My KLEO list of issues/discoveries

[writekelly]

Greetings guys–

First, I’m really liking your work and for the most part I’ve been able to work through issues. I have, however, a list of outstanding problems I have yet to find the answers to in the code or elsewhere and figured it would be easier to compile them in one place. If it’s ok I may add a few others as I discover them in the responses. Please see the following:

ARCHIVE/CATEGORY PAGES
* The gap between two posts in the standard, one-sidebar layout is quite large (80px). I have changed the 80px to 15px (or 35px) in the relevant css as follows (in multiple locations just to be sure), but I cannot get it to hold. I am using a child theme and have tried to apply changes to the app.css and style.css child directory files with no luck. The app.css file is in a directory that mirrors the parent directory (/kleo-child/assets/css/…):

.posts-listing.standard-listing.with-meta .article-content {
margin-left: 130px;
margin-bottom:15px!important;
}

* I would also like to make the featured image link to the single story page. Currently only the headline accomplishes this.
* The “single image” selection in VC has a field for the image link that doesn’t work after publishing. No activated link.
* I would like to remove meta tags from these pages too as when I have a lot of them it messes up the layout. I would however like to keep both the primary category and the author meta and increase the size of both, but still can’t get changes to replicate. Ideally, I’d like to put the primary category just above the title and the author just below the title, too. Possible?
* I require a prominent category identifier for the archive pages to appear at the top and possibly a smaller version within single category pages. I found the code you provided to get it to display but can’t manage to style it.
* How to get rid of post meta on front/section pages but keep them in interior and individual article pages?

LOOPS
*Can you recommend the best way to use loops to create magazine-style layouts on index pages? At this point it appears that either basic WordPress loops are being called or KLEO loops are not formatting well within the theme (called by shortcodes).

AUTHOR RELATED:
* Perhaps this is related to the loop issue above…
* I would like to post the author bio at the bottom of single stories and have more prominent bylines throughout the site. I’d also like to have a page with a bio that is dedicated to the author and all previous entries and a page that acts as the category/archive for all authors, as is available in most sites.

ALTERNATIVE HEADER AREA AND SOCKET TEXT BOX
* Is there a way to place shortcodes or widgets on the right of these sections?

TEMPLATE FILES/DEPENDENCIES
* I need some clarification on which files hold ultimate control of settings and class dependencies so I can modify things like pagination color, button colors, elements on pages with different templates, etc. Still having problems getting changes to replicate. This is partly the reason why many of the things on the list above are eluding me.

GENERAL/FUTURE
Is there a recommended way for posting widgets within regular page area?
Can you recommend an ad manager that would work well with this theme?
Performance: admin-ajax,php is a performance killer! I believe this is an issue between WordPress and Woocommerce that is resolved by deactivating Woocommerce. Maybe want to add this for your FAQs or find a workaround to save you time fielding comments from users?

Thanks a ton. I’ve made a lot of progress, but am stuck with the above…

[Abe]

Hello, thanks for using KLEO

ARCHIVE/CATEGORY PAGES
TEMPLATE FILES/DEPENDENCIES
All of you CSS changes should stay under kleo-child/style.css so if you want to add a css rule add it there. By default the style.css file is empty, with no rules. You do not copy any css files from the main theme and just add the rules you wan to rewrite in style.css

For “single image” selection in VC try to update to the latest 1.6 version
If you want to make changes to the meta then you should edit kleo_entry_meta from functions.php or copy it to your child theme and make the changes there

LOOPS
If you want custom structure for the blog the the index.php file inside the theme handles the blog loop. You should see there the file templates called and change them to a custom template you can create

AUTHOR RELATED:
Clicking an author should give you an archive with posts from that user, it is something like /author/kleoadmin
To add something to the blog template you should see the content-xx.php files from the theme for the Standard blog type and the file page-parts/post-content-masonry.php

ALTERNATIVE HEADER AREA AND SOCKET TEXT BOX
For the socket you can add shortcode inside the textarea from the Theme options. For the header alternate area we will make it possible in 1.6.1 version coming today.

GENERAL/FUTURE
You can use Visual composer and add a Widgetized area. You can add custom sidebars from Appearance – Sidebar to select in the widgetized area

Try Simple Ads plugin. Normally any plugin should work

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