Discussion on Volt - Newspaper & Magazine WordPress Theme

Discussion on Volt - Newspaper & Magazine WordPress Theme

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As always SaurabhSharma, This is am amazing theme and I love tweaking it and using your tips and tricks to make it even better for my blog.

What do you think about making the search bar part of one of the menus? I have seen tutorials for adding a search bar as part of the menu near all of the categories or pages. And I have tried this method editing it only to have a major error come up and have me reinstall the whole theme.

What would you recommend specifically I do for this theme to put a search bar into the menu below the header? I am using Google’s custom search bar if that helps.

Thanks again.

Hello Youthful_Investor,

Thanks for the kind feedback.

For adding searchbox, open header.php file and look for line no. 59 to 62:

<div class="utility_wrap clearfix">
<?php wp_nav_menu( ... );?>
</div><!-- .utility_wrap -->

Add a searchform just after the menu call as:

<div class="utility_wrap clearfix">
<?php wp_nav_menu( ... );
get_search_form(); ?>
</div><!-- .utility_wrap -->

You can replace get_search_form() with your Google Search Code too.

After adding the form, it will appear on next line. This is so because the menu is of 100% width. Inside style.css file, section 4. HEADER > Primary Navigation Menu, make the following changes:

/* Primary Navigation Menu */

.nav1 { ... } /* Replace this line with the code below */

.nav1 { position:relative; list-style:none; margin:0px; padding:0px 4px; height:40px; background:transparent; float:left; width:740px }
.utility .searchbox { width:180px; float:right; margin:4px 4px 0px }
.utility .searchbox input[type="text"] { width:140px !important; }

This will align the newly added searchbox properly on right side.

Regards

Hi, SaurabhSharma.

Excuse me, I have a question.

If I use the images 615 px width (original) in posts with sidebar ’’a’’ for blog, like you can see in this post: http://www.tarragonainnova.com/la-escuela-lorenzo-competicion-forma-a-jovenes-pilotos-en-tarragona/ the images appear intact (and responsive) for close browser window or when I use’’ both sidebar’’ for blog (without to change the image size).

However, If I use a different image size, for example 800 px width, (later modified internally in the control panel) to show in post with same sidebar ’’a’’, it don’t appear intact (not responsive) for close browser window or when I use both sidebar for blog. See: http://www.tarragonainnova.com/tortosa-celebra-la-decimoseptima-edicion-de-la-festa-del-renaixement/

All the time I have used ’’Add an object’’ to insert images in posts (no your shortcode ’’insert and image with styles’‘) because I’m using Volt theme from recently.

Why? Must I use always 100% size (615px for blog with sidebar ’’a’‘) to have it responsive?

Thanks!

Hello jordimkt,

The first link has image with class name ‘size-full’. This class has 100% max-width for images. This makes it responsive. Whereas the second link does not have this class. So whenever you insert an image, simply assign it the class name ‘size-full’:

<img class="size-full .. rest of the classes" width="xyz" height="xyz" src="xyz" />

Image can be of any size, it will become responsive when you assign this class.

Regards

Hi, I really love this theme.really thanks for this perfect theme. i have 2 question

1) how i can have 2 categories side by side ( in 2 column) like HEALTH & Nutrition and LIFESTYLE Personal in demo preview ?

2)now i inserted slider short code in a post and pined it but i have problem because it shows author name and created date post above and i think its not good for slide show! is there any way to hide it?

Best Regards

Hello Surpriser,

Thanks for the kind feedback.

1. You can create similar category view by copy/pasting the sample data from volt/dummy_data/home.txt file.

2. You can hide post meta inside Appearance > Volt Options > Single > Hide Post Meta. Enable this check-box to hide post meta globally across the site.

Important: For any future query, kindly post message from the account from which you purchased the theme.

Regards

Hi – I have a quick question, I recently purchased VOLT and I love it! one strange thing, in the Volt Social Icons, the Facebook icon always has a drop shadow behind it. You can see an example here: jugaadinnovation.com Can you please let me know how to fix this? thanks so much, mollie

Hello Mollie,

Those styles are being inherited from the front.css file of download manager plugin. This plugin’s CSS is using same class name ’.facebook’ which is overriding the styles.

You can add the following rule at the end of style.css file:

a.facebook { border:none; -moz-border-radius:0; -webkit-border-radius:0; border-radius:0 }

This will fix the shadow issue.

Regards

Awesome! Thank you so much! :)

Hi there! I am trying to use templat3 for archive page, but when I use the cut off for read more, it flushes my top like all the way to the right. See it here: http://www.sienanewsmag.com/?cat=4

Any ideas?

Hello again,

The content is shifting to the right side because there is an empty ‘half’ block of DIV . Open/edit the post and make sure there is no empty [half] short code. If it is, remove it and update the post. That will clear the gap.

Regards

Hi, I got through he first step of disabling the feature box date (display:none) But I can’t figure out where this is:js/custom.js file line no. 193: in order to remove it. Thank you

Hello karson972,

This file is not directly accessible via WP Admin, you can make the changes to volt/js/custom.js file on local machine and upload this file to the server’s volt/js/ folder using FTP .

Regards

I tried using the widget panel at the left hand corner of the demo page to customize the homepage to 2 columnal: content and sidebar A but it’s not working. Is it not possible to use 2 columns on the homepage?

Hello SurveillanceTips,

It is possible. You only need to assign the page template “Page – Right Sidebar A” to the Home page.

Regards

Pre-buy question:

Is it possible to get a traditional blog format for the main content on the front page where latest post is always on top, followed by x amount of recent posts.

Thanks!

Hello RoyalMedia,

Thanks for browsing the theme.

Front page can be shown same as this page. This can be done using a blog page template and setting it as front page. You can also show default blog posts as front page. By using the template, you have choice to show selective categories.

Regards

First, let me say I love this theme and THANK YOU for all of your kind help thus far! You have saved me a few headaches…

Second, when I view my site on my android phone it looks horrible (the layout). The page is reformatted and I want it to just look like the website, even if it is small. How can I accomplish this?

Thank you.

www.goodlooknout.com

Hello GLO ,

The theme loads mobile specific CSS due to which you see the change in layout. The mobile layout is one columnar with all the content stacked below each other.

If you are using latest version of the theme you can disable mobile CSS via Appearance > Volt Options > General > Disable Mobile CSS . Enable this checkbox and save settings.

If this option is not available (due to old version), you can simply delete the smartphone.css file, or rename it.

Regards

Hi, I have some question: 1- I set the featured image, but inside the post I don’t see the image, why? I need to insert the image into the post too? 2- On home page I have multiple article on the list, why? 3- Same things for the slider in home page. 4- It’s possible to have a “Read more” button under the article in the Category listing?

Thank you in advance for your precious support. Greetings

Hi, thank you for your answers. So, I fix the featured image in the post to show if is set. Also I insert the code Read more inside the archive. By multiple article I mean that I have the same article for the first and last in the list of article. This is the URL of my test site: http://yourstudio.it/marchestartup/ You can notice that some article are duplicate.

Hi, I fix the problem of the duplicate post, it was a plugin.

Best Regards

Hello imagenow,

Thanks for fixing the issue. You can also use the offset parameter is using post short codes. For example:

[slider num="4" cats="3,4,5"]
[post_list num="4" cats="3,4,5" offset="4"]

In the above example, both shortcodes use same categories, but the second one will skip 4 posts that are used in slider.

Regards

Hi, SaurabhSharma.

I try to change CSS code because I would like to have the widht:468px of header widget area, and to change the color of top navigation background.

The problem is that the style of web online don’t change.

I need help, please.

Thanks!

Hello jordimkt,

For header widget area, open style.css file and look for the following selector inside section 4. HEADER :

.header_widget_area { ... width:730px }

Change 730 to 468px.

For top navigation background, you can modify the following selector inside the same section:

.nav_top { ... background:#fff; border:1px solid #e0e0e0; border-bottom-color:#dadada; border-top:2px solid #ff6633 }

After making the changes, make sure you clear browser cache. The changes may not come into effect if the browser is still using cached version of style.css file.

Regards

Hi there, i have a problem. I’m adding menu from Menu Option page and i have 90 total menus (Parent, Child 1, Child 2, Child 3) and i want to add more menus. But, i can’t add more menu because when i add menu and save it, the result is PAGE NOT FOUND and my latest menu can’t be saved.

My site is ayobola.com

Thank you for your respond.. and i’m waiting.

Hello bangkitba,

This issue is related to hosting server’s variable limit. You can check the following links:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-30-menu-limit
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14134

It will be required to contact Hosts and confirm if any limit is being set for the variables. I hope they will fix it.

Regards

Hello Saurabh,

is possible reduce the number of character in “Volt Recent Comments” widget?

I have some comments very long, and the sidebar lost the align with the content part and the other sidebar. I would like set a max of character in the comments.

Thank you, Regards!

Hello Doraj,

Yes that is possible. Kindly drop me an email at xconsau[at]gmail[dot]com. I will send you the changed snippet.

Regards

This is a pre-buy question. This theme is excellent and I think it was designed with monetization concept in mind. But I’m curious to know if your theme supports space saving navigation like tabbed widgets.

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Is this in your theme or I have to buy this separately?

Thankx

Hello SurveillanceTips,

Thanks for browsing the theme and kind feedback.

Tabbed navigation for widgets is not provided with the theme. It only provides tabbed navigation for the content part. :)

Regards

Is Volt suitable for a WordPress Multisite installation?

Is this the main support forum for Volt?

Is there some way (perhaps elsewhere) I can search through previous support requests?

Hello buzztone,

Thanks for browsing the theme.

1. Your download will have two theme formats—timthumb and non-timthumb. The non-timthumb version works with MU, whereas timthumb version will not work on MU. So, if you are planning to use it for MU, you will have to use the non-timthumb one.

2. There is no private forum. All the support is provided via comments section and emails. The comments section is not search friendly, but this is all we had so far. It will be required to browse all pages of comments section to see the support. :)

Regards

hi! just a pre-buy question: i have open your demo with my macbook pro and Safari and the site (after loading) has been reorganized as if it were opened by a cell phone. After this i used Firefox and all work fine with the right dimension of elements… some ideas?

Hello junky3,

Thanks for browsing the theme. I think that is happening due to a media query being used in the theme:

media="only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio : 1.5), only screen and (min-device-pixel-ratio : 1.5)">

This query is meant of devices with pixel ratio of 1.5. This can be disabled inside core file or by using theme options. You can check this line at the end of source code. I will update/fix this in next version.

Regards

Hello Sharma, Thank you for your help with the css question. it was very helpful!! If have another question for you. How could I display date/time and the search box with the watermark (like the widget) inside the menu? I would like to add the date and time to the top menu and search to the main menu. would it be possible? if so? how?

Appreciate your help!

-Mosh

Hello Mosh,

It will be required to place the code for searchbox and date inside header.php. Kindly send me your WP login and URL at xconsau[at]gmail[dot]com. I will place the code.

Regards

I also love the theme and took the advice above for taking out the other h1 tag out of the post. I noticed that the home page has 5 h1 tags which is a big SEO no-no. How do we change the theme so that there is only one h1 tag and the rest of the descriptions are h3 tags?

Hello drivinMedia,

Thanks for the kind feedback.

The blog post titles have an h1 tag. So, depending upon how many posts are being displayed on a page, you will see that number of h1 tags. You can change these tags by searching and replacing the following code:

<h1 class="entry_title">...</h1>

This will be found in blog-page.php, loop.php, loop-archive.php. You can change h1 to h2.

After you make the changes, open style.css file and look for the following rule inside section 8. BLOG PAGES :

h1.entry_title { font-size: 22px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom:6px }

Change this to h2.entry_title. So that your styling will still remain same.

Regards

HI Saurabh

First of all, thanks for helping me out with my website. I have few more questions to ask:

- How do I change color of navigation bar? I know there is a section where I can change background color of navi. bar but I have a specific color code in my mind.

- How do I create menus on the bottom of the webpage, say areas where ‘copyright’ and ‘some credits’ are located? I want to include site map, Terms of Service, and privacy policy on the bottom of the website. (pathfor20s.com)

- Serious issue for me. How do I remove extra space I see on the right side of About, Experts, Look Who’s talking, resources, etc.. next to subscription box?

Thanks for your help in advance,

Hello m9jason12,

1. For navigation, I can see that you are using the white color scheme. You can edit the colors for this same scheme inside volt/css/schemes/white.css file. This file is only navigation specific so you will find the selectors easily. If you change the scheme to blue, you can edit volt/css/schemes/blue.css file.

2. A menu can be inserted by registering a new menu inside functions.php file and calling it inside footer.php where copyright notes are inserted. But since you have only 3 or 4 links, I’d recommend inserting direct links. Navigate to Appearance > Volt Options > General > Custom Footer Text (Right). Next, place the links as shown below:

<a href="url_of_target_page" title="site map">Site Map</a> • <a href="url_of_target_page" title="Terms of service">Terms of Service</a> • <a href="url_of_target_page" title="Privacy Policy">Privacy Policy</a>

You can also use ul list if you want to format these links in more proper way.

3. That extra space is appearing because the sidebar B is empty. If you place some widgets in sidebar B, they will appear on the page. If you do not wish to use Sidebar B, you can use/assign the page template “Page – Right Sidebar A” to those pages. That will remove empty Sidebar B.

Regards

Hi Saurabh

Thanks for your help. I was able to solve last two problems. For my question number 1, I can’t find volt/css/schemes/white.css. Is it on editor tab?

Hello m9jason12,

That file may not appear inside the editor. It will be required to edit that on local machine and re-upload it via FTP . Some nested files do not show up in WP editor.

Regards

Hello SaurabhSharma,

thanks, i have tried but i’m not able to set the homepage. Where i can set the size of the miniature picture?

regards

Hello ciccetto,

Sizes are automatically set by the theme inside code. You only need to insert the post short code. It will show the picture in appropriate size if a featured image is set.

You can further send me your site URL and login. I will check if anything is missing.

Regards

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