155 comments found.
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?
Hi,
That is a post excerpt. Please refer to the following article for explanation: https://boldthemes.ticksy.com//article/7341/
Kind regards,
BoldThemes team
Thank you for your fast reply
Unfortunately I just ran into another problem.
I would like to minimalize my homepage; so I removed a bunch of parts (some quotes, some news&gossips, something about TV-shows etc.). The idea is that I’m left with just the main slide and latest reviews.
However: if I do so, all of the content in the main slide and latest reviews section is not showing anymore; the movies are still there when I look them up in the messages section, but they don’t show anymore on the homepage.. So my question is: can i adjust the homepage to my likings, or does this mess up the structure in any way?
example on filmtivity.com (notice the empty home page, it was full with movies before i removed some parts of the homepage).
Sorry for the 3rd message: when you go to reviews on my website you can see that it still works there.. but not on the homepage. Alle the settings are the same (i even copied some segments from the review page)
Hi,
Can you please send us wp-admin credentials using the form in the right hand sidebar of our profile page: https://themeforest.net/user/boldthemes
We need to take a closer look at the current setup.
Kind regards,
BoldThemes team
Thank you
i have sent you my credentials.
Thank you so much for helping me out. It’s clear for me what I’ve done wrong.. Thanks a bunch 
1 last question: is there any way to make the ‘archive’ page a bit more clear? Let’s say I have 250 posts/artices, is there any way to make an alphabetic search module on the side so people can easily find the right articles?
I’m trying to create a movie database and I imagine I can be hard for people to find something when there are many movies on the website.. Ofcourse there is the search widget, but I thought maybe there would be a way to organize the archive page a bit?
Hi,
Unfortunately, there is no out of the box method of creating filters / searches outside of the provided blog taxonomies – covered by filters in page elements.
Out of the box method would be to assign taxonomies (categories and tags) and to create pages / archives based on these taxonomy filters.
Kind regards,
BoldThemes team
I found another methode, thanks though
I run into another small problem. When I fill in the review criteria (1-100) they don’t show as a filled bar on the actual website. As you can see below; the score is correct (71%), but only the upper bar is filled yellow, the rest is ‘empty’. Do you have any idea how to fix this? Changing the values does not help unfortunately.
Hi,
Have you managed to resolve the issue as we can see all six bars filled?
Kind regards,
BoldThemes team
it is very inconsistent. Sometimes it loads all the boxes and sometimes only 1. At the moment I only see the top bar filled.. Can this be?
Hi,
This probably indicates the third party JS component which produces an exception thus stopping execution of JavaScript throughout the pages.
Indeed, if you take a look at your JavaScript console at
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'addEventListener')
at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (smile-2/:717:28)
Looking at the page source, you will see at the referenced position:
prevButton.addEventListener('click', function() {
currentIndex = (currentIndex === 0) ? totalSlides - 1 : currentIndex - 1;
showSlide(currentIndex);
});
This seems to be a third party JavaScript code related to some YouTube related slider.
So, on pages where prevButton element exists, JavaScript will work properly, and on pages where it does not, JavaScript will stop executing due to exception.
Please revise the third party code and ensure that it does not generate exceptions.
Kind regards,
BoldThemes team
I had some help writing these codes to be honest.. is there any quick/simple way to do this? Can the both codes exist next to each other?
Hi,
Yes, the codes can exist together, but the custom code needs to be corrected by someone who knows the context of why is it there.
From the top of our heads we would replace
prevButton.addEventListener('click', function() {
currentIndex = (currentIndex === 0) ? totalSlides - 1 : currentIndex - 1;
showSlide(currentIndex);
});
nextButton.addEventListener('click', function() {
currentIndex = (currentIndex === totalSlides - 1) ? 0 : currentIndex + 1;
showSlide(currentIndex);
});
showSlide(currentIndex);
with
if (document.body.contains(document.querySelector(".youtube-slide")){
prevButton.addEventListener('click', function() {
currentIndex = (currentIndex === 0) ? totalSlides - 1 : currentIndex - 1;
showSlide(currentIndex);
});
nextButton.addEventListener('click', function() {
currentIndex = (currentIndex === totalSlides - 1) ? 0 : currentIndex + 1;
showSlide(currentIndex);
});
showSlide(currentIndex);
}
but it really needs to be inspected by the author.
Kind regards,
BoldThemes team
Thank you again for your kind service
Removing 1 of the criteria is what did the job for me.. I’m ok with having 4 instead of 5. Thanks again and have a nice weekend!
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
registered domain is www.neapsawards.com
Hi, it is not required (nor possible) to register NewStar purchase code. If you are referring to one of our plugins (e.g. Cost Calculator) please send us plugin purchase code.
sorry my previous message was sent in error. The issue i am facing is that on my home page (www.orderpaper.ng) some text are cut off. Its more evident when using a mobile device to view the site. Please how do i fix this
Hi,
You are running an outdated version of Bold Page Builder. As a first step, you should update Bold Page Builder to the latest version and clear all server caches (if any)
If the issue persists after that, let us know.
Kind regards,
BoldThemes team
i think i am running the current version of bold page builder. Version 5.0.1. Didnt resolve the issue. It was updated even before i complained yesterday. or is there another way of updating the bold page builder plugin other than through the wordpress admin
Hi,
If you take a look at the source code of your pages, it says throughout the layout data-bb-version=”4.5.4”. Perhaps this is a caching issue if you are indeed running 5.0.1?
Also, you should update the newstar theme to 1.3.8, currently you are running 1.3.7 – https://boldthemes.ticksy.com/article/7123/
Kind regards,
BoldThemes team
‘If you take a look at the source code of your pages, it says throughout the layout data-bb-version=”4.5.4”. Perhaps this is a caching issue if you are indeed running 5.0.1?’ how do i resolve the above?
I am about to update the theme now
Hi,
Please update the theme first and check if the issue persists.
Kind regards,
BoldThemes team
i have updated the theme to 1.3.8 but the issue still persists
Hi,
Please send us both your WP-ADMIN and FTP credentials using the contact form in the right hand sidebar of our profile page: https://themeforest.net/user/boldthemes and our developers will take a closer look at your current setup.
Kind regards,
BoldThemes team
is this a standard procedure because sharing those details is a bit risky. How about you instruct me on what to do
also i have other website hosted on the same server so sharing the ftp details also mean giving access to those other sites. Please can your developers help out in another way. regards. thank you
Hi,
Unfortunately there is no other way – you can replicate your production environment to a test and send these credentials, it really does not make a difference to us.
Kind reagrds,
BoldThemes team
hi. trust you are well. i have sent the requested credentials
pls did you get the credentials i sent via email
Hi,
Yes, we have received the credentials and escalated the issue to our developers. As soon as we get some info from them, we will let you know.
Most likely in next 24 hours.
Kind regards,
BoldThemes team
Hi,
We have sent you an email related to the credentials – please advise.
Kind regards,
BoldThemes team
i have responded to the mail. hope to hear from you soon
Hi. Please i have been waiting to hear from the developers but to no avail. Please any feedback will be appreciated
Hi,
Our developers have updated your Bold Page builder to the latest version and added few pieces of custom CSS to appearance > Customize > Additional CSS panel so it compensates for margin offsets introduced by some third party components. It should be ok now.
Kind regards,
BoldThemes team
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,
The best option in regards to the theme updates and additional css is to place it within the style.css of the child theme – https://documentation.bold-themes.com/newstar/theme-customization/ section how to 02 – Child Theme
If you have your modifications placed within child theme, you can safely update the main theme.
Kind regards,
BoldThemes team
Thanks for your response, but the CSS style of the parent theme still seems to take over, right? The new changes I add to the child’s CSS do not work.
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,
Thanks for the purchase.
In general it is. You would have to create an icon font out of your svg using for example https://icomoon.io/ or similar service and upload your font to some folder on your site.
Once you do that, you have few sections of custom css code to add to your Custom CSS.
1. Add font face declaration of your Font
2. Change the font family to yours in .star-rating
3. Change the code of the character to be displayed to the one you have set in your icon font in .star-rating span:before
That should do the trick.
Kind regards,
BoldThemes team
Hi ! thank you very much for your reply. I just did this. But my custom font (from an SVG) only displays on Google Chrome PC. Not on Safari, not on mobile… I tried Icomoon, Fontello and even FontAwesome (I paid 100… for nothing). Do you have an idea ? Besides, if I can’t do it with my font in SVG, I found something wrong on Fontawesome but I can’t understand how to add it to the list that you have already integrated into the theme. Thanks a lot !
Hi,
It seems strange that the icon font is loading on PC but not on Safari and mobile.
Sorry for asking, but, have you tried clearing the browser cache on these platforms?
If that does not resolve the issue, please send us the url of the page with the changed font so we can take a closer look at the format of the font file which you have created.
Thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
BoldThemes team
Thanks ! My website : https://popkorn.fr/ I tried to redo what I had done… but now it no longer appears anywhere, I must have done something wrong, however I installed a new font file in the “Fonts” folders ”...
Hi,
We can see that you in your css you have reference to Icomoon font family:
.star-rating {
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
line-height: 1;
font-family: Icomoon;
margin: 0;
display: inline-block;
}
But, there is no reference to the Icomoon font-face declaration in your custom CSS.
You need to create a font-face declaraton for your new font similar to this:
@font-face {
font-family: Icomoon;
src: url(//popkorn.fr/fonts/yourfontfile.eot);
src: url(//popkorn.fr/fonts/yourfontfile.eot?#iefix) format("embedded-opentype"),url(//popkorn.fr/fonts/yourfontfile.woff) format("woff"),url(//popkorn.fr/fonts/yourfontfile.ttf) format("truetype"),url(//popkorn.fr/fonts/yourfontfile#Icomoon) format("svg");
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
}
Depending on your font files.
Kind regards,
BoldThemes team
Hi ! It’s ok ! Look Popkorn.fr but I hosted the font directly in Wordpress media. I couldn’t put them on my FTP. I probably misinformed the path… but hey, that’s how it works! can I ask you another quick question? I can’t find the file to modify the “Load more” text of the Ajax button on the “grid” posts. See: https://popkorn.fr/tops/ How do we do it?
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
Hi,
Can you please tell us which version of the theme are you currently using?
Thanks.
Kind regards,
BoldThemes team
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,
Can you please provide the url of the site so we can take a closer look? Thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
BoldThemes team
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?
Hi,
Thanks for the purchase.
Please submit a ticket at our support site – https://boldthemes.ticksy.com/ with a detailed description of the issues you have on mobile devices – screenshots would be great – they would help us understand what you are trying to achieve.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Kind regards,
BoldThemes team
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
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