usability.idealist

If all fails – backup your theme settings under CC Settings > Backup & Reset Settings, next on, use the RESET Settings option located at the very same place, test if all works again, and then import your backed up settings, also in mentioned place, to make it LOOK as it did before as well ??

cu, w0lf.

ps: yes, this is going to be added as a how-to to the official documentation as well.

Short heads up: The latest version – 2.0.25 – should be up in the theme directory now. It’s been out for some time, but was quite delayed, because any theme has to be reviewed by the official WP Theme Review team, before it is officially made available in the directory.

Apparently these folks are overloaded with reviews and the redesign of the Theme directory.

Fixes include the nasty header issues, the checkboxes not working properly in some cases, the bloody Customizer not saving anything, improved order in the Customizer (logical, by site structure, not just all over the place), a few security issues, and more.

cu, w0lf.

Short heads up: The latest version – 2.0.25 – should be up in the theme directory now. It’s been out for some time, but was quite delayed, because any theme has to be reviewed by the official WP Theme Review team, before it is officially made available in the directory.

Apparently these folks are overloaded with reviews and the redesign of the Theme directory.

Fixes include the nasty header issues, a lot of glitchy working functions, better descriptions, improved order in the Customizer (logical, by site structure, not just all over the place), a few security issues and more.

cu, w0lf.

So fahr, this seems to be an internal WP issue with the checkbox status (value vs. not-value vs. checkbox checked / not checked).

We are heavily working on solving this issue. There are no issues in normal situations, when only a single condition (IS the value set?) is required. But as soon as it turns into multiple conditions (header image set? site title set? display site title EVEN WHEN the header image is set?), the problems multiply.

Also see https://github.com/Themekraft/Custom-Community/issues/270

A fix should be out in the next few days (read: few = 1 – 3 days).

cu, w0lf.

Are we talking about the header IMAGE or the SITE TITLE?
Currently, an internal conflict (and some WP internals as well) do not allow BOTH to be displayed at the same time..

.. of corpse, there is a solution in the works and is planned to be released with the next update.

An interim solution is to add the following code to the “Custom CSS” field in the Advanced Settings tab (WP Admin Area > CC Settings > Advanced Settings > Custom CSS):

.site-branding {
display: block;
}

cu, w0lf.

See How to: Create a child theme for CC2.

cu, w0lf.

a) The original idea was to use Smartmenus.js as the major dropdown solution, because it integrates very well with Bootstrap-based environments. Sadly, as it turned out later during development, there are a few issues and shortcomings, but it also was rather difficult to integrate (ie. no working out-of-box integration INCLUDING the Theme Customizer (and its settings)); thus it was left out, and we went for the quicker deployed, simple “hover dropdown” CSS add-on.

b) A quick solution for this “issue” would be to hop into (theme directory)/includes/bootstrap-wp-navwalker.php, and ADD the url to the “data-target” attribute like SO:

$attributes .= ($args->has_children) ? ' data-toggle="dropdown" data-target="' . ( !empty( $item->url ) ? esc_url( $item->url ) : '#' ) . '" class="dropdown-toggle"' : '';

Note: (more or less) Untested code.

cu, w0lf.

ps: no, I’m not Sven ??

There are several improvements being worked on parallely (mostly focusing on the only partially working update / old settings import script), so I cannot pinpoint the exact date, but over the course of the next few days also the header issue will be improved.

About the second issue:

First off: Said site seems to timeout a lot – first I thought it was offline or non reachable, but then, nearly at the end of the regular timeout (30 seconds) it finally started to load. Traceroute shows a lot of lost HTTP packages and horrible ping times .. so aside of addressing this issue, I’d suggest finding another, less overloaded (aka more reliable) web host ??

So, back to the issue itself: Gallery-type – does that mean you’ve been using a Custom Post type? Or are you referring to the Post Formats?

The first one sadly cannot be addressed inside themes anymore – the official WordPress Theme policy does not allow it. The second one is not really being used yet, but I could add it on the “nice to have” feature request list ??

cu, w0lf.

@sinitita: thats totally normal behaviour – if you got a submenu, then the parent menu item “loses” its functionality.

Or do you expect that when clicking inside your browsers menu panel on eg. “Bookmarks” (or is it “Lesezeichen”), it would open a “bookmarks” page instead of opening a dropdown menu?

See screenshot

Others will expect the menu to work this way, too. So no harm done. On the “how to get the parent item work” topic: Just re-add it as first item in the sub menu.

For a real life example, take a look at the following site: https://www.sawallisch-stiftung.com/

cu, w0lf.

That’s the (nasty) default behaviour of Bootstrap 3.

There is an option in CC Settings under the Advanced Settings tab called “Enable simple CSS-based dropdown hover menus” which does enable the (old 2.x, but expected) “dropdown on hover” behaviour ??

AFAIR the folks of Bootstrap opted for this “clicky” version because of better touch screen support (you cannot really get a “hover” action – properly – working on a primarily “click” = touch centric device).

cu, w0lf.

Well .. your 1.x child theme is never going to work with 2.x, exactly like it wouldn’t work with a completely different theme.
Which actually is the case, considering that CC2 is an almost complete rewrite ??

So, yes, if you insist on using that specific child theme, you need to stick to the last available 1.7 version.

The other option would be to scrap that child theme and build a completely new one, using the few hints given over there: https://themekraft.usability-idealist.de/cc2/howto/child_themes

(thats part of the documentation which is currently work-in-progress ;))

Thou one has to take note: In most cases, using a child theme is obsolete, because there is this all new & fancy Color Scheme system, which solves about 90% of all the shortcomings with colors and stuff AND is update-proof as well ??

cu, w0lf.

Also missing: Which theme is this issue appearing with? Or is it only the global admin UI on the frontend side, ie. the Admin Toolbar, that is getting the beating?

cu, w0lf.