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Hi Friend, I have the feature slider controlled by a specific tag for so it is pulling specific pages. My question, I would like to control the sort order of the slider, for example http://linenlacelove.flywheelsites.com/ I would like About to appear first, then Contact, then Featured Story—how do I do that?
Thanks! Meg
Hello Meg,
Posts in slider are ordered by date from latest to oldest. So, simply alter their publish dates.
Kind Regards
Hello,
And thanks you for this super theme. Sorry if my english is bad but i’m french. I have a problem when i put “masonry grid” in the archive or homepage. The letters of the title overlap , so it is unreadable. Here is the link to the photo to show you : http://hpics.li/8c67c9f
How to solve this problem please ? Thanks,
Marjorie
Hey Marjorie,
Thanks for the purchase!
This is the first time we are encountering such issue and it might be something specific to your website. We visited your website, but you’re using classic Grid layout currently.
Could you create a testing static page with Gallery Grid blog and send us the link to it? This way we will be able to access it and see what’s going on, while your visitors will not see any change. If you’re not sure how to create static page with blog, check this part of the docs: http://library.korra.io/brook/documentation/#pages
Cheers
hello,
I create a static page, I hope that’s it : http://carnetdetipiment.com/static-page/
When i put masonry grid gallery to the homepage, it does the same thing on the little image of the article.
Thanks, Marjorie
Hey Marjorie,
In Theme Customizer > Styles > Typography, under H3 settings, for line-height you have 1, 4 em. This is invalid value and breaks the display of the title. Change it to 1.4 (dot instead of comma, and no space after it).
Cheers!
Oh yessss, thanks you so much. It’s ok now 
Kind regards, Marjorie
HI! I am having an issue with the mobile version, with the slider specifically. When I hold my phone sideways it looks great, the photos shrink and everything is there. When I hold my phone right side up, the photos are all chopped off and don’t make sense. http://linenlacelove.flywheelsites.com/
Hello,
On mobile, slider will take available screen height which means that in vertical mode images will be vertical, and in horizontal they will be horizontal. Since your slider images are horizontally oriented, you might find vertical crops of the images strange.
Use the following CSS, and customize the max-height value to get the desired result.
@media (max-width: 320px){
.brook-carousel .brook-carousel__items {
max-height: 300px !important;
}
.loop-container--style-carousel {
background-size: contain !important;
}
}
Kind Regards
Hi! Is there a way to edit the header area of the Archive/Category page? Check out this page http://linenlacelove.flywheelsites.com/wp-admin/customize.php?return=%2Fwp-admin%2Fedit.php%3Fpost_type%3Dpage%26trashed%3D1%26ids%3D4637
I don’t like all of the space between the top of the page and the actually blog post. Can you show me how to remove the category title and shrink that space?
THANKS!
Hello,
You can hide the title area with this CSS:
.archive.category .brook-cover {
display: none;
}
Kind Regards
LOVE LOVE LOVE. thank you thank you thank you
Hi Friend! I have a quick question, I am sorry if it was covered before, I can’t seem to find it. Is there a way to Left Align the content/text in the feature slider? If so can you send me the CSS, the code I tried didn’t work. THANKS
Hello megpclarke,
This CSS should do exactly what you need:
.loop-container--style-carousel .post__text__inwrap,
.loop-container--style-carousel .post__text__inwrap .excerpt {
text-align: left;
}
Cheers!
I am so thankful for all of your help!
Hello,I love this design very much,but I want know something about that we can change the design or not,and I write it below.
1.”Brook” ’s category is invisible(inside the top left button),can we put the category visible like “Brook2” ’s?
2.Can I rearrange a little bit design ?
Thank you and please excuse my limited English ability.
Hello,
1. Header layout can be ‘Minimal’ (like Demo 1) or ‘Classic’ (like Demo 2). Minimal has hidden menu, while classic has it displayed on top. Note that you can use the header widget area ( on our Demo it has social icons in it) to display some secondary menu or links.
2. You are free to customize anything you wish. We advise you to use a child-theme for any customizations, so that they don’t get overridden when you update the theme.
Kind Regards
Hi! Thank you for your continued help!
I would like to tighten the space in my sidebar, can you please provide the CSS to do so? It is much broader than yours, http://linenlacelove.flywheelsites.com/2016/05/top-10-egg-decorating-diys.html
Also, can you please tell me how you created both the image based “Latest Stories” and Most Popular Stories in the side bar? http://themeforest.net/item/brook-light-responsive-wordpress-blog-theme/full_screen_preview/11171592
Thanks in advance!
Hello,
1. Sidebar width can be changed in Theme Customizer > Layout > Sidebar > Sidebar width
2. Our Latest Stories widget uses ‘Brook: Blog List’ widget with Image Grid as style. Our Most Popular Stories widget uses ‘Brook: Blog List’ widget with Classic list as style.
Kind Regards
Hi! I am getting this error:
Sorry, there has been an error. This does not appear to be a WXR file, missing/invalid WXR version number
When I attempt to import the demo content, can you help?
Thanks so much!
Hello,
We’ve just tested the importing of the demo content on a fresh WP installation, and everything worked fine.
This is what you can do:
1. Make sure that everything is up to date – both WP and all plugins.
2. Try out this solution, it seems it helped a lot of people.
Kind Regards
Hello,
I want to add the featured slide to other pages than the homepage, but with different images. Is it possible?
And is it possible to remove the hover effect on the images on the slider?
Thanks in advance!
Hello,
Featured slider will slide only post and pages (with their featured images being used), it is not plain image slider. If you wish to use the same slider as is featured for different posts/pages throughout your content, you can do so with this shortcode:
[blog posts="" style="carousel" category="" tag="" sort_by="date" sort_order="DESC" interval="4000" extra_class="featured"]
In order to filter your posts/pages, just input the ‘category’ or ‘tag’ value. Use slug names. ‘posts’ value takes number, if you want to limit the number of posts included.
Kind Regards,
Thanks Korra for the answer! I have two more questions:
Is it possible to remove the hover effect on the images on the slider? If yes, how to do it? Also, if I want to click on a featured image and make it appear in a pop up gallery how should I do?
Thanks in advance!
Hello,
1. Try using this CSS, it will remove the color overlay when hovering featured slider:
.loop-container--style-carousel article .post__text:before {
display: none;
}
2. You would pretty much need to develop this feature. Current lightbox feature is tied to the gallery and it’s specific html structure. You could use parts of the functionality easily, but would need to create a custom call to it. In /brook/js/main.js on line #1452 there’s a galleryLightbox() function – this is what creates the current gallery lightbox. Use that as an example for creating your own custom lightbox.
Kind Regards
Hello, beautiful theme! I have only one issue.
I would like the demo2’s style.
I try to loading the xml file of demo2 but the style is the same of the demo1 xml. I try to leave the “download images and attachments” box unchecked but nothing, too.
Can you help me?
Thanks.
Hello,
Demo content files will import only the content – posts and pages. You need to customize the theme in the Theme Customizer, specifically, to use the ‘Classic’ Header Layout in Theme Customizer > Layout > Header.
Kind Regards
Beautiful theme! What are you using for share functionality? Is this a plugin that needs to be installed? Or is it built into the theme directly.
Thanks! LF
Hello,
Share functionality is built into the theme. You can choose to display it or hide it, and choose what social networks are enabled/disabled.
Kind Regards
Hello Korra! Just a quick question – when are you planning to upgrade Brook theme to the newest Wordpress version?
Hello,
Brook already supports the latest WordPress version.
Cheers!
You mean to the Wordpress 4.5? It’s not mentioned in the theme specifications.
Yes, WordPress 4.5 is fully supported. Theme page has been updated to show that information.
Kind Regards
how do I change the spacing of the sidebar. for example I want to change the sidebar to 100px wide but the spacing is now too wide to make the sidebar content extra narrow. I want to have my sidebar at 100px with maybe 20px total padding all around. Thank you! great theme. If anyone is considering of purchasing it. buy it! you won’t be sorry.
Hello,
If you want to lower the padding within the widgets itself, use this CSS:
.sidebar .widget {
padding: 30px;
}
If you want to lower the margin between the sidebar and main content, customize the value of this CSS:
@media (min-width: 961px){
.content-wrapper__inside.sidebar--true.sidebar--right .main-content__inside {
margin-right: 400px;
}
}
Kind Regards
hello, it looks like something is broken with the backend customizing of the theme… i’m not succeed on doing any changes. i can send you a print screen on how it looks…
Hello,
We have received your support email, and will continue the conversation there.
Kind Regards
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Hello team, Thanks for this amazing theme. I’m lovin’ it since 6 months. Though I have an issue. Is it in anyway possible to change the color fo the title & description on the Sliders ? It seems like my photos are making my blank text almost unreadable every time. Thanks for your help. Keep it up !
Hello,
We are not exactly sure what is the scenario since we haven’t seen it live, but you can alter the slider text color with some CSS. Try this:
.loop-container--style-carousel .post__text__inwrap a,
.loop-container--style-carousel .post__text__inwrap .meta--items .meta--item,
.loop-container--style-carousel .post__text__inwrap .excerpt {
color: #ff00ff;
}
Cheers
Hi! I love the theme so so lovely. What is the snippet of CSS to remove the author name next to the date? ALSO, I would like to remove % loaded as well.
THANK you very much! Meg Clarke
Hello,
Author name can be removed with this CSS:
.meta--author {
display: none;
}
To remove the infobar, go to Theme Customizer > Blog Layouts & Posts > Infobar, and uncheck all fields.
Kind Regards
THANK YOU THANK YOU
Hi Friend,
I love love love this theme and so does my client! I have a question regarding the scrolling posts at the top of the home page. I would like specific images/text to always appear there. For example, http://linenlacelove.flywheelsites.com/ I would like the scroller to have a DIY, Wedding, Party and etc, can I do that?
Thanks in advance!
Meg Clarke
Hello Meg,
In ‘Featured Slider’, only posts and pages can be featured. I see that your DIY, Wedding are tags, which can’t be included in slider. Possible solution can be creating static pages that will be included in the slider, and then using a plugin to redirect traffic from those static pages to your tag archives. Plugin like this can enable your redirection: https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/
Kind Regards
Hmmmm, I am not sure I can figure out how to make this work. I would like the slider to be constant with 5 different images, 5 different topics. I can’t get the featured slider to show more than one tag/more than one page. Is this possible?
Slider can show posts and pages of only one tag. So, create 5 different static pages for the purpose of being used in slider, and tag them with a ‘my-slider-tag’, used only for them.
AHHHHHHH, I get it. Thank you so much. I really appreciate you and your patience!
Hi Korra, beautiful theme. I was wondering if it was possible to remove the “read more” button, and also, whether the theme is set up to auto-fit photos on the page, so I don’t have to resize them?
Thank you, Aggie
Hello Aggie,
You can remove the read more button with this css:
.read-more {
display: none !important;
}
Yes, all images will be optimized to fit the page, you don’t need to resize them.
Kind Regards
You’re a legend, thanks so much, Korra .. xo
Hi Korra! Thanks for all your previous help. I just wanna ask about the text on my site, it suddenly had uneven spaces in between. I tried using the justify alignment to no avail. What seems to be the problem? Looking forward to your response.
Hello jbabs,
We haven’t made any change in the theme that might have caused issue like that. Could you send us the link to your site where we can investigate the problem?
Kind Regards
Sure thing. My site is vertexskills.com. In all the pages and posts that have texts, there are uneven spaces in between text. Thanks again for the prompt response!
Hello,
Throughout your content,
& nbsp;character (non-breaking space) is present on random location. It creates the uneven space, pretty much double in size. We don’t know how you’ve added the content (pasting from Word or similar software) or if you installed some plugin that altered something within the WP Editor, but you need to get rid of the & nbsp; and replace them with the regular ‘space’ characters.
Hope that this helps.
Cheers
Thanks Korra! I actually wrote all my posts in the WP editor so it’s definitely not that. That leaves us with the plugins. would you be able to pinpoint the cause if I give you the list of my plugins?
Sure, we can give it a try. Some plugin might stand out.
Otherwise, best way would be to disable all of the plugins and see if the issue is resolved. Then just enable plugins one by one and find the exact one that’s causing problems.
Note that the plugin is probably altering the content in the time of writing/saving it, so you need to try writing new post and see if the & nbsp; character is being added.
Thanks for the suggestion Korra. I tried disabling all plugins, but the problem still persists. By any chance, could there be any other cause?
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Apologies for the repeat posts.
After the disabling of plugins, have you tried creating new post to check for issues there (old posts might manually need to be updated)? Beside this, we don’t have idea what might cause this.
You can create an admin account for us so we can jump in and quickly see if there’s something going on. If you wish so, contact us directly through the support page.
Cheers
Sure thing Korra, thanks!