Firstly, I really like your site, it looks great! great job! But are you using a child theme by any chance? It may be that you have old files in your child-theme that have since changed considerably in v3, and so that new code isn’t being loaded due to your old files overwriting them.

Thank you sir, and yes I’m using a child theme. Will look into that. Thanks again.

You’re welcome, and ah it’s likely that, to do a quick test, just activate the parent theme and you’ll instantly see if that was it, as now the only code being loaded would be the fresh v3 files.

Hey Dhiram,

Thanks for the interest in 15Zine

Is that the full-size width of your images? Can you share your current URL to take a look at them? If they are, then you might need to add a line of CSS to force them to get bigger, or you could use the 1020px site width option in the theme, where I believe they would fit fine.

Hope this helps.

Codetipi

Its varying, some have 450 px width, the other have 690. Is there a way I can keep the images centered? As stretching will distort.

What is the width of the full size image – http://15zine.cubellthemes.com/fashion/full-screen-featured-image/ and Full width – http://15zine.cubellthemes.com/fashion/visitor-only-rating/

Is there an option I can set them to a different format individually? Is there an option which lets me set a default format for all the pages?

Ah yes of course you can center it without stretching them up, you’d simply add this css to the theme options > custom css box:

.cb-fis-block-standard .cb-mask {   text-align: center; }

That will make all posts with the “standard” featured image style setting be that way.

You can set a global option to change all featured image styles of all posts to be a specific one, but if you have lots of small images it probably isn’t the best thing to do, and you should simply start uploading bigger images in your new posts and selecting a big featured image style there.

For the full-width image, that is around 1200px wide I believe, and the full-screen one is 1400px wide. You can use smaller images, but most screens are bier than 1240px in width, so the image would be stretched and get pixelated on big desktop screens.

Hope this helps.

Codetipi

Hey Ascoyne,

Thanks for the kind words, really happy to hear you’re enjoying the theme But I’m afraid for that particular slider, in order for it to not be so tall on all screens, the ration is different but can’t be changed. You can make the slider taller, but the image thumbnails will still be cropped the way they are:

@media only screen and (min-width: 1200px){
.cb-slider-1-fw li { height: 760px!important;}
}

Hope this helps somewhat!

Codetipi

Hey,

thanks for the fast help! I found that way by myself but as you expected, unfortunately it is not exactly the solution I was looking for.

Thanks anyway and all the best!

You’re welcome! I try to help as much as I can

Ah I see, I didn’t know that the score slider in the backend wasn’t smooth in Firefox, as I develop in Chrome mostly! Will take a look at that.

Regarding Let’s Review, yes, that plugin is a complete different system built from scratch to work independatly from themes and that includes to have different design options, unlimited affiliate buttons, shortcodes, default global options and unlimited pros/cons/criterias with extra fast drag and drops. But in 15Zine the inbuilt system you can have unlimited pros/negatives too, are you saying you added multiple ones but only 1 is outputting?

Ah, hopefully Firefox can be fixed in the next update. The thing with the positives and negatives is that the titles of “positives” and “negatives” don’t appear just the + and – symbols but that may just because it is the inbuilt system and not the plugin.

Ah right! I get what you were asking now, and to confirm in 15Zine, there are no titles for the pros/negatives, the theme uses + and – before them to show visitors what’s what. In the plugin there is an option to add a title to them

Hey Kdwaah,

Thanks for choosing 15Zine, I hope you enjoy using it What step are you stuck at when installing the demo content? Did you follow the ones from the documentation?

Saying that, I would actually recommend simply start building your site from scratch, the theme is honestly extremely easy and logical to use/set up. The documentation explains how to recreate almost everything from the demo site, so you can quickly learn how to use it and be able to get on with your site

Codetipi

Hey Jy2913,

Thanks for the kind words and interest in 15Zine

1- You can certainly only use the top menu if you wish. To make it sticky you would need to add custom css though, as the sticky functionality in the theme is only for the main menu. You would likely use this css:

#cb-top-menu { position: fixed; width: 100%; top:0; }
#cb-outer-container { margin-top: 40px; }

2- Yes, for the top menu you’d add this css to make dropdowns appear instantly:

#cb-top-menu ul li ul { transition: none; }

3- Yes, you can set a font for headings and one for body, and in the typography options you will find a “use your own font” options.

4- What do you mean exactly by sidebar formatting? You can add/remove any widgets you want, like on any WordPress theme.

5- Can you give me an example of what you want to do there as well?

6- What images exactly are you referring to? Do you mean module images that show a light color on hover? if so, you can turn that off with custom css.

7- Yes, the theme can use Disqus commenting system. You’d follow these steps: http://docs.cubellthemes.com/15zine/#!/disqus

8- Yeah there is, in the theme options you can set the logo to be center or left, and the header ad is optional too.

Hope this helps.

Codetipi

Awesome, thank you for all your quick and informative answers! 5- for the sidebar, I’m asking is – can you change look: the background color, change the fonts, etc.? I’m guessing like most of the answers – it can be changed with custom CSS? 6- I’m referring to all the images on the main home page (yes the color hover!) I’m wondering if it can be changed to a different rollover effect – particularly one where on rollover social media sharing buttons appear (like this) https://snag.gy/bUcCNi.jpg

You’re welcome!

5- If you use the light skin option, the background color is grey, but you can easily change that by adding some custom css, like this:

.cb-body-light .cb-sidebar { background: #fff; }

That would make it white. Regarding fonts, do you mean the font family? If so, the theme only uses 2 at a time, one for headings and one for body, this is for performance reasons as fonts are very heavy and you should never use more than 2.

6- You can turn the rollover effect to not change color, but to make social icons appear is a different story and not possible in the theme. To have that you need to output the icons for every post and hide/show them depending on mouse location, which the theme doesn’t do.

Hope this helps

Codetipi

Hey Armanddc,

That would be a cool feature, and it’s actually not too hard to do (get thumbnails from YouTube), the issue is that there is no official way to do this via YouTube. Other people who get thumbnails do it in a very hacky way (they insert video id into a hardcoded url), and I’m fairly certain that breaks copyright laws, as users don’t have permission to use thumbnails/images from random videos. So for these reasons, I decided it best to not add that functionality. If YouTube adds an official way to do it, then I will add it to the theme

Codetipi

Hey mate,

How about you pull up code from GIPHY? They have a pretty sophisticated function of turning a few frames of video into animated GIFs.

Armand

Hey Armand,

Do you mean to use as featured images? Because if so, it’s WordPress that controls the featured image system, not themes. So if you can make your WordPress featured image system connect to Giphy), it would feed through to the theme too. Perhaps try installing this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/giphypress/ and maybe you can set the created gifs as a featured image that way.

Nevermind I figured it out! Though… The issue was that I had the Featured Image Style set to standard. For some reason that made the image lower quality. Once I set it to No Crop everything looked great. Could be an issue? Cheers!

Hey there,

Glad you got it sorted

Codetipi

Hm, well the truth is, that that “loading title” is actually coming from Jetpack, the theme simply outputs what Jetpack shares. I recommend re-connecting your jetpack and see if that helps.

I deactivated jetpack and deleted it, then re-uploaded and now its not working with the theme at all. Won’t even let me connect to wordpress. Please help! my email is danasia@theurbanrealist.com

You can’t connect Jetpack to WordPress? I’m afraid this isn’t something the theme is doing though, the theme has no control over Jetpack or how it works, all the theme does is request for stat data if it exists. And just to confirm though, Jetpack works fine with the theme, it’s used on the demo site and most users use it too.

I recommend starting again by disabling all plugins. Then ensure everything is up to date (plugins, wordpress, theme) and then enable Jetpack and reconnect it to your WordPress account.

The theme is well coded for SEO (HTML5 + h1’s are in the right place, etc), but a theme cannot (should not) control the exact meta data and provide visual tools to aid with SEO. That is why you (and every site that wants to maximise their SEO opportunities) should install a dedicated plugin like SEO by Yoast. That plugin for example adds a metabox in each post where you can specify the exact title/description you want Google to use for its search results.

how I can Remove all Popular posts that weren’t published within the last month?

Hey Medellinstyle, I answered your private message about this

Hi Gfm1978,

Due to the way WordPress comments system works (as in, the scripts created to show post comments, disqus or not) isn’t possible to load multiple times on the same page via ajax, so this isn’t something the theme can do I’m afraid.

Codetipi

Hey Shemar,

Thanks for choosing 15Zine, I hope you enjoy using it. Can you elaborate on what you mean? You can use that plugin just fine, and you don’t have to set a featured image if you don’t want to.

Codetipi

If you use the theme’s option, the equivalent of fixed is the stretched one, have you tried that?

Im using a pattern background, so it has to set to “repeat background,” not stretched.

But I, I also want it to be “fixed position.”

Any suggestion?

Ah I see, I’m afraid that isn’t possible though, when you set a background to be repeat, it literally does that non-stop, you can’t make that fixed. The only way is to create the final image you want (so in Photoshop make a bigger image and copy/paste the image multiple times) and then set that new image to be fixed, and it should look as you want it to.

Hope this helps!

I’ve done that as well. I don’t know if it’s Yoast or something written into the core file that conflicts.

I think it has something to do with the text query parameter.

It shouldn’t do, as it works for other users just fine! Do you have any other plugins that may be interfering? disable them all except Yoast and see what happens.

Hey Brunosanches,

Thanks for checking out 15Zine.

Can you elaborate on exactly what you mean? The licenses are 100% written/created/maintained by Envato, but to explain how they work: one regular license = one domain installation. So if you get a license, you can use it on single website.

Codetipi

have worked this out thank you

have worked this out thank you

That’s great to hear

Hey Yahknow,

Thanks for the interest and for checking out 15Zine

Can you point out exactly which slider you are talking about please? Do you mean the first one with 3 posts at a time, that is at the top of the main homepage? If so, that is simply a slider module from the 15Zine homepage builder, and in the builder’s modules you can set them to show what you want using various filters. The easiest way to “feature” posts is to set the module to show posts by “tags”, and give posts you want to a feature a certain tag, for example “featured” tag, and then set the module to only display posts with that tag.

The reason modules do not use sticky, is because if they did, they would all show the same sticky posts everywhere. You can still use sticky to stick posts to the top of their category pages though.

Hope this makes sense.

Codetipi

Hey Mikeyfish,

With a bit of custom css you sure can, share the url where one is visible and I can share the relevant css for you to use.

Codetipi

Hi Thanks! My url is: micoolfish,com. I actually did the font size and color on my own, but how would i change the divider color?

Sure thing, for the divider, use this:

.cb-divider .cb-title:before,.cb-divider .cb-title:after { background: #eee; }

And change the #eee value, should do it

Hey Exmx,

Do you mean the “description” box under the title? If so, then WordPress doesn’t allow for multi-language features like that, you’d need to use a translation plugin, such as WPML, which the theme is 100% compatible with. It is a premium plugin but it does what you are after, for example: https://wpml.org/forums/topic/translation-of-category-description/

Hope this helps.

Codetipi

Hello , not exactly.. i need to change in the URL the word ” category” by another name for frecnh and german. WPML is always installed and i don’t saw this option to change it ? thanks

oh I see, you are talking about the permalink! For that I’m afraid a theme 100% does not control that, that is all WordPress and WPML, so you will need to contact WPML support for help on how to do that.

Hey Codings,

Not quite yet! Those dates are to do with the changes made for Black Friday weekend! The next update is still in the oven

Codetipi

Got it. Thank you!

No worries