Hi,

all translations were contributed by clients basically volunteer work, I don’t speak Arabic so I cannot contribute there. If you’re curious, I’ve referenced all the people that provided translations in the theme’s page here: https://themeforest.net/item/udesign-responsive-wordpress-theme/253220

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Hi,

Thank you for choosing the “uDesign” theme!

Please post any support related questions to the theme’s support forum where our support specialists can help you out.

For your convenience, the direct link to the forums is: U-Design Support.

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that’s not necessarily theme related font awesome, many plugins use them as well, things like page builder and sliders, so you might want to check that as well.

Regards

Thank you very much.

Hi Martin,

yes, you can use animated gifs with the theme’s portfolio, I just rested it out and the animation works fine in the preview but it won’t animate for the thumbnail image, I’m guessing this is because the thumbs are cropped, hence the original gif is being modified. But the preview will work fine.

I’m not sure about Essential Grid plugin which comes with the theme, you can check in their documentation, but I don’t see why it would not work for the preview.

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All page builder plugins are optional. You don’t need to update the child theme, pretty much never, it’s always the parent theme that gets the updates. PHP 7.3 is perfect.

Cheers!

Thanks so much! Been using this theme on our site for years! Can not be beat

Great! Thank you

thanks, that is ok, but this theme don’t support php 7.3?

Of course it does. All my demo sites are running on PHP 7.3

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ok, thank you very much!

Hi,

it’s a big jump in versions but it should be fine. Make sure to do this first on a testing/staging version of the live site so you have a reference for everything as well as not stress out if you run into any issues. After you update the theme make sure to go to the “U-Design Settings” page and save it with all the new options.

For update instructions please refer to: https://dreamthemedesign.com/u-design-support/discussion/13/how-do-i-update-the-theme

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Hi,

yes it does, it offers WPBakery Page Builder as well as it’s compatible with Elementor. This particular demo has been built with Elementor plugin: https://udesigntheme.com/demos/yoga-el/

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Hi, you can only import entire demos not individual pages from demos, it’s demos could differ from one another in terms of plugins and setup used. What you could do is install another test instance of WordPress either on your local computer or your live hosting and in there import any demo you want and take whatever page you want from that.

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For future reference please post any support related questions to the theme’s support forum where our support specialists can help you out.

For your convenience, the direct link to the forums is: U-Design Support.

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Hi,

I don’t see why not, the theme is already built with HTML 5 markup. You’d need to check if there are any specific requirements for HTML5 canvas animation but I’m pretty sure it will be fine.

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Nevermind, figured it out

Great, yes, all you had to do is install the U-Design Core plugin which now contains the theme’s shortcodes.

Cheers!

Hi Martin,

I’ll see if I can help.

Try the following:

Under the Responsive Layout section, under the Responsive Menu, make sure to select Responsive Menu 2 and then check off the option under it called “Enable “Responsive Menu 2” starting at Breakpoint 1. ”.

Let me know if that is better now.

Regards

Andon,

Thank you so much, you’re a legend.

I wholeheartedly give this product 6 stars. It’s awesome in every way.

Thanks again!

M

Glad I could help.

Cheers!

Hi,

sounds like you’ve not been applying the proper method to update the theme, hence the issues. The issue of misplaced widgets will only happen if you activate another theme and then go back, this is actually a bug in WordPress not the theme. I’ve reported this bug to the WP core devs a couple of years ago and it’s not been fixed yet.

Anyhow, I’ll show you the proper way to do theme updates with single click once setup and you’ll never have that issue again. For that please follow the instructions here explaining how to install the “Envato Market” plugin: https://dreamthemedesign.com/u-design-support/discussion/32230/transition-to-doing-theme-updates-with-envato-market-plugin

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Thank you. I still update all my themes the old way, manually. UDesign is the only theme that loses widget positions, so this is not just a wordpress issue. I will look at your instructions but likely will move to a different theme. I do not and will not use the Envato Market plugin on any of my websites for any theme. It is unnecessary, additional software that should never be required.

First of all let me make this clear. I did not come up with Envato Market plugin, ThemeForest did. Envato Market plugin is recommended by Envato (ThemeForest.net) company for its theme authors to use, I’m following their recommendations, it’s provided for that.

Regarding widgets being messed up upon switching themes, this is being caused by a bug in WordPress, I have prove for that, I have also raised a concern about it on Track (the platform where WP core team collaborates): https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/42719#ticket and this was a while a go and I can see it’s still not been fixed.

Run the test I describe there which BTW is not with U-Design theme but WP default themes and you’ll see that this has not been fixed yet. It’s one of those things that they’ve swept under the rug.

My workaround for this issue is to simply backup and then restore widgets. For that I’ve provided a Backup/Restore page under U-Design menu where you can export/import the theme settings and widgets as well. Use that page to create a backup before you do manual update. After you manually update the theme restore the widgets in their original state by simply using the restore feature on that page.

Of course if you’re using the Envato Market plugin you will never have that issue, this is because the theme is not being switched during the update process but rather deleted and uploaded on the spot during update which doesn’t involve theme switching, hence no issues.

For future reference please post any support related questions to the theme’s support forum where our support specialists can help you out.

For your convenience, the direct link to the forums is: U-Design Support.

Cheers!
Andon

Also, for future reference please post any support related questions to the theme’s support forum where our support specialists can help you out.

For your convenience, the direct link to the forums is: U-Design Support.

Regards

Thanks for the advice I have asked my customer to find the purchase info from the previous developer so I can register with the support site, was just desperate to resolve while she finds the info.

You’re welcome. I understand!

Hi,

In general it would be hard to make a WordPress site get Google’s Insight test score of 100%. WordPress sites that have heavy load from plugins like sliders and page builders will not do so well but you could always spend some time optimizing if you know what you’re doing. Or get a non-premium theme that barely have any features. So it’s a compromise, you want features, well…. then your site will run a bit heavier, it’s just how it is. There are ton of third party plugins and resources to help with optimizing a WP site.

I don’t usually go by Insights bench-marking my sites as Google is changing rules way too often. There are other metrics sites as well. Here’s the score I get on one of theme’s demo homepage that I have a plugin help with optimization but there’s more room for improvement: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdreamthemedesign.com%2Fthemes%2Fu-design&tab=mobile

And here’s the GTMatrix report on that same page: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/dreamthemedesign.com/0BtHY5U3

and Pingdom which is common as well: https://tools.pingdom.com/#5c58ffcae5800000

Also keep in mind that I’m not even using a CDN so some points are lost there, but you could always improve further if you decide to use a CDN.

An important Google metric would be whether the site is mobile friendly and my theme passes there just fine: https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly?id=zA0j9KSMw4DQgWVP-eDK5w

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Hi,

to be able to sign in properly in the support forum please click on the green button that says “Sign in with Envato” and follow the instructions: https://dreamthemedesign.com/u-design-support/

A quick answer to your question is you’ll find the logo for mobile under the theme’s “Responsive Layout” section under the theme’s Settings page.

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Hi,

your issues are related most likely to the files you have in the child theme. I did do some code clean up in that last release so in that I had to rename some functions, make sure to compare the PHP functions you have in your version of single.php in the child theme with that that in the parent theme. If you’re not sure why you have that file you can remove it and see what’s been changed in your single view page. Maybe you don’t need it.

As for Cycle 2, it should work fine after this update unless you did some customizations that got wiped out, not sure. I did update all my demo site, and in a couple of still have all the Cycle sliders and they are working fine, I can show you if you’d like.

Try the update again just review carefully what files you have in the child theme overwriting the parent theme.

Regards

Hi @AndonDesign. Thanks so much for going to the trouble of replying. It was single.php in my child theme that was causing the critical WordPress error on subpages. I also had a header.php in the child theme, and that was causing the Cycle 2 slider to fail. Thanks to your suggestion, I have been able to proceed with the upgrade and fix the problems by removing those 2 files in my child theme.

I will have to comb through them looking for any custom code that I might have entered. (A good reason to always add comments when editing code so that it’s easy to find your changes!)

Sadly, my client using this theme has been drastically affected in his business by the CoronaVirus … virtually all his business has dried up. So sad to see.

Glad you were able to sorted it, Too bad for your client, hopefully they’ll be able to come back stronger once this is over!

Cheers!

Hi,

I’ll need to check on that, meanwhile feel free to email me directly to help you out with the issue your client is having. You can send me an email through my Profile page.

Regards

OK, I checked and nothing has changed for the theme. For theme update options and instructions please refer to the ‘U-Design -> Theme Update’ page in your WordPress admin area. For the support forum you can authenticate or in your case your client can authenticate with SSO by clicking the green button “Sign in with Envato”: https://dreamthemedesign.com/u-design-support/

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You could also install or update the theme via the Envato Market plugin which can be downloaded from https://envato.com/market-plugin/.

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Did you check the “page-Portfolio2ColSortable.php” file to make sure the function is named correctly? Also, check your child theme if you’re using one that you’re not overwriting that page template in there which could mean that it has outdated code now, so make sure to update the name of that function there as well.

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oh yes, you are right, I have to update older version of child theme, thank you so much, Andon! superb!

You’re welcome!

Cheers!
Andon

The issue has been resolved.

For anyone else experiencing this please try the following:
1. Go to U-Design Settings page and simply Save the page.
2. Dismiss the notice by clicking the “Dismiss this notice” link located near the bottom of the notice.

Now the notice should be dismissed and should stay away until the next time the theme has been updated to a newer version.

I hope this helps.
Andon

I’d like to thank Andon for taking the time to look into this issue. He was able to see the issue and find a solution.

For anyone else seeing this issue – simply hit save on the U-Design Settings page and then you can dismiss the notice successfully.

I greatly appreciate him taking the time to investigate and I realize now that he definitely did not force this setting as I previously said.

Anytime fpalmerino, glad i could help out!

Best!
Andon