Barely Corporate Responsive WordPress Theme

Nope I definitely do not use timthumb. The theme uses WordPress built-in image cropping only.

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You say you uploaded the “original” functions.php of the theme? But how did you go about getting that? Did you download the theme again from your ThemeForest downloads page?

What it sounds like to me is you were using a Barely Corporate 3.0. Then you uploaded the functions.php file for Barely Corporate 3.1 (which is currently available on ThemeForest) and now it’s obviously broken your site because the last update incorporates a slightly modified file structure.

So, what you need to do is update the entire theme, not just functions.php. Does that make sense?

Hello,

No I’m not aware of an issues with SSL . I don’t manually use “http://” or “https://” anywhere in the theme files. So when theme files or elements get included, it’s always going to match whatever you’ve setup for your site.

Oh thanks so much for your SUPER SPEEDY reply! cant express how amazing the theme blvd setup is!

Minor updates have been made. As always, you can see the live changelog here:

This is also what’s linked to at the bottom of your Theme Options page that you can view any time and what is explained at the start of this video: https://vimeo.com/41533135

WordPress does not execute shortcodes in widgets. This is functionality you would need to add from your Child theme’s functions.php if you like.

add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

For CSS changes, it’s a good idea to use a tool like firebug or Google Chrome’s built-in developer tools to locate them and then put the edits either in your child theme or in the “Custom CSS ” option on your theme options page.

Also, here’s a helpful tutorial on how to use Firebug – http://vimeo.com/20917974. The only thing I’d suggest not doing is actually making edits to the theme’s CSS files, as it shows at the end of that video. However, the video serves as a good introduction to Firebug and how it can be used to find what CSS is effecting certain areas of your site without ever digging around in any files.

#featured {background:#fff;}
#main {background: #fff;}

In the layout builder, I can have let’s say columns, or a slogan. This text/html that I will add in the fields, is it foreseen to be translated in several languages?

There’s not going to be any way to accomplish this that I’m aware. You’d need to create different layouts assigned to different pages.

But I am working on a plugin to make the theme compatible with WPML plugin. The way it will work is you’ll be able to create different custom layouts for different languages.

You can see my plugins as they get released here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/themeblvd

Also, I cannot find somewhere, how to change the menu to a dropdown when in mobile resolution (like in the demo). In my case it just dissapears. Any guide or a how to on that?

Right now you just have default fallback function of the main menu listing out your pages, but you haven’t actually create a custom menu yet. You need to go to Appearance > Menus and create one.

Here’s a video on that: http://www.jasonbobich.com/wordpress/wordpress-3-menus/

Hello Tamara,

This answer is from another theme, but the process is the same. Checkout the first question of the FAQ here:

Got it – thanks for the quick reply!

Hello Tony,

The functionality of an excerpt and the functionality of showing the full content is nothing unique to this theme other than the fact that I give you a choice of which one you’d like to use, where most other themes give you one or the other.

You can write a custom excerpt for your post when editing a post by writing it into the “Excerpt” meta box. If you do not see this, it means you have it hidden. —Go to “Screen Options” tab at the top right corner of the screen, and check the box next to “Excerpt”.

If you do not write in a custom excerpt, WordPress will take the first 55 words from your post with no HTML included. If you put in a custom excerpt, you can use HTML .

Thanks for this – I had not seen the screen options tab and as excerpt was disabled, did not see the data field.

This is exactly what I was looking for!

Thanks – I wonder what other little gems I will find!

Hello,

You can view how the theme sets up sidebar layouts and its grid system towards the top of this file:

For CSS changes, it’s a good idea to use a tool like firebug or Google Chrome’s built-in developer tools to locate them and then put the edits either in your child theme or in the “Custom CSS ” option on your theme options page.

Also, here’s a helpful tutorial on how to use Firebug – http://vimeo.com/20917974. The only thing I’d suggest not doing is actually making edits to the theme’s CSS files, as it shows at the end of that video. However, the video serves as a good introduction to Firebug and how it can be used to find what CSS is effecting certain areas of your site without ever digging around in any files.