Ryan Zook

CSS changes won’t hide the testimonials, unless you hid them using a display:none CSS rule. I don’t see any such rules.

Generally, you can temporarily disable a plugin without losing its settings.

If you’re using widget areas on this theme, you’re not actually using Elementor for that area. The Sela theme has three front page widget areas that are available if you apply the Front Page template to that page (Page Attributes > Template (select Front Page). Your front page currently uses the default template, so they will not appear.

The rotator shortcode doesn’t appear to work in the Custom HTML widget in those front page or footer widget areas. Use the Testimonial Rotator widget or the Text widget. Shortcodes DO work in HTML or Custom HTML widgets in Elementor.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by Ryan Zook.

Using a local dev site, I verified that Testimonial Rotator works with Elementor and your base Sela theme, when the rotator shortcode is placed in a shortcode widget. (Placing the shortcode in a text widget produced a jQuery error, although the rotator appeared.) Elementor didn’t always provide a preview of the rotator while editing, but the rotator appeared when the page was viewed on the front end.

Have you disabled other plugins to eliminate possible conflicts?

Have you modified the Sela theme at all?

Elementor 2.1.2
Testimonial Rotator 2.2.7
Sela version 1.0.17

Sorry about your bad experience. I’ve only used the free version, and it’s worked great for me, multiple times.

According to the readme.txt file, in Nov 2017 support for social sharing and the author profile was removed from the theme, as the designers felt it was “plugin territory,” or a function better suited to a plugin.

According to the readme.txt file, in Nov 2017 support for social sharing and the author profile was removed from the theme, as the designers felt it was “plugin territory,” or a function better suited to a plugin.

If you want a similar function, I suggest Simple Author Box plugin, or you can add a Custom HTML widget and insert the following HTML:

<div class="authorwidget widget">
     <span>
          <div class="authorphoto">
               <img src="your-image-here.jpg" alt="author">
          </div>
     </span>
     <h1 class="widget-title">Lucienne</h1>
     <hr class="widget-border">
     <p>This is a custom author box widget where you can display your photo, social media links and some information about yourself.</p>
     <ul>
          <li><a href="#insert_link_to_facebook_profile"><i class="fa fa-facebook"></i></a></li>
          <li><a href="#insert_link_to_twitter_profile"><i class="fa fa-twitter"></i></a></li>
          <li><a href="#insert_link_to_pinterest_profile"><i class="fa fa-pinterest"></i></a></li>
          <li><a href="#insert_link_to_dribble_profile"><i class="fa fa-dribbble"></i></a></li>
     </ul>
</div>

If you insert a link to a social media profile, you must replace everything inside the quotation marks “”, including the #. If you don’t want to add a particular social profile, just delete that entire line beginning with li and ending with /li.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Ryan Zook. Reason: cleanup tags
• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Ryan Zook.

Perhaps you found your own solution here. Carousel images are showing up correctly on your site.

This theme uses featured images from posts in a selected category, or–if no category is selected–the most recent posts. Featured images should be added to each post, and they will be used as the carousel images.

@mevrouwtheezeef, I’m not sure I can help you with that issue. The theme adjusts the *width* of the slideshow items using Javascript, but as the photo scales to the correct width, its height changes as well. If the featured images on those posts in the carousel have different aspect ratios (16×9, 4×3, etc), they will have different heights.

If having the carousel images the same height is very important to you, you could consider resizing your featured images to have the same width and height.

Hi, I added this snippet of CSS to the WordPress Customizer Additional CSS option:

#slider .item {
background-size: contain !important;
background-position-x: center !important;
}

Since you’re using a child theme, you could add that same snippet to your child theme’s style.css file instead.

You can remove the borders around the sidebar widgets by adding the following snippet of CSS to Additional CSS in the Customizer:

.sidebar .widget {
border: none;
}

There is no option to do so in the Customizer, but you can use Additional CSS to style those features. It does require some basic knowledge of CSS.

Are you trying to remove the gray background bar at the very top for social icons? If so, add this to your Customize CSS:

nav.socialmenu {
display: none;
}

If you are trying to make the header area take up less space, that is another issue related to your site logo.

Is this issue resolved, or did you abandon the question? Your About page has been removed or been renamed.

The carousel shows each post’s featured image, not a thumbnail. Are the featured images on those posts large or small? Images at least 800px wide should look good. The maximum width of the slider is 810px. If you provide a link to your site, I can offer some feedback.

This site is using the Lucienne theme: https://sharizook.com/

I agree that spam subscription requests are a huge issue. I use SparkPost for email delivery and the many requests (100s in several days) to confirm spam subscriptions has hurt my sender reputation. I’m also using Bad Behavior and it’s not stopping the spam subscriptions.

Yesterday I set up Anti-spam by CleanTalk, an anti-spam service that is blocking 100% of spam submissions so far. It’s not free but cost is minimal (currently $8/year/site).

An optional reCAPTCHA integration would be appreciated.

Wow, quick work! I’m not running multisite, but I can verify that 6.3.8 fixed the issue on my two test sites and the live site that were *all* showing the same error. Thanks for your fast response.