Gin

Hi, can you possibly help with something ‘simple’?

I use the 2024 theme and when I insert the shortcode in the Query Loop, and I click on a button; ALL the buttons become selected or unselected.

My shortcode is [favorite_button]

Thanks

Hi Phi,

Thank you very much for you answers, very helpful.

Yes I did see everything you’ve explain, so I will use the parent selector—I hoped and ‘predicted’ that you might answer something like that and confirmed it, and I am very happy you did, as I am learning a bit more every day.

Same for ‘meta’ vs ‘dynamic’, in the editor it is showing ‘my_duration’ or ‘No value’, and either option shows in the front end ok. Will stick to ‘meta’ then, what I am doing is extremely simple ??

I did watch all the videos, but I don’t fully understand where everything is coming from, before you get to the settings… Also it’s very fast (yes we can slow down the speed – I know ?? ), and would love to have sound / voice over in the background to explain what’s happening (there are some free high quality text to speech converters out there, I think it’s always better than no sound at all).

Anyway, once again, very happy, and it’s incredible how something this simple isn’t part of WordPress. I don’t that for the next release they will add basic custom fields, but it will need extra code and its very basic at the minute, I saw a video recently. You could always offer your service to WordPress and than sell the Pro version for those who need more control?

PS: you should announce all updates on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube I say, because social media help gather momentum. And you have a very unique plugin right now, and of course you have the other great plugins as well.

I am still considering making videos to help newbies out there, but I am not sure how I will do the screencast with my old machine running high Sierra!

Have a wonderful day brother Phi

Yours sincerely,
Gin

Hi Phi,

I finally updated in my local install and checked the new features, very nice! Thank you for this great update.

A couple of quick questions / suggestions:
1) Instead of class=”prefix” or class=”suffix”, wouldn’t it more future proof and ‘safer’ to have for example class=”mfb_prefix” and class=”mfb_suffix” so we could target these directly if wanted, without having to worry in case of potential conflicts with other plugins? Just a newbie question.

In my case I will change the color of the prefix/suffix only, so will have to add custom css, but that’s not a problem and it’s easy enough. Maybe I would also add some border, radiux, etc… so my this particular use I wouldn’t want to style the whole block.

2) The Block setting FIELD TYPE has several options, I tried Default ‘meta’ and Dynamic field; both work for me. That’s ok, but I don’t understand the difference and which one should I pick – does it make a difference technically, somewhere in the backend? Would love to know!

Otherwise, apart from more styling options in the ‘Prefix and suffix’ as mentioned above, it’s really great to have the very FIRST Gutenberg Block Meta Field plugin, super light and easy to use. I know it can do complex stuff as well, which I’d love to learn…, but as we speak I am more than happy with can I do with it.

Yours sincerely,
Gin

Hi Phi,

Thanks a lot for the update, will install it asap!

I am getting there with the site ?? Can’t really go faster as I am not able to work on it 24/7, but it’s nearing completion.

Yours sincerely,
Gin

Great you moved on with a fix, as for the image, I can think of two things:

1. Try negative margin?
2. If you are using background image with the cover block, I know that when it is set to ‘scroll’ or something in the settings, it will go under the menu, the only thing is that the image will not be fixed.

I understand the frustration, for your situation you would need someone to login to your account to see what’s going on and help you with it. Personally, sorry I couldn’t offer this as it’s a delicate area.

I had a similar issue with the footer block (please do a search here), and in the end we had to add some custom css to fix it. I came up with a idea, but someone else came up with an even better idea, and I am using his code.

Thanks for confirming that @jordesign, was getting a bit nervous as well ??

Update: in case the following could be useful to someone, insert it in your functions.php or use the Code Snippet plugin.

// Modify WordPress search to only include posts
function exclude_pages_from_search($query) {
    if ($query->is_search && !is_admin()) {
        $query->set('post_type', 'post');
    }
    return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'exclude_pages_from_search');

After adding this code snippet, the search results should only include posts, excluding pages.

Hi Graham,

Thanks for the update. I forgot to mention, there is a setting in the Navigation Block > Layout > Allow to wrap to multiple lines.

I saw that after replying, sorry. Coud have solve everything ??

Anyway, it’s good to learn by trying this out, it’s a very powerful and flexible theme!

Yours sincerely,
Gin

Did you look inside the template as well as the blocks and patterns?

Because some templates (and blocks) add margin top, and that’s inside the Template.

I know it’s not always intuitive or super easy, but in my case did a lot of digging and back and forth between Templates, Patterns and Blocks.

Hi @jordesign, thanks for looking into this.

So I have two simple questions:

1. What is the Post / Page setting for then? The options are there but they don’t do anything for the search…
2. How do we setup the Search to output Posts only, AND we the relevant keyword of course—as opposed to pulling ALL posts regardless of the chosen keyword? That should be simple enough I reckon.

Is it a case were the Search pulls everything; Posts and Pages, and there are no other options and there is nothing we can do about it—appart from using a third party plugin?

Further, something doesn’t add up to me because I saw some YouTube videos with 2023 and the Search was set to Post as described above, and it seemed to work fine, here is one: https://youtu.be/ilT_6dyVk10?feature=shared&t=315

Hi,

I had a look at your site, if I make the browser large enough I can see everything… However, when I reduce the width of the browser gradually then the menu start shrinking. If I shrink to mobile menu when we see everything again.

Checking the menu is a good starting point, try a different menu (click replace menu…) and do some tweaking to see if there is one pre-built that will collapse the menu underneath, OR, as @joredesign suggested in another thread, stack two navigations on top of each other, OR, add more submenus ??

Have you tried to set the margin top to 0 inside the outer block?

I spotted the issue when adding images as background, so in my case I set the Margin Top to 0.

Thanks Ernest,

Will you consider adding Gutenberg Blocks? It’s the future of WordPress I believe ??

I have used Oxygen and Elementor before (no more builders for me…), and now for the past two months I have been ‘playing’ with Gutenberg with the 2024 theme and it’s incredible what you can do with it!

WIth TTF, for layouts you can achieve pretty much anything out of the box, the only downside is that there are no dedicated breakpoints options for responsiveness in general, but it’s superfast (I am super in can be tweaked further…).

Gutenberg 2024 + your Ajax Search Pro it’s going to be a very powerful combo. You’ll be one of the first to know when my site goes live properly.

Thanks @jordesign, I just added a reply there it seems that they are not fully understand what I was trying to explain originally ??

Could you please check yourself if you have a minute, assuming you understood what the issue is? I attach a screenshot for reference.

Thank you