Author Topic: Releasing my First Symbiostock Child Theme (Read 24030 times)

Chico · « **Reply #25 on:** May 03, 2013, 07:01 »

I'm almost ready.

Reef · « **Reply #26 on:** May 03, 2013, 10:27 »

Quote from: Chico on May 03, 2013, 07:01

I'm almost ready.

Looking good - you got a few responsive issues. I just checked your site to see if they were the same issues I have, and they are.

Have a look here and you will see what I mean http://www.studiopress.com/responsive/

I guess a css hack will work for now while we are in beta.

cathyslife · « **Reply #27 on:** May 03, 2013, 10:31 »

Quote from: Reef on May 03, 2013, 10:27

Quote from: Chico on May 03, 2013, 07:01
I'm almost ready.

Looking good - you got a few responsive issues. I just checked your site to see if they were the same issues I have, and they are.

Have a look here and you will see what I mean http://www.studiopress.com/responsive/

I guess a css hack will work for now while we are in beta.

Great site, thanks for posting that.

Kerioak~Christine · « **Reply #28 on:** May 03, 2013, 10:38 »

Interesting view on results there Reef. Mine looks better on their versions of phone etc as the footer reduces which it does not on tablets or laptops

Chico · « **Reply #29 on:** May 03, 2013, 11:04 »

Quote from: Reef on May 03, 2013, 10:27

Quote from: Chico on May 03, 2013, 07:01
I'm almost ready.

Looking good - you got a few responsive issues. I just checked your site to see if they were the same issues I have, and they are.

Have a look here and you will see what I mean http://www.studiopress.com/responsive/

I guess a css hack will work for now while we are in beta.

Thanks for post. I have no idea how to fix it.

Amanda_K · « **Reply #30 on:** May 03, 2013, 11:10 »

Chico that looks awesome!

That responsive testing site is cool but it's not entirely accurate. I have an iPhone and the search bar doesn't really wrap like that on a screen that size. It's also been tested on an iPad and a couple of Galaxy android phones.

The responsiveness could probably still use a bit of work, I do plan to upgrade the menu in the future. Beyond that I don't know if I plan on getting super detailed with responsiveness for tiny screens since realistically most designers searching for images aren't going to be working on their phones.

Edit: Did you take out your menu drop down with CSS? Also the graphics in your home page side bar don't show on small screens. Can you send me a message with your edits and I'll see if we can get it working?

Reef · « **Reply #31 on:** May 03, 2013, 11:18 »

Quote from: Chico on May 03, 2013, 11:04

Quote from: Reef on May 03, 2013, 10:27
Quote from: Chico on May 03, 2013, 07:01
I'm almost ready.

Looking good - you got a few responsive issues. I just checked your site to see if they were the same issues I have, and they are.

Have a look here and you will see what I mean http://www.studiopress.com/responsive/

I guess a css hack will work for now while we are in beta.

Thanks for post. I have no idea how to fix it.

me neither

I think the alignment issues such as search and the thumbnails will eventually be fixed by Leo.

From our side we can setup a class to remove excessive content to make it easier to view on a small device.

I haven't tried yet but the css would be something like

.for-mobile{
display: none;
}

Its late here. I'll have a go tomorrow.

Reef · « **Reply #32 on:** May 03, 2013, 11:27 »

Quote from: 9lives on May 03, 2013, 11:10

Chico that looks awesome!

That responsive testing site is cool but it's not entirely accurate. I have an iPhone and the search bar doesn't really wrap like that on a screen that size. It's also been tested on an iPad and a couple of Galaxy android phones.

The responsiveness could probably still use a bit of work, I do plan to upgrade the menu in the future. Beyond that I don't know if I plan on getting super detailed with responsiveness for tiny screens since realistically most designers searching for images aren't going to be working on their phones.

The 320 looks exactly the same on my iPhone except there is no blue bar at the top. There is a very large gap between the slider and the intro.

I agree most designers do not search for images on their iPhone, but some do

Hey, we are in the age of Responsive Web Design!

Amanda_K · « **Reply #33 on:** May 03, 2013, 11:45 »

Hmmm, I'm not sure whats going on with that space, it's not appearing on the demo site so maybe something that was added in the side bar.

For fun, I did a screen shot of the demo site on my iPhone vs the preview on the Studiopress site, attached. Just a note, if you remove the drop down in the menu with CSS it will cause issues, so it's best to do it through the actual search template's php. It seems like people want this out in general so I may just make it a feature?

Reef, I'm open to tips on making things more responsive, (menu update is already in the works)

I've tried to make sure it looks nice enough on a phone or an iPad that a designer would want to check it out more thoroughly.

Reef · « **Reply #34 on:** May 03, 2013, 12:05 »

Quote from: 9lives on May 03, 2013, 11:45

Hmmm, I'm not sure whats going on with that space, it's not appearing on the demo site so maybe something that was added in the side bar.

For fun, I did a screen shot of the demo site on my iPhone vs the preview on the Studiopress site, attached. Just a note, if you remove the drop down in the menu with CSS it will cause issues, so it's best to do it through the actual search template's php. It seems like people want this out in general so I may just make it a feature?

Reef, I'm open to tips on making things more responsive, (menu update is already in the works) I've tried to make sure it looks nice enough on a phone or an iPad that a designer would want to check it out more thoroughly.

I had a quick look at your site a few days ago and it looked awesome. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it has anything to do with your template. The issues go back to the root template Leo created. And I know he is under pressure with more serious coding than this so...... that's why I mentioned we may have to hack it ourselves for now.

That's strange, I was checking HitVectors and the search does wrap on my iPhone. I think if Leo could centre it for small devices that would be a good fix. Same with the top menu. Or can we do a css fix?

Amanda_K · « **Reply #35 on:** May 03, 2013, 12:24 »

@Chico, I think I found the whitespace issue! It looks like the slider you've used isn't adjusting height responsively, the height is set at 300px and stays that way on all screens.

The issue with the search on the base theme is that is too wide (at least for a phone screen) when the drop down is included and has a default property that prevents it from wrapping (this is actually in the Boostrap css,) What I did here was use some of the built in media queries to make it wrap nicely on a small screen like the phone, but I may have to adjust for people removing that part.

I know Leo is looking forward to other people contributing where we can and making it more of a community effort, that's the great part about open source! If I find an even better way to handle the search on all screens I'll contribute it for use in the base theme and if you have any ideas when you start messing with it please feel free to jump in! The more the merrier

Chico · « **Reply #36 on:** May 03, 2013, 13:09 »

Quote from: Amanda_K on May 03, 2013, 12:24

@Chico, I think I found the whitespace issue! It looks like the slider you've used isn't adjusting height responsively, the height is set at 300px and stays that way on all screens.

In fact, i'm not worried about small devices for now. And probably much of this bad behavior it's my fault, since i'm a 100% wordpress rookie. Below, a brief explanation about how i swap original menu by two small banners.

cascoly · « **Reply #37 on:** May 03, 2013, 13:48 »

Quote from: Amanda_K on May 02, 2013, 20:02

Steve, sounds like you have some pretty interesting things you are thinking of adding! Maybe you could build anything like that as a plug in?

yes, just getting up to speed with WP and plugins may be the way to go

Phil · « **Reply #38 on:** May 03, 2013, 16:18 »

can someone please point me to where you get the 'featured image' and 'latest image' plugin/widget?
thanks

Kerioak~Christine · « **Reply #39 on:** May 03, 2013, 16:27 »

They are in the widget section, make sure you have the category set for symbiostock featured images first.

Look in the technical support section fot a thread titled something like
How to set up newest and featured images on the home page?

Phil · « **Reply #40 on:** May 03, 2013, 16:54 »

thanks, I've read so many threads trying to find it

cathyslife · « **Reply #41 on:** May 03, 2013, 17:08 »

Quote from: Phil on May 03, 2013, 16:18

can someone please point me to where you get the 'featured image' and 'latest image' plugin/widget?
thanks

Here is the thread Tinny was talking about:

http://www.microstockgroup.com/symbiostock-technical-support/how-to-setup-%27newest%27-and-%27featured%27-images-on-the-home-page/

Are you using the latest version 1.3.3 of the parent theme?

When you go to Appearance > Widgets, under available widgets you see Symbiostock -Latest Images and Symbiostock - Featured Images. You must use the template Home Page CTAs for the template for your home page in order to use these widgets. Then you click and drag them over to the Home Page Below Content area. (that's where most people are putting them).

Chico · « **Reply #42 on:** May 03, 2013, 17:22 »

It's me again.

Not a Clean Theme issue, but maybe is linked in someway.

I'm using a FOOBAR, kind of newsbar with lots of nice resources. One of then is integration with social media. So, i setup a facebook and put icon with URL in my default foobar (you can create many as you want).

Url is "www.facebook.com/hitvectors", but when you click it, you are sent to "hitvectors.com/facebook.com/hitvectors" and an error page from my site is showed.

I ripped my hair off trying to understand why "hitvectors.com" is placed before "www.facebook.com/hitvectors" since it was not present in any part of Foobar configuration. I sent a mail to developer, but no answers until now. If someone have some clue, please let me know. Below a image. Thanks.

Amanda_K · « **Reply #43 on:** May 03, 2013, 17:43 »

You might want to check if you put the "http://" before the link where you enter it in Foobar? Usually that issue happens when it's missing the http. Let me know if that works!

Chico · « **Reply #44 on:** May 03, 2013, 18:29 »

Quote from: Amanda_K on May 03, 2013, 17:43

You might want to check if you put the "http://" before the link where you enter it in Foobar? Usually that issue happens when it's missing the http. Let me know if that works!

Wow, a big THANK YOU, I never guess. I lost my whole afternoon trying fix it.

redwater · « **Reply #45 on:** May 23, 2013, 00:15 »

Hi all,
I just bought and downloaded Amada's clean theme and it looks really good. I do have a question, though: how do you get the "Image Categories" menu to have a drop-down ( or to drop down)? I'm so stumped, hope someone around here can help. Thanks in advance.

Amanda_K · « **Reply #46 on:** May 23, 2013, 00:49 »

Hi there! This is a built in WordPress function that you can create in your admin panel under Appearance -> Menus. It's actually easiest to show you so give me about 10 minutes and I'll post a quick video or some screen shots.

Edit: http://www.creativembers.com/symbiostock-tip-menus/ A quick visual guide in case anyone else runs into this.

redwater · « **Reply #47 on:** May 23, 2013, 02:00 »

Wow, thanks for the quick reply, Amanda! I'll give it a try. Now while you're here, another question, do I have make a another category to show "All Images"? Is that how we do it or is there another way?

Amanda_K · « **Reply #48 on:** May 23, 2013, 02:06 »

Hmmm, I have seen a few people who have added a new category called "All Images" and added everything (which you can do with bulk editing) but I'm not sure I'd recommend it as it may cause performance or memory issues depending on how many images we are talking about. However I could be totally wrong

I'll look into it though!

redwater · « **Reply #49 on:** May 23, 2013, 02:18 »

Thanks, Amanda.

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