Just found your instructions. All sorted

Hi Eddy,

1.) Yes it’s pretty easy, was designed to be easy to use for users with no experience in coding, every default feature is available from the wordpress admin dashboard.

2.) You can add as many slides as you wish in the main slider, with different books if you wish.

3.) Don’t know honestly, i have never tried it..

4.) The theme features a detailed, step by step user guide with screenshot images of the most important steps, you can check it here: FlatBook WP Documentation

5.) I’m not sure what do you mean by “featuring some contents”, but for example the Samples Section looks quite good for this purpose

Cheers, Erik

Hi Erik,

Thank you for your replies to questions #1, #2, #4.

My objective for getting this theme not only wants to sell more books, but also collect more email address when visitors opt-ins for free novels.

For Qn #3, what I meant is does your documentation teach me how to get my getresponse autoresponder code install so that I can get start getting opt-ins?

For Qn #5, what I meant by featuring more contents… is to feature the characters of the books, parts of the books, sample chapters of the multiple books, and etc… Does your theme able to do just that?

Thanks for answering.

Eddy

Hello and thanks for your purchase, i’m happy that you like it!

I don’t think this is something related to cache, but it’s pretty easy to exclude: just refresh your page with Ctrl + F5 – it will refresh your actual browser page with clearing the cookies and cache.

If that don’t solve it, can you tell me what changes have you done exactly – and what doesn’t change on the live site?

Cheers, Erik

Thanks for the quick response!

So, I cleared my Cache and was able to see the updates (YAY!) BUT then I went in and made another change, cleared cache again and it went BACK to the flatbook demo default settings.

I got bumped out of WP admin, so then I logged back in, refreshed my site preview and then was able to see my changes.

So basically, I think I can only see my changes when I’m logged into admin on the back end, and clear my cache.

The only changes that are registering is the secondary color scheme (when not logged into admin). weird!

This issue is similar to something I’ve experienced with the private pages and posts in WP, so maybe I accidently did something in the permissions?

It looks sooooo sleek when my changes are registering though! Thanks for making me look awesome!

Hello and thanks for your purchase. It is full width (960px) by default, i assume you need to upload your author image in the recommended 260×310px size. Happy editing! Cheers, Erik

Thanks for your reply Erik. I went ahead and removed the author image completely, and the margin is still not full width on the text…it wraps about 3/4th the way across the page. I’m editing the page in the pages section of the site…am I doing it in the correct place? Appreciate your patience with my question. I can follow directions well, but am not that WP savvy…kind of a hunt and peck for me. Happy to admit it is probably a user error issue. If screenshots would help, let me know. Site isn’t live so I can’t send the URL.

Never mind, customizing flatbook in the basic ground doesn’t require coding skills at all, and i’m happy to help

You can send me the screenshot in email – but in most cases it’s not enough – because i can’t inspect the source code. My suggestion is to upload everything on your host and apply a coming soon plugin from the free wordpress plugin directory (if you don’t want to make it live for now) and send me your link in email – and i’ll check to see what’s happening there.

Cheers, Erik

I went ahead and just took the lock off. You can see the site here. http://www.kristiannwillis.com/

Haven’t finished configuring it and haven’t repointed our domain, but you can see the issue I’m having with the About the authors section. Thanks in advance for your advice!

I think i found out why it’s broken – have you uploaded the author image as a “featured image” at Pages > About Author? Please check it and get back to me if that was the problem. Cheers, Erik

Hi Erik -

So, that officially did work (as you can see). But, is it not possible to make it full width and just have the text wrap the image? I have two issues with the solution you provided: 1) I have two author images (but can only have 1 featured image) and 2) using a featured image overlaps the <lead> section of the author page. Should I maybe just do the author page as a custom page vs an author page and build it the way I want it?

On another note, I’ve updated the links in the navigation bar and they all work except for the reviews one. The review one follows exactly the same formate url/#page-title as the others but it isn’t working. I’ve double and triple checked that the page title and URL I put in there are accurate. Stumped as to why it isn’t working.

Thanks in advance for your feedback. – Stacey

Hi Stacey, here is what you need to do:

1.) Open up your template-about.php file from your theme files and delete or comment out line 27-29.

<div class="sixteen columns profile-info">

<div class="sixteen columns profile-info">

3.) Save the file, and for now your authors section will be full width content

http://www.kristiannwillis.com#book-excerpts

Happy editing! Cheers, Erik

Thanks Erik! Got both of those solved thanks to your help (and now understand that the navigation links need to go to the section titles, not the permalinks for those pages).

I’m making rapid progress (and the site is looking good) but am now having some formatting issues with the bullet list on a new page I created. When I selected the bullet list from the visual editor when editing the page in WP, it wasn’t adding any visual bullet points at all. I did a search and figured out that if I add style=”list-style-type:disc” to the ul tag, it would add a bullet point, which it did. However, now I want those bullet points to be indented slightly and the line spacing to be slightly more than it is. Are you able to advise me on where/how to do this in the theme? The ordered list in question is on this page: [link removed per author request]

I’m having a similar formatting question for the table I’ve inserted on this page: [link removed] I want the text that is in the 2nd column of the table to be aligned to the middle (vs the top) and to have more line spacing between the lines.

Don’t know if you are able to advise me on these requests or not. Either way, appreciate your theme and the support you have provided. Thanks!

Thanks for your appreciations, and certainly i’m always trying to help if i’m able to

I’m afraid the links you gave are broken.. Please check them and submit the correct ones, and i will check them and find the proper solution or fix for your requests.

Cheers, Erik

Hi Erik -

We’ve been busy putting the site live, so the URL changed. Really liking the look of the new site…thank you for such a great theme: www.getuntethered.com.

My same questions above still exist. Here are the updated/live links: Ordered List Formatting: http://getuntethered.com/master-class Table Formatting: http://getuntethered.com/purchase

Thanks in advance!

Hi Stacey,

Ok, thanks for the update and your feedback, i’m really glad you like it! Add the snippets below to the very bottom of your styles.css file:

List fix:

.su-list.su-list-style- li {margin: 0 0 20px 10px !important; }

Table fix:

.tablepress .column-2 { line-height: 20px !important; padding-top: 20px !important;}

Happy editing! Cheers, Erik

The table fix works fine (thank you), but I’m having difficulty with the list fix. I modified the 3rd number to be 5 to have a only 5 pixels between lines vs 20 (which I’m happy with) but when I try to increase the indent from 10 to anything (currently it is set for 50), it isn’t responding. Any advice?

Hi and thanks for your purchase. Can you tell me which version of internet explorer are you noticing this issue? Also, if it’s already online please give me your site link so i will be able to check it. Cheers, Erik

Hello and thanks for your purchase!

No worries, these messages are usually generated if you tried to import the files for more than the first time (maybe if you started the importing process again for some reason).

A quick test – if you check your home page now – do you see the default flatbook Logo in your navbar? If yes, and everything seems to be fine (except the error notices you recieved) you can go on.

If you may have noticed errors in your frontend either (for example your logo is missing etc.), feel free to send me your wordpress login details via my themeforest profile’s contact form here, and i will check around to see what’s wrong in your backend.

Cheers, Erik

Thanks Erik. Yes, it is missing. I will send you log in. Best! Najma

Ok, looking forward for it! Cheers, Erik

Hi Erik, I’m sorry, I thought I changed it to administrator before. Done now!

Najma

No problem, i just fixed it for you Cheers, Erik

Hello, Erik,

I have finished the setup through step six, as per the demo, and noticed it does not look like the demo (including no placeholder images). I noticed something in step 5.) Go to Appearance > Options Backup and copy-paste the content of flatbook-theme-options.txt from the Extras/Import folder within the main downloaded folder, and hit Import Theme Options

In step 5, after hitting “Import Theme Options” the box went from the random string of characters, to appearing blank. I did not know if this is normal, or if it means something did not take. Does this have something to do with the finished demo not appearing as yours does?

Thank you again for your attention. I am very excited to use this gorgeous theme.

Najma

Hi Erik,

Also, I have tried changing the appearance of the theme to include the flat book menu, but to no success.

Thank you, Najma

Hi Najma,

The mentioned “random strings of characters” is completely normal behaviour, it is the way how you can import the demo-theme-options.txt in your wordpress admin’s theme options area. It is required if you wish to have the same layout as in the demo.

Regarding your second note, i’m afraid i don’t understand what are you trying to say, can you tell me more specific details, to locate the issue?

Cheers, Erik

Hi Erik,

Thank you for your response. So if I understand you correctly, nothing went wrong in step five, it is completely normal for the random string of characters I pasted into the box to disappear after hitting “Import Theme Options.”

Re: my second note. Unless I misunderstand what it means to have my demo look like your demo, after completing the 6 set-up steps, my site does not look like your demo, according to the step 6 statement: “For now, if you refresh your site it should look like exactly as in the live theme demo but with placeholder images of course. Now you can start customizing your kickstarter demo site, i believe it’s the most easy way to achieve quick results. Happy editing!”

I refreshed, but my site looked like a 5 color bar page with no features in particular. I went to appearance/customize and in the navigation dropdown, it says, “Your theme supports 1 menu. Select which menu you would like to use. You can edit your menu content on the Menus screen in the Appearance section.” So, I changed “Top primary menu” from whatever it was previously to “Flatbook Menu”. I don’t know if that was necessary, but nonetheless, it did not change the appearance of the site.

I am confused about whether or not what my site looks like now is what I should have expected. If my demo should look like yours, I was asking myself why then the slider images and all the other demo features did not appear. I did attempt to upload some files for the slider, and noticed the background image appeared, but perhaps I am still missing something before I move on?

Thanks again!.

Najma

Hi Najma, i’m going to respond to your concerns one by one, to stay organized:

Thank you for your response. So if I understand you correctly, nothing went wrong in step five, it is completely normal for the random string of characters I pasted into the box to disappear after hitting “Import Theme Options.”

Correct, no worries. If you might be intrested, it is disappeared because it has been imported into your theme options successfully (just as the successful import message says above, when it’s done).

Re: my second note. Unless I misunderstand what it means to have my demo look like your demo, after completing the 6 set-up steps, my site does not look like your demo, according to the step 6 statement: “For now, if you refresh your site it should look like exactly as in the live theme demo but with placeholder images of course. Now you can start customizing your kickstarter demo site, i believe it’s the most easy way to achieve quick results. Happy editing!”

I haven’t checked your site now, but i assume you missed to set your “Front Page Display” to “Home” (instead of the default wordpress “Blog”) as mentioned in step 6 of the import demo content guide from in the docs.

I refreshed, but my site looked like a 5 color bar page with no features in particular. I went to appearance/customize and in the navigation dropdown, it says, “Your theme supports 1 menu. Select which menu you would like to use. You can edit your menu content on the Menus screen in the Appearance section.” So, I changed “Top primary menu” from whatever it was previously to “Flatbook Menu”. I don’t know if that was necessary, but nonetheless, it did not change the appearance of the site.

Again, please go through the whole documentation before asking for support, every step of creating and using the menu of flatbook is detailed in the menus part of the documentation.

I am confused about whether or not what my site looks like now is what I should have expected. If my demo should look like yours, I was asking myself why then the slider images and all the other demo features did not appear. I did attempt to upload some files for the slider, and noticed the background image appeared, but perhaps I am still missing something before I move on?

If you did everything right, your site will look exactly like the demo (with placeholder images of course). If you don’t mind a personal suggesstion: i know that you don’t have much experience with wordpress – and no problem with that – but you don’t need to ask after every step done, you can’t do anything wrong at this point.

Finally, if you may stucked somewhere when trying again, feel free to drop me your wordpress login details and site link in email (again, i lost in my mailbox), and i will import it for you. Cheers, Erik