WordPress 3.6 Upgrade – Foxy

[Rebecca Morency]

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the plugin to fix the slideshow with the WP 3.6 upgrade. It worked perfectly on one site and Just a couple minor items on other sites.

I built this site in July and everything worked great. I upgraded Foxy once from inside, and all was well.

Pumpkin Farm Insurance

When I upgraded WP 3.6 and Foxy 2.0.3, it looks fine in Firefox, Mozilla, some IE, but on another IE version the background disappears and the text is overtop the slideshow. I double checked and the 10×10 pixel background image is uploaded. Do you see anything off at your end or is the cache not clearing on my side?

On the July version, the slideshow images filled the screen. After using the jquery plugin to get the slideshow working, a black bar shows up at the top even though the rest is set for a light background. Any way to make the black bar disappear or make it a different color? (One site has social media icons, one does not.)

I also waited to update Foxy on another site until it could be updated within WP and until 3.6 was released too. I added a custom social media icon and you shared this code to help align it.

p.header-links a#custom-link {
position: relative;
top: -5px;
}

I changed the number a few different times and no change occurred. Any suggestions?
The custom social media icon is at the beginning of the row no matter where I put it in header-links.php. Any way to put it at the end?

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Becky

[Bill Robbins]

Good Morning Becky,

Let’s see if we can find you some help here.

For the black bar at the top, there’s an option in the theme options page that you can use to turn off the header bar. In the Styling tab, near the top there is a checkbox you can use to remove the header bar. Just check that and update your settings and that should take care of it for you.

I took a look at the site, quite cute by the way, in IE 8 – 10 and it looked good in those versions. Those are the ones that are supported by the theme so if you do use version 7 or below it won’t work correctly as they are not supported.

Any chance you could send a link to the site with the custom header icon so I can take a look there for you?

Thanks,
Bill

[Rebecca Morency]

Here’s where I’m working on the updates:

http://co-more.com/fix/

You can compare to the original site (on Foxy 1.2.8) that’s still live here:

http://lotzremodeling.com/

Thanks, Bill

P.S. What would be the code to change the header bar color if they want the off-white of the original? Will the dark icons you provided from the early Foxy still work?

[Bill Robbins]

Here’s the styling to position the custom button:

a#custom-link {
	position: relative;
	top: 4px;
}

The new version of the theme no longer uses images for the icons–they’re actually a font. So you can change the colors at will now without having to edit any images. This snippet can be used to change the colors:

#header-links li a:before {
	color: #000000;
}

That will change the icon colors for you. You can change the header bar too. This snippet will change it’s color:

header#primary {
	background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.84);
}

.ie8 header#primary {
	filter: none;
	background: none;
	background-color: #fff;
}

That will make the top a semi-transparent white, except for IE 8 where it will be a solid white.

Hope that helps out,
Bill

[Rebecca Morency]

My you’ve been busy with coding updates!

Your changes are making it easier and easier to use.

The code to align the custom social media icon worked great.

Love that you can get the links to open in a new window with just a click on the Theme Options/Social Media menu.

Your prior code for the image grid still works great; just had to adjust the margin now that the content is wider.

One more quick question: Since the social media is actually a font, does the Google Fonts option have to be enabled on the Styling page?

Thanks for the fantastic support

Becky

[Bill Robbins]

I keep trying to make these themes better and easier to use/customize.

Great question about the font too. This one is loaded directly in the stylesheet so you don’t have to enable Google Fonts for it to work. I found a nice, open source icon font that had just what I was looking for in it.

If you need anything else, let me know. It’s my birthday today, so I’m wrapping up here in a minute to take my kids to the pool. I’ll check back in this evening.

Thanks,
Bill

[Rebecca Morency]

Happy Birthday!

My husband celebrated his birthday on the first.

Enjoy the rest of the day and your family.

Becky

[Bill Robbins]

Thanks Becky!

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