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Hi AJ, can you tell me how I can make my theme look like instagram grid layout for both mobil devices and home devices. On instagram I either crop images to be square or ad a frame around them. I like to do the same in wordpress. Thanks Alex
Hi Alex,
You’ll want to log into WordPress and go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Settings > Image Sizes and enter your custom values for your image cropping. By default images only crop horizontally to 400px but keep their vertical proportions. If you want perfect squares you would want to enter something like 400px for the width and 400px for the height for entries.
After entering your custom sizes you need to “regenerate” the thumbnails which in WordPress is done via a plugin such as this one: https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/
- AJ
AJ, Thank you so much! Also I was trying to increase the uploading speed. Right now I think I have too many imagers per page. What you think would be a good number? Here is the link to the site: http://alexstenzel-art.com
I just did the first four images all at a square dimension and it works. How can make it that they fill out the white frame more. Is that possible?
Is it possible to turn of the date under the thumbnail image?
Hi,
You have custom CSS on your site making the images small: https://cl.ly/bdd03c
From what I can remember you asked for this a long time ago because you wanted to make sure all images were the same size even if they were different proportions on upload.
Because you have images like this one: http://alexstenzel-art.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Barnacle-1.02002-LRP1C1D1G1-copy.jpg – that is not 400px tall (it’s only 372px tall) so it can’t be cropped to 400×400.
You may need to upload bigger images for some items or choose a smaller default cropping value in the Customizer.
If you wanted to add a date under the thumbnail you would need to edit the theme files via child theme, there is no option built-in.
- AJ
Great! Good memory! Thanks for reminding. I changed the layout back to the default and I’m resizing all the images of my art work so the blocks are all the same size. - How do keep the menu bar in place when scrolling down in responsive mode. Thanks Alex
There is no method right now to have the header sticky on mobile, which is done on purpose for usability since mobile devices already have smaller screens it’s best to not take up so much room on mobile with sticky headers/menus.
I can look at adding a setting though in a future update to control the breakpoint though if you did want to enable it on mobile 
- AJ
Hi AJ, my websites have been hacked so I decided to build a new one. Which theme you recommend I had Fashionista before.
Hi,
I’m sorry to hear that 
Are you looking for a free or premium theme? Also can you remind me what your site looks like and the niche?
- AJ
ps: The Fashionista is secure so it shouldn’t be the root cause of the hack, so you don’t need to change themes if you don’t want to. But do make sure your theme is up to date (maybe delete and re-install latest version).
I liked fashionista because it I liked the portfolio look to show my artwork. However I like to have a site now where I can sell a few items through. – Also my site is currently quarantined with my hosting company(InMotion hosting). They offered to clean it up but it seems expensive. Do you have any ideas how make it workable again?
Recovering from a hacked site is a pain in the butt…We have some articles that could help though such as:
- https://www.wpexplorer.com/recover-hacked-wordpress-site/
- https://www.wpexplorer.com/recover-hacked-wordpress-blog/
It can be a real pain if you don’t know what you are doing. But the most important thing though after recovering from your hacked site is to setup proper security measures to make sure it never happens again.
Now, I’m going to be honest with you. inMotion hosting is one of the worst hosting companies I have ever had to deal with, which is why we don’t ever recommend them. If possible I would highly recommend you look into switching to a better WordPress hosting solution.
- AJ
Thank you AJ. My plan expires in a few month. I will check out the other companies. What you think is Fashionista still a good up to date platform with ecommerce options. Or do you offer something with the same portfolio style that is more flexible.
You can have a look at my portfolio here: https://themeforest.net/user/wpexplorer/portfolio
“Total” is my most popular and flexible theme to date and it’s the one I spend the most time improving and working on.
I do plan on making a nice free theme with full WooCommerce support (technically any theme works with WooCommerce, but it may not look “nice” without extra tweaks) to release on my site though in the near future – https://www.wpexplorer.com/top-free-themes/
- AJ
Does Total have a full Woo Commerce support and looks nice?
You can see an example shop here: https://total.wpexplorer.com/glitzglam/
The default look of the shop though would be this: https://total.wpexplorer.com/base/shop/ – but Total has tons of customizer settings to tweak the way the theme looks by default which is why it’s possible for us to have so many different looking demos: https://total.wpexplorer.com/#demos (I’m actually going to be making new “modern” looking demos and removing some of the older demos from this page soon)
- AJ
Hi AJ, it’s been a while. Maybe you remember my site got corrupted. I had your Fashionista on it. I’m gone build another one now is Total still the best one with the most features that you have?
Hi,
Oh shoot sorry! Because almost all my customers use Total I got confused when replying to your question!
Total is my best theme and I actually have a big update coming soon with even more features and optimizations – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/upcoming-update-changelog/
The plan is actually to deprecate my older themes so I would only be selling Total and I can focus everyday on this theme to continue making it better and better
- AJ
Sounds great AJ! Should I rebuild my site in total or you think it worth it to have it restored with Fashionista theme and then convert to total. Wha you think would be better?
No matter what theme you choose to use it won’t matter what you do to the current site because it will take some work to migrate to the new theme.
Now, a heads up..I am planning a massive Total 5.0 update to be released by the end of the week. There will be a new function where you can choose from tons of preset layouts for your blog entries Not sure if you wanted to wait for that to be finished first as I will be making some pages online to display the different blog styles, this way you maybe it would help with your final decision.
- AJ
Great! I will wait to until you have it done. Please let me know. Also, what’s your best hosting service in your opinion?
Here is out list of Recommended WordPress Hosting – we do have Bluehost on that list but if you read the article you will see that we really only recommend it for small blogs with not much traffic.
My personal favorites are WPEngine and Kinsta. We use WPEngine.
- AJ
How is your update for Total 5.0 coming along.
We’ve released it: https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/changelog/
hey AJ I just downloaded your total theme. Here is the link https://alexstenzelacademy.com I would like to create website for a sports academy. I can you point me in the right directions. Do you have quick tutorial on the different features for total. Here is a link to a webpage that I like and I would like it to look similar. https://www.rafanadalacademy.com/en ( As you maybe remember I’m used to the Fashionista theme.
Is this theme WP 5.3 and PHP 7.3 compatible?
Hi,
The live demos are running these versions so you shouldn’t have any issues. Of course if you ever have a problem let me know so I can help you out and if needed, update the theme accordingly.
- AJ
Here is a screencast showing you the current demo setup: https://cl.ly/2ddbc8
PRE SALES QUESTION: Hi! I really like the functions of this theme but im worried because it has´n been updated and therer are many Wordpress and Woocommerce newer versions from last theme update. Is this theme discontinuous? Or you sell another similar?
Hi,
This is Aj the theme author.
This theme will be most likely discontinued, thank you for asking.
If you like what we do, you could check out our Total theme – https://themeforest.net/item/total-responsive-multipurpose-wordpress-theme/6339019 – I am focusing on this theme because it’s my best and top selling item.
- AJ
Hi Aj, Alex again. I bought your total theme and need some help.
- Like to have large sliding header - Portfolio style columns below - Don’t want post info the show such as dates.
Here is a link to the site I’m currently workin on.
https://alexstenzelacademy.comBest, Alex
Hi Alex,
I hope you had a nice weekend, thank you for your patience.
1. You may want to consider using the background Page Header style. I made a video for you to show you how: https://a.cl.ly/04uOobNe
2. I see you figured it out. If you want you can add this CSS under Theme Panel > Custom CSS to remove that extra border around the entries:
.blog-entry-inner {
padding: 0;
border: 0;
}
- AJ
ps: Please make sure to comment on the Total theme comments and not fashionista to prevent any confusion, thanks!
