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fgherbert on "Parent on the menu bar"

fgherbert — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 02:07:47 +0000

Hurray!!
I say: Good Show! Bloody Good Show!! and Thanks
Fred

kobenland on "Parent on the menu bar"

kobenland — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:59:52 +0000

Howdy fgherbert,

Thank you for bringing the issue to our attention!

I just updated the theme with and everything should work normally again now! :)

Best,
Konstantin

fgherbert on "Parent on the menu bar"

fgherbert — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:57:29 +0000

I reported that my problem with the parent drop-down menu was working since I've reduced the title to no more than two digits. It really doesn't work because one must hold the cursor directly on the right edge of the digit for the drop-down menu to stay in place when the cursor is moved down to select. It is very difficult to keep the drop down menu in place. Many visitors will not be able to select chapters.
The theme is Book Lite. I tried all possibilities I can think of to correct this problem and require assistance.
Thanks, Fred

fgherbert on "Parent on the menu bar"

fgherbert — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:58:02 +0000

Theme is Book Lite. I discovered a 10 pixel gap after the first two digits of the parent title. If the cursor comes down thru the gap, the chapters disappear. I could not use new titles: Part-one and Part-Two because the visitor still would have trouble reading the chapters. I had to change the titles to: 1 and 2. a bummer, but it now works.
Thanks for your assistance.
Fred

fgherbert on "Parent on the menu bar"

fgherbert — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 02:47:33 +0000

I just discovered that if I bring the cursor straight down below the word "Table" in "Table of Contents Part One" (and the same in part two) all works fine. The child Chapters do not disappear; however, the cursor must come straight down below the word"Table"..
Visitors will most likely not be able to open the chapters. Tis a problem!

miladysboudoir on "Photo size varies between two themes"

miladysboudoir — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 21:45:05 +0000

Thank you all for these helpful comments. I think I worked it out now. But in so doing I now have a Picasa full of photos so what with that and my iPhoto I have rather a lot of duplicated pictures on my laptop. Also I could not find where to optimise photos in Picasa. As you probably guessed I'm not technically minded. I think Picasa may just complicate things for me so I will try to delete it from my machine. Thanks again for all your time and help.

justpi on "Photo size varies between two themes"

justpi — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:15:43 +0000

If I make Quintus into Book Lite the photos stay big. If I make Book Lite into Quintus they stay small.

1. As Jennifer said, this isn't theme dependent: it depends on what option you select when you insert the images and on how wide the originals are. If you select the "full size" option, and the original is wider than the main column of the theme, the inserted version will be as wide as possible (= as wide as the main column).

I'd like the same size photos in both

2. If by "same size" you mean as big as possible, see #1. If you mean exactly the same size, then naturally full-width images cannot be exactly the same when the one theme is narrower than the other: exactly the same would require inserting versions that are narrower than the width of the narrower theme. (I don't think that's what you're looking for, is it?)

I found a very big difference in Quintus between the large and the medium sizes

3. These options aren't immutable: you can, or rather you must, change them.
When you are about to insert an image, you get four size options: thumbnail, medium, large and full size. Full size means original width, if the original is narrower than the maximum the theme allows, or downsized to that maximum, if the original is wider. The defaults for the other three options are set by you in Settings > Media, and they should take into account the width of the theme: for example, the width for the large option could be set to around 3/4 of the main column and the width for the medium option to around 1/2 of the main column. As timethief showed, the width of the main column in Quintus is 750px, so I'd probably set the default widths like this: large around 650, medium around 400, thumbnail around 150 or 200 - or whatever looks better after I try it.

timethief on "Photo size varies between two themes"

timethief — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 16:54:37 +0000

edit: replace "fir" with "fit"

timethief on "Photo size varies between two themes"

timethief — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 16:54:09 +0000

I described what to do above here http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/photo-size-varies-between-two-themes?replies=7#post-1298367
Presize and optimize every image to fir the space you are aiming to upload it into, prior to uploading it. I provided a link to a post of mine above. If you click through that posts provides links to both free desktop applications you can use to do that and to free online image editing sites you can use to do that.

miladysboudoir on "Photo size varies between two themes"

miladysboudoir — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 16:25:51 +0000

Dear timethief,
I appreciate your response and all the help. I'm a bit useless at images, aren't I? I just upload each image as it comes. I hadn't changed the basic image dimensions. I do like the bigger image as my Book Lite pictures are of maps and the place names are indistinguishable. I found a very big difference in Quintus between the large and the medium sizes so that's why I stuck to large mostly. Perhaps you wouldn't mind spelling out step by step what I should do with each photo and when in order to set the optimum dimensions for my pictures whether I post in miladysboudoir or in schiersdelight. Again, much appreciated, Barbara

timethief on "Photo size varies between two themes"

timethief — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 16:16:07 +0000

Maximum displayed image width (Quintus)
Quick Specs (all measurements in pixels):
The main column max width is 640, with a responsive design.
The header image is 1100 by 250 (width, height).
The main column on the full-width template for pages is 940.

Maximum displayed image width (Book-Lite)
Quick Specs (all measurements in pixels)
The main column width is 750
The footer sidebar widths change depending on the number of active sidebars:
With three sidebars active, the width is 240
With two sidebars active, the width is 240
With one sidebar active, the width is 750

Hope this helps.

timethief on "Photo size varies between two themes"

timethief — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 16:08:25 +0000

Note that every theme has a maximum displayed image width and that varies form theme to theme. Lately we have experienced bloggers who by analogy expect to be able to fit Mac Truck and semi-trailer unit sized images right out of their cameras into what amounts to Vespa sized parking spaces in their blogs.

http://miladysboudoir.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/p1100133.jpg
size: 1,729.76 KB (1,771,273 bytes) That's HUGE.
dimensions: 1,770px × 1,851px (scaled to 525px × 550px)

Prior to uploading any image into your blog, regardless if it’s a header image, a featured image, an image in a post or page, in a Post format (Gallery or Image), an image for sidebar display in an image widget or a text widget, you can optimize and re-size it in either a desktop image editing software or online image editing software to fit the space you intend to use it in. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/03/26/cropper-or-proper-image-preparation-2/

Doing that means the image quality will not be reduced, you will not waste your media upload space and you will not be troubleshooting images. http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/troubleshooting-images/

timethief on "Photo size varies between two themes"

timethief — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 16:01:05 +0000

Please provide the URLs for the images you refer to on the two different blogs you refer to.

miladysboudoir on "Photo size varies between two themes"

miladysboudoir — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 14:58:37 +0000

Thanks Jennifer. The picture sizes are the same for both blogs so I expected them to be the same. I don't want to have to keep changing the size between blogs. Is there any way around this?

justjennifer on "Photo size varies between two themes"

justjennifer — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 10:44:54 +0000

It really depends on how big (pixel dimensions) the images you uploaded were and at what size you inserted them into your posts.

miladysboudoir on "Photo size varies between two themes"

miladysboudoir — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 10:37:39 +0000

Hi, I chose different theme for my second blog from my first. First is Quintus and photos come out big. The second is Book Lite which I am very happy with as like my header. If I make Quintus into Book Lite the photos stay big. If I make Book Lite into Quintus they stay small. I'd like the same size photos in both or a suggestion for the second blog in which I could retain the Book Lite header but get bigger photos. Where am I going wrong? Can anyone advise? Thanks

timethief on "Parent on the menu bar"

timethief — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:22:51 +0000

You're welcome.

fgherbert on "Parent on the menu bar"

fgherbert — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:19:05 +0000

Thanks for your timely support.

timethief on "Parent on the menu bar"

timethief — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:09:51 +0000

I am using Firefox 21 and can confirm that though the sub-menu links appear briefly as soon as I hover when I tried to click the links disappear. I tagged this thread for Themes Staff assistance. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond.

fgherbert on "Parent on the menu bar"

fgherbert — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:29:59 +0000

I divided the table of contents, for my book, between two parents on the menu bar, part one and part two. At first placing the cursor over the parent would create a drop-down of all the chapters and one could select a chapter by simply moving the cursor to it.

Now the chapters drop-down; however,they disappear as soon as an attempt is made to move the cursor to one of them and cannot be selected. Sometimes if I move the cursor at the speed of light I can catch a chapter.

timethief on "Blurry Header in Book Lite"

timethief — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 05:03:31 +0000

Don't rely on the cropper. Presize every image offline before uploading it and you will have better image quality, no waste of media storage space and no troubleshooting to do. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/03/26/cropper-or-proper-image-preparation-2/

clairewieger on "Blurry Header in Book Lite"

clairewieger — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 04:44:11 +0000

I am trying to change my header image but everytime I try and upload a picture it turns out very blurry. The suggested size is 1440 x 500 but it's still blurry when I resize my picture to that.

clairewieger on "Book Lite Header Image"

clairewieger — Fri, 31 May 2013 05:14:34 +0000

Every time I try and upload my own header image, it turns out blurry. I even previously sized my image to the suggested size (1440 x 500) but my photo is still blurry. Any suggestions?

conniedek on "Splitting lines in a title"

conniedek — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:01:56 +0000

We're using the "Book Lite" theme and when our post title is longer than fits on one line, the break in the line is not always where I'd like it. Is it possible to create the break where I want it without writing code?

timethief on "font for booklite"

timethief — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:00:25 +0000

YIKES! Sorry > see here > https://wpcom-themes.svn.automattic.com/book-lite/style.css

timethief on "font for booklite"

timethief — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:59:17 +0000

See here > https://wpcom-themes.svn.automattic.com/ryu/style.css

kildeer on "font for booklite"

kildeer — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:55:16 +0000

just building this new blog, but i can't find what font is being used on booklet...

timethief on "[BOOK LITE] Problem with featured image"

timethief — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:15:27 +0000

Not to worry and best wishes with your blog.

atomicalien on "[BOOK LITE] Problem with featured image"

atomicalien — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:03:40 +0000

Ok, sorry. Please close this.

timethief on "[BOOK LITE] Problem with featured image"

timethief — Tue, 21 May 2013 21:42:08 +0000

edit: "not do we" was meant to be "nor do we"