Hi,
I have a few more issues structuring the theme. Some features don’t seem to be working as they should.
1. Offset and unique articles do not work.
– 1a: Offset used on Block 2 (below the Grid), and set to 5 (to avoid showing Featured posts again), yet same articles in POPULAR block below the Grid still appear.
http://content.screencast.com/users/Truefolder/folders/Default/media/440d6432-f978-4e0e-ac15-e29f0f04d04e/offset-not-working-1.JPG
– 1b: Tried using “Unique Articles” feature, then it screws up the whole pattern, and latest articles aren’t the latest anymore, neither in Grid nor in the list of posts below. Just a collection of random posts instead.
Note: All categories are set appropriately to Latest, All categories, etc. I triple-checked everything. Also, “Popular” is not actually set to display Popular articles (if such feature even exists); it’s the “DON’T MISS” block, renamed.
2. In the backend when editing, when I select some Visual Composer and Theme specific features (such as “Show unique articles” option), it disappears once the page is updated, even if it’s selected. Basically, you need to select for those features to appear every single time you edit a page.
3. How do I enable to show Categories for all posts on the homepage? Currently, no setting is set to “Disabled,” so everything should be enabled, right? And the categories must appear on posts? Yet they don’t.
http://content.screencast.com/users/Truefolder/folders/Default/media/d1a67e2d-b9fd-45b2-bae5-a8b1a46fbd4a/category-1.JPG http://content.screencast.com/users/Truefolder/folders/Default/media/7fff5a87-4892-46f3-9250-44226a5e17bf/categories-2.JPG
Thanks!
Testing site: http://topdogtips.com/ (currently Unique Articles is disabled; Offset on Block 2 is still set to 5)
CDN, Caching, etc. disabled while testing.
Please advise.
Thank you.
Dean
Hi,
1a. Not sure how this is not working for you as I have also made tests using the offset feature and haven’t found anything wrong.
According to your latest articles section, which displays the latest art. added, the first 5 posts of the “Popular” block are skipped and the count starts from this post: http://screencast.com/t/W4Ojfd4j0aY7
“Popular” block: http://screencast.com/t/F5QeZ2ULCSAd
This means that the offset feature works for you also and you need to check the configuration you’ve chosen for the posts from the big grid.
1b. The “Unique Articles” feature, when enabled, it only shows the posts once on the page, so the latest articles appear at the top of the page and the oldest at the bottom affecting the post from the latest art section also.
2. I have tried to recreate this but haven’t managed to do it. Could you please provide more details about this. A screenshot would help and also try this without plugins and make sure you empty cache/purge files.
3. You need to enable them from theme panel > block settings for each module/block: http://screencast.com/t/osrKgatSEF
By default are disabled so you need to enable them for the modules/blocks you want.
Thanks
Hi Lucian,
I figured out what the problem is. You should probably include this in your documentation.
If you use a separate category for the Grid than you do for the following block, it doesn’t work.
“Start the count with an offset. If you have a block that shows 5 posts before this one, you can make this one start from the 6’th post (by using offset 5)” – nothing said about the fact that you must use same category.
Thanks,
Dean
Hi,
Yes, we’ll add it on the documentation.
Thank you, Emil G.
