Hi! Please install this child theme http://themeous.com/wp-content/uploads/maxi-child.zip I’ve customized it to include the category, author’s name and date at the top of the post and added the link to the author’s page when you click on the author’s name.

For the author page, you may use this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/meks-smart-author-widget/ to show the author info and avatar in a widget. You may place it in Author Sidebar widget area to display on author pages only.

Hi! Could your please provide your website url? Does it happen when you display all recent posts on the homepage, or when you add Flexible Posts Widget blocks?

Hi, the wesbite is http://www.rdemembers.com/ i am using the flexible post widgets on the sidebars and sepcifying the id’s of the posts to include in those. But in the middle column it seems to be displaying all posts so the posts are duplicating in different areas

thanks

You may use this plugin WP Exclude From Homepage https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-exclude-from-homepage/ to exclude some posts from the main query.

Hi, the plugin works great for the page. however i don’t want the items in the slider to be displayed on the page either as they are then duplicated. Using the exclude from homepage plugin removes the stories from the slider

Thanks

You may add the following code at the end of functions.php file. You may use the child theme (recommended) or the parent theme.

function maxichild_homepage_posts( $query ) {
    if( $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_home() && !is_admin() ) {

        $post_query = array( '1000', '1001' );
        $query->set( 'post__not_in', $post_query );

    }
    return $query;
}

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'maxichild_homepage_posts' );

‘1000’, ‘1001’ are IDs of the posts you wish to exclude from the homepage. I’ve tested this, it works fine with the slider and flexible posts widgets.

Hi, this seems to work when i tested it with two posts. If i try and enter more post id’s though e.g. $post_query = array( ‘6146’, ‘6142’ ‘6148’ ‘1’ ‘6160’ ‘6163’ ‘6188’ ‘6190’ ‘5780’ ‘5869’ ‘4821’ ‘4932’ ‘13’ ‘4943’ ‘4860’ ‘5874’ ‘5695’ ‘11’ ‘6197’ ‘6115’ ‘6200’ ‘6203’ ‘6214’ ‘6244’); i am just given a white screen?

Thanks

Lucy

Hi! You should use a comma ‘1000’, ‘1001’, ‘1002’, ‘1003’ etc

sorry my mistake, works perfectly. Thank you so much

You are welcome

Hi, would you be able to tell me how i can get the posts on the right sidebar to be displayed as you have in your demo. With the large image and the title and small paragraph of text?

Thanks

Lucy

Hi!

Thank you for your purchase!

This blocks are not designed for the header widget areas, however you may add this quick fix in your child theme custom.css file.

.horizontal.before-wrapper .widget .magazine-grid {
padding-bottom: 0;
}

I think the 5 columns layout without excerpts would be better for the header, I’ll add this layout in the next theme update.

In regard to the sticky mobile menu, I’ll work on this.

I will provide an update within a day.

Is it: Advanced Custom Fields Repeater & Flexible Content Fields Collapser?

Hi!

You may find this plugin in the list of recommended plugins in Appearance > Install Plugins section. Just click Install near the plugin’s name. If you unable to install the plugin in this way, you may upload advanced-custom-fields-pro.zip directly from /maxi/vendors/plugins folder on your computer via Plugins > Add New section.

If you installed Easy Foundation Shortcodes plugin from WordPress Repository instead of the plugin version provided with the theme, you should disable plugin’s styles and javascript in Easy Foundation Shortcodes settings, because this files are included already in the theme.

Advanced Custom Fields Pro is a premium plugin, it is provided with the theme, however you may download the Lite version from WordPress Repository https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/

It is compatible with the theme as well, the only one limitation is that galleries are not available in the Lite version. It is possible to update the Lite version automatically. I provide new versions of Advanced Custom Fields Pro when I update the theme, but you should update it manually by removing the plugin and installing it again.

Fantastic help all sorted thankyou. One last thing is there a custom CSS area or do I need to create a sheet and link it myself through ftp

Hi! I remember about your request. The updated theme version with this feature will be released tomorrow.

sweet, you the man buddy

You may download the updated theme here http://themeforest.net/downloads

Place Flexible Posts Widget in ‘Newsticker’ widget area and select Newsticker layout for it.

Use ‘Homepage After Main Menu’ to add Flexible Posts Widget with Carousel or Slider layout. Disable the default slider in Appearance > Layouts section.

Also I’ve improved compatibility with bbPress, you may use bbPress widget area to add widgets on forum pages, otherwise fullwidth layout will be used.

thanks for update few quick things…i install child theme due to custom crap on my page https://www.xataclysm.com/ now everything seems fine had to play with widgets but np…but i dont seem to get this “newsticker” widget area. and is the simple template for the ticker…and if i remove widget from side of forums i still get i gotta add widgets memo there…do i need to remove old theme and install new? figured child would be fine…

Yes, you should remove the main theme and install the new version in order to see Newsticker widget area and other updates. Your changes in the child theme will be safe.

You may use bbPress widget area for forum pages (available in the updated version). If it is empty, fullwidth layout is used.

i gotcha thanks again buddy

ok… one more thing..lol everything is there and working but.. https://www.xataclysm.com/ if you look at the ticker, youll see dates and not the post title till hover. i guess its my font color but that goes with site…how can i change font color of ticker so to see post title? figure its just simple css but idk

Please try to empty CSS cache. I’ve tested it on the demo website, custom colors apply correctly.

i have…i believe its due to my font color being red, while my ticker bar is red also…thus making font unseen till hover…if you go to my site youll see what im talking about…

Try to add this style in your child theme custom.css

.dark .widget a {
    color: #fff !important;
}

Hi!

If you use a child theme, you may copy header.php in it and change the code like on the screenshot http://take.ms/5vMAc

If you do not use a child theme, you may add this style at the end of style.css or in a Custom CSS with the help of a plugin like this one https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-css/

@media only screen and (min-width: 64.063em) {
.header .large-3 {
    width: 16.66667%;
}
.header .large-9 {
    width: 83.33333%;
}
}

Probably you will need to adjust the percentage in order for the logo to fit.

This helps if you wish to change the width of the main menu, however if you have the issue with a drop-down menu itself, please provide the url to your website, it seems to be some kind of a bug, because the vertical length of the drop-down menu is not limited.

yeah its the drop down length…https://xataclysm.com/ if you see gaming news…the drop cuts short..

Thank you! I’ve found the issue. Please add this code in your styles

@media only screen and (min-width: 64.063em) {
ul.main-menu li:hover ul.sub-menu {
    max-height: 40em !important;
}
}

I will add this fix in the next theme update.

ok buddy thx ^_

hey if you doing updates…you think you could look into making news ticker and/or slides auto update? for example. set for like day, week or month, or category, random…i get auto posts from feeds right, and then i have to set what i wanna show in slide or ticker, then do same to remove post…would be nice if one could set it to pull defined date range or something and rotate posts… if that makes sense?

I may create some extra custom templates for Flexible Posts Widget plugin, so you may select different posts based on category, tag, post format, or just display some number of recent posts, however it would be possible for Newsticker and Simple Carousel Slider, not for Two Rows Carousel. It could be done at the end of the month, I’m pretty busy right now.

sounds good to me ^_

I will work on this Will let you know when it’s ready.

me again ok, i seem to have bbpress issues…like widgets…cant add any…cant remove sidebar… https://xataclysm.com/forums/ see what im saying? when i go to widgets theres no way to add,change, remove bbpress/forum widgets… got another magic code buddy?

Officially the theme isn’t compatible with bbPress currently. It provides some basic styles only.

You should add widgets into Archives Widget Area for Forums page and into Post Sidebar Widget Area for a single Forum, this should work fine.

In order to remove single post meta at the end of the forum page, you should replace content.php file in your theme with this file http://themeous.com/wp-content/uploads/content.zip (please, unzip it first).