obvious. iOS7 Safari hates even CSS full screen backgrounds for the same reason I think. I’m using your plugin purely to get the fullscreen background and not scroll, so only one image.

OK, just tested with a portrait background image and no change in the results. So the issue appears to be that pesky bottom navigation bar.

You can use the display: table setting in CSS.

Pen is here: https://codepen.io/83UnsungHeroes/pen/JbGqk

Wrap both columns in a container to display: table;

Both columns will then be display: table-cell;

If you want to see how it works, take the display declaration out of the #right column CSS.

Should add – doesn’t work before IE. *cough* Who cares? *cough*

Disaster averted. Sorry, obviously wasn’t a full reinstall.