Hey Tag,
This is Siddhartha from Farbound.Net. I have been using your theme for some time now and I have to say this – it is just wonderful with its intuitiveness, stylish appeal and flexibility. Plus your updates never cease to surprise. Though my support expired a while back, I was wondering if you could still supply me with some answers.
1. Can the smart side bar by any chance and via custom CSS be made to recognize stretched rows? Say I use template style 3 with the right side bar operational and then put some stretched VC rows into the content. If I do this right now the sidebar flows right over the VC containers. If I can get the sidebar to float underneath the stretched content, nothing like it. Presently I am using visual composer to do this.
2. The Smart List is not supposed to work with Visual Composer, is it? I tried that on template 5 with visual composer, but the sidebar gets pushed right below the content. Also sometimes the NEXT and PREVIOUS BUTTONS overlap each other. Or am I doing something wrong here?
3. For templates that include the headlines and subtitles within the featured image, is there any way to adjust both the subtitles and headlines to appear better with some spacing when viewing on mobiles? Right now it becomes a jumble. But works well with just headlines. These would be template style 3 and template style 7. For an example: view this page (I noticed this on chrome with the browser size minimized) – Outpost of a vanishing world
4. I followed your instructions and successfully placed an advertisement just above the footer section with a stretched visual composer row, background-color applied. The ad was visible but the background-color was not. Did I miss something?
5. Do you plan to include new post templates in the future? A template that has the headline and subtitle on top of a rather large full width image. I am doing this right now with visual composer.
6. I noticed the social share box at the bottom has some space. Was wondering if it could accommodate a COMMENT icon inside as well along with the word ‘COMMENT’ or just the word. You know, once people reach the end of the story they can not only share it if they like but also find the COMMENT WORD there – clicking which they could directly reach the comment section. The comment icon presently available right now is very stylish but I feel not many are aware what the icon stands for. Yes, I am also well aware people who comment are very less, but since I still come across a lot of reputable media sites using the comment word big and bold, I assume the word does better than an icon.
7. Do you plan to include the option of using custom background-colors with advertisements? I managed to add a light grey to the header ad by coloring the wrapper via css but if an adblock is on viewers only see the grey box. Not that I mind, I can always put a message that says kindly turn your adblock off. Though if you do add in that option, would be very nice indeed.
Thanks
Hello,
Thank you for your appreciation.
1. Unfortunately a stretched row means to stretch it to the full width of the screen. That cannot happen with a sidebar so there is no way of having a full width row and sidebar as they will conflict with one another and break the layout.
2. We do not recommend using visual composer on posts at all especially on smart lists. Visual composer was only meant to be used on pages as this guide suggests: https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-use-visual-composer/
3.Well the post sub-title was n ever meant to be a description. It was meant to be a small part of text not a full on excerpt. Please avoid any long titles or sub-titles. These are meant to be titles, not descriptions.
4. The grey background color you added on the row in visual composer seems to display fine: http://screencast.com/t/XG770wNGNA
5. We always look to improve our theme. We are not up to 14 post templates and we plan on adding more but it takes time as they are not easy to make.
6. We did not add such a button as the comment section is just below the related articles. We did not see the point in creating a jump link fro the bottom sharing that goes 1 element down to the comment section. You can maybe add it in with customization if you need this feature. Here is where the bottom sharing is being created: http://screencast.com/t/AT1QCJiV6W
7. We do not have any such plan for the moment, but I will add it to our list for suggestions and pass it on to the development team.
Thank you!
Hey Bogdan,
Appreciate the advice very much. As for the 4th point: The ‘above the footer’ ad placement with background color I mentioned was about placing the same directly in the theme template files. The color is visible when I use the visual composer rows when creating the posts by just adding the rows the normal way. But when I placed the same – following the instructions on ‘custom ad placements’ in template files, the ad was visible, the background color wasn’t. So was inquiring if I needed to add something else other than what is mentioned in the instructions.
HOW TO INSERT ADS IN CUSTOM AREAS ON WEBSITE
What I tried was this: A stretched visual composer row with background color.
Thank you.
Hi,
Well the theme does not have this option so I will add it to our suggestion list. The ad spots do not have options to color their backgrounds.
The guide you follow is deprecated and that method could not work properly anymore. This is the correct documentation: https://forum.tagdiv.com/newspaper-theme-documentation/
Thank you!
I did not find post setting option in add new post, and also smart list option, kindly help me out in this problems.
Hi cxihub,
In order to see post settings, please go in posts, make a new one ( or open an existent one ) and look in the right top corner , there you will see Screen Option, click to expand it and click on Post Settings if is not checked https://www.screencast.com/t/qRBw8slo after you do that scroll done the page until you see Post settings https://www.screencast.com/t/XBRtGlF6HGg there you get the General, the Smart List and Reviews
Hope this will help you.
Thank you for your understanding.
