196 comments found.
I love this theme & have been using it for almost a year now.
I’m currently editing the look of my blog & was wondering how to make my header menu look like the one from Brook2 Demo (written out rather than condensed in the drop down style)
Hello,
In Theme Customizer > Layout > Header, simply choose Classic header layout instead of Minimal.
Cheers
Thank you!
Hi there ! Absolutely loving the theme, I’m using it for more than a year now. Lately I’ve been trying to refresh my design but : 1) the changes I make are slow to appear on the site (ex: sidebar weight, colors…) 2) even more annoying, nothing but the very basic fonts (Times New Roman, Georgia…) would appear on my website. Everything else’s transformed in Arial – not the aesthetic I’m going for lol. Thank you
Hello,
First make sure that everything is up to date, WordPress, plugins and the theme.
1. Do you have any kind of caching enabled? This can be a plugin on your side, or something enabled by your hosting server. There is no reason why changing these settings would take time, and caching is the only reason possible for this issue.
2. Can you send us the link where we can see the website? Make sure that your desired fonts are set, so we can see the issue.
If you feel more comfortable, you can respond via the support page directly.
Kind Regards
Does Brook come with Video Post? Also in the main demo, is there an option do display the standard header navigation?
Is it possible to hide: categories name, date, author and comment in homepage and blog categories?
Hello,
Thank you for your interest in our theme.
Brook supports Video Posts, but they will be styled same as standard post, so there’s no difference. Brook’s main demo shows Minimal Header Layout, while Demo2 shows Classic Header Layout: http://demo.korra.io/brook2/
Meta details can be easily hidden through the CSS.
Kind Regards
Hi Korra! I love your theme, it’s amazing! I’d like to change the blog layout to 1st post full and then grid layout. Can you give me a tip so I can make it work? Thanks a lot.
Hello,
Thank you for the kind words!
We will introduce this as a feature in the next theme update.
It should probably be published by the end of this week.
Kind Regards
Hi Korra! I’ve been using your theme successfully for some time now and recently I changed the header layout for menu from minimal to standard one. Is there anyway to include a search box in standard menu as well? Thanks you!
Hello,
You can add the ‘Search’ widget into the Header Widget Area.
Cheers
Hi there,
Firstly I have to commend you for designing such an amazing theme! 
Secondly, I just have a couple of questions:
1. Am I able to remove the date/author/comments line from both the cover image and the blog thumbnails when masonry gallery grid option is selected.
2. I’ve setup a static homepage with the featured slider. Is it possible to remove the featured slider that automatically displays on the latest posts homepage?
Many thanks, Bandele
Hello Bandele,
We’ve received your support email and answered there since it is much easier to communicate that way.
Cheers!
This is such a beautiful theme! One question… Is there any way to add a shop/store widget that goes well with the theme?
(This would be the first website I want to do that with, and I’m not sure how it works or if shop widgets look pretty or anything, haha).
Thanks!
Hello,
Theme does not have any shop support built-in. You could easily install for example WooCommerce plugin, but you’ll need to customize it’s templates and styles a bit to fit the theme and it’s layout.
Kind Regards
Hey there, I have this theme and I would like to add video in my blog article and when I check video, there is no way how to add link on the youtube video – I want video appear exactly on the page (so people don´t need to go to new youtube page). Thank you
Hello,
This is a built-in WordPress feature – you simply paste the link to the Youtube video (not embed link, but standard URL) into your content and it will automatically be converted into a real embedded video.
Kind Regards
Hi, I’m using the Masonry grid for my new blog. I set up the typograhpy (h2) for the blogpost titles in the grid on Uppercase, but it doesn’t change?! I tried all the other settings for typography but nothing helps to change the titles. If I change the display style to List with excerpt, than it works. How can I make it work for the Masonry Grid? Kind regards!
Hello,
Masonry Grid titles are smaller and actually use H3 styles. Try changing H3 Typography Settings. Also, in order for this to work, you need to have WP-Less plugin enabled.
Please, let us know if this solved the issue.
Kind Regards
Thank you for your reply. After I installed the plugin WP-Less, it worked. Thanks for your quick help.
Kind regards!
Hi!
We’ve been using Brook theme since Sep’15. We’ve noticed that after the last theme updates, there seems to be some compatibility issues with JetPack galleries. We were wondering if you are aware of this and if so, if you are planning to fix it in future updates.
Thank you very much in advance and kind regards,
Rosa
Hello Rosa,
We were not aware of any issues with Jetpack galleries, but will look into that.
In the meantime, it is possible that theme’s own gallery is interfering with the plugin you’re using. If this is the case, you can try disabling theme’s own gallery functionality. Explanation is here: http://library.korra.io/brook/documentation/#disable-gallery
Kind Regards
Hi,
Thank you very much for your reply. When installing Brook theme the first time (a year ago more or less) we followed the instructions about disabling brook gallery to not interfere with other gallery plugins. It has been working perfectly so far, but in August we updated the theme and from that moment Jetpack gallery stopped working. We went back to the initial version of Brook and it went right again.
With this last update we tried again but with the same results.
If it helps we added this code piece into brook child theme functions.php file:
add_action( ‘init’, ‘remove_brook_post_gallery’ ); function remove_brook_post_gallery(){ remove_filter( ‘post_gallery’, ‘brook_post_gallery’, 10 ); }
And it has not change through the updates attempts.
Thank you very much and kind regards,
Rosa
Hello Rosa,
Thank you for the detailed information, it is of much help!
Could you send us the screenshot of the exact issue that happens? You can send it to support@korra.io, or paste the link here.
We will test this thoroughly and get back to you with the results.
Kind Regards
Hello,
This afternoon testing it we discovered that it is not the theme making JetPack galleries fail. It is another plugin (Advance Custom Fields), which I think it is needed by Brook theme, the one that interferes with Jetpack galleries.
In fact, not only Jetpack galleries are being affected; other plugins (like EasyRecipe) with advanced admin interface features do not work properly when Advance Custom Fields is activated.
We will try to reach them and see wether there is any solution.
Thank you very much and kind regards,
Rosa
Thank you for this follow-up. This is indeed a curious case, and we’ll look into that as well. ACF is used by the theme, so this issue is indirectly affecting the theme also.
Kind Regards
Hi Korra, Iove you theme! But I have a few questions.
1. I can´t get goggle map to work. I only get a white container and the console says: Google Maps API error: InvalidKeyMapError https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/error-messages#invalid-key-map-error What could be wrong?
2. In the single pages do I only want the “next” and “previous” buttons to include posts in a certain category, not all posts. How do I make that happen?
3. In the category and the archive widget do i only want to include the categories that are showed at the archive page, not all posts. Is that possible?
Sincerely Jennie
Hello Jennie,
1. Are you using the latest version of the theme (1.5.5)? We made some improvements for the google maps regarding the API in that version, so maybe you need to update and check if the issue is solved.
2. Good idea! Yes, this could be rather easily achieved. Instead of tweaking the code yourself, could you wait a day or two for the theme update? – we will introduce a new theme option that enables the filtering of prev-next based on the category of the post.
3. Category and Archive widgets are WordPress’ native widgets. They are not altered by the theme, and there’s not much you could change there. Depending on what exactly you are trying to achieve, you could use Brook: Blog List to display posts in desired filter, or Custom Menu widget, to display the list of custom links. Custom Menu might be very similar in style to what you would get from Category and Archive widgets, so you can customize it’s contents to exactly fit your needs. Hope that this helps.
Kind Regards
Thanks for your answer. Sounds great, I will wait for the next update!
Hi! I was updating to the latest version of the theme. Google maps is working now, but I still don´t know how to filtering the “next” and “previous” buttons based on categories. Where can I find the new theme option for that?
Kind regards
Hey Jennie,
You can find the new option in Theme Customizer > Blog Layouts & Posts > Single Posts, and check the ‘Post Navigation is filtered to the posts of the same category only’ option.
Cheers!
Great! Thanks!
Is there a way to remove the gradient on the cover image?
Hello,
To remove the cover, use this code in Theme Customizer > Advanced > Custom CSS:
.brook-cover.bg--true:before {
content: none !important;
}
Kind Regards
Doesn’t do anything. Also I am wondering if it is possible to add a drop shadow the the slider text.
Also I want to keep the cover, just not the gradient.
The CSS snippet in the first reply most certainly works. We have just double checked it. Pay attention to paste it correctly into the dedicated Theme Customizer field ( there are other ways for using custom CSS, but this is the simplest, thus recommended ).
You may try adding thing text shadow for the slider with some custom CSS styling. This is a good start:
.loop-container--style-carousel .post__text {
text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #000;
}
Kind Regards
Hello no matter what I do in the page settings section, nothing changes in the cover image, the comments section, or sidebar.
Hello,
Everything works as expected in our tests.
Could you give some more information on what exactly fails in the process?
After you change the page settings and hit Publish, do you see the new settings selected in the Page Settings, or are they reseted back to the defaults?
Kind Regards
Hello Korra Team,
I am having a problem with the mobile view of photos on the following blog; http://box-of-beauty.com/It loads fine on a other resolutions but when loaded on mobile the collages dont resize to mobile resolution and require scrolling to see the full image. Happens on page 2.
I saw the problem on the image collage forums ; https://wordpress.org/support/topic/images-wont-scale-inside-container-on-mobile And the solution was the theme not resizing the images correctly. Would greatly appreciate your help on this issue.
Regards Michael
ps; I purchased the theme long before the project started and so my support has expired but the site went online a week ago hence my first use of the support. Hope thats ok.
Hello Michael,
I visited your website from multiple devices and everything appearad correctly. Are you still having the issue? If so, please provide steps to reproduce the issue or screenshots.
Theme is fully responsive, and this kind of issues should not be caused by it.
Kind Regards
Any reports of the submit button giving an Error when trying to submit a comment? It appears the comments are going through, but I don’t want it giving people an error. Any fix for this?
Hello,
It is possible that due to some javascript error, ajax comments fail to successfully submit completely.
You may try to disable the ajax comments in Theme Customizer > General > Post comments with Ajax, and use the default native WordPress posting way. That should eliminate any theme’s interference with the comment submitting.
Kind Regards
Hi! I’m using the Instagram widget in the footer, but would like to put the link over the images instead of beneath. How do i manage that? Kind Regards
Hello,
You need to tweak it with some CSS.
Try this:
.footer-instagram .null-instagram-feed p {
margin-top: -100px;
position: relative;
}
Kind Regards
I changed my sidebar width to 120px now the “latest stories” module is showing up too small, can I change to just display 1 column instead of the current two column widget layout?
Hello,
Sure, use this CSS:
@media only screen and (min-width: 600px) {
.loop-container--style-widget_grid .post {
width: 100%;
}
}
Cheers!
That worked great! thank you.
how do I remove the title text in the slider completely I tried }
.loop-container-style-carousel .meta-items {
display: none;but the title still remains on the image when not moused over.
Hello,
Title can be removed by using this CSS:
.loop-container--style-carousel .post__text__inwrap h2 {
display: none;
}
Kind Regards
Hello. I have some questions regarding the Brook Theme.
1. I do not find how I can change to gallery grid. Where do I have to make this adjustment?
2. I would like to let the graphic of the logo switch into the header when scrolling down the landing page and the big logo isn’t seen anymore.
3. How do I remove the big logo as a fixed adjustment for all category and article sites? Means this sites shall load directly without the big and just with the small logo in the header. So that the cover image starts with the under header border with no logo in between.
4. How do I remove the author in the artivle header?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Kind regards
Hello,
Thank you for the purchase!
1. If you use default ‘Latest Posts’ homepage, you can change the blog-layout in Theme Customizer > Blog posts and layouts > Homepage. http://library.korra.io/brook/documentation/#homepage-main-blogIf you use static page as homepage, you can choose in Page Settings, under Blog tab.
2. You need to upload both main and small logo in Theme Customizer > General. Small logo will be used on smaller screens and on minimized sticky header in Minimal Header Layout. So, you need to have all this options also set.
3. You can’t alternate display of the header/logo on particular pages of the site. It’s global setting.
4. Use this CSS in Theme Customizer > Advanced > Custom CSS:
.meta--author {
display: none !important;
}
Kind Regards
Thank you for “first aid”. Helped a lot. I am sorry for having more questions.
1. How can I exclude the comments from the article header as well? Is there a CSS I can implement in Custom CSS?
2. I uploaded a small and a main logo. But there is now small logo shown in the Brook navigation header. Just the one under the navigation. What I have planned is to implement a small into the nav. Means instead of a /category/word a logo shall shown so that I there are my four blog categories and aside a logo to click on. I can understand that I can make this adjustment not for sigle sites. But is there a CSS code I can use to exclude the landing page from this process, so that there will be shown the header logo under the nav. and not the small one in the nav. —> Maybe I could implement both an exclude the small one from the landing page and exclude otherwise the main logo from the single post / article sites. Is that possible?
3. I know from your Brook theme example page that it is possible to let a article page start without the logo but with a picture (the background of the article title). This is an example page of what I mean: http://bekleidet.net/2016/05/in-the-desert/ . At the moment my page is shown with header logo on every page. The example page has a small logo in the header navigation as well. This is what I like to implement too.
Hope you can help me again. Thank you in advance!!
4. Forgot to ask how I can center the header menu location (after nimplementing the small logo in it
Hello,
1. Use this CSS:
.meta--comments {
display: none !important;
}
2. & 3. I’ve visited your site, and I see that you successfully made some of these changes. On our demo, every page has logo, it can’t be hidden. Note that Header Layout: Minimal shows logo within the header (also supports transition to small logo), but in Header Layout: Classic, only big logo is displayed, and it’s below the header, not within it. Now, I can’t understand exactly what changes you successfully made, and for what you still need help. Could you, please, ask again for exact changes you need help with?
4. Currently, you have added Social Navigation into the Main Menu. I don’t know if you have some specific reason for this, but it is much simpler to use provided Header Widget Area, and add a Social Menu widget to it. In that case, it might be possible to center the navigation horizontally. Right now, your only option is to tweak the padding-left (you have 7% set in your style.css currently), and make it appear ‘centered’.
Kind Regards
I creat a”most popular” and “Latest”in the sidebar place,I selest “Image Grid”style,but I want to change the size of the picture,may I?And where can I adjust?Or It’s just depend on the original picture size? thank you
Hello,
‘Image Grid’ is displaying images resized to width of 300px. Aspect-ratio is kept same.
If you wish to change some image specifically, you’ll need to crop it and upload it like that, since the system will only resize it.
If you wish to change all images displayed in ‘Image Grid’, you’ll need to change their preset. Here’s the explanation on how to do that: http://library.korra.io/brook/documentation/#change-image-size-preset . You are interested in the image size ‘s’.
Kind Regards
