Hello there,

The theme uses two navigation menus right from the beginning. I didn’t added it later.

You can remove the second menu inside header.php file, line no. 91:

<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'container' ?> 'none', 'menu_class' => 'nav2', 'theme_location' => 'secondary' ) ); ?>

Delete this line and save the file. Next, open style.css file and look for line no. 140:

.nav1 { position:relative; float:left; width:608px; list-style:none; z-index:9999; margin:0px 10px 0px 0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 20px; height:40px; background:transparent }

Change width to 100% and margin to 0px. Save this file and you’re done.

Regards

Thank you so much! You are super!

I did as you instructed, and while the 2nd menu goes away (yeah!), BUT the main navigation still stops at where the 2nd nav used to start. I have a few menu items that drop down into the slider.

Any thoughts? Thanks again. Seriously, you are the best.

Hello again,

I guess you skipped the change in width. At line no. 140:

.nav1 { position:relative; float:left; width:608px; list-style:none; z-index:9999; margin:0px 10px 0px 0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 20px; height:40px; background:transparent }

Change this line to:

.nav1 { position:relative; float:left; width:100%; list-style:none; z-index:9999; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 20px; height:40px; background:transparent }

Now there is a width:100% so that the menu will expand to full width.

Regards

Hello Paco,

The performance of this theme for a high traffic will mainly depend upon your database server. Most of the time is consumed while executing a query and fetching the contents from database.

Besides that, there are jQuery plugins that may take time to load. This includes jquery library ui, tabs, sliders etc. If you are not using the slider, you can disable those plugins inside header.php file’s head section. Further, the timthumb script may take some execution time but that would be negligible. For any WordPress theme, the performance mainly depends upon the database server and the type of hosting.

Regards

Hello SH,

The Author bio will be visible only if it is set and filled inside WordPress admin. For that, go to WordPress Users > Your Profile > About Yourself. Next, set the biographical info and update the profile. This will appear on the site.

The author meta tag is generated inside functions.php, line no. 296:

printf( __( '<span class="date">%1$s</span><span class="author">%3$s</span><span class="cats">%2$s</span>', 'cruz' )

You can delete <span class="author">%3$s</span> and save the file.

Another quick method is to set the following rule inside the bottom of style.css file:

span.author { display:none !important; }

Regards

Hello again,

The button short codes are set to show the link in new window. You can easily change this inside includes/shortcodes/shortcodes.php file, line no. 259:

return '<a href="'.$link.'" class="'.$btn_class.' '.$color_class.' '.$size_class.'" target="_blank">'.do_shortcode($content).'</a>';

Delete target=”_blank” and save the file. The links will open in same window now.

Regards

Hello there,

The portfolio page doesn’t use dummy content. The thumbnails and content are generated using the WordPress loop. For that, you will need to select a portfolio template from the template drop-down list, and provide the Category ID inside page options. This category ID will be of the Category that contains posts for portfolio page.

You can find detailed instructions on creating a portfolio page inside documentation/index.html file. Further, feel free to ask me if you find any difficulty.

Regards

Hello again,

Sorry for getting late on reply. That can be done using the <small /> tag as shwon below:

[quote]Praesent in dolor eu orci malesuada viverra vitae vel purus. Sed sit amet dui nisl. Vestibulum venenatis, tellus eu posuere faucibus, augue orci faucibus ipsum, sit amet ornare mauris odio id augue <small>- John Smith, JKL Ltd.</small>[/quote]

or..

<div class="quote">Praesent in dolor eu orci malesuada viverra vitae vel purus. Sed sit amet dui nisl. Vestibulum venenatis, tellus eu posuere faucibus, augue orci faucibus ipsum, sit amet ornare mauris odio id augue <small>- John Smith, JKL Ltd.</small></div>

Regards

Hello again,

Inside the Visual mode of the editor, you will see buttons for quote and pullquote. You can select a text and click the quote button to set it as a quoted text. You can also use it as:

[quote]This is a testimonial by some Client.[/quote]

Regards

Hello vicng,

Thanks for your kind words. The theme supports Contact Form 7 plugin that is easy to install and use. The built in contact form has fixed number of fields and it will be a bit complicated to add new field.

You can use Contact Form 7. That will be convenient and easy to implement.

Regards

Hello Dimitris,

I just checked the site. The headings seem to work fine with strong tag. I tested it with firebug. Your Google code call is also fine (including the bold typeface).

You can mail me at xconsau[at]gmail[dot]com with login details so that I can look into it further.

Regards

Thanks for the reply. I still have the same problem, when I am trying to make the half words regular and the half bold. I will pass it though, it is not so important.

One lats question. Please, inform me how to use white, h2 style typography in the slider box text.

Regards, Dimitris

Hello again,

The styles for slider caption box can be controlled in following ways:

1. For Cycle Slider, open style.css file, line no. 192:

.show_desc p { line-height:18px; margin:0px }

The caption uses a p tag and you can set a font size and family for it as:

.show_desc p { font-size: 22px; line-height: 30px; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif }

2. For Nivo Slider, open css/nivo-slider.css, line no. 49:

.nivo-caption {
- set same typography rules in this selector -
}

3. For the bold text issue, I would like to give it a try. Although I’ll do the same as you did:

<h2>This is a heading with <strong>bold</strong></h2>

I think some styles are getting override within the site. You can drop me a mail if you find any further issues.

Regards

Hello Kylie,

Dropped you an email.

Regards

Yea, usually it is there. It is not appearing in Firefox or Chrome browsers. Have you encountered that before? Thanks so much for all your help. You are great!

Hello Teri,

The “Screen Options” tab is not visible when the JavaScript is off for the browser. Upon non-availability of JS, that button is gone.

It can also be due to a plugin conflict. If you have some plugins installed, try to disable all of them and enable them one by one until you see the one that is causing the conflict. A similar issue was raised on WordPress forums here. They have sorted it out by disabling jetpack. Let me know if this works.

Regards

Thanks, yes deactivating the Jetpack fixed it.THANKS!

Hello Teri,

For Cycle Slider, open js/custom.js file, line no. 108 and 109:

speed:  400, 
timeout: 4000,

For Nivo Slider, open js/nivo_init.js file, line no. 11 and 12:

animSpeed:400, // Slide transition speed
pauseTime:3000, // How long each slide will show

You can disable the photo curl effect and link the images to a particular page using the parameters of frame short code, as shown below:

[frame src="url_of_source_image" width="204" height="160" style="0" linkstyle="normal" linksto="http://yourlink.com" title="Image title"]

Regards

Hello Taffy,

The slider seems working fine, with images. (May be you already fixed it). Let me know if you were asking something else.

Regards

Hello there,

The page titles section shows the page name or category name, depending upon what is viewed. You can control captions for pages, but for single posts, a category name will be shown.

Let me know whether you wish to show some other name there, or remove that Grey box completely for single posts. You can reply me at xconsau[at]gmail[dot]com so that I can provide you the changes accordingly.

Regards

Hello again,

Inside cruz/dummy_data/ folder, you will find dummy text content for pages. Open home.txt file and copy/paste it’s content inside the HTML mode of your home page. You may need to replace the image URLs to the one on your server.

There are other text files for column grids, typography etc that may help you in creating the page contents.

Regards

Hello,

Are you asking about the post in Slider? That can be limited by using “number of slides” option inside Appearance > Cruz Options > Slider.

Regards

Hello there,

The Google analytics code will not remain blank because its default value is set inside theme options. There was a bug related to it in older versions. (I am not sure if you are using an old version).

In either case, the simplest way is to insert the script inside header.php. Open this file and look for the following code at line no. 45 to 53:

<!-- GOOGLE ANALYTICS -->
<script type="text/javascript">
    var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
    document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("<?php echo $crz_analytics;?>");
    pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script>

You can replace this script code with the one you’ve got from the anlytics account. Then you need not enter the analytics code from the theme options. Hope this will work for you. (An you may need to wait at least 24 hours before your site gets crawled by the Google).

Regards

Hello mate,

I have switched on to a new hosting for my latest themes. But the Cruz theme is still on the older one. The older server is poor in performance, and I will shift the theme to the new server at my earliest.

My apologies for any inconvenience so far.

Regards

Hello Teri,

The header padding is controlled by the following selectors:

1. style.css file:

 Line no. 127: .brand { padding:30px 0px 30px 30px }
line no. 132.header_wgt_area { margin:30px 30px 30px 0px }

2. includes/load_styles.php file:

Line no. 283: echo( '.brand { padding:'.$crz_logo_mrgtop.'px 0px '.$crz_logo_mrgbtm.'px 30px }');

This line is used to load the margin/padding from theme options. You can delete this line so that your custom CSS rules should come into effect directly. Feel free to ask if you need further help.

Regards

Hi, Thank you — I did what you indicated. Here’s the current code in there:

.brand { position:relative; overflow:hidden; float:center; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px; line-height:0px } .blogname { font-size:30px; margin-bottom:0px } .blogname a { color:#333 } .blogname a:hover { color:#cc6600; text-decoration:none } .tagline { font-size:12px; line-height:18px; color:#999 } .header_wgt_area { position:relative; overflow:hidden; float:center; margin:0px 0px 0px 0px; padding-left:0px; width:959px; border-left:0px solid #e5e5e5 } .header_wgt_area * { margin:0px } .header_wgt_area p, .header_wgt_area small { color:#999 } .header_wgt_area a { color:#666 } .header_wgt_area a:hover { color:#cc6600; text-decoration:none }

If you can take a look. I just want the header to be all the way across and sit right on top of the black navigation with no white around it. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HELPING US ! http://radiancehwb.com/

Hello Teri7,

As I mentioned earlier, you may also need to change the padding settings inside includes/load_styles.php file, line no. 283:

echo( '.brand { padding:'.$crz_logo_mrgtop.'px 0px '.$crz_logo_mrgbtm.'px 30px }');

Delete this line and save the file. Your custom CSS will not get overridden now.

Regards

You’re welcome, Christian.