Twenty Fifteen Theme Questions And Recommendations
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I tracked the video spacing issue down to a problem with how VideoPress itself calculates the height of containers when the content container is narrower than the theme’s $content_width setting. This is something that would ideally be addressed in the VideoPress code itself, however, that project may not have developers free to work on this particular issue for some time. I did report the issue and included a my tests and all the details I could find on it, and now we will need to wait to hear back. I am not sure on a time frame for this.
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I see what you mean about the Zemanta related articles. I reported the issue, and I will reply back here as soon as I hear anything back on it.
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Hello Designsimply,
Okay, and thank you very much for researching this for me and for reporting both problems. :)
-John Jr
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Happy to help. :)
The video spacing issue actually did get updated. The theme developers applied a patch to help Twenty Fifteen on that front. I tested it, and it looks really good!
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I have a question about the Zemanta issue. I am not very familiar with the Zemanta generated content, and that is a discontinued feature at WordPress.com. When you inserted that content in the past, how much control did you have over the styling? Were the inline styles that I can see for Zemanta related content on your past posts such as http://johnjronline.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/11-4-2011-dream-fragments-vin-diesel-is-my-cousin/ generated for you or did you adjust any of that manually? Specifically, I’m talking about the font size, line height, and height of each container.
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Hello Designsimply,
Yes, #7 seems to be fixed now for me on Windows 8.1 on Firefox 34, that was fast; thank you. :)
9. On that post and other my posts where the Related Articles have images those were added with the Zemanta browser extension and not the Zemanta option that was built into WordPress.com back then, and I had no control over the styling as far as I know/remember or used.
You would just click the Related Articles in the list, and they would appear at the bottom of your post/page.
Thank you,
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Hello,
10. I just noticed that the Posts I Like Widget has very small images in Grid View on the Twenty Fifteen theme oddly, normally the images in Grid View are the same size as the Grid View images in the Top Posts & Pages Widget, I am just wondering whether this is intentional or if this a mistake?
Thank you,
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Ahhh, okay. Because you inserted those in a non-standard way and because the Zemanta feature is no longer supported and because you have Custom Design on your blog :) we can use some custom CSS to update the look of the custom related posts you inserted onto your blog in the past. Please try adding the following to your Appearance > Customize > CSS editor:
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Do you mean for future ones you add? Because the past ones aren’t really connected to anything so they would need to be manually adjusted. You can do that by hand as well if you’d like, but custom CSS is a hundred million times easier for a special case like this as long as you have that upgrade. :)
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No (I used WordPress.coms Related Posts feature now), I mean when the Custom Design Upgrade period is up, then the custom CSS will not function anymore for those old posts with Zemanta Related Articles ;) ; I contacted Zemanta so maybe they can provide a fix on their end that will work once I no longer have the Custom Design Upgrade.
Also, do you know anything about #10 Designsimply?
Thank you,
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On the Zemanta issue, they won’t be able to help you because the content you inserted in the past is not connected to their service. The styles for how that content appears was set at the time you inserted it—similar to how an individual image is inserted with a caption here at WordPress.com. Once it’s inserted, you need to edit it directly to change it again, you cannot edit it from the media library. If you take a look at the HTML tab on one of your older pages with the older Zemanta related posts in it, you will see the inline styles that I’m talking about. There are a lot. Zemanta cannot change those on your past posts because they were set at the time that content was inserted. You can change it manually though. To do it, you would need to adjust all of the inline styles by hand, which is why I proposed using custom CSS for this as a special case.
Screenshot: https://cloudup.com/cLVZaa7E35R (this is only a small section of the Zemanta-generated code)
I just heard back about #10, and it is indeed an intentional design decision, not a bug.
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So because Zemanta used to use that style back then they can not change it on old posts now to fix that, that was the style that they used with their browser extension back then that was different from the WordPress.com Zemanta style, either way it is not a huge problem; I can just slowly delete those as I notice them in the future as people actually view old posts that have that old style of Zemanta Related Articles because I use the WordPress.com’s Related Posts option now.
I am still waiting on WordPress to come out with Related Links, Recommended Images, and Recommended Tags one day. ;)
About #10, thank you, I find it strange that they decided to change only that widget size and to change it so drastically is odd; I agree with it being smaller but not that small, and I wish that we could adjust the size in this widget and in several other widgets that lack this option (Gravatar Profile, Top Posts & Pages, and more) like we can do in several other widgets (Authors, Gravatar, and maybe more) then we can control this like we can in a few widgets already.
Thank you,
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Hey John Jr!
I am still waiting on WordPress to come out with Related Links, Recommended Images, and Recommended Tags one day. ;)
Have you seen our Related Posts feature?
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Hello Shawna,
Yes, I have been using Related Posts since before it was even announced (I noticed it the first day it magically appeared in my settings ;) ) and I like it, but I am still waiting for them to also replace the other features that were lost when they removed Zemanta without warning or reason.
So since then I have been using WordPress Related Posts and the Zemanta Browser Extension waiting for one day when WordPress replaces the rest of those missing features because I assume that one of the reasons that they removed Zemanta was because they have plans to maybe slowly make their own alternatives to some of the features that Zemanta has like they did with Related Posts, but that was just my wild guess/assumption based on the removal of Zemanta without reason or announcement (except for a sticky topic in the forums that I did not see until someone told me about it) and the creation of Related Posts shortly after that.
So hopefully WordPress will not stop with Related Posts but also add alternative/replacement features for in-text links, tags, and image recommendations in the future to replace those missing features; but even if they do not at least we still have the Zemanta Browser Extension fortunately, because those features were one of the main reasons that I chose and liked WordPress and those are some of the features that I use the most.
Thank you,
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I’ve been around, just doing fewer threads for a bit. Hope you’re having a cozy holiday. :)
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Oh ;) , thank you Shawna, I wish that I were; well it is warm today oddly where I am, strange weather, cold one or more days then warm another day then cold again and on and on. (It is so confusing that my body/mind is not sure what to do. :D)
-John Jr
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Oooh. We’re having the same in Chicago. Its been raining all day today and we have a severe weather alert for a possibly serious snow storm on Wednesday. Haven’t seen a bit of snow all season, it’s hard to tell what to wear each day.
I’m crossing my fingers for some more normal weather! ;)
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