Question on changing stacks

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#1

Hello there
I was thinking on changing my blog layout using stack ethos 1
now I am using integrity.

I was wondering if I can just change it and reset everything seemlessly. Or this would cause any problem such as deleting posts or things like that.

Also I wanted to ask you if with ethos I will be able to create different landing pages and different menues.

thanks for your help

cheers
Isabella

#2

Hello Isabella,

Thanks for writing in!

It won’t cause any issues. However, with Ethos stack there are few things that you need to configure. When you import the Ethos stack, here’s the default layout you will see. In my setup I have made few changes but more or less this will be the layout. Please see screencast.

As you can see that in home page you won’t see any posts. That issue can be fixed from X > Theme Options > Ethos > Blog Options and remove Category Ids number.

You can create landing pages in Ethos stack. I am not quite sure what you mean by different menus. Can you please elaborate?

Thanks.

#3

Hello Prasant!
thank you so much for your quick reply.

By different menus I mean that There will be 2 pages that I want to have their own specific menu.
But I think I can resolve it with the plug in Conditional menus

am I right?

so to get to my first question. When I upload the Ethos stack, do I need to also cancel all the CSS that I have now for the present configuration? correct?

thanks a lot
cheers
Isabella

#4

Hello Isabella,

Thanks for updating the thread. :slight_smile:

Yes, you can use Conditional Menus. Here’s the plugin link and tutorial that you can take a look.

Well, it depends on the requirement. Sometimes, CSS are global in nature also. So if you have CSS specific to a stack (Integrity) then it make sense to remove them or take a backup and save in Dropbox or Google Drive, as you are going to change the Stack.

Thanks.

#5

thank you so much.
cheers
Isabella

#6

Glad we could help.

Cheers!

#7

Hi there!

I am changing the stack right now and I am having issues.
I want it to be exactly like the demo.

The home page of this stack is a page or is the blog?

I would like to have the name of the blog on the side of the menu, exactly like in the demo.

also the header picture doesn’t go away. I am not sure where do I take it out. I have eliminated the related revolution slider. but I get this message now

could you please help?

thanks
cheers
Isabella

#8

Regarding this note, I had to insert the category id that I wanted to be displayed otherwise it would include all of them and looks bad. However I don’t have the post displayed, Only one.

How can I have all the post displayed and in the layout of the demo?

Also when I change the background color, it changes only the sidebar and not the entire page…

please help! :frowning:
thanks a lot
cheers

#9

Hello Isabella,

Thanks for updating the thread. :slight_smile:

The default homepage layout of the Ethos stack is blog layout

Can you please share a screenshot? I had a look at the demo page but I am a bit confused as to which area you are referring too.

Please turn off Post slider for blog under X > Theme Options > Ethos > Post Slider - Blog

I checked the categories on the website and most probably those categories have only 1 post. Please try adding categories having more posts and that should list posts in the default layout.

Please add following CSS under X > Theme Options > CSS:

.x-container.main:before {
    background-color: #ce7f7f;
}

Replace #ce7f7f with your desired color.

Thanks.

#10

Hello there

thanks for your quick reply.

I would like to insert my logo or write my page title there where ETHOS IS

I did it but nothing changed

I am making a new page in the meantime and here is ok, but I still want to make that space disappear and live only the menu bar with my blog name on the side

Absolutely not. All those are the category of my web sites and contains all the posts. I have tried also to take all the categories ID out but it’s still the same, that one post.

Also I would like to put the top bar (screen shot below) on top of everything.

Can you please tell me the font used for the Header in the DEMO?

Thanks a lot for your help

#11

Hi Isabella,

  1. You can change text logo in Theme Options > Header > LOGO AND NAVIGATION > LOGO – TEXT, or you can switch to image logo on the same setting (eg. Theme Options > Header > LOGO AND NAVIGATION > LOGO – IMAGE).

  2. That’s a revolution slider and not a post slider, you can disable that by editing the page and go to page settings.

Though, I’m not sure how it got there, would you mind providing the site’s URL and admin login credentials in the secure note? It’s a blog index page where slider setting isn’t applicable.

  1. About the space, I checked the Mexico page and all I see is a breadcrumb and a title, if you’ referring to the breadcrumbs then please disable it in Theme Options > Header > Breadcrumbs

  2. About the categories, would you mind providing the credentials as requested on #2? I like to check the categories on admin first.

  3. Sure, you can put it on top by adding this code to Theme Options > JS

jQuery( '.x-topbar' ).prependTo('.masthead');

  1. It’s the default font, the Lato font.

Thanks!

#12

Hello there

This I know, but I need it to be on the same line as the menu, in bar, just like the demo. I thought it should go by default, being in the demo. I need to see if it looks better as a logo or just a simple writing, but I need to know how to locate both in that position

Exactly. That’s my problem! It’s not a page and the page setting option is not available. I have no idea how the slider got there. Please help. This is the most urgent thing to fix because as it is it looks awful! :frowning: Thanks

No it’s not breadcrumb. It’s the space that was occupied by the slider. Here again the screen shot below. it’s the space where the red banner is or the Boundless roads title is located. All that grey space need to disappear. I only want the menu bar below the slider, EXACTLY LIKE THE DEMO

Thanks for nr 5 and 6 all good.

I am providing you with credentials

Thank you so much for your help!
cheers
Isabella

#13

Hi Isabella,

Making the logo/site title and menu inline is easy just navigate to Theme Options > Header and set the Layout to Inline



However, before this to work, first we need to remove the Revolution Slider banner you added there. I think you/we added that via a custom template in the Child Theme, I can’t confirm it now because I can not see your Child theme files in the admin dashboard, we need FTP credentials, please provide in a secure note if you don’t mind.

Second, you need to reduce the font-size of your menu (Theme Options > Header > Navbar Font Size), and reduce the font-size of your site title as well (Theme Options > Header > Logo Font Size) so both of them will fit in one line.

If we can do these two things, the issue of extra space in the header and making the site-title and menu inline will be solved.

We will tackle the other issues after this, we will focus on this for now to avoid confusion.

And I recommend, for now please clear and deactivate all your caching feature/plugin, so the changes we are making will take effect immediately.

Thanks,

#14

Hello @friech !
thank you so much!

I am sending you the FTP credentials

Cheers:)

#16

Hello Isabella,

The issue was caused by this custom php code in your child theme’s functions.php file

// Add a custom slider to selected pages
// =============================================================================
function custom_banner() { 
  $navbar_position = x_get_navbar_positioning();

  if( is_home() || is_archive() || is_single() || is_search() && $navbar_position == 'static-top' ) : ?>
 
    <div class="x-container custom-slider" style="clear: both;">
      <?php echo do_shortcode('[rev_slider alias="post"]'); ?>
    </div>
 
  <?php endif; 
}
add_action('x_after_view_global__brand','custom_banner', 30);
// =============================================================================

I already deactivated it and now the red section is gone.

Please check your site.

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#17

Amazing! thank you so much for the quick action.

Could you please also help me with the issue of the posts not displaying please?

Is it possible to have them displayed in cronological order from the last?

thanks much :slight_smile:

#18

Hello Isabella,

The WordPress default in displaying the post items is in chronological order from the latest to the oldest post items. Modifying this default setting could be done. It is just that there might be issues later on that you will encounter. And besides, this is a custom modification which also falls outside the scope of our support.

If you want, you may refer to this link to accomplish what you have in mind.

Please note that custom coding is outside the scope of our support. Issues that might arise from the use of custom code and further enhancements should be directed to a third party developer.

Best Regards.

#19

Hello RUel,
please read my question again.

I was just asking whether the post would be displayed in chronological order and you had just confirmed that. So NO CHANGE is required.

BUT as I mentioned in my previous messages I have a huge issue, because it is only displaying one post. I have 100 posts and all their categories ID are in the right place. there is an issue on your hand.

you can check out yourself www.boundlessroads.com no posts are displaying…

I kindly ask you to help me resolving this.
thanks

#20

Hi Isabella,

Please go to X > Theme Options > Ethos > Blog Options. Kindly disable “Filterable Index” feature first. We need to check if all the 100 posts will display by default.

Please let us know how it goes.

#21

Hello RueNel
yes now it works. But does it mean I cannot use the filter? I have tried again but it doesnt work. that would be bad.

The other thing is, in the demo, the blog list has some variation in the lay out which was kind of nice because was interrupting the boredom of the same lay out of posts. Do you think it’s possible to have it in place as well ?

here a screen shot. As you can see, the post in the middle has a different layout. It would be great if I could replicate. I thought it was by default.

Thanks for your help
cheers :slight_smile: