The breadcrumbs shown in the demo are added by the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin. Install this plugin and then go to SEO -> Search Appearance and click the Breadcrumbs tab and click Enabled.
Go to Settings -> Discussion and make sure Allow people to post comments on new article is checked.
Now on any page click the Screen Options button in the top right corner of the page and check the Discussion option.
Since WordPress 4.3 comments are not enabled on pages by default - to enable them use the following plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/no-page-comment/
This is probably because of a permission issues with the font used to display the icons. Using an FTP client set lib/fonts/ and lib/fonts/fontawesome/ permissions to 755 and the font file permissions to 644.
The theme requires at least PHP 7.3 or above because this is what WordPress itself recommends.
In most cases you cannot update the PHP version yourself and need to contact your host about this. The upgrade process is easy and should be something your host can do for you without impacting your website or charging you a fee. Here's an email you can send to your hosting company:
Dear host,
I'm running a site on one of your servers and WordPress has listed PHP 7.2 as the recommended version on their requirements page: https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/
Can you please let me know if my hosting supports PHP 7.2 or higher and how I can upgrade?
Looking forward to your reply.
If you have a VPS server, see How to upgrade from PHP 5.
If your host doesn't support PHP 5.6 or higher, you will need to find a host that does. We recommend DreamHost which supports PHP 5.6 or higher. If you contact another host, be sure to ask them which PHP version your website will run on before purchasing.
Sometimes your server rewrite rules need flushing. To do this go to Settings -> Permalinks and save the page.
In some cases you may need to change the permalink structure. To do this in the Custom Structure field add the following:
/%category%/%postname%/
Now save the page.
To change the options on custom page templates and custom post types in your child theme's functions.php file add:
function ghostpool_custom_init_variables() {
// Custom page template
if ( is_page_template( 'custom-template.php' ) ) {
$GLOBALS['ghostpool_title'] = 'gp-large-page-header';
$GLOBALS['ghostpool_layout'] = 'gp-no-sidebar';
$GLOBALS['ghostpool_sidebar'] = 'gp-standard-sidebar';
}
// Custom post type
if ( is_singular( 'custom_post_type' ) ) {
$GLOBALS['ghostpool_title'] = 'gp-large-page-header';
$GLOBALS['ghostpool_layout'] = 'gp-no-sidebar';
$GLOBALS['ghostpool_sidebar'] = 'gp-standard-sidebar';
}
// Attachment page
if ( is_attachment() ) {
$GLOBALS['ghostpool_title'] = 'gp-large-page-header';
$GLOBALS['ghostpool_layout'] = 'gp-no-sidebar';
$GLOBALS['ghostpool_sidebar'] = 'gp-standard-sidebar';
}
}
Some of the option names may vary from theme to theme. You can view all the available options and the correct names in lib/inc/init-variables.php.
To insert advertisements in the header and footer go to the Theme Options page of your theme and locate the header and footer content options (not available on all themes).
To insert advertisements in your sidebar go to Appearance > Widgets and add your ad or image code into the Text Widget.
To insert advertisements within the page content go to Appearance > Sidebars Editor and insert your ad or image code into the Raw JS Visual Composer element (not available on all themes).
You can also use a variety of ad plugins to insert advertisements within your posts/page. The plugin "Wp-Insert" has been tested with this theme.
In your child theme's functions.php add the following:
function ghostpool_custom_captcha() {
/* Validation code goes here */
return $captcha;
}
function ghostpool_custom_captcha_display() {
/* Code to display captcha goes here */
}
You will need to get the validation code and display code for the captcha plugin that the plugin website should provide.
WordPress 5.0 introduced a new page editor called Gutenberg. Please ensure you have updated to the latest version of the theme and WPBakery Page Builder. To do this refer to your theme documentation.
Once you've done this you should see a blue WPBakery Page Builder button at the very top of your page. Clicking this disables the Gutenberg editor for this page so you can use the WPB page builder.
You can disable the Gutenberg editor permanently from WPBakery Page Builder > General Settings > Disable Gutenberg Editor.
1) If you don't want to display Visual Composer elements in your sidebar go to Appearance > Sidebars Editor select the desired sidebars and click the green "Override widgets" button so it turns grey. This is essential if you're just adding normal widgets and can't see them in your sidebar/footer areas.
2) If you want to display only Visual Composer elements in your sidebar go to Appearance > Sidebars Editor select the desired sidebars and click the green "Override widgets" button so it turns green if it's not already enabled.
3) If you want to display both Visual Composer elements and ordinary widgets in your sidebar go to Appearance > Sidebars Editor select the desired sidebars and click the green "Override widgets" button so it turns green if it's not already enabled. Set the Override behavior to "Place before existing widgets".
Modifying Registration Fields:
BuddyPress provide documentation on how to modify the registration fields here: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/guides/modifying-the-registration-form/
Modifying Registration Templates:
If you're using BuddyPress, then the registration page is being generated by BuddyPress and not the theme. You can add the following directory within your child theme folder /buddypress/members/register.php to override the default registration template.
To find your licence key/purchase code you need to log into your ThemeForest account and go to your “Downloads” page.
Locate the relevant theme and click on the Download button and next on the License Certificate & purchase code link in drop-down menu.
After you have downloaded the certificate you can open it in a text editor such as Notepad and copy the Item Purchase Code.
If you're using the homepage imported from the demo data and have Yoast SEO activated then the site title is being pulled from this homepage. Edit the page, scroll down to the Yoast SEO panel and edit the Site Title field.
Cuckoo, Socialize and Habitat Themes:
Go to Theme Options -> Posts -> Post Categories and add the categories you want to remove to the Exclude Categories box.
Huber Theme:
Go to Theme Options -> General and add the categories you want to remove to the Exclude Post Categories box.
If you are using BuddyPress then this plugin controls the registration emails not the theme. To change BuddyPress emails see: https://codex.buddypress.org/emails/
If you're not using BuddyPress you can add the following filters to your child theme's functions.php file:
// Change admin's registration notice email subject
function ghostpool_registration_notice_subject( $gp_blogname ) {
return 'Hi [%s]';
}
add_filter( 'gp_registration_notice_subject', 'ghostpool_registration_notice_subject', 10, 5 );
// Change admin's registration notice email text
function ghostpool_registration_notice_message( $gp_message, $gp_blogname, $gp_user_login, $gp_user_email ) {
$gp_message = sprintf( esc_html__( 'New user registration on your blog %s:', 'gauge' ), $gp_blogname ) . "\r\n\r\n";
$gp_message .= sprintf( esc_html__( 'Username: %s', 'gauge' ), $gp_user_login ) . "\r\n\r\n";
$gp_message .= sprintf( esc_html__( 'Email: %s', 'gauge' ), $gp_user_email ) . "\r\n";
return $gp_message;
}
add_filter( 'gp_registration_notice_message', 'ghostpool_registration_notice_message', 10, 5 );
// Change user's email subject
function ghostpool_registered_user_subject( $gp_blogname ) {
return 'Hi [%s]';
}
add_filter( 'gp_registered_user_subject', 'ghostpool_registered_user_subject', 10, 5 );
// Change user's email text
function ghostpool_registered_user_message( $gp_message, $gp_blogname, $gp_user_login, $gp_user_email ) {
$gp_message = esc_html__( 'Hi there,', 'gauge' ) . "\r\n\r\n";
$gp_message .= sprintf( esc_html__( 'Welcome to %s.', 'gauge' ), $gp_blogname ) . "\r\n\r\n";
$gp_message .= sprintf( esc_html__( 'Username: %s', 'gauge' ), $gp_user_login ) . "\r\n";
$gp_message .= esc_html__( 'Password: [use the password you entered when signing up]', 'gauge' ) . "\r\n\r\n";
$gp_message .= 'Please login at ' . home_url( '/#login' ) . "\r\n\r\n";
return $gp_message;
}
add_filter( 'gp_registered_user_message', 'ghostpool_registered_user_message', 10, 5 );I'm not sure why I get this question so often as creating groups has nothing to do with the theme, it's part of the BuddyPress plugin. However since I'm always asked please check the following:
1) Go to Settings > BuddyPress and under the Components tab make sure User Groups is enabled.
2) Go to Settings > BuddyPress and under the Pages tab make sure a page is selected from the User Groups drop down menu.
3) To add a link to this page go to Appearance > Menus and add this page to one of your menus.
4) If you can't create user groups from the frontend, go to Settings > BuddyPress and under the Settings tab enable Group Creation if you want to allow all users to create groups. If you still can't create groups deactivate all plugins (except BuddyPress) to see if this resolves the issue. If it does, reactivate the plugins one by one to fix the problem plugin.
If no plugin is causing the issue activate the Twenty Seventeen theme, if this doesn't resolve the issue, the theme is not causing this problem and you will need to contact BuddyPress support who will be able help you.
To increase the PHP Maximum Execution Time do the following:
Step 1: Locate the .htaccess file inside the root of your WordPress installation (located in the same folder as your /wp-content/ and /wp-admin/ directories) using an FTP client or file manager in your web hosting control panel (if you can’t find it see why you can’t find the .htaccess file and how to find it or if you’re not sure how to do this, ignore the steps below and contact your web host who can do this for you).
Step 2: Paste this code in your .htaccess file:
php_value max_execution_time 180
Step 3: Now save the file.
Note: If you still get the error, try increasing the value to 600.
Step 1: If you're not able to edit .htaccess file manually, then you can install and activate the WP Maximum Execution Time Exceeded plugin. That’s all. The plugin works out of the box and increases the maximum execution time to 300 seconds.
Excerpts do not support shortcodes or HTML, they just display unformatted text. By default excerpts will strip all the HTML tags but you'll see raw shortcodes so you'll need to use custom excerpts to remove these. To do this edit the desired post or page, click the Screen Options button in the top right corner and check Excerpt. Now scroll down to Excerpt panel to add your custom excerpt.
This is a general WordPress option that can be found under Settings -> General -> Anyone can register.
If you're using BuddyPress the register page should have been created automatically. If it has not, create a new page called "Register" and publish it. Now go to Settings -> BuddyPress -> Pages and select this page from the Registration dropdown menu. Now you can link to this page in your menus from Appearance > Menus.
To increase the PHP Memory Limit do the following:
Step 1: Locate the wp-config.php file inside the root of your WordPress installation (located in the same folder as your /wp-content/ and /wp-admin/ directories) using an FTP client or file manager in your web hosting control panel (if you’re not sure how to do this, ignore the steps below and contact your web host who can do this for you).
Step 2: Paste this code in your wp-config.php file just before the line that says “That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging.”:
define( 'WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M' );
Step 3: Now save the file.
Note: If this solution does not work then this means your web hosting service provider does not allow WordPress to increase PHP memory limit. You will need to ask your web host to increase this limit for you.
Step 1: Locate the php.ini file inside the /wp-admin directory using an FTP client or file manager in your web hosting control panel (if you’re not sure how to do this, ignore the steps below and contact your web host who can do this for you).
Step 2: Paste this code in your .php.ini file:
memory_limit 256MB;
Step 1: Locate the .htaccess file inside the root of your WordPress installation (located in the same folder as your /wp-content/ and /wp-admin/ directories) using an FTP client or file manager in your web hosting control panel (if you can’t find it see why you can’t find the .htaccess file and how to find it or if you’re not sure how to do this, ignore the steps below and contact your web host who can do this for you).
Step 2: Paste this code in your .htaccess file:
php_value memory_limit 256M
Step 3: Now save the file.
Note: If you encounter any errors while trying to set the memory limit using these two methods then it means your hosting provider has locked this setting and you will have to contact them to increase this limit.
All my themes work well with "Yoast SEO" WordPress plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/
The theme uses the Aqua Resizer script to resize/crop images to the selected size, this script only accepts images hosted on the same server as the site so CDN images will not work.
In order to support CDN images you will need to disable the cropping functionality. This is not an elegant solution as this will mean the full size images are loaded in all cases but at least your images will be working. To do this copy the following function to your child theme's functions.php file:
Replace "http://cdnurl.com/wp-content/uploads" with your CDN uploads directory.
class Aq_Exception extends Exception {}
class Aq_Resize
{
/**
* The singleton instance
*/
static private $instance = null;
/**
* Should an Aq_Exception be thrown on error?
* If false (default), then the error will just be logged.
*/
public $throwOnError = false;
/**
* No initialization allowed
*/
private function __construct() {}
/**
* No cloning allowed
*/
private function __clone() {}
/**
* For your custom default usage you may want to initialize an Aq_Resize object by yourself and then have own defaults
*/
static public function getInstance() {
if(self::$instance == null) {
self::$instance = new self;
}
return self::$instance;
}
/**
* Run, forest.
*/
public function process( $url, $width = null, $height = null, $crop = null, $single = true, $upscale = false ) {
try {
// Validate inputs.
if (!$url)
throw new Aq_Exception('$url parameter is required');
if (!$width && !$height)
throw new Aq_Exception('$width and $height parameter are required'); // MODIFIED
// Caipt'n, ready to hook.
if ( true === $upscale ) add_filter( 'image_resize_dimensions', array($this, 'aq_upscale'), 10, 6 );
// Define upload path & dir.
$upload_info = wp_upload_dir();
$upload_dir = $upload_info['basedir'];
$upload_url = 'http://cdnurl.com/wp-content/uploads';
$http_prefix = "http://";
$https_prefix = "https://";
$relative_prefix = "//"; // The protocol-relative URL
/* if the $url scheme differs from $upload_url scheme, make them match
if the schemes differe, images don't show up. */
if(!strncmp($url,$https_prefix,strlen($https_prefix))){ //if url begins with https:// make $upload_url begin with https:// as well
$upload_url = str_replace($http_prefix,$https_prefix,$upload_url);
}
elseif(!strncmp($url,$http_prefix,strlen($http_prefix))){ //if url begins with http:// make $upload_url begin with http:// as well
$upload_url = str_replace($https_prefix,$http_prefix,$upload_url);
}
elseif(!strncmp($url,$relative_prefix,strlen($relative_prefix))){ //if url begins with // make $upload_url begin with // as well
$upload_url = str_replace(array( 0 => "$http_prefix", 1 => "$https_prefix"),$relative_prefix,$upload_url);
}
// Check if $img_url is local.
if ( false === strpos( $url, $upload_url ) )
throw new Aq_Exception('Image must be local: ' . $url);
// Define path of image.
$rel_path = str_replace( $upload_url, '', $url );
$img_path = $upload_dir . $rel_path;
// Check if img path exists, and is an image indeed.
if ( ! file_exists( $img_path ) or ! getimagesize( $img_path ) )
throw new Aq_Exception('Image file does not exist (or is not an image): ' . $img_path);
// Get image info.
$info = pathinfo( $img_path );
$ext = $info['extension'];
list( $orig_w, $orig_h ) = getimagesize( $img_path );
// Get image size after cropping.
$dims = image_resize_dimensions( $orig_w, $orig_h, $width, $height, $crop );
$dst_w = $dims[4];
$dst_h = $dims[5];
// Return the original image only if it exactly fits the needed measures.
if ( ! $dims && ( ( ( null === $height && $orig_w == $width ) xor ( null === $width && $orig_h == $height ) ) xor ( $height == $orig_h && $width == $orig_w ) ) ) {
$img_url = $url;
$dst_w = $orig_w;
$dst_h = $orig_h;
} else {
// Use this to check if cropped image already exists, so we can return that instead.
$suffix = "{$dst_w}x{$dst_h}";
$dst_rel_path = str_replace( '.' . $ext, '', $rel_path );
$destfilename = "{$upload_dir}{$dst_rel_path}-{$suffix}.{$ext}";
if ( ! $dims || ( true == $crop && false == $upscale && ( $dst_w < $width || $dst_h < $height ) ) ) {
// Can't resize, so return false saying that the action to do could not be processed as planned.
//throw new Aq_Exception('Unable to resize image because image_resize_dimensions() failed');
$img_url = $url; // MODIFIED
}
// Else check if cache exists.
elseif ( file_exists( $destfilename ) && getimagesize( $destfilename ) ) {
$img_url = "{$upload_url}{$dst_rel_path}.{$ext}";
}
// Else, we resize the image and return the new resized image url.
else {
$editor = wp_get_image_editor( $img_path );
if ( is_wp_error( $editor ) || is_wp_error( $editor->resize( $width, $height, $crop ) ) ) {
throw new Aq_Exception('Unable to get WP_Image_Editor: ' .
$editor->get_error_message() . ' (is GD or ImageMagick installed?)');
}
$resized_file = $editor->save();
if ( ! is_wp_error( $resized_file ) ) {
$resized_rel_path = str_replace( $upload_dir, '', $resized_file['path'] );
$img_url = $upload_url . $resized_rel_path;
} else {
throw new Aq_Exception('Unable to save resized image file: ' . $editor->get_error_message());
}
}
}
// Okay, leave the ship.
if ( true === $upscale ) remove_filter( 'image_resize_dimensions', array( $this, 'aq_upscale' ) );
// Return the output.
if ( $single ) {
// str return.
$image = $url;
} else {
// array return.
$image = array (
0 => $url,
1 => $dst_w,
2 => $dst_h
);
}
return $image;
}
catch (Aq_Exception $ex) {
error_log('Aq_Resize.process() error: ' . $ex->getMessage());
if ($this->throwOnError) {
// Bubble up exception.
throw $ex;
}
else {
// Return false, so that this patch is backwards-compatible.
return false;
}
}
}
/**
* Callback to overwrite WP computing of thumbnail measures
*/
function aq_upscale( $default, $orig_w, $orig_h, $dest_w, $dest_h, $crop ) {
if ( ! $crop ) return null; // Let the wordpress default function handle this.
// Here is the point we allow to use larger image size than the original one.
$aspect_ratio = $orig_w / $orig_h;
$new_w = $dest_w;
$new_h = $dest_h;
if ( ! $new_w ) {
$new_w = intval( $new_h * $aspect_ratio );
}
if ( ! $new_h ) {
$new_h = intval( $new_w / $aspect_ratio );
}
$size_ratio = max( $new_w / $orig_w, $new_h / $orig_h );
$crop_w = round( $new_w / $size_ratio );
$crop_h = round( $new_h / $size_ratio );
$s_x = floor( ( $orig_w - $crop_w ) / 2 );
$s_y = floor( ( $orig_h - $crop_h ) / 2 );
return array( 0, 0, (int) $s_x, (int) $s_y, (int) $new_w, (int) $new_h, (int) $crop_w, (int) $crop_h );
}
}There are two types of theme options. You have the global theme options on the Theme Options page and you have the individual options on individual pages.
This theme uses the Redux framework for the options interface. Redux provide documentation on adding, editing and removing options or sections here: https://docs.reduxframework.com/core/redux-api/
Adding A Section
Add the following to your child theme's functions.php file:
$opt_name = 'option_name'; // Change this value to the option name, you can find this in functions.php e.g. $gp = get_option( 'option_name' );
$section = array(
'title' => 'New Section',
'id' => 'new-section',
'desc' => '',
'icon' => 'el el-home',
'fields' => array(
array(
'id' => 'opt-text-example',
'type' => 'text',
'title' => 'Text Field',
'subtitle' => 'Subtitle',
'desc' => 'Field Description',
'default' => 'Default Text',
),
array(
'id' => 'opt-select-example',
'type' => 'select',
'title' => 'Dropdown Field',
'subtitle' => 'Subtitle',
'desc' => 'Field Description',
'options' => array(
'one' => 'One',
'two' => 'Two',
'Three' => 'Three',
),
'default' => 'one',
),
)
);
Redux::setSection( $opt_name, $section );
Replacing $opt_name with the theme's option name - you can find this in functions.php e.g. $gp = get_option( 'option_name' ); where 'option_name' is the the value to use.
To call your custom options in your theme you can use:
$opt_name['opt-text-example'];
Again replacing $opt_name with the theme's option name and replacing 'opt-text-example' with the option ID.
Removing A Section
Add the following to your child theme's functions.php file:
Redux::removeSection( $opt_name, $id, $all_fields );
Replacing $opt_name with the theme's option name and $id with the ID of the option you want to remove. You will find all the option IDs in wp-content/plugins/THEME-plugin/inc/theme-config.php.
You can find a full list of all the ways you can edit the theme options at https://docs.reduxframework.com/core/redux-api/
Adding A Section
In this example we're going to add a new options panel to individual pages. Add the following to your child theme's functions.php file:
function ghostpool_custom_metabox_options( $metaboxes ) {
$new_options = array();
$new_options[] = array(
'fields' => array(
array(
'id' => 'opt-text-example',
'type' => 'text',
'title' => 'Text Field',
'desc' => 'field Description',
),
array(
'id' => 'opt-select-example',
'type' => 'select',
'title' => 'Dropdown Field',
'subtitle' => 'Subtitle',
'desc' => 'Field Description',
'options' => array(
'one' => 'One',
'two' => 'Two',
'Three' => 'Three',
),
'default' => 'one',
),
),
);
$metaboxes[] = array(
'id' => 'new-options',
'title' => 'New Options',
'post_types' => array( 'page' ),
'position' => 'normal',
'priority' => 'high',
'sections' => $new_options,
);
return $metaboxes;
}
add_filter( 'ghostpool_redux_metabox_options', 'ghostpool_custom_metabox_options', 2 );
Replacing $new_options and 'new-options' with unique names.
You can add multiple post types to 'post_types' option including your custom post types e.g..
'post_types' => array( 'page', 'post', 'custom_post_type' ),
To call your custom options in your theme you can use:
<?php echo redux_post_meta( 'opt_name', get_the_ID(), 'opt-text-example' ); ?>
Replacing 'opt_name' with the theme's option names and 'opt-text-example' with option ID.
If "redux_post_meta" does not work try this instead:
<?php echo get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'opt-text-example', true ); ?>
Editing/Removing A Section
In this example we're going to edit the slide page options by removing several options. Add the following to your child theme's functions.php:
function ghostpool_custom_metabox_options( $metaboxes ) {
$slide_options = array();
$slide_options[] = array(
'fields' => array(
array(
'id' => 'slide_caption_title',
'type' => 'text',
'title' => 'Caption Title',
'desc' => 'The caption title for the slide.',
),
),
);
$metaboxes[] = array(
'id' => 'slide-options',
'title' => 'Slide Options',
'post_types' => array( 'gp_slide' ),
'position' => 'normal',
'priority' => 'high',
'sections' => $slide_options,
);
return $metaboxes;
}
add_filter( 'ghostpool_redux_metabox_options', 'ghostpool_custom_metabox_options', 2 );
Adding An Option
In this example we're going to add a new option to post and portfolio category pages. Add the following to your child theme's functions.php file:
function ghostpool_custom_category_options( $gp_options ) {
$gp_options[] = array(
'id' => 'custom-option',
'name' => 'Custom Option',
'desc' => 'Custom option description.',
'type' => 'select',
'tax' => array( 'category', 'gp_portfolios' ),
'options' => array(
'option-1' => 'Option 1',
'option-2' => 'Option 2',
),
'default' => 'option-1',
);
return $gp_options;
}
add_filter( 'ghostpool_custom_category_options', 'ghostpool_custom_category_options' );
You can specify what taxonomies your options are shown on by changing the 'tax' option e.g.
'tax' => array( 'category', 'post_tag', 'gp_portfolios', 'gp_hubs', 'gp_videos' ),
WordPress uses Gravatar to add avatars (user images). Register a free account at http://gravatar.com, associate it with the email you're using on your WordPress site and upload your avatar image. Now go back to your site and within a short amount of time your avatar will show up in your comments, profile page etc. If you want people to upload an avatar from your own site instead, use a plugin such as "Add Local Avatar".
Visit the following site which explains how to make your Google ads responsive: http://www.labnol.org/internet/google-adsense-responsive-design/25252
If you are using this theme on a WordPress.com server instead of a WordPress.org self hosted installation the Redux metaboxes extension generates the wrong URLs. To fix this add the following to your child theme's functions.php file:
function ghostpool_metaboxes_css_extension_url() {
return get_template_directory_uri() . '/lib/framework/extensions/metaboxes/extension_metaboxes.css';
}
add_filter( "redux/metaboxes/OPTION/enqueue/redux-extension-metaboxes-css", 'ghostpool_metaboxes_css_extension_url' );
function ghostpool_metaboxes_js_extension_url() {
return get_template_directory_uri() . '/lib/framework/extensions/metaboxes/extension_metaboxes.min.js';
}
add_filter( "redux/metaboxes/OPTION/enqueue/redux-extension-metaboxes-js", 'ghostpool_metaboxes_js_extension_url' ); Replacing OPTION with the following depending on the theme you are using:
Socialize: "socialize"
Huber: "ghostpool_huber"
Gauge: "gp"
The Redux theme options framework loads some files from an external CDN server rather than loading them from your own server to improve the page load speed. If the CDN server goes down and you will receive this error but it usually fixes itself very quickly. If the error message does not go away then your server may not allow CDN files to be loaded. If this is the case ask your host to enable this, but if they can't you will need to host the files yourself.
To do this download the following plugin at https://github.com/reduxframework/redux-vendor-support/archive/master.zip and install and active it on your site.
Now open lib/framework/theme-config.php and find:
'use_cdn' => true,
Replace with:
'use_cdn' => false,
Go to Settings > BuddyPress, click the Options tab and make sure Allow registered members to upload cover images is checked. Now go to your BuddyPress profile page, by clicking your username anywhere on the site and click Change Cover Image link.
Before blaming the theme there are a number of things that may be causing your site to slow down.
First ask yourself, does this issue occur when you are using any other theme? If it does, then it's probably a server or plugin issue. If it's a plugin issue, disable all plugins and reactivate them one by one to find which one(s) are causing the slow down. If it's a server problem then you should contact your web host.
If this issue only occurs when using this theme there are a number of things you can do to improve the pagespeed, as follows:
Install a cache
This is an absolute must. If you're not already using a caching plugin and you're complaining about page speed install a caching plugin immediately! I recommend WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache.
Optimize images
Optimizing your images reduces their file size without losing picture quality. You can either use a program that does this before uploading your images to your server (such as ImageOptim for the Mac) or you can use a WordPress plugin that does this after uploading your images.
Minify JavaScript and CSS files
Minifying your JavaScript and CSS files basically makes these files as small as possible so they load quicker. There are plenty of plugins out there that minify these files, I recommend Better WordPress Minify.
Remove Query Strings from Static Resources
Use the following Remove Query Strings From Static Resources plugin to remove query strings from static resources like CSS & JS files, to improve your speed scores in services like PageSpeed, YSlow, Pingdom and GTmetrix. Resources with a “?” or “&” in the URL are not cached by some proxy caching servers, and moving the query string and encode the parameters into the URL will increase your WordPress site performance.
Use a VPS or dedicated server
If you are hosted on a shared server you should really consider moving to a VPS or dedicated server. A shared server distributes the server resources across many sites leading to a noticeable slow down when sites on the server have a lot of visitors. If your own site is getting a decent number of visitors you should definitely not be using a shared server. With VPS and dedicated servers you have your own server resources that are not used by any other sites.
Use a CDN to load media, CSS and JavaScript files
A Content Delivery Network (CDN) works by providing alternative server nodes for users to download your files. These nodes are spread throughout the world, therefore being geographically closer to your users, ensuring a faster response and download time of content due to reduced latency. Some of the most popular CDNs are Amazon S3, Microsoft Windows Azure and MaxCDN.
For Gauge users also check out the following video from a fellow buyer:
If you're hosted on a VPS/dedicated server, installed a cache, optimized your images and minified your files and still experience page speed issues then I will need some more information from you in order to determine the cause of this issue.
1) Run your site through http://tools.pingdom.com/ and provide me with the link to the results page.
2) Provide me with WordPress admin access (URL, username and password).
To increase the WordPress Upload Limit do the following:
Step 1: Locate the php.ini file inside the wp-admin directory (if you’re not sure how to do this, ignore the steps below and contact your webhost who can do this for you).
Step 2: Find the following line in your php.ini file:
upload_max_filesize
Step 3: Increase the value to 64MB or higher and save the file.
Step 4: If you still have issues, look for this file in your root directory and make the same changes.
The issue is the page URL contains the activation link which does not work with the popup modal login window. To fix this use the BP Autologin on Activation plugin which automatically logs the user in after clicking the email activation link.
If you want to exclude certain activity entries from your activity stream add the following to your child theme's functions.php file:
function ghostpool_activity_dont_save( $activity_object ) {
$exclude = array(
'new_avatar',
'new_member',
'friendship_accepted',
'friendship_created',
'joined_group',
'new_blog_comment',
'bbp_topic_create',
'bbp_reply_create',
);
if ( in_array( $activity_object->type, $exclude ) ) {
$activity_object->type = false;
}
}
add_action( 'bp_activity_before_save', 'ghostpool_activity_dont_save', 10, 1 );
You can change the type of entries you want to remove from the activity stream by editing the $exclude list.
This error occurs because your server limits the amount of data that can be saved at one time. There are two ways to increase this limit:
1) Edit your php.ini file and increase the max_input_vars function to around 3000 e.g.
max_input_vars = 3000;
2) Alternatively edit your .htaccess file (in the root of your WordPress installation) and add:
php_value max_input_vars 3000
If you're not able to do either of these please ask your webhost to do this for you.
If you're having any issues with a theme you've just purchased this can be incredibly frustrating, however in most cases the issues can be quickly resolved.
If you have not yet downloaded the theme you can request a refund, no questions asked, from: https://themeforest.net/refund_requests/new
If you have downloaded the theme this means you now have a copy of the theme and will only be eligible for a refund if it meets one or more of the following criteria:
Before I can issue a refund I need to determine that the theme is causing your issues (in most refund request cases, it turns out not to be).
To do this please open a support ticket at https://ghostpool.ticksy.com and describe your problems in as much detail as possible, providing any error messages you receive and the steps to replicate the problem.
If it does turn out to be a theme issue and I cannot fix it, you will be issued with a full refund.
You will not receive a refund in the following situations:
You must now use the Envato Market WordPress plugin to update the theme. When you do, sometimes you may see an update failed message. To fix this try the following:
1) Firstly, try clicking the update link again, sometimes it doesn't work first time around.
2) If this doesn't work, activate another theme so this theme becomes deactivated and then try updating the theme.
2) If this doesn't work, check your token has the correct permissions by going to Envato Market > Settings and clicking the Test API Connection button. If you get an error, create a new token.
3 If it still doesn't work it's possible Envato's API is down and you will need to try again later.
4) If things still don't work, don't worry, just download the theme update your ThemeForest Downloads page, locate the theme, click the green Download button and select the Installable WordPress file only option. Now go to Appearance > Themes and activate another theme so you can deactivate and delete this theme. Finally click the Add New and upload the zip file you just downloaded and activate the theme.
If you cannot import the demo data because it never completes the import process or you receive an error it could be because one of the following reasons:
Recommended PHP Configuration Limits
If the import never completes or you receive an error your PHP configuration limits may be set too low. You should contact your webhost and ask them to increase the following:
You can verify your PHP configuration limits by installing a simple plugin found here.
Manually Import Demo Content
If you still can't import the demo data you can try to manually import the demo content without images. Go to Tools > Import and select the WordPress Importer. Click the "Choose File" button and select the demo file from theme-name/framework/importer/demo-files/content.xml. Now click "Upload file and import". Choose to assign all posts to an existing user and make sure the "Download and import file attachments" is not checked. This means the demo file will not import any images, so you will need to add these to the imported posts and pages manually. Now click Submit.
To import the widgets go to Plugins > Add New and search for "Widget Importer & Exporter" and install and activate the first plugin. Now go to Tools > Widget Importer & Exporter and click the "Choose File" button and select the widget file from theme-name/framework/importer/demo-files/widgets.json. Rename this file to widgets.wie and then click "Import Widgets".
In your child theme's functions.php file add:
function gp_login_redirect( $gp_redirect ) {
$gp_redirect_link = '';
$gp_redirect = '<script data-cfasync="false" type="text/javascript">window.location.replace("' . $gp_redirect_link . '");</script>';
return $gp_redirect;
}
add_filter( 'gp_redirect_filter', 'gp_login_redirect', 10, 2 );
Where $gp_redirect contains the redirect link. So to redirect to your BuddyPress profile page use:
function gp_login_redirect( $gp_redirect, $gp_user_data ) {
$gp_redirect_link = bp_core_get_user_domain( $gp_user_data->ID );
$gp_redirect = '<script data-cfasync="false" type="text/javascript">window.location.replace("' . $gp_redirect_link . '");</script>';
return $gp_redirect;
}
add_filter( 'gp_redirect_filter', 'gp_login_redirect', 10, 2 );
For older versions of the theme use:
Open lib/inc/login-settings.php and find:
echo "<script data-cfasync='false' type='text/javascript'>window.location.reload();</script>";
Replace with:
$gp_redirect = ''; echo "<script data-cfasync='false' type='text/javascript'>window.location.replace( '" . $gp_redirect . "' );</script>";
Where $gp_redirect contains the redirect link. So to redirect to your BuddyPress profile page use:
$gp_redirect = bp_core_get_user_domain( $gp_user_data->ID ); echo "<script data-cfasync='false' type='text/javascript'>window.location.replace( '" . $gp_redirect . "');</script>";
WordPress is adding the admin bar to your website, not the theme. You can use the following plugin to disable the admin bar: https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-admin-bar/
If you're using BuddyPress go to Settings > BuddyPress > Options and disable the Toolbar option.
To add custom fonts to the Theme Options typography options you can do the following:
Step 1: Upload your fonts with the format (.ttf, .otf, .woff, .eot, .woff2) to your child theme in the directory wp-content/themes/child-theme-name/fonts/
Step 2: Create a new file called fonts.css and upload it to wp-content/themes/child-theme-name/fonts. Add the following code to this file:
@font-face {
font-family: 'MyWebFont';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 500;
src: url('webfont.eot'); /* IE9 Compat Modes */
src: url('webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), /* IE6-IE8 */
url('webfont.woff2') format('woff2'), /* Super Modern Browsers */
url('webfont.woff') format('woff'), /* Pretty Modern Browsers */
url('webfont.ttf') format('truetype'); /* Safari, Android, iOS */
}
You need to change "MyWebFont" to the font name you want to add.
Step 3: Edit the file field_typography.php located in the directory wp-content/themes/theme-name/lib/framework/redux/inc/fields/typography/.
Add this code after the line 39:
'MyWebFont' => "My Web Font",
Step 4: Next find the first occurrence of:
if ( isset( $this->field['all_styles'] ) && ! empty( $this->field['all_styles'] ) ) {
Above this add:
$this->field['ext-font-css'] = get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . 'fonts/fonts.css';
Step 5: Finally, in your child theme functions.php file add:
if ( ! function_exists( 'ghostpool_enqueue_custom_fonts' ) ) {
function ghostpool_enqueue_custom_fonts() {
wp_enqueue_style( 'gp-redux-custom-fonts', get_stylesheet_directory_uri().'/fonts/fonts.css');
}
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'ghostpool_enqueue_custom_fonts' );
This is because you have activated the Google Captcha plugin but not set it up. If you don't want to use a captcha on the login form, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and deactivated the Google Captcha plugin.
If you do want to use this plugin, you'll need to set it up. Go to Google Captcha > Settings and click the Get the API Keys link to generate a site and secret key which you need to add to the plugin.
This is unlikely to be a theme issue and it is most likely server or plugin related.
To test this, activate the default Twenty Twenty-One theme (don't worry this won't affect your site content). If the issues still occur this means the theme is not causing the issue. Make sure whatever plugin you're using is set up correctly and that you have no typos in your email address.
If your server does not allow emails to be sent out try using the following plugin:
https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/
For BuddyPress emails you will also need to add the following to your functions.php file:
add_filter( 'bp_email_use_wp_mail', '__return_true' );
This is happening because you have enabled Visual Composer support via the Visual Sidebars Editor plugin, which allows you to insert Visual Composer elements in your sidebar and footer areas. If you don't need to display Visual Composer elements here go to Appearance > Sidebars Editor select the desired sidebars and click the green "Override widgets" button so it turns grey.
If you do need to add Visual Composer elements to your sidebar and footer areas you will need to edit the plugin that you are using.
In the plugin files you need to find the name of the function being used for the_content filter e.g.
add_filter( 'the_content', array( $this, 'custom_function_name' ) );
In this case it is "custom_function_name". Now search for the corresponding function e.g.
function custom_function_name( $content ) {
if ( is_singular() ) {
$new_content = '<p>This is added to the bottom of all post and page content, as well as custom post types.</p>';
$content .= $new_content;
}
return $content;
}
You need to add an additional check called in_the_loop() so the content is only loaded in the main loop and not the sidebars and footer e.g.
function custom_function_name( $content ) {
if ( is_singular() && in_the_loop() ) {
$new_content = '<p>This is added to the bottom of all post and page content, as well as custom post types.</p>';
$content .= $new_content;
}
return $content;
}
I suggest speaking with the plugin developers and asking them to make this a permanent change to their plugin as this is a common issue between plugins and themes as discussed at https://pippinsplugins.com/playing-nice-with-the-content-filter/
1) Please ensure you have installed and activated the BuddyPress and bbPress plugins.
2) Go to Settings -> BuddyPress and click the Components tabs and enable "User Groups" and any other features you want to use.
3) Next click the Pages tab and ensure that each dropdown menu has a page selected - if a dropdown menu is empty either create a new page or select an existing page. You do not need to add anything to pages - just leave them empty.
4) If you imported the demo data the links to the BuddyPress pages may need to be edited. Go to Appearance > Menus, find the menu with the BuddyPress links and delete them and replace them with the correct pages.
Step 1: Go to Appearance > Menus and create or edit an existing menu.
Step 2: Click the Screen Options tab in the top right corner of the page and make sure the BuddyPress Member option is checked.
Step 3: Now scroll down the page and you will see a BuddyPress tab where you can add BuddyPress profile links to your selected menu.
To increase the Post Maximum Size do the following:
Step 1: Locate the php.ini file inside the /wp-admin directory using an FTP client or file manager in your web hosting control panel (if you’re not sure how to do this, ignore the steps below and contact your web host who can do this for you).
Step 2: Find the following line in your php.ini file:
post_max_size
Step 3: Increase the value to 64MB or higher and save the file.
Step 4: If you still have issues, look for this file in your root directory and make the same changes.
For current members:
BuddyPress will only show users in the members directory if they have logged into to their account. You can get around this and activate all user accounts by installing and activating the Retroactive BP User Activity plugin.
If this doesn't work add the following to your child theme functions.php file:
update_metadata( 'user', '', 'last_activity', date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s' ) );
Remove this code once it has updated the last activity date for all members (when all members are shown on your members page).
For new members that register:
To automatically update new members in the members directory add the following to your child theme functions.php file:
function ghostpool_show_all_bp_members( $user_id ) {
add_user_meta( $user_id, 'last_activity', date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s' ) );
}
add_action( 'bp_core_activated_user', 'ghostpool_show_all_bp_members' );
This is controlled by WordPress, not the theme. Go to Appearance > Customize > Site Identity > Site Icon.
The full version of WPBakery Page Builder (previously known as Visual Composer) comes with this theme. You do not need to activate a license to use it.
Free updates for the plugin will be included whenever the theme itself is updated. So after updating the theme you will see a notice at the top of your backend pages to update the WPBakery Page Builder if necessary.
You only need a license for two reasons:
1) You want to receive automatic plugin updates directly from the WPBakery developers rather than waiting for them to be included in a theme update.
2) You want to access the Template Library for additional page builder templates.
To get a license you need to purchase the plugin yourself.
If you're trying to remove the latest activity text from your profile header and it doesn't exist in the activity stream you can manually delete it. In your child theme's functions.php file add the following:
delete_user_meta( $user_id, 'bp_latest_update' );
Where $user_id is the ID of the user you want to delete the text for. In most cases the admin account has a user ID of 1 e.g.
delete_user_meta( 1, 'bp_latest_update' );
Remove the code from functions.php when this has been successfully removed.
Maximum input vars limit the number of input variables which affect menus and theme options in the Aardvark theme. To increase the Maximum input vars do the following:
Step 1: Locate the .htaccess file inside the root of your WordPress installation (located in the same folder as your /wp-content/ and /wp-admin/ directories) using an FTP client or file manager in your web hosting control panel (if you can’t find it see why you can’t find the .htaccess file and how to find it or if you’re not sure how to do this, ignore the steps below and contact your web host who can do this for you).
Step 2: Paste this code in .htaccess file:
php_value max_input_vars 1000 php_value suhosin.get.max_vars 1000 php_value suhosin.post.max_vars 1000 php_value suhosin.request.max_vars 1000
Step 3: Now save the file.
Step 1: Locate the php.ini file inside the /wp-admin directory using an FTP client or file manager in your web hosting control panel (if you’re not sure how to do this, ignore the steps below and contact your web host who can do this for you).
Step 2: Paste this code in your .php.ini file:
max_input_vars = 1000 suhosin.get.max_vars = 1000 suhosin.post.max_vars = 1000 suhosin.request.max_vars = 1000
Step 3: Now save the file.
Step 4: If you still have issues, look for this file in your root directory and make the same changes.
Related posts are only displayed if posts have one or more of the same post tags as the post you are viewing. To add post tags to posts, on the right-hand side of the post add your tags from the "Tags" panel.
The forums seen in the demo site are created using the bbPress plugin. Please install and activate this plugin from Plugins > Add New and search for "bbpress".
Once you've activated the plugin your forums should be located at http://my-domain.com/forums
To set up the forum layout seen in the theme demo you need to create category parents for each group of forums. For example on the demo forum (https://aardvark.ghostpool.com/original/forums/), "Forum Category 1" is a forum category and it has three child forums called "Forum 1", "Forum 2" and "Forum 3".
Go to Forums > New Forum to create a header and on the right hand side select "Category" from the Type dropdown menu.
To create a forum under this header go to Forums > New Forum and on the right hand side select "Forum" from the Type dropdown menu.
This is how the final setup should look:
By default Android will redirect to the top level menu item link URL as soon as it is tapped. To display a submenu, users must tap, and without lifting their finger slide off of the menu item.
Go to Theme Options -> Styling and in the CSS Code box add:
@media only screen and (min-width: 1461px) {
.gp-boxed-layout #gp-page-wrapper,
.gp-container {
width: 1460px;
}
#gp-content {
width: 1100px;
}
.gp-nav .menu li.gp-megamenu > .sub-menu,
.gp-nav .menu li.gp-tab-content-menu .sub-menu,
.gp-nav .menu li.gp-content-menu .sub-menu,
.gp-nav .menu li.gp-content-menu .gp-inner-loop {
width: 1430px;
}
.gp-nav .menu li.gp-tab-content-menu .gp-inner-loop {
width: 1200px;
}
.gp-both-sidebars #gp-content {
width: 780px;
}
.gp-sidebar {
width: 300px;
}
}
@media only screen and (min-width: 1321px) {
.gp-responsive.gp-boxed-layout #gp-page-wrapper,
.gp-responsive .gp-container {
width: 1320px;
}
.gp-responsive #gp-content {
width: 960px;
}
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-megamenu > .sub-menu,
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-tab-content-menu .sub-menu,
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-content-menu .sub-menu,
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-content-menu .gp-inner-loop {
width: 1290px;
}
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-tab-content-menu .gp-inner-loop {
width: 1060px;
}
.gp-responsive.gp-both-sidebars #gp-content {
width: 640px;
}
}
@media only screen and (min-width: 1261px) {
.gp-responsive.gp-boxed-layout #gp-page-wrapper,
.gp-responsive .gp-container {
width: 1260px;
}
.gp-responsive #gp-content {
width: 900px;
}
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-megamenu > .sub-menu,
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-tab-content-menu .sub-menu,
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-content-menu .sub-menu,
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-content-menu .gp-inner-loop {
width: 1230px;
}
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-tab-content-menu .gp-inner-loop {
width: 1000px;
}
.gp-responsive.gp-both-sidebars #gp-content {
width: 580px;
}
}
@media only screen and (min-width: 1121px) {
.gp-responsive.gp-boxed-layout #gp-page-wrapper,
.gp-responsive .gp-container {
width: 1120px;
}
.gp-responsive #gp-content {
width: 760px;
}
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-megamenu > .sub-menu,
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-tab-content-menu .sub-menu,
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-content-menu .sub-menu,
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-content-menu .gp-inner-loop {
width: 1090px;
}
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-tab-content-menu .gp-inner-loop {
width: 860px;
}
.gp-responsive.gp-both-sidebars #gp-content {
width: 480px;
}
.gp-responsive.gp-both-sidebars .gp-sidebar {
width: 280px;
}
}
@media only screen and (min-width: 1083px) {
.gp-responsive.gp-boxed-layout #gp-page-wrapper,
.gp-responsive .gp-container {
width: 1082px;
}
.gp-responsive #gp-content {
width: 722px;
}
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-megamenu > .sub-menu,
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-tab-content-menu .sub-menu,
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-content-menu .sub-menu,
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-content-menu .gp-inner-loop {
width: 1052px;
}
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-tab-content-menu .gp-inner-loop {
width: 822px;
}
.gp-responsive.gp-both-sidebars #gp-content {
width: 722px;
}
.gp-responsive.gp-both-sidebars #gp-sidebar-right {
width: 300px;
}
}
@media only screen and (min-width: 1024px) {
.gp-responsive.gp-boxed-layout #gp-page-wrapper,
.gp-responsive .gp-container {
width: 1024px;
}
.gp-responsive #gp-content,
.gp-responsive.gp-both-sidebars #gp-content {
width: 664px;
}
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-megamenu > .sub-menu,
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-tab-content-menu .sub-menu,
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-content-menu .sub-menu,
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-content-menu .gp-inner-loop {
width: 994px;
}
.gp-responsive .gp-nav .menu li.gp-tab-content-menu .gp-inner-loop {
width: 764px;
}
}
Change the widths for each media query to the desired values.
1) Make sure you have selected a featured image for each post/page/slide.
2) Make sure you have not set the image width to 0 or left it empty on the Theme Options pages, Also make sure you've not set it to 0 (it can be left empty) on individual post/pages and shortcodes.
3) Make sure you have an image editor installed on your server such as GD Library or ImageMagick. If you are not sure please ask your web host about this.
4) CDN hosted images are not supported - the images need to be uploaded to the server the site is on.
If after installing the theme it says it is broken or the style sheet is missing it's nothing to worry. This is one of the most common errors new users to WordPress experience. To upload the theme correctly do the following:
Sorry for the inconvenience, Envato has asked me to move certain features to the theme plugin. This means all the theme options and custom Visual Composer elements have been moved the theme plugin. You can now translate all the text relating to these items from the themename-plugin.pot translation file as explained in the help file:
Socialize: http://ghostpool.com/help/socialize/help.html#61
The Review: http://ghostpool.com/help/gauge/help.html#71
Gauge: http://ghostpool.com/help/thereview/help.html#71
Vivacity: http://ghostpool.com/help/socihttp://ghostpool.com/help/vivacity/help.html#61lize/help.html#61
This is known as async typography. To remove this preloading, in your child functions.php file add:
function ghostpool_custom_async_typography() {
return false;
}
add_filter( 'ghostpool_async_typography', 'ghostpool_custom_async_typography' );Most BuddyPress page templates can be modified by adding the directory structure and file within your theme folder to override the default styling as explained here: https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/template-hierarchy/
However beyond this since BuddyPress is a third party plugin and is not part of the theme you should contact BuddyPress support at http://buddypress.org/support where they will be able to help you with modifying BuddyPresss templates.
While the theme completely supports BuddyPress, and even has customized BuddyPress elements, support does not cover customisations (click here for the support policy), this both includes customising the theme and third party plugins.
If a WPBakery Page Builder update is available you will see a notice in your dashboard. Unless you purchased the plugin separately you cannot update the plugin automatically. You will need to wait for a theme update to be released which will include the updated version of the WPBakery Page Builder which you can then update from Appearance > Install Plugins.
If you've added an element on a post to display some items and click the page numbers or load more button the same items may be loaded. This is because some servers do not accept the standard pagination URL structures on posts (it should be fine on pages). If this is the case activate the child theme and add the following to the functions.php file:
function ghostpool_custom_pagenum_link( $link ) {
if ( is_single() ) {
return preg_replace( '~/page/(\d+)/?~', '?page=\1', $link );
} else {
return $link;
}
}
add_filter( 'get_pagenum_link', 'ghostpool_custom_pagenum_link' );Please see:
https://rtmedia.io/docs/developers/add-remove-buddypress-tabs/
This theme requires that you enable the BuddyPress Legacy template pack. To do this go to Settings > BuddyPress > Options and from the Template Pack dropdown menu select "BuddyPress Legacy" and click Save Settings.
This is a core WordPress option and not part of the theme. Go to Appearance > Customize > Site Identity > Site Icon to change the favicon.
You may want to install the default WordPress theme in order to see if an issue still occurs when switching themes.
To install the default WordPress theme do the following:
You are seeing this error because the theme is too big to be uploaded to your site. This is because your web host has set one of the following too low:
- PHP Memory Limit (should be 256MB or higher)
- Post Maximum Size (should be 64MB or higher)
- WordPress Upload Limit (should be 64MB or higher)
Follow the links for how to increase each of these values.
Alternatively you can upload the theme through an FTP client or file manager in your cPanel. To set up an FTP client refer to the WordPress documentation on this http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients.
Once you have set up your FTP client upload the aardvark theme folder to /wp-content/themes/ directory on your server.
The demo importer does not import members and groups. If you want to import these you can use a plugin such as BuddyPress Default Data.
In your child theme's functions.php file add the following:
function ghostpool_disable_google_fonts_link() {
return true;
}
add_filter( 'ghostpool_disable_google_fonts_link', 'ghostpool_disable_google_fonts_link' );In certain versions of ImageMagick there is a problem when trying to import the demo images and the system becomes extremely slow. This causes the demo importer to never complete. You can use a workaround to fix this as follows:
Access the root of your WordPress installation (located in the same folder as your /wp-content/ and /wp-admin/ directories) using an FTP client or file manager in your web hosting control panel where your .htaccess is located. If you can’t find it, then look at this article on why you can’t find the .htaccess file and how to find it.
Next, add this line to your .htaccess file:
SetEnv MAGICK_THREAD_LIMIT 1
This code limits the number of cores using MAGICK_THREAD_LIMIT which is used when uploading the demo images.
There are two ways to add custom fields depending on if you're using the Gutenberg Editor or Classic Editor.
If the fields are hidden use the Show Hidden Post Meta plugin to show hidden fields.
To find the cause of the issue(s) please do the following:
Ensure you using the latest version of the theme and required plugins. We will not look at any issues if you haven’t updated these. To update the theme and required plugins please refer to the theme documentation.
If updating the theme/plugins didn't fix the issue go to Appearance > Themes and activate the Twenty Twenty-One theme and see if the issue(s) still occur. If your site has visitors you can use the Theme Test Drive plugin so your users don’t see the theme you’ve switched to.
If the issue(s) still occur this means the theme is not causing the issue and this is probably a general WordPress or plugin issue.
To see if it is a plugin issue deactivate all activated plugins (except the plugins that are needed to test the issues). If this fixes the issue(s) this means the theme is not the cause. Reactivate the plugins one by one or in groups so you can identify which plugins are responsible.
If the issue only occurs when this theme is activated it looks like the theme is responsible. Please provide WordPress admin access and I'll take a closer look.
If after updating to BuddyPress 12.1.1 your website won't load or you're getting a fatal error similar to this:
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function bp_core_get_user_domain()
It is likely a conflict with bbPress or another BuddyPress compatible plugin.
Install the BP Classic plugin to fix this issue.
BuddyPress widgets have been removed from version BuddyPress version 12.0.0 and later.
You can restore these widgets by using the BP Classic plugin. Please note, the widgets will not automatically reappear. You will need to manually readd them to your sidebars from Appearance > Widgets.