Hello Brian,

Just replied to your email.

Regards

Hello altlab,

A child theme can override the parent theme’s function simply by re-declaring the function. It is not required to ‘remove_action’ or ‘add_action’. But this works only when the parent theme functions are pluggable. i.e. wrapped in a conditional statement.

It will be required to wrap the cruz_related_posts function in a conditional statement in parent theme as:

if (!function_exists('cruz_related_posts')) {
   function cruz_related_posts( $crz_rp_taxonomy, $crz_rp_style, $crz_rp_num ) {
        //  related posts code
    }
}

Next, declare the cruz_related_posts() inside child theme with your own modifications. It will override the parent.

P.S. Instead of going through this process, I’d recommend commenting out the original function and simply place your new function inside parent functions.php. That would be more straight-forward.

Regards

Ok, thanks for the info. Our goal with the child theme is to leave the parent cruz theme files untouched as much as possible, hence my question. It makes upgrades difficult when we change the original cruz theme files because we can’t override something in the child theme.

I know your theme isn’t a framework and designed to be overly modified by a child theme—if you take suggestions for future releases, would love to see your parent theme more pluggable as you described.

We decided to create a new related posts function in a child theme single.php and functions.php, bypassing your original parent function as you mentioned.

Hello altlab,

Feedback taken. I will try to make it flexible enough to support child theme.

Regards

Hello vparro,

The images might not b eappearing due to the timthumb permissions. Kindly send me your site URL and WP login at xconsau[at]gmail[dot]com. I will look into the images and menu issue.

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Hello mate,

The theme uses Cycle and Nivo sliders, and some features that are not easy going for a responsive theme. I will still try if the sliders can be replaced by flexslider and other sections can be made responsive.

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Thanks so much!

Hi, I just updated to the Oct2012 version and can’t seem to get the header in place. I did this: The white area around the banner is created due to the top and bottom padding of the Logo. This is set from the Theme Options Page. Go to Appearance > Cruz Options > General. Next, set the Logo top margin, and logo bottom margin to 0px. But there is still white on the left and under the heading. How do I get rid of this? Thanks! http://radiancehwb.com

Hello Teri7,

I think you have already fixed it. I can see the header banner flush across edges. Kindly let me know if it is not fixed yet.

Regards

Hello again,

Setting a post page should not cause any issue. By doing so, WordPress populates the page with all available posts. In that case, you should see all posts instead of a blank page. May be it has something to do with iOS specific meta tag. Is the plugin adding any iOS specific meta tag inside header. (You can check that by viewing the source code). It will look like:

<meta name="viewport" content="width = device-width, initial-scale = 1.0, maximum-scale = 1.0" />

You can try be removing that code. I hope it will work.

Regards

Hello Albertov,

Custom captions are only for Pages. For rest of the things like single, archive, author, search, tags, etc. their default titles are used. For category and single post, the top most parent category name is used. You can control the captions only for pages.

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Aha, I understand!

If I would like to change that? Where is the code located for that?

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Hello Albertov,

The page titles are called inside header.php within the div with class name page_titles. Modification can be a bit complicated because it will be required to add a field inside post options panel, similar to the one inside page options panel. Once that field is added, it can be checked and called on single posts. Categories and archives will still show default titles because they can not have any exclusive panel.

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Hello Daniel,

The target attribute is hard coded inside shortcode. You can edit that 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>';

Remove target=”_blank” from this line and save the file. That will show links in same window.

Regards

Worked perfectly! Thanks!

Hello Albertov,

For the stretched layout, some CSS styles are hard coded inside includes/load_styles.php file, line no. 271 to 281. You will need to make same changes inside this file too. For reference, this file is used to load styles from theme options panel.

if( $crz_layout == 'stretched' ) {
 ... CSS styles ...
}

Regards

Hello Albertov,

An iOS specific meta tag was inserted in latest version (1.8). This is done inside header.php file:

<meta name="viewport" content="width = device-width, initial-scale = 1.0, maximum-scale = 1.0" />

You can try by removing this tag, or by removing the initial-scale and maximum-scale parameter. I hope that will work.

Regards

Hello Albertov,

The mail is sent using your Hosting Server’s default mail service. The “My Website” text is set at server side. As far as I know, this is set inside php.ini (where default mail settings are configured). You may need to ask the hosting staff to change this text.

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Hello kassieloohoo,

I have tested the theme with woo-commerce. I’m sorry to say, but the theme doesn’t support this plugin. There is an issue with sidebar. The layout breaks when the plugin inserts a sidebar on shop specific pages. My apologies for this disappointment.

Regards

Thank you so much for testing this for me. Did you by any chance test the wp-ecommerce or cart 66 plugins? Do they have the same negative affects on the layout of the theme?

Hello kassieloohoo,

Yes, the same problem occurs for any plugin that creates automated pages. Like, bbpress, buddypress, etc. Generally, a sidebar is inserted inside the content area (like in a default twentyten theme). Assuming this default structure of content and sidebar, plugins insert the sidebar at their obvious location. In this theme we have several conditional statements to check if a user has opted for left, right sidebar, or no sidebar, etc. So default behavior doesn’t work well.

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Hello there,

1. In order to set up a Slider, you will need to create some posts. Next assign a featured image URL to each post. Finally, navigate to Appearance > Cruz Options > Slider, and provide the category ID of these posts. You can find more details inside the documentation/index.html file of your download.

2. Open style.css file and look for the following code inside section 4. Header:

.header_wgt_area * { margin:0px }

Delete this line and save the file. The social icons should work fine then.

Regards

Hello Adam,

I would like to know what exact issue you are facing. Are you willing to remove timthumb, or timthumb isn’t working? Can I have a look at the URL please?

Regards

Thanks for the prompt reply, i have just worked out that the wordpress theme editor had not been ‘editing’ the files. I have now removed timthumb …

... I always try and remove timthumb because it is a pain up the … more specifically if i want to re-size one of my pictures i prefer to choose what happens … thanks again

Hello again,

No problem. I’m glad you fixed it.

Regards

Hello anselmolucas,

That’s great.

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Hello anselmolucas,

“Menu theme locations not saving” is a strange issue, which I have came across with a couple of buyers recently. I’m not sure if this happened due to upgrading to 3.3.2.

As you said, even I have tested this on latest version and on localhost, and the menus work fine. So far, the only solution I have came across is to switch the theme to twentyten, delete the cruz theme, and re-install the theme again. Next, activate the Cruz theme. I hope that will work.

Regards

Hello Albertov,

While replacing the theme, the background8.gif image might have got removed. You will need to place this image again inside the images folder. Also, make sure the CSS changes are re-implemented in the new style.css file.

If that doesn’t work, you can send me the URL . I will further check the source code.

Regards

Hello LDesp,

Yes it has. You can find the dummy data inside your_download/cruz/dummy-data/ folder. There are .txt files for pages and xml files for post content.

Regards

Outstanding after purchase support and great theme. Thank you for the fast response and help with things.

You’re welcome.