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November 1, 2014 at 1:33 pm #130104SummerMember
Slice of SciFi needed an update. It had been running the xhtml version of Metro since a week or two after that theme had been released, and a need to go html5 and mobile responsive was long overdue.
So with a little inspiration from several magazine themes on Theme Forest, I took Epik and did a "6 Million Dollar Man" reconstruction on it to get all of the layout features I wanted:
* full width home page
* horizontal layout featured posts
* using tiles instead of a sliderProblems delayed the relaunch, mostly hosting related (still have those, but I decided not to put off the update any longer), but just this week I made the switch, along with the relaunch of the show with me back as host again (and including new theme music from an awesome geek rock band I know), and so far, the new site has been running rather smoothly.
There are a few quirks that I'm still working on fixing -- the titles on the tiles vanish when certain responsive breakpoints are hit, and since I chose to go with a full width header image on the front page, but a regular width one on the interior pages, the site-url linking to the home url doesn't work anymore... in fact, neither banner image acts as a link anymore, and I haven't gone looking for what I broke yet 🙂
I suspect it may be because I didn't use the Customizer to add the header image, but since I needed two different ones, Customizer would be of no help/use.
The other thing I'm looking into is whether Sandbox Featured Content Widget can be modified to support post subtitles... GFWA does weird things with subtitles, so it's forced me to finally make a featured content widget change after all this time.
So, check out the site, let me know if anything obvious jumps out at you, and please don't mind the site slowness if you get it during a bad moment... Siteground is not the hosting company so many others have praised it to the skies to be (their own site is down/goen right now), and I'm working on moving yet again... maybe the 5th time will be the charm? LOL
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkNovember 17, 2014 at 6:01 pm #131918SummerMemberI'm going to hope that no one had comments before because the site came up too slowly on it's previous hosting, LOL 🙂
The hosting situation is resolved, it's on a much beefier server and the site comes up much faster now. I also had to replace the plugin I used to generate featured posts tiles on the front page, but the header image solution still eludes. I may ask about it on the Appfinite forums, or see if I can come up with a better search phrase for a tutorial for switching header images.
I also ended up switching to Sandbox Featured Content Widget, because it excludes Subtitles while GFWA does not.
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