Discussion on Fashionista - Responsive WordPress Blog & Shop Theme

Hi,

This particular theme doesn’t have native support for self hosted videos on the homepage. However, our Total theme (which is a multi-purpose theme) does and you can see a similar masonry demo here – http://totaltheme.wpengine.com/mason/

This theme uses featured media at the top and creates auto excerpts so inserting it into the content won’t display it on the homepage unless you tweak things to display the full post content on the homepage, which for most people isn’t ideal. The whole purpose of how the theme functions is so that the media can be above the title/text. So the video would be added via the media field – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/docs/adding-videos-to-posts/ – and it supports embeded and self-hosted videos.

You can visit the theme page here – https://themeforest.net/item/total-responsive-multipurpose-wordpress-theme/6339019 – and while it is a more robust theme if you are looking for a simple blog you can always disable anything you won’t be using to keep the theme fast and optimized while still allowing you the ability to enable stuff if you do want it in the future.

- AJ

Hi Pieter,

The theme has it’s own version of the plugin which I highly modified to fix a bunch of bugs in the original plugin and better optimize it (I should rename it actually to avoid confusion). So the plugin version you need is the one inside the theme which you should be able to upload via Appearance > Install Plugins. Here it is as well for you: https://cl.ly/kRB1

ps: I saw you opened a ticket as well and I replied there as well but it appears my email response may have been rejected by your server

Hi Pieter,

Thanks for the heads up, this should be an easy fix

Can you try extracting this folder – https://cl.ly/kkPr – and updating via FTP/SFTP inside the theme’s main folder? It should fix things up.

- AJ

Hi,

You can enable the sidebar via the Customizer settings under Appearance > Customize > Theme Settings > Layouts.

See here: https://cl.ly/mC56

You can also go to the “Entries” tab and change the columns to 1 column if you prefer – https://cl.ly/mC5s

You need to make sure your theme is up to date though to access these settings since it was updated recently with these new settings.

- AJ

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ps: I noticed your support license has expired, if at this time you can renew your support license I would really appreciate it. You can also purchase a new copy of the theme for another site/client and it will also renew your support. The theme is currently 50% off so you will save a lot renewing right now, the sale does end tomorrow though!

Hi there,

I actually just responded to you regarding this via the support ticket site please feel free to write back there for any follow questions, thanks

And actually if more people request it I’ll go a head and add a built-on option to the theme and update it so you can switch out the black with 1 click but currently no one has requested this feature yet.

- AJ

Hi,

This happens if your server’s PHP version is very outdated. The theme uses an anonymous function for the Customizer. These functions were introduced in PHP version 5.3 – http://php.net/manual/en/functions.anonymous.php – you’ll just need to contact your webhost to have them upgrade the server.

But WordPress actually states requirements for PHP version 7+ – https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/ – of course I would also recommend it, but some budget hosting companies don’t offer it, so I would say if you can at least update to 5.6+ that would be a good idea.

- AJ

I don’t see the CSS added to the site. Where did you add it? And did you clear any site cache?

- AJ

I tried to copy yours under appearances/customize/additional css but it gave me error messages.

Make sure you aren’t for some reason copying the pre tags from the comment. Here is a raw version of the CSS – http://bit.ly/2AtKdol

This is the code I added under customize:

body .loop-entry img {
    max-height: 148px;
    max-width: 148px;
    width: auto;
    margin: 0 auto;
}

AJ, Can you please give me precise instruction what code to ad and where to ad or how to ad it. So that I can cut and paste.

That is the correct code and you would add it under Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS.

If it’s there but it’s not showing up on the live site – http://alexstenzel-art.com/ (I just checked again and don’t see it anywhere) – then your site is being cached somehow and you need to clear it.

- AJ

Hi,

It’s ok, support is always provided via the comments

Simple go to Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS and add the following:

#navigation .searchform { display: none !important; }

- AJ

Oh, it works great!!!

Thanks for the very very fast support and these fab theme

- MH

Hi,

The link provided above isn’t for the theme you are commenting on and you don’t have a valid purchase tag next to your username so I’m thinking maybe you are trying to seek help in the wrong location

Hi,

If you want to insert ads the best way is using javascript. Because Google only allows you to insert a certain number of ads per page if you use posts (like quote format) to insert ads over time your homepage may have too many ads and cause issues. Or you will have to keep changing the publish date to move them around.

Whenever you are adding Google ads into a masonry layout it is best to do so using javascript otherwise you will have to modify the default loop PHP which could cause issues in future updates.

I actually just added 2 new hooks though for my Total theme so you can use a child theme and add PHP to the functions.php file to insert an advertisement if needed – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/total/snippets/insert-custom-entry-advertisement-blog-grid/

Making Total exactly like fashionista wouldn’t be possible without some child theme mods. But you can get pretty close, example: http://totaltheme.wpengine.com/mason/

- AJ

Hi Nick,

It’s not showing that you’ve purchased this theme, can you please log into the correct account used to purchase the theme or double check that you are in fact using this Fashionista theme and not a different one (there are actually many WP themes with the same name).

Hi,

Instagram made an update to their site, I’ll submit a fix right now. Make sure you have your site setup via the Envato Market for auto updates – http://www.wpexplorer.com/envato-market-plugin-guide/

- AJ