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I am trying to make some changes to the Twenty-Seventeen theme. Essentially, to remove the left ‘page title’ column and its whitespace.

I found this code yesterday which works perfectly on the home/front page but does not apply to other pages.

body.page-two-column:not(.archive).twentyseventeen-front-page #primary .entry-content,
body.page-two-column:not(.archive).twentyseventeen-front-page #primary .entry-header,
body.page-two-column:not(.archive).page-two-column .panel-content .recent-posts {
float: none;
width: auto;
}

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Can anyone help me apply this site-wide please.

Thank you,
Joel

Hi Stilman,
I’ve not forgotten you. The site is currently offline as I make my adjustments. Will be posting it up later this week and will drop you a line when ready.

Everything seems to be working okay now on all browsers.

Thanks,
Joel

Hi Stilman,

Thanks for all your thoughts and input on this I really appreciate it.

It seems this is a problem with WordPress, but I suspect there aren’t many of us using Japanese and Chinese on our blogs for it to warrant a fix at this stage.

I have resorted to the quick hack of deleting the Charset commands in the config.php file. I first tried your approach but it still went squiffy.

Deleting the fields did result in making other pages lose some text formatting but I seem to have been able to correct that by simply copying the content into raw text and reposting. (seems to have done the trick).

Kanji now displaying as I wanted alongside regular English.

Wikipedia is able to do it so I don’t see why it’s such an issue for WordPress to handle. I’ll come back in time to try a better way.

Thanks again.
Joel

Thanks Stilman,

I’m still battling with this. When it says – src: url(‘Calg421n.tff) } I assume that would be the full url of where I store the font on my server right?

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another thing that works but then jars other pages of content is to note-out these two commands in the config.php file:
/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. DELETED to allow Kanji */
//define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

/** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. DELETED to allow Kanji */
//define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

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I tried this and it fixes the kanji problem fine. Except other pages now lose their content! However, if I were to create new pages then it’s fine?

As this is a re-launch of a blog site I could just copy and paste the old pages I want to keep and it should work fine. However it seems like a rough hack.

Within those two commands seems to be the key to the problem though right?

Hi Stilman,

I do have kanji installed, I can write and read it fine on the machine. When I type kanji into the editor it displays fine until I save it. Then it changes to ???’s

I’ve been looking at my PhPAdmin area and checked the databases have UTF8 character sets installed. (they were set to Latin1) but this hasn’t resolved the issue either.

I don’t think Google fonts support Japanese yet.

I will look into having the font on the server but I don’t think that is the issue either.

Thanks

Hi,

Good thought, I just checked.
font-family: ‘Merriweather Sans’, sans-serif;}

It’s the default one for the Twenty Seventeen theme.

I’ve just tried various different fonts but it doesn’t change anything. The kanji still display as ???

Any other ideas?

Works a treat.
Thank you for engineering my happiness Sarah

Brilliant.
Thank you.

Thanks,
Sorry for the delay but I’ve just looked at this now.
I’m not certain where I need to change that bit of code. Can you help?
I am using a child theme so basically I have created a functions.php file and a style.css

I don’t think it goes in them though.

RESOLVED.
You need to select ‘author’ to show your avatar image.

Hi Kristina,
I answered this and asked you some questions in another post.

Try this:
1. Go to ‘appearance’ > customise > Static Front Page > ‘Posts page’ = ‘blog’ (save)

That worked for me.
Joel

Hi Kristina,

I think these instructions will help you. Maybe you can help me too?

HOW TO SET THE ‘AVATAR CIRCLE’ to link your blog page:
1. Create a new page ‘Blog’
2. Go to ‘appearance’ > customise > Static Front Page > ‘Posts page’ = ‘blog’ (save)
3. Go to ‘appearance’ > menus ‘add the blog page to site menu’ (save)

Now test it.

Did that work?
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I notice 3 things on your site I want to know…

1. I still cannot get my profile picture to show in the small round circle on ‘about me’ page template.

2. How did you set the green background colour on your ‘about me’ page with large white writing?

3. On one of your pages there is a little green ‘pin’ icon before some content. Where do you find these little icons? (shortcodes?)

Thank you,
Joel

I’d second an additional page template too.
Really very impressed with Gravit Theme.

The Gravit theme doesn’t have built in shortcodes but I installed the Shortcode Ultimate and it works a treat.

This theme is very clean and is forming a really functional website.

Thank you,

Are you hosting your own site or using wordpress free domain?

Is your site live for me to look at online? We seem to miss each other by nearly 20 hours. I’m online now for a while if you respond.

I think the function will work fine it’s something simple not being done. Are you also using the ‘featured image’ part?

Joel