HELP!!!

[John Baker]

I’m not sure what is going on with our site. I went to fix our paypal donate page and then all of a sudden began to notice that many of the other pages are going wacky. The fonts are changing, the background for the site is missing (not repeating on longer pages), there are now fill in blanks on some pages that are not supposet to be there nor did we put them there. A bunch of weird things are happening with our site. Any ideas? I updated the site last week and all seemed fine but now it is as if the update is repopulating the site on its own and changing things randly – any ideas as to what is happening?

Also, I want to try and change the content background to transparent – I know how to change its color but don’t know how to change it to transparent.

John W. Baker

[John Baker]

Also, our home page has now disappeared and it only says “Sorry, no posts match your criteria”

[John Baker]

Wow, one more goofy thing, we are set up with our web host that we have a dummy url that bounces to our main url but for some reason the two url’s are now going to different content.

Also, our navigation bar has disappeared on all but the home page.

It is as if a new site is taking over our old site slow but sure.

[Bill Robbins]

Hey John,

Wow. None of that sounds good. I took a look and it appears that you have WP Super Cache running on your site, which is a good thing.

The downside to that is you may not notice changes as they are actually happening hence the slow takeover of the site. For me, not being logged in, the front page is still displaying.

The home page displaying “sorry, no posts matched your criteria” makes me think it may be the new version of the theme that you had considered using. It has a different home page set up. To use it, you need to actually create a page and choose the Home page template and then assign it as your front page in the reading settings. We made that change about a year ago in order to keep with what’s more typical for WordPress themes.

Also the navigation menu will likely need to be assigned to its location again which is why it may be missing.

Try either going back to the old version of the theme, or turning off WP Super Cache and getting everything set up for the new one. I think that may be the source of the trouble.

If that’s not it, let me know.

Thanks,
Bill

[John Baker]

I am working to just rebuild the site because I like some of the new features.

The home menu in the navigation I can not get to work. When I click it, it goes to http://www.lifespringchurch.net/newwordpress/ which doesn’t exist. How do I get it to point back to the real homepage?

Also, we have a parked domain and I get two different sites when I use the two different URL’s – is that due to the WP super Cache? I did turn it off but it still goes to two different sites.

Last, is there a way to make the content background to transparent?

John

[John Baker]

I got the home navigation link to work (I had to reset it in the menus).

Instead of the content background being transparent, can I make it opaque or faded so you can see the content area but see the colored background through it?

Liking the changes so far and the extra options the new release gives us.

Thanks!
John

[Bill Robbins]

Hello John,

I’m glad you were able to get those hooked up again. I’m a bit puzzled about the content background color. It should be a slight gradient like the previous version of the theme had since you’re using dark style there. Are you seeing something that’s transparent there?

Just let me know.

Thanks,
Bill

[John Baker]

Just getting back to this again.
What we want is to actually have the content background transparent so that the colors of our background will come through. We want to set it to a shade of black so that it has a shadow effect but still lets you see the colors under the content. Right now it is a greyish solid color and we want to shift it to semi-transparent color. Is that possible?

John

[John Baker]

Another question. When we view our page on Google our content is shrunk considerably making it very hard to read. Is there a solution to that?

[Bill Robbins]

John,

You can set the main content area of the theme so that it has a semi-transparent background. Here’s how:

1. Go to the Theme Options page and select the Styling tab.
2. Scroll down to the Custom CSS box and paste this:

   
   .wrap {
   	background: none;
   	background-color: #000;
   	background-color: rgba(0,0,0, 0.8);
   }
   

   That will set the color to black that is 80% opaque. If you'd like to adjust the opacity, change the 0.8 in the snippet above to a different number on a scale from 0 (completely transparent) to 1.0 (completely opaque).

3. Update your settings.

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I did a look at your site in Google Chrome and everything seemed to be in the right spot and zoom level. I've attached a screenshot to show you what I'm seeing.

Do you know if the zoom level has been changed in your browser? You can adjust it by holding down command and pressing either the + or - keys.

Let me know what you turn up there.

Thanks and have a great weekend,
Bill

[John Baker]

I inserted the text as you suggested – there was no change in the background.
I then cleared the WP Supercache and reloaded the page in my browser, still no change.
You had previously given me some code to enter in the custome CSS box, I deleted that, cleared cache, still no change.

[John Baker]

Here is the code that was already in the custom css box:

#content,
blockquote p {
color: #3a382e;
}

.ie8 #content,
.ie8 .staff-list article,
.staff-list article,
#content {
background: none;
filter: none;
}

[Bill Robbins]

Good Morning John,

When I took a look at your site, it’s still showing an old cached version for February 26th:

<!-- Dynamic page generated in 0.577 seconds. -->
<!-- Cached page generated by WP-Super-Cache on 2014-02-26 02:00:21 -->

<!-- super cache -->

It looks like the cache isn’t clearing out. The code you added to the Custom CSS box is not appearing on the front end of your site where that’s being output.

It’s also showing the 1.X version of the theme. Are you working with that one or the current one?

Thanks,
Bill

[John Baker]

How do I clear the cache then? That might be the other problem with the web site showing up one way when you type in http://www.lifespringcommunitychurch.net and another way when you type in http://www.lifescc.net (this being the way the site looked before we started making this last round of updates).

[Bill Robbins]

My apologies John…I was looking on the old version. It looks like we’ll need to adjust this just a bit. In your Custom CSS replace this earlier snippet:

			.wrap {
	background: none;
	background-color: #000;
	background-color: rgba(0,0,0, 0.8);
}

with this:

html body.dark .wrap {
	background: none;
	background-color: #000;
	background-color: rgba(0,0,0, 0.8) !important;
}

and see if that won’t take care of it for you. Let me know if that doesn’t help your background out.

[John Baker]

Awesome, that worked! It looks really good!

[Bill Robbins]

Fantastic. With your site background, going with something semi-transparent is a great option.

Have a great week!

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