How & Where to set dimensions ?

I’ve just started using Newspaper theme but have a half dozen years experience building sites mostly using WooThemes Canvas.
I’ve read through the documentation and searched the forums plus tabbed through all settings but don’t find where I can set some essential dimensions.

First, where to set the page width?,
Second, how/where to set post slider heights(using equal feature image dimensions doesn’t solve this),
Third, where to input critical block heights for sections, or rows, in the Visual Composer, and,
Fourth, which block will receive the shortcode from the Revolution Slider?

I understand that a responsive theme needs to have flexibility but it seems that there should be the option to set at least a percentage for the most critical columns and rows.

Thanks.

Hi

Theme’s layout relay on a fixed width by 1068px and there are no options to change this value. Also all theme’s blocks and modules have fixed sizes for featured image. The slide uses different thumbs depending by layout used for it bu non of theme are squares. The size of any element can be changed only adjusting theme’s code.
When Revolution Slider is installed in Visual Composer will be available those blocks: http://screencast.com/t/cxTtWSrga7O

Basically first three requests involve custom work in order to achieve the desired result and unfortunately we can’t offer such services at the moment. If you really need this and you’re not aware of the steps that must be taken in this regard my advice is to look for someone who can help you with implementation or hire a developer to do it for you.

Thanks for your understanding!

Andrei L.,
Thanks for your reply. Concerning the Revolution slider; I’ve used those blocks and the slides show up but the original height dimension of image and height set when the slideshow was created are ignored. How to correct this?
Is there some CSS code I can insert like ‘height:200px !important;’, that would restrain the height of slider to the height specified in Revolution slider plugin? If I can at least control the height, I can adjust, crop and create the slides to look OK in the default column width.
Thanks

Hi

The theme don’t set any height for slides made with Revolution slider, as can be seen from this screen the main container which hold the slide have no fixed values for width or height: http://screencast.com/t/hSYXOyCY Als the theme don’t go deep to change slide’s layout.
If you still have this issue provide a link where we can have a closer look and maybe we can help.
Thanks!

Hello Andrei,
There was a setting in the Revo slider that when switched prevented the slides from being up-sized. I’ve played with the page margins and think I have a layout that I’m happy with.
http://tdhedge.meta-morphos.es/

Of all the many settings included in the theme, Visual Composer, and WP, I couldn’t find the setting for the page background color! I used some CSS but would be happy to know where the setting is located. Could you point that out for me?

I like the theme so far and will soon begin to fill out the content.
Thanks for your assistance!

Lon K

HI

The theme don’t have an option to set a background color for each page, you can only set it for entire site from theme panel > theme colors: http://screencast.com/t/woH4svUi To set different colors for each page you will need some css as you pointed above, for the moment this is the only option.

Thanks!

Andrei,
Thanks for your help. Could I ask a couple more questions?
What options do I have for header styling on category home page posts?
It seems that most of the blocks have the same heavy horiz. line above post photo with white title inset into the colored tab.
Is there a way to use a lighter styling on this graphic detail? I noticed on the Travel Blog layout this detail was simpler. See the attached screenshot.

Also what block would I use to include an Amazon affiliate ad in a block or widget? The copy-paste Amazon ads are in iframe format. In other themes these would display if placed in a simple WP text widget. But I can’t get that to work here. I’ve pasted the iframe code into a text block, WP text widget and the Google maps which says it can manage iframe code.

Example: <iframe style=”width:120px;height:240px;” marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ src=”//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets…..etc., </iframe>

Thanks

Andrei
I’ve also been trying to customize the home page at http://tdhedge.meta-morphos.es/. It still needs some adjustments. I’ve been tweaking a few CSS measurements using the Chrome developer tools. When I view the homepage in Chrome it looks OK, but when I view the page in Firefox, the top of the home page breaks apart.
Do you have any suggestions to avoid this?

Thank you

Hello, I am so sorry to learn that iframe cannot be supported in post, pages ou widget. I am sure I am not the only one trying to earn little money with amazon ads affilliate. Have you an idea of how to do that. Yes I use eazy zone but it works with only a link and no image… Thanks

Hello Eros Power,
See my reply to Bogdan B.concerning a way to post Amazon Ads.

Bogdan,
After testing several methods I’ve found a way to post Amazon Ads in the Newspaper theme.
I installed the Plugin ‘Amazon Link’ and input my Amazon AWS account Public Key and Private Key in the plugin settings.
Under Amazon Form Settings selected ‘iframe image’.
Then on a new Post or new Pages, look under the text window and settings, and find the ‘Amazon Link’ settings. You can do a Search there for whatever product you want to advertise. Select your product, click ‘Insert’ and the shortcode displays in the text box.
Copy this. You don’t need to save the Post.

Go to Newspaper/Theme Panel/Ads/Custom Ad#, Paste in the product shortcode.
In Pages/Visual Composer add an ‘Ad box’ block. In the General tab select from drop-down menu the Custom_Ad# you setup with the shortcode. Make your customizations of background color and margins,etc., and Save.
You can paste in 2-3 shortcodes in one Custom_Ad. They display side by side.

I haven’t yet run the process of actually buying something to see if the link records the action to one’s Amazon associate account. But displaying the Ads is a start….