Wudman

Oddly enough I just logged in to find a solution to this. I am sure there will be some editing of the form that might not be drag and drop, but that will accomplish this. I am using two form widgets in sites and although this one takes a little getting used, to, I like the options. Now off to find out how to re-order fields because I just added new fields to an existing form. Infernally optimistic!

Hey almarrow, this is Mystique we are talking about here. Throw in some different art for the widgets and like for more individuality, the photoshop files are included.

I had the same problem and still haven’t cleaned this up. Now I will look for a table gone nuts. The Redirection plugin was working fine in an updated 3.03 install. I then went on a “which SEO plugin might be better” tour and when trying to use “Simple Tags”, I got a bunch of errors. I didn’t think there were any lingering issues until I took a visual of the site and it was loading the last blog post as my home page. All other blog posts were out there somewhere. Nothing could get my home page changed including changing the settings in Settings-Reading to reflect static pages. I just got the 404 error. I deactivated the Redirection plugin (and Simple Tags) and my site is back up.
So far I cannot get the Redirection plugin to be friendly again as enabling it causes a home page redirect that displays just the last blog.

Thanks for clarification.

To get the site up and maybe clear up a misunderstanding.
Does the content now become a “Text” widget on the Home page?
Wud
site in question
https://LaSierraOnline.com

Mr. ModemLooper,
My site had a home page which I deleted and then installed your widgeted BuddyPress. After which I followed your instructions above.

In my case I get four widgetized areas, Columns 1-3 and Side bar.

I think recreated my HomePage with thin-wide-thin

Went to Settings-Reading and selected a static page Home for my blog as well as my blog page

Result is three “widget” areas across the front of my home page, two asking me to to add widgets and no home page content.

I don’t have it to show because it was dysfunctional and I “regressed” it back to the base WP theme.

Any ideas what is going on?

turned off all plugins and now it is saving. Will have to ferret through plug ins. Now it plays nice so far. Great options.

LOL, saving away I am and my form isn’t growing any smarter!

Thanks for the response. Issue resolved, changed theme. I tend not to play with themes that I have to spend more time trying to figure out what is wrong with them. Hard to compete with those that will work for food when you have to spend twice as much time on bug patrol than design. There are too many nice themes with robust forums that are far less buggy.

I put the adsense code directly into a widget and it works fine. I haven’t been using the “ad” code box till recently and those work fine with html links.

If you want to entice more people buy up into your themes consider creating a limited access thread that supports your “free” product. All your links from the Platform theme listing at WP lead to PlatformPro.

Although most forums do require registration, every level of your forum registration requires a payment. So for example if someone wanted to see how (and if) the “Callout” works, or they have implemented it in a test bed as I have and want to understand how to fix the issue there, there isn’t even a place where they can read if the problem is resolved for those who did pay for your commercial products

In the case of Platform, your footer background is the page background which takes a bit to discover. Also, you have buried the CSS so it can’t be edited from WP. Granted you list where it is in the stylesheet, but now even a quick change involves FTP.

You have some great concepts and after spending half a day exploring Platform, I am enticed. On the other hand, I ran into issues that commercial clients are focused (i.e. how “callout” is not working well).

Thank you. Subsequent sniffing around the web I did come across a post where you said that this was coming in the next update of the pro program.

As we step forward in deploying modern web portals, it would seem that having a color picker intuitive enough to make the CSS change would be excellent design. If we can drag other elements around sites for placement, why is color taking us back to Notepad?

PS No need to share how as I understand your side of the economics. Just that it be nice not to have to jump to other tools to mod any aspect of the css if we are being teased or actually acquiring “premium” tech.

As a webhead who develops for multiple personal and professional projects, I am learning that stable platforms with child themes will probably save me headaches. So I am shopping platforms like yours as well as others. Honeslty, I can’t find one that hits it on all marks. I love what I can read in your forums without funding access as I play around with Platform.
Platform isn’t creating much love for me specifically in the ability to mod colors in certain areas. It appears this is an issue with the pro version as well.
For my clients and my business it is all about containing costs these days and competition is cutthroat. If I want to keep my costs in line, I have to be able to deploy fast and still create a unique experience for each client. I don’t want my sites to look cookie cutter either. On the other hand I don’t want to have to relearn where x developer has buried this or that function or style.
Having spent $$$ to get dev level access with other WCMS (Joomla) theme developers is like getting married. I’d like to know that something as simple as a color picker for lets say, the footer will be in play. That would save time and that means my musician client base might actually be able to pay me before their band breaks up.
At this point you got me on the hook, but I’d had to drop my next $$$ and have negative energy to blog about the experience.
At this point Platform is going to go into my sandbox and I will play with it when I have the time ’cause at 6am,another full day of site dev, marketing and multimedia dev is shouting at me. Then there are 8 of my own sites begging for content.
You are on a great path as I’d love the ability to drag and drop different content on different pages! That is very exciting. In today’s economy though, I want a bit more pavement as I traverse a bumpy road moving a big bag of my own sites from HTML to WP!
Peace,
J. “Wudman” Wood

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