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How do I change the title for “Sermons” to “shows” on the homepage and throughout the site
Hi actavion,
You can edit URL slug “the-sermons” to “shows” from ../wp-content/plugins/swm-church-shortcodes/post-types/sermons.php line #29. In this file you can edit Sermons to shows.
Text in lowercase are case sensitive so change it with lowercase “shows” text. After editing text go to Admin > Settings > Permalink > Click on “Save Changes” button to flush rewrite URLs.
Text inside WYSIWYG editor you can directly change from editor like shortcode in home page which has title “Recent Sermons”.
Thank you 
HI there.
Firstly, I want to commend you for the effort and the good work you have done with this theme. It seems it’s almost perfectly fit my needs (didn’t ponder on it too much just went to buy it straight ahead). Now, I have a couple of questions for you that I think if answered, will make it perfect for me.
The first question is, how can I center the navigation menu (or put it left), how can I move it? The second question is, I want to remove the search and breadcrumb boxes whenever someone clicks on a different page from the navigation menu, because now when I click on another page, the breadcrumbs hide the text as they go over the main navigation menu’s text. I actually have hide the search box that is with it and unchecked the breadcrumb box from the customization, but now a big-ass text with the name of the page I am on appears over the navigation menus container and text. So, how do I remove all this as I just do not want it, plus how to center (left) the navigation menu?
And one last thing, how to modify the logo section in between the header and the donate button so I can fit a banner (advertisement) for example? Thanks!
Venny
Hi Venny,
1. You can move menu left with below custom css.
nav.swm-top-menu { float:left; }
2. You can hide search breadcrumbs section from admin > customizer > general > deselect check box of “Display Breadcrumbs Section” and “Display Search Icon in Breadcrumbs”
3. You can add banner beside logo with custom coding in header.php file.
Go to ../wp-admin/themes/spiritual/header.php file line #44, above “logo_section_toggle” class div.
Thank you
Thanks a lot, it worked greatly!
I have a couple more questions. There they are: 1) How can I make the header (The Logo section) to appear as the logo on mobiles, because currently it is not seeable.
2) You said I can add a banner to the header as I modify the header.php file a bit, does the same apply to putting a banner in the footer by modifying footer.php?
3) When I change the background in the main footer (not the small), the text hides if the background is not in contrast with it. The text in the main footer is white by default and I didn’t see any option to change its color. What is the way to changing it, I understand I should modify the css again, shouldn’t I?
Thanks Venny
And the last I forgot 4) Can I put a banner line above the whole header/logo section as a sticky advertising section. What I mean is the area which is above the header and stays on the very top of the entire website.
Thanks Venny
By the way do we have to create the child theme for this template or the custom.css and style.css are already working as the child theme. Because I am using the custom.css which overrides the code of the theme and is working perfectly so far, but i don’t know whether this is already the child theme I am modifying or I am touching the parent theme code there. I am afraid of not losing the modifications I have made after eventual future updates of the theme. Thank you in advance!
Hi Venny,
1. You have to upload retina logo for HD resolution like mobile, iPad from admin > customizer > logo section > retina logo image
2. Yes, you can edit footer.php for footer section banner.
3. You can change font size, color for footer from admin > customizer> fonts > font size and color.
4. Yes, you can add next to body tag for sticky advertising with position fixed css property.
5. You have to install child theme and do custom changes otherwise you have to do all changes with each theme update. You can refer our election theme tutorials which has more details to use child theme ( https://goo.gl/NUZFCq ). Please read more tutorials on YouTube to get overall idea of child theme use.
Thank you
Wicked I am thanking you a lot!
Hey again
I have been modifying the style.css of the website and am now getting the look I want. However, the excerpt of my blog posts suddenly disappeared. I even uninstalled the themes (the parent and the child) and installed them again, some things got back to default, but the excerpt is still not showing on the blog posts. The box in the customization menu for the excerpt is checked to show, so I don’t know what the problem might be. Could you help me out here if you can. Thanks a lot!
P.S. I am modifying just the child theme!
You can take backup of current customizer settings from admin > customizer > export
Now import fresh settings of demo site from theme files customizer json to admin > customizer > import
If this will not fix the issue then you can install fresh copy of theme and then activate child theme.
Hi There and thanks for the response
I had to reinstall the whole Wordpress and now everything is perfect. The first time I modified the parent theme as I didn’t pay attention to the child-theme at all and that’s where I messed up things. After you enlightened me on how to set it up I did it and now I am on a fresh start. So everything is perfect.
Just 1 thing that is left is how can I change the background of the little footer? I inspected it with firebug and it shows to be using the main skin color style. I have tried to just replace the current hex with another, for example, yellow but then the background disappears entirely. I am learning as I go and from a rational point of view I think is because the little footer inherits the skin color style. So how can I separate these two and modify just the background of the little footer, is it possible at all and if yes how?
Thanks Venny
Hi Venny,
You can use “Customizer’s” custom css section ( bottom in customizer tabs ) to overwrite skin color settings.
Exmaple css
.small_footer { background:#ccc; }
.small_footer, .small_footer a { color:#555 }
Thank you
Worked Great. Thanks a million times!!!
Hi there again
I have just tested it on a mobile and there is another issue I am faced with. I created the about me as a whole separate page with the “about me” text in it (not post) so when I open the website through mobile everything seems to be okay and responsive, until the time I open the “About Me” page where the text in it runs off my Iphone device’s screen and breaks the layout of the website. Is there a solution for that through css, setting tables (blocks?) so the text stays within the webpage area (currently set to 100%Width) and not running off. Also, can I change the way the menu shows on a mobile device too. I mean, instead of having to press a button to view the drop down menu, which is for the navigation menu, can I set it to display the entire menu as it is in the main menu navigation bar? Thanks again!
Venny
Please send your website URL so we can check and give you feedback.
I have sent you an e-mail with the url. Thank you
Where is the shortocde ”+” button? It’s missing here because I checked the documentation and it shows to click this button and choose a shortcode (when publishing a new post) if we want to use any but it I cant really seem to find it here. Do I have to add something special? What would that be? Thanks
Venny
You have to install church shortcode plugin which is included with the theme. Please read documentation file for more details about plugin installation.
Hey again,
I have set up everything plus the shortcodes, but there is just this 1 problem. The posts are breaking the page and not appearing on a new row whenever the sentence finishes. This happens when the post is opened for reading, as well as when it is on the main blog page showing all the blog posts, where the excerpt is breaking and it cannot read properly. How can I fix that? I found a solution for the 100% width page by using a shortcode. But how about a post, a blog post? Thanks
Venny
I also lost the excerpts on the blog posts again. What might be causing the problem? Could it be a plugin conflict?
Hi Venny,
Please add excerpt in excerpt box of post to display like demo site.
Thank you
Hi,
Okay, now I noticed something. I am using Live Writer to write the posts and upload them, when I post through Live Writer the excerpt and the blog appear all good, just flawlessly.
When I try to write a post through the wp-dashboard and submit it through there, the post appears broken as I just explained – runs off the post frames and breaks it so it’s literally impossible for a person to read it normally both on a mobile and pc.
Any ideas on why is that happening? I can suck it up and do it through Live Writer, but if I want to make it a multi-author blog (for which I have intentions) I will be having issues with that as potential guest posts authors will submit through the dashboard. Thanks
Venny
Hi Venny,
Please send broken post example page so we can understand issue properly.
Thank you
That’s fine for now. I am curious to know is it possible to create a custom template for the pages I create so I can remove the sidebar from some of the pages on my blog? I read something about creating a custom page template. What is the process to create it for this theme in particular? I want to add this custom template to the drop down menu next to “sermon page”, “testimonial page” etc. so I can readjust it how I want for certain pages within my blog. Thanks Venny
Hi Venny,
You can create blog or static full width from “Page Options” metabox.
Go to Admin > Posts > Click on Post title name > Edit post > Go to “Page Options” metabox below WYSIWYG editor box > select “Full Width” in Content Layout dropdown menu of Page Content section.
You can use page.php for static page to create template and add template name on first line of the file. You can refer many video tutorials to create page template…keywords for youtube : “how to create page template in wordpress”
Thank you
Thanks, I created a custom page and can now customize it If I want, but I found another workaround to it.
The more customizations I make the more questions I have, maybe I got a bit hooked up with it lol. So, I have several final questions about it and think It would give the whole customization process I have been going through a nice ending.
1) I want to change the font-size of the blog post titles. (I tried the usual way by modifying the css in stylesheet but didn’t work) All I could do is to align the text center. Now I want to increase from 12px to 20-30-40px so it is more catchy for the reader. How do I do that?
2) I want to remove the “hover” on the blog post titles. (I tried the usual way but didn’t work). All I could do is to make the “before hover” background plain white which merges with my websites background, now whenever I hover on it, it becomes grey as by default. I want to remove this hover on the titles. How do i do that?
Thank you!
Sorry, I just found out how to increase the title’s font size. I didn’t pay attention and it was right there.
I tried to use the google fonts but they do not work, what’s the deal with that?
Venny
Hi Venny,
You have to edit core customizer output file to change hover post title effect.
../wp-content/themes/spiritual/customizer/output-css.php
starts from line #152…..code >> $output .= ‘small.swm_pf_icon….
.swm_blog_post:hover .swm_post_title,.swm_blog_post:hover .swm_pf_ic,.swm_blog_grid:hover .swm_post_title,.sticky.swm_blog_post .swm_pf_ic
Thank you
Hi, I have done what you said, but ehh.. I am not very sure what should I modify here so I can get the desired results. I tried to just remove the “hover” and left it blank but now when I hover it, the post title hides itself entirely. How should I modify it so I can get it without any hover effect but plain.
Also, how can I center the logo image, if it’s possible? It stays left by default.
Thank you again! A lot!
Hi Venny,
We can help to fix any feature described in item page is not working but for high customization like above question we can give basic idea or you have to do it from any good developers.
Thank you
“Default Blog Layout” – Disposition’s not working: -Sidebar Left -Sidebar Right -Full WIdth – Tried to switch to any of them and no one seems to be working. Whichever I choose, it still stays on the default layout “Right Sidebar” I want it full width. - Other elements in “Blog” custom section don’t work either such as: “Blog Grid Column” ; “Select Sideber” -none of them seemed to changed when I changed it from the drop down menu.
“Google Fonts” – None of them is working – tried them all
“Logo – The only way the logo img to be showed is from the left, cannot be moved to center, right using css; Could not figure out how to center navigation menu either, applied css to the respective class element, didn’t work.
” on titles – It’s good if this one is to be able to be removed from customization easily, there are not so technical people that are using the theme and would like to do it themselves without hiring someone for that as well. Not everyone wants the hovering effect.
This is what its known to have some issues with. I am probably missing something else as well but you can consider fixing all these here with the next update. I like the theme, it has a good conception, still many things to fix. Last updated in January, I think new features and updates should be released soon so it can keep up with the competition. Until then, I will pre-orientate to another theme.
Thanks for the help!
All the best, Venny
Hi,
I’ve tried to change the default font to “Source Sans Pro” Google Font, but it doesn’t change. I’ve tried to add custom CSS (media all, body, html) but none is working. Thanks!
Hi keri92,
Please send your website admin login details from our profile page form ( http://themeforest.net/user/softwebmedia ) so we can check and give you feedback for the issue.
Thank you
Hi
We have put some audio player on my home page of the website , But i want to auto play that music. When ever some one visit the website. It can possible or not , if possible what to do.
Hi bhanu2217,
This is possible with custom javascript or you can use any good audio streaming site which gives more control on embed audio.
You can also do online search to add this feature. Example : https://goo.gl/Ubi3ET
Thank you
I want to change call section in header. Suggest me..
You can already given answer : http://themeforest.net/item/spiritual-church-wordpress-theme-responsive/8909366/comments?page=2#comment_8394499
Hi. I have some changes in my site and now I have issue with mobile displays. My logo don’t show when I open site using android phones. There show site title instead logo. Please help. Thank you!
Hi webfalconus,
Mobile devices have HD resolution which required retina (HD) logo image to display. You have to upload retina logo image to fix the issue >> from Admin > Customizer > Logo Section > Retina Logo Image
Note : You can use standard non-retina logo image but it will look little dull in HD resolution devices.
Thank you
How to add a event and how to create event page settings . Tell me exert same style in theme Event List Style. Please give me event page settings documentation link.
Hi bhanu2217,
You can refer events “how to” from plugin website : https://theeventscalendar.com/product/wordpress-events-calendar/
How to create an event : https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/creating-an-event/
Knowledgebase : https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/
You have to add event excerpt from event’s page excerpt’s metabox ( below event calender metaboxes ). Reference link : https://goo.gl/eB6DEp
Thank you
Hi for your “Spiritual” theme, for some reason the past events section started showing the evening in chronological order. How do I make it reverse chronological? Gnb.sg David Liem e965066d-6b36-4457-9103-e37a7edd6709
Hi David,
Please send your website URL so we can check and give you feedback. Past event displays older – newer order like demo site ( http://goo.gl/OSAlum ).
Thank you
www.gbn.sg
we want to display newer – older
Hi David,
It is coming as per plugin’s default order ( if you switch it to default themes “Twenty Sixteen or Twenty Fifteen” you will see same order – Older to Newer ). We can’t change it from theme files because it is ajax base plugin’s content.
You can open support ticket in plugin support forum ( may be they will fix this issue in next updated version or provide separate settings to switch past events order ). >> https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/the-events-calendar
Please switch to theme’s template to display events posts grid like demo site. Go to Admin > Events > Settings > Click on “Display” tab > Select “Default Events Template” from “Events Template” dropdown of Basic Template Settings section.
Thank you
I love your theme however unable to add any events. I looked at the event sample in envato and plugin help and saw many settings in the event dashboard that i do not see like add, or edit etc.
Also the header image I have not been able to figure out how to change, Also I noticed all my drop down menus within any custmization it has ”?” not what the field is supposed to say. Please advise
Hi echolight,
1. You can add new event from Admin > Events > Add New page. And edit it from Admin > Events > Click on any event title name.
2. You can add event page header image from Admin > Customizer > The Events Calendar Plugin > Header Background Image.
3. We are not getting your question. Please send your website admin login details ( from our profile page form ) with screenshot of dropdown issue so we can help to fix it.
Thank you
Hi there, installed the theme and uploaded and activate plugins but get this error for the Revolution Slider: Revolution Slider Error: Slider with alias home not found. Am I missing something? I thought this was part of the plugin upload and activation.
Hi bbcw-NZ,
You have to import revolution slider demo files.
Video tutorial ( see at 4:28 ) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJoKMdYskn0
Thank you
Hi, this theme had made our church website very attractive. I need help, for some reason if I download pictures to my media folder, I can’t see the picture. Sizes of pictures are very small, below the required size. Would you have any idea? Thanks.
Hi kofosu,
You can try by regenerate thumbnails to fix the issue. Go to admin > tools > regn. thumbnails > Click on “Reganerator Thumbnails”
“Regenerate Thumbnail” plugin should be installed and activated. ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/ )
If this will not fix the issue then you have to re-upload images from admin > media.
Thank you
Hi, I have a very serious issue with the sermons manager of the theme. I have several sermons categories, I’ve created two pages to display those categories in a way that works for me. In both pages I’ve activated the “Horizontal category bar” to display the categories in form of buttons at the top of the page, the main point of doing this is to access sermons more easily.
The problem that I’m having is that when I click on the button for some of the categories NO SERMONS are shown even though the sermons exists and are associated with the category.
You can see the problem on this page:
http://virgenmadredelaluz.com.ve/mensajes/mensajes-madre-de-la-luz/If you click the first and second category NO SERMONS are shown.
I really need a fix to this is very important for my project.
Thanks you so much!
Hi dtorresf,
Sortable pagination works with php and javascript. PHP gives items and javascript sorts items so it good to use this script for 15-20 items.
If you have more than one page and category items is in second or third page then it will not display and sort on load but after loading all items by scroll it will display.
We suggest you to use horizontal menu shortcode and make diff. sermons pages by excluding categories to fix the issue.
[horizontal_tab] [menu_tab text="Cat-1" link="#" active="true"] [menu_tab text="Cat-2" link="#"] [menu_tab text="Cat-3" link="#"] [menu_tab text="Cat-4" link="#" ] [/horizontal_tab]
Thank you
Hi
I’m trying to upload the demoXML and on 100% upload it gives the option for creating a new user for wocommerce data I kept the default user and clicked the download and import button and got the following error “Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator and inform them of the time the error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.”
Can you suggest a solution. is this occuring because of a max upload size limit or something along those lines?
We sent you detail information of this error. Please check.
can i add youtube videos on “sermons”
Yes, you can add any embed video like YouTube, Vimeo video in sermons.
Hello, What’s the best way to list the blog posts in the archive or categories in alphabetical order instead of by date? I was looking at the WordPress codex for alphabetizing posts but I couldn’t get the code to work in the archive.php or category.php pages. If you could please let me know I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks! Matt
Hi macdesignpa,
You can set order asd and desc with many parameters like date, title, id etc. ( reference : https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters )
You can edit it from loop-post.php or loop-grid.php
../wp-content/themes/spiritual/loop-post.php
Thank you
Hello, I adjusted the following code in each file, then both files (loop-post.php or loop-grid.php) in the child and parent theme but I still couldn’t get the posts to show up in alphabetical order. It was still according to the date.
$args = array(
'category__not_in' => $swm_blog_exclude_cat,
'post_type' => 'post',
'order' => 'ASC',
'orderby' => 'title',
'paged' => $paged
);Thanks!
Hi macdesignpa,
We thought you want to display only in blog list page.
tag posts are coming from loop-standard.php file. You have to edit tag.php file line
$swm_loop_type = ( $swm_blog_style == 'blog-style-grid' ) ? 'standard-grid' : 'standard';
Replace/remove ‘standard’ with ‘post’ like below example
$loop_type = ( $blog_style == 'blog-style-grid' ) ? 'grid' : 'post';
Replace in all other files to see the changes.
Thank you
I am interested in purchasing your church theme. Does this theme come with an events management feature to buy tickets. Also I do not see the ability to sign up for a newsletter.Is this a separate plugin that need to be purchased?
Hi actavion,
Theme supports simple event management but for ticket management you can use event ticket plus ( https://theeventscalendar.com/product/wordpress-event-tickets-plus/ ) plugin. This will also required little custom work to make ticket pages design and styles.
Newsletter is separate plugin and it is not included with the theme.
Thank you
Never mind I just checked the popular question for this item going to apply the fix.
Hi, I got this error on activating the wocommerce plugin : Your theme (Spiritual) contains outdated copies of some WooCommerce template files. These files may need updating to ensure they are compatible with the current version of WooCommerce. You can see which files are affected from the system status page. If in doubt, check with the author of the theme.
Can you kindly please suggest a fix?
Hi nasirazeemi,
You can hide error message because it is just the version update message. Or you can fix it by changing version number in …/wp-content/themes/spiritual/woocommerce/content-product.php line #9
change
- @version 2.4.0
to
- @version 2.5.0
Thank you
Hi,
I’m trying to install the theme on my wordpress website but I keep getting this error regarding the missing stylesheet
Hi ndbeauraing,
Thank you for purchasing the theme
You can use WPML plugin ( http://wpml.org/ ) which can help to convert theme in multi language ( without creating diff. sub domains ). We are not doing theme customization work but you can find good customizers from envato studio. ( http://studio.envato.com/explore/wordpress-customization ).
I am attempting to add a Testimonials Shortcode to a basic page and limit the testimonials to one category. I have looked at other comments and they all include notes about category IDs. However, when I set up my categories in Testimonials there is not a place to assign an ID. I’ve been excluding the category names Ex: exclude=”Visitor” but it still shows all testimonials instead of just the categories I want. How can I exclude certain testimonial categories from the shortcode?
Hi sarahFBC,
Wordpress creates category ids when you create any new category. You can refer online tutorials to find category id : https://goo.gl/pWA4F9
Thank you
