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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!
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
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
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.
Hi, I searched the comments for it but didn’t found a solution how i can link using a “link post” to open a product on my own page without opening a new browser tab/window. e.g. _self or _parent target instead of _blank. thanks for your help and great theme.
Hi,
By default all the link format posts open in a new tab. In the latest theme version there is an option to make items open in the same window under Appearance > Customize > Entries > Open Link Format Entries in New Tab?
If you need to conditionally alter this you would have to modify the file at wpex-fashionista/template-parts/entry-link.php via a child theme.
- AJ
Thanks! That helped.
Greetings AJ, will this theme support the new version of WP Gutenberg or will you need to make changes to it?
Hi,
Yes, it should work natively. There is nothing to do in the theme to include “support”. Although personally I don’t recommend Gutenberg for writing blog posts as it’s more complex and adds more html/bloat to the page. Gutenberg is something almost no one wanted in WP unfortunately they added it anyway
- AJ
See comment below. Posted a duplicate question.
Just replied
I am interested in buying but I noticed when I share your link posts on Pinterest. It sends the users to the external link rather then back to the site.
Is it possible to change that??
Hi,
To be honest I’m not sure what you mean? Do you mean you rather it opens in the same tab than a new window?
Either way, the social sharing function can be switched for any 3rd party social sharing function if you prefer via some simply child theme edits which I can assist with. I could also look into adding an option to select your custom social sharing script in the Customizer if needed for a future update, no one has asked about this previously which is why it’s not there already.
- AJ
What I meant is the external redirect links http://wpexplorer-demos.com/fashionista/type/link/. When I pin them on Pinterest, instead of linking the post url, it links the redirect url.
Are you using the pinterest addon in the browser? If so, this just looks at the link on the page so it’s not possible to override that in the theme. The only way to change the way Pinterest works is to remove the external links on the images and have them instead go to the post, but that defeats the purpose of a link format style entry.
- AJ
Customizing the font and colors would be perfect for this theme
Hi,
I can look at adding options in the future, but there are already awesome plugins such as this one – https://wordpress.org/plugins/yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer/ – that makes it easy to change colors/fonts without adding extra bloat and slowing down the core theme.
- AJ
Can the color palette (black and grey) be changed, and can the home page display only a certain category?
To alter the colors you would want to either use Custom CSS or a plugin like this – https://wordpress.org/plugins/yellow-pencil-visual-theme-customizer/
To only display a certain category on your homepage you will want to use a plugin, there are tons of them for this. This isn’t a built-in setting as most customers wouldn’t use it, so it’s just added bloat.
- AJ
Hi, Last theme version installed. Instagram widget in footer: Instagram has returned invalid data.
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
Hi,
I am new to this and am also new to wordpress.
I am using the Fashionista theme. When I first installed the theme, it was showing the ‘Leave a Comment’ option for my blog posts.
However I have just posted something and now it does NOT show the Comments option. I have checked my settings and everything is enabled for Comments.
I cannot understand for the life of me why this is not showing!
Please help!
P.S. I don’t know code so please give me a simple answer that is not code related.
Thanks
Nick
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).
hello. i guess the quotes blocks can be used to insert adsense code or other ads; also i would like t place a big horizontal banner code every 2 or 3 lines of posts in the main page. is that possible; finally if i purchase the total theme can i recreate exactly the fashionista theme; cause the demo that ressembles in the tota demos isnt exactly the same. thank you.
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, how can i add sale sign to the cards over there in the right corner in the card? for example ( up to -40%).. but in red and the content in white. like here https://www.kaufda.de/webapp/?lat=51.428497&lng=7.242401 where the sign (neu) on the card.
thanks in advance
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,
I’m absolutely newbie in this theme and I cannot found an option to deactivate the search box in the middle menu?!
I bought it one year ago, but I don’t use it – but now, I will do it and my support is expired.
Please help
-MH
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
That’s the wrong CSS!!! You send me that one before. It doesn’t make the frame even.
Alex
Hi,
Yes, it is the same code. But like I said I sent the RAW version in case there was an issue copying from the comments here.
I am providing you with the correct code (I even sent a screenshot showing you how it should look with the exact same code). When I check your site it’s still not added. I am looking at your source code and the extra code provided isn’t even there – https://cl.ly/oGjr
Make sure after you add the code that you’ve cleared any site cache because the CSS isn’t anywhere to be found on the site. Also save it and check out the live site. Because the theme uses javascript to display the entries it won’t work int he Customizer until the site is reloaded or you resize your browser so the elements get re-ordered properly.
- AJ
A pasted the CSS into the site now and cleared the cache. It still doesn’t work.
I am looking at your website and the code is still no where to be found on the site – https://cl.ly/oGFL – I only see some other code from a previous edit I helped you with.
Once the coded is added it should work, I’m not sure how you are trying to add the code to your site but it’s just not there. You may want to contact your webhost to make sure there isn’t any caching or issues on their end.
- AJ
What is the code again please?
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 AJ, I like to make each window in the rows in my Fashionista theme the same size and show the images inside the frame at different sizes. Is there a plug in. Here is the link: http://alexstenzel-art.com
Alex
Hi Alex,
I’m not quite sure what you mean. Are you trying to disable the masonry affect so that instead of entries fitting where there is space that after every 3rd item it clears so that the top of the images are all inline? Like this: https://cl.ly/ndQz
- AJ
Actually I like to frame the paintings within frame that stays consistently the same and is big enough to accommodate the paintings. Here is a link: https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/art/paintings/abstracts/abstracts-2005-onwards-69
The website you mention uses code like this:
body .loop-entry img { max-height: 148px; max-width: 148px; width: auto; margin: 0 auto; }
Which sets the images to have a max-width and a max-height. But their images are all cropped with very similar proportions so it renders pretty well. In your case you’ll need to adjust the max-width/max-height values so it works best with your images and/or alter your image cropping values that works best for all the images you upload.
- AJ
AJ, thanks so much where I can I do that in Fashionista?
Do what?
Where do I adjust the max-height and max width in fashionista. You are saying once the images are evenly cropped the frames are all the same size.
The “frame” as you call it will depend also on the length of your titles and excerpts as well so if you want those exactly the same you will need to use custom CSS or javascript as mentioned previously so that you can either set a fixed height via CSS or use javascript to locate the tallest entry and set the height of all entries based on that one (and run this javascript on window load and window resize).
To alter the image sizes of your site you would do so under Appearance > Customize > Theme Settings > Image Sizes: https://cl.ly/nisA
Here you define your sizes then you need to use a 3rd party plugin to “regenerate” the thumbnails. I recommend this one – https://wordpress.org/plugins/force-regenerate-thumbnails/
- AJ
AJ, I only like to use custom CSS for this site: http://alexstenzel-art.com. Can you explain a little bit more in detail how to do it. What you think based on the weblink I send what would be the best custom setting to have equal frames with equal images? Is there theme that I can install that would make it easier.
First make sure to crop all your images to the same size as I mentioned previously:
To alter the image sizes of your site you would do so under Appearance > Customize > Theme Settings > Image Sizes: https://cl.ly/nisA Here you define your sizes then you need to use a 3rd party plugin to “regenerate” the thumbnails. I recommend this one – https://wordpress.org/plugins/force-regenerate-thumbnails/
Then if you want you can add the custom CSS I suggested before:
body .loop-entry img { max-height: 148px; max-width: 148px; width: auto; margin: 0 auto; }
If you want to keep images at a specific height just like the website you mentioned previously.
But your images must all have sizes proportionate to each-other (no matter the theme you use) which is why it’s important to set a cropping size that works for all your images and then re-generate the images so they can all be cropped accordingly. Without cropping the images you won’t get the affect you need since it can’t be done with CSS only.
- AJ
Thank you! How can I can I change it so I don’t have masonry effect?
AJ, it’s still is no clear to me why the post size window(frame) can’t accommodated the actual image(painting) by keeping the window(frame) the same size and reducing the image. http://alexstenzel-art.com
Your items have different title sizes that’s why each post looks different. If you want you can set a min-height to the actual entries if you want (I assuming this is what you want) to have the white part the same size for all items.
Example CSS:
.loop-entry-inner { min-height: 320px !important; }
Result: https://cl.ly/oDFL
Is that what you mean?
- AJ
Yeahhhhh! That looks great! I try it in a little bit. Thank you so much.
I just tried to copy and paste your css above but it didn’t work.
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
I’ve installed the new version and I get this error on my site: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /home/w5000022/public_html/wp-content/themes/wpex-fashionista/inc/theme-customizer.php on line 879
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
How do I change the overall black color theme to a different color? Thanks
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
Question for you – I’d like to switch the blog to a more list view with a right hand sidebar. But it appears to be hard coded to default to masonry view. How do I do this?
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!