Couple issues after install – icons missing

Hi I’ve just installed Newspaper and have a couple initial problems.

1. The icons do not show up anywhere. The menu bar, search icons, social sharing, back to top icon. Is there something else I was suppose to install?

2. My revolution Slider does not appear. I have tried to include it on the home page with a shortcode, as well as with the page builder Revolution Slider module – but it just will not appear.

Thank you.

Just wanted to follow up on this – my revolution slider is now working. However I still have no icons – can you please help me troubleshoot that.

Thanks.

jambr
Hi, not sure if this helps, I had same issue on install… may not apply to you

1) to setup social icons, use the appearance > widgets and then drag the [tagdiv]social widget to the Top Right (social) sidebar; open and put in your URLs, select icon type (e.g., type 1,2,3,4 — which will vary the style by color, white, black); “save” then go look

2) for the main menu, to add a “home” icon you have to create or update your menus under appearance > menus … in my case the “primary” menu I added a new menu item called “Home” per normal WP menu setup then when you go to edit the actual menu item on right side, there will be option to use an icon in place of text. (The icons “enhance” the normal WordPress menu editor; unlike some crappy themes, this doesn’t rewrite and break the whole WP menu system; so, you’re basically setting up a custom menu item and then using an icon vs text).

If you’re saying you don’t see *any* icons when you go to do that, then it’s possible your install was incomplete, and may be missing the sprites included in /theme/images/

Not sure if that helps. I just popped in here while waiting on some automated stuff, not wanting to work. I’m not part of the tech support crew. 🙂

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.

Hi Simmons, Thanks for replying anyway 🙂 Yes I did already add my social icons and the menu home icon. It is that none of the icons show up = not even the up button that floats along the side, or the breadcrumb images between the items – no icons at all. It’s weird. Not sure where to look for them – thinking maybe a link is pointing to the wrong place or something.

Hi Marius. Yes I can – it’s not live though. I can give you a login to view. Is there an email I can send to?

Hi there – I have discovered that error occurred because of a duplicate css style – I hadn’t changed the style but it was present in my child theme style sheet. Once I removed it the icons show up.

However – is there a way to change the colour of the icons to white? Or will I need to replace the images to do that?

I think one of the options in the drop down is for white … although maybe it’s a “very light grey” … there should be a default, then 2-3 additional options when setting in the widgets. I have mine set to white/grey on top, and then full color at bottom with logo area in footer.

Hi Simmons. Would that be under the Customize menu? Can’t find one for the nav bar text colour, or the icons.

Another really weird thing that is happening is that I have ugly fb and twiiter icons in the top right corner. The demo shows nice white ones – I get blue and white. See link. Thanks 🙂

http://postimg.org/image/s0uulfipt/

HI, Jambr
you don’t set a color choice; there are several versions built-in to the sprites sets; meaning there are sprite sets for solid, reverse, color … you select that in the drop down choice for the tagdiv/social WIDGET loaded from widgets on left side, dragged to the sidebar for top right and/or footer (one for each); once in sidebar, like any widget, you can configure it to both add the links for the icons, and choose an icon “set” (1-4), each “set” is a different format … (see top right of my test page: ga-ga.com and I’m using

[tagdiv]social icons >> sidebar/top right(social)
icon style = “3” which gives me the lightgrey on black.
icon size 16px

So, all you have to do is choose “icon style” 3.

NOTE this only applies to choosing social media icons for the top right of the bar across very tip top of page, not icons in the menu bar below the logo area.

Also, obviously you have to actually put in the URL to your social media landing page/account for the icon to appear top right from the widget.

Hope that helps!

• This reply was modified 12 years by simchris.