Discussion on Astro - Responsive WordPress Blog Theme

Discussion on Astro - Responsive WordPress Blog Theme

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Is there not a way to add a widget to the sidebar? I thought that would be the case when I bought this. Seems like its limited to a user profile on posts (which I don’t want) or the blog about text on the home page.

Hey jazzdrive3.

These sections are the sidebar of Astro (the author profile and blog information sections). Widgets are also supported in the footer.

If you have any further Widget queries please create a new ticket on our support centre.

Hello Ecko Themes, very wonderful theme. Great!

I have some questions because i can’t modify something in my site: www.mattiadellera.it

- I can’t show the social profiles - I can’t set my fovourite colors - How can modify (translate) the text “1 mminute left”?

Thanks md

Hey mattiadellera,

Thanks for your comments and purchase of Astro.

Please create a new ticket on our support centre and we will be happy to assist you with this issue. ( http://support.ecko.me ).

A very beautiful and clean theme overall, hope there is a option for posts to display comments automatically.

Hey zhboner,

Thanks for your comments and purchase.

Wonderful theme, really love it.

Only 1 pre-purchasing question.

I notice that in the home page, every post is cut automatically by the fixed number of words. Do we have a option to show full content in home page or control the output content by “more” label when editing the post?

Hey zhboner,

Thanks for your comments.

Posts within the post-list only display the post excerpt. If no excerpt is set within the post-options the first section of post text will be used instead. If you require displaying entire post contents on the front-page we suggest checking our Orca theme.

Having 2 problems with this theme, first when I change the colors on the theme options it doesnt change in front so I had to use custom css to change a lot of those. Then when I entered my sidebar user details and stuff they did not show up on the front end so I had to deactivate those all together. Fix for these?

You can see laygiri.org for what I mean… O Hovering over site title or blog post title is staying blue… no matter what I do really.

Hey LayGiri,

These issues are most likely the result of a caching plugin, or web server configuration. Ensure you empty this cache or wait for it to expire for changes to take effect on the front-end. If you continue to have this issue please submit a ticket to our support centre ( http://support.ecko.me ).

Really love the theme! Thanks for the dedication to keep it updated with new features!

Hey nfoerster,

Thanks for your comments!

Astro has been updated to 3.1.0. Below is the change-log for this update.

v3.1.0 - 11/07/2015
+ Transitioned to 'Ecko Framework'
+ Added Social Profile Options
+ Added Shortcodes Post Editor Tool
+ Added Customizer Options 
+ Updated TGM (2.5.0)
+ Updated Demo Content
+ Updated Documentation
- Various Minor Bug Fixes

Hey, thanks for theme. Is there any chance to change comments to disqus? And why I cant see theme shortcodes icons in tinymce?

Hey Godoy,

Thanks for your purchase. Disqus have a WordPress plugin available to enable Disqus comment support on your blog/site. Astro shortcodes require manual entry, information and examples of their use can be found in the included documentation under ‘Shortcodes’

If you have any further questions the best way to contact us is via our support address (support@ecko.me).

Hey there – I wonder, is it possible to integrate google adsense in this theme?

Hey stefanroberts,

Astro does not include native support for Adsense, however you may be able to achieve this functionality with a WordPress plugin.

Astro has been updated to 2.2.0, below is the change-log for this update.

v2.2.0 - 26/03/2015
+ Improved Syntax Highlighter
+ Added Example Child Theme
+ Several Backend Improvements
+ Updated Documentation
+ Updated FontAwesome (4.3.0)
- Various Minor Bug Fixes

I like this theme – however I’ve found 2 things that would be good to have fixed.

On mobile – when I open navigation, there is a little jump of content (I think padding of item flickers) and it dont look smooth.

Also, ‘go to top’ button and ‘1 minute left’ have different distance from bottom of window and it’s visible when screen is narrow (like mobile screens) and it dont look very well.

Let me know if you could update it as I dont want to modify it myself, but if you’re not I’d do it.

Hey kluska,

Thanks for your comments and purchase.

We’ll look into this during our next update. If you email our support address (support@ecko.me), we can provide some custom CSS to adjust these elements.

I have a pre-purchase question. I really like the minimalist design and the fact that the design works well with a promonate “featured” image as well as without one. Here are my questions:

1) The one flaw in the design is that I don’t think there is an easy way to continue to explore additional articles. In the footer is it possible to have a “recommended next” article feature similar to Medium.com?

2) How flexible is the widget on the right that scrolls down the page? For example, if I wanted the author details to be at the top and the footer but as you scroll down the page other content is used is that possible? Or does whatever you include in the header have to scroll down the page with you.

3) Is the font configurable?

Thanks!

Hey kovek2x,

Thanks for your comments!

1. That feature is currently not implemented into Astro, but you can use the WordPress widgets in the footer.

2. The top-side and floating side are exactly the same profile, so whatever you change in one will effect the both.

3. Yep, the theme supports changing of fonts to any Google Library font.

If you have any other presales or support questions the best way to contact us is via our support address (support@ecko.me).

Hi there, how do I completely hide the comments section?

Even when disabling comments in the Discussion settings and also in the relevant page specific section, the “Show Comments (0)” blue button still shows up and the comment area takes up some room on the bottom of the page

Any suggestions ?

Hey Sharif,

I just sent a reply to your email ticket.

Hey there,

great theme but there’s one thing annoying me: Gravatar Images are loaded via http instead of https, making the certificate looking “incomplete”: https://christophmeyer.berlin

Best regards, Christoph

Hey SirChillicious,

Thanks for your comments, and letting us know about the bug. If you email our support address (support@ecko.me), we’ll send you some information on how you can get this fixed.

Did that, thanks!

Hi there,

is this Theme Wordpress 4.0-compatible? I just wanted to ask before I doing the update. Thanks in advance.

Hey KaffDaddy,

Astro has been tested on WordPress 4.0 and works fine. If you notice any bugs after the upgrade let me know, but currently there are no issues.

Love the Theme! Did some customizations tough. Here are some things that would be super awesome to have, that I wasn’t able to achieve for now.

  • keeping the logo in the flexbar when reading
  • adding highlight support for other languages to prettify (why the hell is this one obfuscates :)

Here are two hints:

  1. the date format is overwritten by the theme which is really annoying
  2. there is no variable in the language file to change “Older Posts” and “Newer Posts”

Hey icancode,

Thanks for your purchase and comments!

Send an email to support@ecko.me and I can provide some help with the first two points.

First of all, I really like the concept of the completely imageless layout! Not too much fluff like most of the themes found here. I probably will buy this theme soon as a starting point for my blog developement, but I found a (for me) big problem:

UHD-View – not really nice, isn’t it?

You write, that the theme is even optimized for 4k – that’s true for the icons, but not at all for the viewport. Is there a way to automaticly scale the whole thing by like 140%?

Hey EdwardBlack,

I can provide some custom CSS too extend the max-width of the wrapper if you wish for it to extend more. However this has the pitfall of possibly making paragraphs a single line.

I am having some trouble uploading images in the theme customization options. When I select or drag an image there it will not allow me to save and publish the new results.

Also how do we use the code syntax highlighting?

Hey CFCParadox,

Thanks for your purchase.

If you have any third-plugins installed I recommend disabling them and trying to upload the image again. If the issue persists send an email to support@ecko.me.

You can find information on using the syntax highlighter in the included documentation under the ‘Shortcodes’ section.

The Live Preview looks nothing like the item’s featured image. Can you please enable a large header picture on the demo like you do in the featured image?

Hey sytafi,

Thanks for your comment and suggestion. I’ll get a preview of the featured home page added.

The code syntax highlighting doesn’t work with html, it renders the actual HTML. Any ideas how to fix?

I replied to this in your email ticket, let me know if you cant see it.

I never got a notification or email.

I resent the email, check your spam folder. The pagination issue is due to your ‘download-manager’ plugin injecting CSS styles.

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