Discussion on Bethlehem - Church WordPress Theme

Discussion on Bethlehem - Church WordPress Theme

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I’m not impressed .. Events is only half there (I had to go to wordpress.org and download the full version of Events plugin) Can’t turn donations off completely .. The countdown clock is absurd. No way to shut it off without hardcoding it out .. No way to fully edit the fonts size/colour in the Revolution Slider … I took the theme down and deleted it’s database .. total waste of time and money IMO .. I have another site with the full included version of Revolution Slider and I don’t have any problems at all with it .. I could go on but it would be pointless. I will gladly surrender my purchase code for a refund.

1. The countdown is part of header 7 and some other headers as well. The headers are pre-built. You can however override it via a child theme.

2. Sir, please do understand that it is not possible to bundle “a half” revoluton slider plugin. Obviously there is a mistake somewhere and I am available to look into the issue.

I do not claim the theme to absolutely free of flaws ( no developer can claim that for any theme and thats why we keep receiving updates for softwares). We have also put in our years of experience into building this theme and we address all our flaws reported. I respect your years in contributing to WP and your inputs would help us improve our theme.

I’d like to mention that Envato does not offer refunds unless it is broken, malfunctioning or corrupt : https://help.market.envato.com/hc/en-us/articles/202821460-Can-I-Get-A-Refund-

I am available to address all your concerns and help you build a website with our theme.

I took the liberty of downloading the WP Theme again .. I even decrypted the portions that your Mac had encrypted and tested it again on a closed system. (sometimes decrypting a build that was developed on a Mac in an internet cafe somewhere can cure a lot of problems)

We can call on the child in various situations all day long, but if it doesn’t work out of the box without the child, then I see this as a problem. Your write shouldn’t have to include work arounds right out of the box. The Theme is flawed. I’ve purchased and downloaded some really good things from Themeforest, their record of providing quality builds is well noted, as most of it’s authors are responsible and experienced.

You shouldn’t ever have to depend on the child theme to resolve the underlying issues of a build. There was only one other time I had a problem with a build purchased from Themeforest and I didn’t say anything with regard to the problems I had with it. Flatmagazine WP Theme was eventually removed, and here I sit with a Theme that is essentially worthless. I’m not going to let that happen again.

Hello Alan,

1. There are no encrypted files in the theme we are selling. The source code is GPL 2.0 like the WP core itself. There are 2 plugins that are bundled and distributed under Extended license of Envato. There is no need to decrypt anything.

2. We have tried to make sure that our customers require minimum effort to setup the theme and bring it close to the demos we have exhibited. I think that is out of the box. If you want to customize it further, we have made every function of the parent pluggable and easily overridden with actions and filters. The child themes are there exactly for this reason.

3. There are no functions of the theme that depend on child, in fact its the other way around.

4. I have answered your questions on Events, Donations and Slider plugins. You mentioned the timer is absurd and I have asked to provide screenshots so that we can help you fix it.

5. If you have any other questions or there is a bug that needs to be fixed, we are here to support it.

6. We update our theme regularly and include suggestions from our customers. We have updated our theme today which now includes an option to turn ON/OFF event timer, thank you for the input.

7. If you’d like to have a feature included please let us know and we’ll see if it is feasible to include.

Thanks Ibrahim

Hi I bought this theme and can’t install the dummy data becaus zip is not enabled on PHP. Is there a way to manually install the data? This is for dummy data and revolution slider images…

Hello there,

Thank you for purchasing our theme and for reaching us. Only Revolution slider requires ZipArchive to unzip the dummy data. Other dummy data can be installed with zip. I suggest you to contact your host and ask them to enable ZipArchive.

Thanks, Ibrahim

How do I remove the search and top header items I do not want? Am I able to make the logo image go all the way across the top bar? http://screencast.com/t/KpHvEK6uD

Hello there,

Thank you for purchasing our theme and for reaching us. There are more than one way to achieve this. One of the straight forward way is to just copy this file and its folder structure templates/headers/header-7.php into your child theme like bethlehem-child/templates/headers/header-7.php and then remove lines 22-40 and then edit the file.

Alternatively you can use CSS as well to hide the blocks.

Let me know if you need further help.

Thanks, Ibrahim

May I get the .psd files sent to me?

bcube Author Team

Hi there :)

Please give me your email address and i will reply to you with link to download PSDs :)

Cheers, Michal

Hello there,

Thank you for purchasing our theme and for reaching us. I have sent you the PSD files to your email.

Thanks, Ibrahim

Thanks so much for your updates, the update fixed both issues with the Give plugin and the categories for Events…. Great job, and really happy with your support.

Hello Caroline,

Thank you for your feedback. Glad you like the theme. Please do consider rating our theme :)

If you have any other questions please do not hesitate to ask.

Thanks, Ibrahim

hi, really enjoying the theme! but is there a way to remove the “our charity store’” row that appears every time I choose Footer1 or Footer 2?

Hello there,

Thank you for purchasing our theme and for reaching us. Please read the guide here to remove the “Charity Store” in the footer :

https://transvelo.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/5000667785

Please make sure to use a child theme for this. Should you have any other questions please do not hesitate to ask.

Thanks, Ibrahim

sorry to add another issue, I have created categories for my events and wanted to add them in the menu so certain pages have only those events. However when I add in the events category in the menu then go to that page on the site it shows “causes” blank forms in the place of where my Event categories should be?

How can I send you the details? I will create you a user as an administrator.

Hello Caroline,

Yes please create an admin account and send me the details to our email support@transvelo.freshdesk.com and I will look into it and resolve.

Thanks, Ibrahim

Hello Caroline,

I’ve identified the root cause of the issue and have submitted an update. It will be available on approval and will fix this issue.

Let me know if you have any other questions, we are glad to help.

Thanks, Ibrahim

I am getting these PHP errors now when I try to update a team member?

Warning: call_user_func_array() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, function ‘bethlehem_update_sermon_speaker_info’ not found or invalid function name in /home/vanhorne/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 503

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/vanhorne/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php:503) in /home/vanhorne/public_html/wp-admin/post.php on line 242

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/vanhorne/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php:503) in /home/vanhorne/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1207

Hello Caroline,

My apologies for the delay in writing back to you. Can you please email us your FTP and WP admin panel details ? I will resolve your issues.

Thanks, Ibrahim

i ended up using a different paid Team member plugin that works better..

Hello Caroline,

We have uploaded an update today which would fix these errors. Sorry that you had to purchase another plugin.

The update will be available on approval.

Thanks, Ibrahim

also another comment, you might want to make it easy for people to change the favicon, i had to go into the files to change the graphic file… not so easy.. and if someone is creating a non church website they wont want a cross as the Favicon

Hello Caroline,

The favicon is now part of WP’s in-built customization and themes that provide this option make it redundant. Envato does not approve new themes that overrides default favicon. Hence we’ll have to let WP’s default method overtake our theme options.

To change the favicon, you simply have to navigate to Apperance > Customize > Site Identity and add your favicon.

Thanks, Ibrahim

Thank you got it :)

You are welcome :)

With the last update I am also no longer able to process ticket orders with Woo Commerce.. it takes about 5 Mins for the order to process then the site stops working? before the last update I installed it was all working fine?

Thanks Mike for filling in.

Hello Caroline,

Can you please share with us what the issue was and how you resolved it ? It will be helpful for our other customers as well.

Thanks again, Ibrahim

this was an issue with my API settings, so once I hit submit it was being held up because of this. Nothing to do with your Theme. Once i corrected the settings it works

Thanks Caroline for your inputs. I appreciate it.

i just updated the Donations plugin and now I cant access my dashboard I am getting this error????

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[’ in /home/vanhorne/public_html/wp-content/plugins/give/includes/admin/shortcodes/class-shortcode-button.php on line 129

Urgent please help!

Caroline

I deleted the plugin from the File Manager, reinstalled it but now it wont activate due to this error, the plugin was just updated about an hour ago??

Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[’ in /home/vanhorne/public_html/wp-content/plugins/give/includes/admin/shortcodes/class-shortcode-button.php on line 129

it looks like it is a plugin problem, it looks like other people are having the same issue when i visit the plugin site. I cant comment on there because this plugin came packaged with your Theme?

Hello Caroline,

Give plugin is a freely available plugin and Matt at Give provides amazing support. You can request for support through Wordpress’ forums here : https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/give

I’d also like to mention that we are working on compatibility with latest Give verion so I’d ask you to wait till Monday before posting it to them. I could be due to theme as well. I just need to make sure.

Thanks again, Ibrahim

I updated the theme and now this is back on my single events page

Questions?

If you have any question fell free to contact for anything with is about this event.

For all other question use our website. Where will be Event?

this is on the sidebar?? has bad spelling and grammar need to get rid of it.

thanks

Hello Caroline,

Thanks again for pointing out the grammer error. Apologies. You can disable the “Questions” and “Events” sections from Bethlehem > Events > Single. You can turn of “Content Section” and “Map Section”.

I will provide another minor update this week with fixes to grammer.

Thank you once again for all your inputs. I really appreciate it.

Regards, Ibrahim

I fixed the button over lap with CSS and I have updated the theme, thanks for all the fixes. I now have one last thing that seems to not be working. I am using the Events Calendar element widget on my home page, however when i click on anything on the calendar view it takes me to a 404 page?

Hello Caroline,

Thank you for updating our theme and letting us know. I am not sure what the issue is with the Calendar ? Did you try regenerating permalinks ? Would you like to share with us your FTP and WP admin panel details to our support email ? I will take a look.

Thanks, Ibrahim

yes I have regenerated permalinks… still not working

Hello Caroline,

Can you email our support with your website details ? I will look into it.

Thanks, Ibrahim

I purchased the add on for events for tickets. The Add to Cart and Update buttons on the cart page overlap each other. Also there is a Continue shopping button, when using this theme for events, this button take you to a shop page that doesn’t exist (404)

Hello Caroline,

Thank you again for your question. I am not exactly sure about the add-on. If you can share with me your FTP and WP admin panel details, I can take a look and provide you with compatibility.

Thanks again, Ibrahim

found another problem, when I create an event there is a sidebar already there on the single page view.. It is not in the widget area, and I cant seem to get rid of it. It has two heading (with bad spelling) one is Questions and Where will event be. How can I get rid of this? Also have you found a solution to the extra links for the team members?

Hello Caroline,

Good morning. It was a holiday yesterday in this part of the world so could’nt get back to you earlier.

Yes, the single event page does not have a widgetized sidebar. The reason being the 2 blocks that appear in the sidebar are dependant on the individual event and we decided to rule against a widgetized sidebar. Sidebars usually have a blocks independent of the content area. Here the questions section uses the contact email that you give while creating the event and the map uses the location you give while create the event. This is the reason behind us not creating a widgetized sidebar.

Now that we have your feedback. I’d like to know more about your requirements on this and that will help me make this area.

1. Do you wish to have different widgets here in this sidebar ?

2. Or do you want to completely remove it ? You can alternatively hide the sidebar using CSS like .tribe-events-single-sidebar { display: none; }

3. You can also override the file by placing a tribe-events/single-event.php file in your child theme.

If 2 and 3 are your requirements, we can simply use CSS or overrides. If 1 is your primary requirement, I will have to widgetize the sidebar area.

Let me know your thoughts and thank you so much for your inputs. It helps us perfect our theme.

Regards, Ibrahim

i removed it from the PHP, I think it would be better to have a widget as a sidebar for more control, that would be my preference. :)

Thank you Caroline for your feedback :) I will include a widgetized sidebar in our next release scheduled on Saturday.

i have been working in the theme and have come across a few issues.

1. The events date and time are not showing up when you go to the single page for the event… it shows the Event and Date title with nothing there?

2. When adding in team members, I only want email and a phone number … no facebook, twitter socials… even when leaving these fields blank they still show up on the single page for team members as links.

3. I am using header #7, this is not a church site, but a school site, i want to get rid of the “media” link at the top that leads to the sermons page.

Thanks so much Caroline

Hello Caroline,

Thank you for purchasing our theme and for reaching us. Here is my response to your questions :

1. This issue has been identified and fixed in our version 1.0.1 which is available for download since Monday. You can update the theme using Envato Toolkit.

2. I can see what you mean. I will check this and get back to you as soon as possible. I will also provide you with a fix if required.

3. The section you are referring is called “Navigation links”. You can override the navigation links by pasting this code in your child theme’s functions.php

https://gist.github.com/ibndawood/b3c56034a88c37e8aab8#file-functions-php

From lines 11-13, you will notice the code to link to sermons, you can remove it to get rid of media link. Please make sure you use child theme to make all your custom changes.

I hope this answers your questions and please give me some time to get back to you on (2). Should you have any other questions please do not hesitate to ask.

Thanks, Ibrahim

Great thank you, yes I am using a child theme :) let me know when you have an answer to the Team members links… thanks so much.

Caroline

Hello Caroline,

We have released v1.0.3 which has answers to your issues. Here is the changelog : https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Transvelo/theme-assets/master/bethlehem/changelog.txt

Let me know if you have any other feature requests or issues that needs our attention.

Thank you for using our theme :)

Regards, Ibrahim

Hello Just purchased theme. I am trying to create custom footer and header options… i see this in the theme options… but I cant get it to work?

I see my site on the right hand side, the options editor is on the left….

never mind I got it…. sorry

Hello Caroline,

Thank you for purchasing our theme and apologies for not getting back to you earlier. We are usually closed during the weekends. Thanks Mike for filling in.

I hope your issues are resolved if you need help with the theme, please do not hesitate to ask.

Thanks, Ibrahim

very nice theme, good work ! :)

Thank you Eric for your comments :) I appreciate your feedback !

Hey Great Theme! I just purchased and downloaded but can’t seem to find the psd file. Can you please advise?

Hello there,

Thank you for purchasing our theme and for your feedback. PSDs are not available on downloaded package but available on request. I am just preparing the PSDs to be sent across to your email.

Once again thank you so much for your purchase and let me know if you need any other help.

Thanks, Ibrahim

Nice template, GLWS :)

Thank you very much :) Appreciate your feedback.

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