rockitman

I am having the same issue, at least related. I’ve noticed that WP PageNavi isn’t functioning anymore after updates. I have a ticket on this issue that I will delete.

I will follow this post instead.

Hope there is going to be an answer to this question.

—– edit:

while typing, this issue got resolved

Thank you Nikeo for your professional anwser!
However.. the issue has resolved itself during the last update.

The “Add new” button now works and fortunately I know how to manually add sidebars/widgetareas. So I currently am a happy camper again.

Thanks,

Bart

Thanks for your reply!

It is nice to see that what I was doing is exactly what was explained in the documentation that you mentioned. The fact remains, that this course of action doesn’t produce any results for me.

To that extend, your documentation did not help me further.

I honestly haven’t got a clue how to proceed. Hence my search for advice.

This is how I add widget areas in my templates:

<div class="sidebar-wrapper home-sidebar">
	<?php if (!function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('leisure')) : ?><?php endif; ?>
</div>

If you are using a highly customized child theme, you may have to update some customization.

What customization are you referring to and how would I go about doing that?

Best,

Bart

Hi brown,

What I mean is that when there was an option tree, I could add any number of sidebars (widget areas) as I desired. No hassle. Just click add, give it a name and the job was done.

Now with the customizer, i cannot add a single sidebar/widget area. I do see the big blue button that says “Add” and I have pressed it about a 100 times. But nothing happens for me. No sidebars/widget areas are added, not in default, not without a description, not as primary or secondary or whatever. It’s just that absolutely nothing happens when I press the big blue “Add” button.

The reason why I made a child-theme out of hueman theme, is to prevent things like this from happening. For example, when something changes in the code of the main theme, my alterations and adjustments in my child-theme are not affected by that. But when an entire core-aspect of the theme (the option tree) gets removed (isn’t it possible to have both? the option tree and the customizer?) and is replaced with something that doesn’t work for me, no matter what I do, then I feel a little cheated. Especially after I have spend countless hours on altering the theme and perfecting it according to my wishes and that of our company. And don’t get me wrong, I think the theme is wonderful!

I just added 30 widgets, plus 6 of the default theme widgets, on a test site I have and they were all created and showed up in Appearance > Widgets

With the sidebars that I have, I can at an infinite amount of widgets. I just can’t add another single widgetAREA/sidebar.

The dynamic sidebars that you had in the previous version should have been retained in the new version.

And they have been retained and transferred to the customizer, It’s just that I cannot add a single other widgetarea or sidebar. Note that I am talking about widgetareas, not individual widgets. I mean the actual sidebars, the places where your widgets will eventually sit.

I’ll try another example:

I build a page-template for a specific purpose and want a unique sidebar with a unique description for that particular template. After putting the appropriate code into my html and uploading the template with FTP, I then would like to activate the sidebar that I want to use specifically for that template. So I hop on over to the customizer and attempt to add that specific sidebar with its unique description. And that is where the trouble starts.. nothing happens after I click the big blue “Add” button.

Now I am just going to have to get over the fact that the customizer is the way to go, mandated by wordpress. So I don’t want there to be a discussion on the option tree vs. the customizer and which one was more user friendly or better functioning. I just really wish the theme will behave as I was accustomed to. So my main focus is on getting it back to work again. And your help is very much appreciated.

At this time, I am not sure how to proceed. Perhaps I have to abandon the work of the last couple of years and start from scratch again.

Hope to hear from you.

Best,

Bart

Hi bdbrown,

Thanks for getting back to me. I must be an idiot, because I have 21 sidebars/widget-areas defined. After clicking Add New, I still have 21 sidebars/widget-areas defined.

I can click it a couple more times, but that doesn’t give me a single sidebar or widget-areas more than I already had.

Nothing happens for me.

Don’t get me wrong, but what is the point of building a child-theme when this can happen without prior notice?

Best,

Bart

Resolved: Customizer > Blog Design & Content > Featured Posts

Hi Tijmen!

I haven’t got any caching plugins active on our dev-site. I’ve done the private browser thingy and that seems to do the trick. So it does look like an old JS file is loaded instead of the updated one.

Glad to know that this wasn’t due to WP Store Locator and that it is functioning properly.

Thanks for your help!

Best,

Bart

I have no caching plugins activated, and do not use a CDN it′s a dev-environment that is inaccessible to the public.

In our live-environment, I have W3 Total cache and have stated that de wp-store-locator files and pages should never be minified.

The URL is https://www.sleepfit.nl, but as I mentioned it’s inaccessible to the public.

Thank you. It worked pretty well!

For everyone’s convenience, I have added the following to my child function.php:

function get_excerpt($limit, $source = null){

    if($source == "content" ? ($excerpt = get_the_content()) : ($excerpt = get_the_excerpt()));
    $excerpt = preg_replace(" (\[.*?\])",'',$excerpt);
    $excerpt = strip_shortcodes($excerpt);
    $excerpt = strip_tags($excerpt);
    $excerpt = substr($excerpt, 0, $limit);
    $excerpt = substr($excerpt, 0, strripos($excerpt, " "));
    $excerpt = trim(preg_replace( '/\s+/', ' ', $excerpt));
    $excerpt = $excerpt.'... <a href="'.get_permalink($post->ID).'"><i class="fa fa-sort-down"></i></a>';
    return $excerpt;
}

And in my content-featured.php I have adjusted the following:

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

And changed it to:

<?php echo get_excerpt(40); ?>

Thanks again!

I resolved it by deleting the entire plugin, and reinstalling it.

Wow you are crazy fast! It worked! I thought it might have something to do with that, but somehow I did not got the idea to exclude these pages from minifying. I was stuck thinking it might have been a .js issue.

Anyways.. I am thoroughly happy now!

Thanks for the great support!

Hi Dennis,

I haven’t actually. It’s in my URL structure tho.

Best,

Bart

I am on the right path, managed to delete the woocommerce page-title by altering line 304 of woocommerce/includes/wc-template-functions from “true” to “false”. Double content id is gone now too.

Still no solution for cat_description in parent category shop view.

Hi lorro,

Thanks for your input. I feel its getting pretty close, but as of now it is not yet working.

I discovered where the description is being saved (wp_terms_taxonomy) where column = taxonomy > contains “product_cat” the following column is the description field. But how to echo this description on my shop-page, next to the respective category, is beyond me.

example: sleepfit.nl

I have also not yet figured out how to get rid of the double “content” tag, the one in my template is being ignored by woocommerce and it then creates his own ‘content’ tag, resulting in the page-title being displayed twice.

It might be interfering with your suggested solution, leaving me unable to properly test it.

Thanks for pitching in!

Best,

Bart

I can confirm that SSL works on this theme.

I searched for http: and replaced it with https: on the files in my child folder. I was looking at a cached version of the site (with https errors) and had to contact my host to flush my cache. After the flush it turned out to be in working order. No more errors. Works on desktop and mobile!

Thanks for the reply!