Discussion on NewStar - Magazine & News WordPress Theme

Discussion on NewStar - Magazine & News WordPress Theme

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Pre-sales question. Can we add additional and searchable fields like actor and director names, duration of film, film studio etc. So, if someone clicks an actor’s name, could see all his movies. I don’t want to do that with tags. Thanks!

Hi,

Thanks for contacting us.

No, there are no custom taxonomies or taxonomy like functionality available for post meta fields :(

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

Thank you for this theme (I already bought it 2 years ago, but installed it again today).

I have 1 minor question: when i install the demo page for the movie website there a some movies already there. For instance the movie ‘Mist Blonde’ has a caption on the website (Sensual and savage, Loraine Broughton is the most elite spy in MI6). When I open the editor I can edit everything, but I cannot edit this caption. When I create a new message (or movie review if you like) I also don’t see an option to create such a caption.

Can you please tell me where to find this section?

hm.. I just found out that it doesn’t work for all devices. Mobile phones for example still doesn’t work correctly. Is there any chance you guy can fix this for me? I’m willing to pay for it of course, this is the last thing I need for my site to work the way I like it to..

Hi,

This does not seem to be the problem with the code, as the code is corrected, we have escalated the issue to our developers to take a closer look at it.

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

Hi,

Can you please try adding the following to Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS:

.bt_bb_progress_bar .bt_bb_progress_bar_inner {
 transform: translateX(-99.9%);
}

and let us know it that resolves the issue.

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

i previously registered my purchase code to a domain. how do i cancel it so that i can use it for another domain or pls help cancel or de-register the domain

Thank you very much for the update. There is some improvements but its still not as before especially on mobile. Im sure if you compare it to your theme preview here on themeforest you can spot the difference. Please the outlook of the website is important. also what 3rd party components were you referring to and what more can we do to return this site to the way it was

hello pls i have been waiting for a response

Hi,

You had the old version of the theme installed – 1.3.7. The latest theme version is 1.4.0

We have updated the theme to the latest version and removed previously added custom CSS.

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

Hi ! Thank you for the theme and the quality of your support. I have a question: I considerably customized the CSS, directly in the source file in order to avoid slowing down the site by searching in additional CSS. But if you ever decide to update the theme, will it overwrite all my changes? And how to avoid it? Thank you. Julian

Hi,

In the case of properly set up child theme, the main theme’s css will be loaded first. After that, the child theme’s css will be loaded.

So you can override any main theme’s css in child theme. And add your own of course

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

I’m not sure I understand correctly. here is my scenario: I installed and activated the child theme. I put all the modified CSS lines in the parent theme in the Css code of the child theme to have my settings if you ever make an update. I’m talking about additions and modifications in the code itself, and not in additional CSS. But I wanted to modify new things, and this time I added lines directly in the CSS of the child theme without touching anything to the parent theme. And that’s where I don’t have any modifications.

Hi,

Ok, the css modifications are sorted out then – all modifications should go to the child theme’s style.css as you have noted.

As far as other things are concerned, most of them can be also implemented using child theme. Please refer to https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/ for details.

In general there are two other places where you want to make changes – one is theme templates and the other is code of functions used throughout the theme.

If you want to make the changes in templates, you override the templates in child theme by copying them and modifying what is needed.

Functions should also be copied to child theme’s functions.php and they will override the functions within the theme.

But there is no general rule, it really depends on what you are trying to achieve – https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/ should help you with specifics as child theme is a general WordPress concept and all rules apply within our themes as well.

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

Hi, thank you for this beautiful theme? Question: Is it possible to change the star icon used for the rating system? And to put our own icon in .svg instead? Thanks in advance

Hi,

It seems that this label has not been made translatable in our source code :( Our mistake

Please do the following:

edit

\wp-content\plugins\bold-page-builder\content_elements\bt_bb_css_post_grid\bt_bb_css_post_grid.php

and on line 372 you will see the following:

$output = '<div .="" class="' . esc_attr( implode( ' ', $class ) ) . '" data-columns="' . esc_attr( $columns ) . '" data-offset="0">' . $output . '<div class="bt_bb_css_post_grid_button_holder"><button type="button" class="bt_bb_css_post_grid_button">Load more</button></div></div>';

for the time being, please replace Load more string in this line with your custom text:

In next update of Bold Builder we will make this string translatable and you will be able to translate it with all other strings from Bold Page Builder plugin.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

It’s ok ! Thanks a lot. I have one last question… Ratings for reviewed posts are in percentages. Is it possible to modify this? My site gives opinions on cinema and ideally I would like the rating to be done on a rating scale of 1 to 5 rather than on percentages. Thank you very much for your answer.

Hi,

It is not possible out of the box – theme’s code modification is required.

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /home/domains//public_html/wp-content/themes/newstar/php/after_framework/section.php on line 638

We are using the NewstarVersion: 1.1.3

Hi,

Please update to the the latest version of NewStar – 1.3.7 https://documentation.bold-themes.com/changelog/newstar-changelog.txt

Please make sure to update the Newstar plugin and Bold Builder plugin as well once you update the theme.

You can update the theme using the Envato Market plugin – https://www.envato.com/lp/market-plugin/ or manually as described in the theme documentation: https://documentation.bold-themes.com/newstar/theme-customization/ , section 3.11 Update theme

It should resolve the issue and you will be ready for the update to the latest version of WordPress, 6.2

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

This worked like a charm. Thank you so much!

hi. please how do i change the slides on the slider on the home page. please treat as urgent

Hi,

Thanks for the purchase.

Can you please submit a ticket at our support site – https://boldthemes.ticksy.com/ and leave the url of your site so our support team can take a closer look at the current setup.

It would be great if you would also leave an annotated screenshot as well, describing what would you like to achieve. It would help our support team to understand the issue properly.

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

Hi, Before I buy that theme I want to ask you. You writed WPML support, I’m just wondering that theme support that to Polylang free version or pro version ? I’m gonna buy according to this theme.

Thank you for response. Good works.

Hi,

Thanks for contacting us.

Newstar supports both free and pro Polylang versions.

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

Accessibility Ready?

Hi,

Thanks for contacting us.

If you are referring to WCAG 2 guidelines, Newstar does not conform with all of them.

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

I have submitted a ticket has been 12 hours after and I havent got any reply, why?

Hi,

Our support has answered your ticket. Please note that on work days tickets are processed within 24 hrs (exceptionally 48 hrs). If submitted on non-working days expect the answer the following business day. Note that we are located in GMT+1.

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

So when I post links to social media websites like Facebook it pops up with a little window preview that people can click to go to said link, but for Twitter it doesn’t? It’s just the link itself… why is that?

Hi,

If you inspect the links on an individual post – for example here https://bakanow.com/fuuka/ you will notice that the twitter icon leads to https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=https://bakanow.com/fuuka/ which is correct url.

Indeed if you click on it it will take the user to twitter tweet dialog.

Can you please describe the use case in which you get the self reference link so we can recreate an issue?

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

My apologies for not clarifying, so on Facebook when I post any link from my website (Fuuka for example) a pop up preview will be displayed, but the same link on Twitter does not. Other links outside of my website have the pop up preview link (the first image in this post is what I’m talking about https://dinojoaocosta.medium.com/how-to-make-twitter-preview-your-website-links-5b20db98ac4f )

Hi,

Thanks for additional clarification. The best option to have og and twitter:card meta tags in the page headers (used by Twitter to generate the preview card) is to use one of the respective SEO plugins such as https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/

It will allow you the complete control over the appearance in Twitter and Facebook card previews.

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

Hello, is it possible to have sticky sidebars? Because I can’t see any in your demos! If yes – with an external plugin – which do you recommend with your theme?

Hi,

Thanks for contacting us.

Newstar does not have sticky sidebar functionality out of the box. You can implement sticky sidebars using third party plugins such as https://wordpress.org/plugins/mystickysidebar/

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

Hello! If I publish a new post just 1 minute ago (showing the correct time in Wordpress admin), it’s displayed as e.g. “38 minutes ago” on the website. How can I fix so it actually shows the right time on the theme? This is kind of important :)

Hi,

Thanks for the purchase. Can you please leave a ticket at our support site – http://boldthemes.ticksy.com/ with the site url and wp-admin credentials and we will take a closer look at the issue.

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

Thank you, I have now submitted a ticket!

Can you please make this mobile friendly?

Thanks! I will take a look into it. It was e.g. that the images in the slider on the front page did not look good on a mobile device. Any idea?

Hi,

The images by default take the the entire screen width. The posts have one featured image meaning that it needs to cover the designated screen area both on desktop and on mobile devices. Since there is a different aspect ratio of the designated area on desktops and mobiles (landscape vs portrait) the same image will bleed over the horizontal edges on mobile devices.

What can be done is to reduce the height of the slider using css on the mobile devices so that more of the image is shown horizontally, by removing space above and below the post tile. For css code specific for your site, please submit the ticket at our support portal with the site url.

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

Thank you!

The theme is very nice for desktop. But for many big images it is quite annoying to watch on mobile. Looks like it’s not mobile optimized. It would be great if you could make this theme mobile optimized in the next version.

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion, we will certainly consider it.

Thanks once again.

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

I want to ask how to add more news to a BLOG page, by default now shows 10 news per page?

Hi,

Can you please send us the url of the blog page so we can take a closer look at the current setup?

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

Hi, I have a question. How can I show the posts using a grid with the same height? http://torontocomputerhelp.com/caption/libros. Thanks

Hi,

You can not force them to be of the same height – their height depends on the aspect ratio of the image and the length of the excerpt.

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

​How can I add a caption after a photo?​ https://ibb.co/gvZ5b5s

Hi,

Currently there is no way to do that :(

We will add the possibility to display the caption from the Media Library in one of the upcoming updates – most likely within the week.

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

Thanks, looking forward to the update.

Hi – love using this theme. Beautifully designed, easy to use. Only one slight niggle – I’m not sure where to change the code / what to change it to for the Newsstar Recent Posts Widget. It cuts off each post title with ”...” and i want it to display full post title. Can you help? Thanks.

Hi,

Please try adding the following to the Additional CSS panel of Appearance > Customize:

.widget_newstar_recent_posts span{
        overflow: unset !important;
        -webkit-line-clamp: 100 !important;
}

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

Hi – this doesn’t fully work as the ”...” is still in the post title, even though your code does add the rest of the title. How can I now remove the ”...” Thanks for your help.

Hi,

Can you please send us the url of the page with the sidebar so we can take a closer look?

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

After 2 years of using the Theme, it crashes, I didn’t recomend buying it.

The site gives a PHP error, out of nowhere:

Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /var/www/wptbox/wp-content/themes/newstar/php/after_framework/section.php on line 623

Hi,

Please check what version of the theme and Newstar plugin are you currently running. The latest version is 1.2.7

Also, please check which version of Bold Builder is currently active on your site. You should have version 2.8.1 active.

Kind regards,

BoldThemes team

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