as we have mentioned. the folks at wp incorporated new jquery and jquery ui revs this release which may cause problems if you are running a custom sp theme…

see:  http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/installation/changes/theme-and-templates-5-3-0/

for details on some theme changes you may want to (or need to) include…

in particular, look at the popup dialog section of that page…

as always, we post every release any core theme changes we make in case users want to update their custom sp themes…

I’m confused. I’m not running a custom SP theme — just one of the out-of-the-box themes. 

I’ve updated my WP theme (NOT SP theme), but from what I can tell, the link you sent me to doesn’t address any of the issues I’ve been having (which again, are not problems with the SP theme, but with  forum functionality, and with weird formatting happening *outside* of the actual forum, on pages where the forum resides.)

Please advise.

Thanks,
Melissa

what that link is showing is that wp changes affected popups… it shows the changes to make to your sp theme…

if you are just using the one of the standard included themes, did you update it along with 5.3?

and as always, a link to the site ie enormously more beneficial than an image…

I was using 

mytheme 1.0.15 by Andy Staines & Steve Klasen
 

with the “shades of grey” overlay.

I don’t see any way to update this theme, but activated Default 1.2.3, also with the “shades of grey” overlay.

I’m still getting the weird behavior in my site’s header.

As always, my site is a protected membership site, and the forum is not viewable by non-members, but I will DM login info.

Thanks,

Melissa

my theme is NOT one of our stock themes… it is your own custom theme… I would suggest you make the css changes, namely the popup dialog css as I originally linked too…

Would you still recommend those changes now that I’ve changed to the default theme (as I said above)?

Thanks!

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Melissa Dinwiddie Artist & Creativity Instigator Living A Creative Life http://melissadinwiddie.com

On Aug 14, 2013, at 5:56 PM, “Simple:Press Support” wrote:

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for the title at the top, you will want to do this:  https://simple-press.com/wp-content/sp-resources/forum-themes/sp-blue/images/sp_Permalink.png

too many themes and plugins dorking with the meta title… we cant win…  add those changes to your theme, not ours and it will resolve that…

no, the code changes are already in our default theme… though to do the genesis title change, you will want to go back to your own them…

can you give me a link where the popup issue is happening… I tried it on about 10 images and working great… but might just be because you changed to default…   is it only in a specific browser?

The good news is that the popup issue seems to have stopped happening! Perhaps updating to Default 1.2.3 fixed it.

For the issue of the post title appearing above my site header, and pushing my header and nav bar down the page, can you give me that link in a different way? When I click it, it takes me to a tiny image of a chain, which I’m guessing is not what you intended to send me to.

What do you mean by: “though to do the genesis title change, you will want to go back to your own theme…”? I’m afraid I don’t know what the genesis title change is…

I am running Genesis theme on WordPress, and I have a plugin that removes titles from WordPress pages. Is that what you’re referring to? And if so, how does that apply to the issues I’ve been having problems with..? (Sorry, I just don’t understand.)

Thanks!

Melissa

ah, sorry, copied link image instead of page link… doh!

https://simple-press.com/support-forum/sp5-general-topics/forum-topic-title-showing-at-top-of-page/#p129907

we have to add an extra filter to handle genesis title handling..

yes default would fix the popup issue since we incorporated the fix… the link to the fix is for user custom themes…

Ok let me start out by saying that Steve has most probably gone off to sleep now and I see the problem with the link he gave and have to say that I am really not sure where the link was supposed to point to but I will try and find out.

However – let’s see if we can talk you through this.

At some point in the past you created a custom SP theme and called it ‘my theme’. I do not know why you did this but it is possible it was because of a WP theme conflict that needed to be dealt with and by making a custom theme instead of editing one of the supplied themes it meant changes would be preserved on future updates.

As Steve said right at the start, WP – in it’s 3.6 release – annoyingly made changes to the dialog (the popup we use) that required extra styling be put in place in our supplied themes. This meant that any one using a custom theme would not get those changes automatically and would need to make those changes manually. The link to the codex article he sent you detailed exactly what those changes are (along with other, optional changes… note a document like this is available after every new SP release).

Now – you mist have made your custom theme for a reason. So by abandoning that and using spDefault (out of the box) you are also abandoning any customised code or special styling that was made to your own ‘my theme’ and obviously deemed necessary at some point in the past.

So – we know that applying the popup dialog changes described in the SP 5.3.0 changes document will solve the initial reported issue with popups. We do not know if it solves the problem with your title – which might have been the original reason for creating the custom theme in the first place. Only you know why you made it.

not yet!

already updated the link…

I made the custom theme for the sole purpose of expanding interlinear spacing, which felt too tight to me, and made the forums hard to read. I copied the default theme and the only change I made was to the CSS, to widen the space between the lines.

At some point that change to the CSS stopped working (probably with a Simple:Press update) so I gave up trying, and eventually forgot I was using a custom theme.

Then I switched to the “shades of grey” overlay and found the font used in that theme much easier to read than with the default overlay I’d been using before. I totally forgot about the fact that I was using a custom SP theme, since it was no different (in the way it was displaying, at least) from the default theme.

Melissa

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Melissa Dinwiddie Artist & Creativity Instigator Living A Creative Life http://melissadinwiddie.com

On Aug 15, 2013, at 12:05 AM, “Simple:Press Support” wrote:

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understand… every release we do, we put a page out on the codex that details any changes we made to the core themes in case custom theme users want to make the same changes…  99% of the time, the changes are not required… however, in this case, the change that WP made to core will make it a change that a lot of users will need…  unfortunately, still beholding to the  masters…

to fix the genesis title issues, you will need to make a change to the theme so may want to go back to a custom theme…  otherwise your changes get overwritten on updates…

Thanks, Mr Papa — understood. I do have a question though. I DID make a custom theme, and had problems that went away when I switched to the latest Default theme (though I’m still having the other problem, of course).

How do I apply theme updates to a custom theme??? Do have to create a new custom theme each time there’s a theme update that affects functionality? And if so, how does having a custom theme make things any better than using a regular theme and re-creating any custom changes??

Thanks,

Melissa