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Support Forum - User Favorites: SteveYoung steveyoung Support Forum - User Favorites: SteveYoung en-US Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:48:58 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://www.kriesi.at/support/search.php Ismael on "Menu Selections Limited" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-selections-limited#post-68097 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:11:51 +0000 Ismael 68097@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ Hello, Thank you for the information. This will come in handy for some users with the same problem. Regards, Ismael SteveYoung on "Menu Selections Limited" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-selections-limited#post-68094 Sat, 28 Jul 2012 20:26:32 +0000 SteveYoung 68094@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ We just installed two plugins that provide the flexibility to solve the problem. "Add Descendants As Submenu Items" "CMS Tree Page View" The first takes us back in time to produce a hybrid of menu systems. As long as you selected what was the parent menu in the post (redundant with the GUI menu system) you can select a box that indicates "Automatically add all descendants as submenu items" This provides for the standard WP menu system for the top menu's and the old way of selecting child and parent menus in the post. This reduces the number of menu's to well below our limit of 90 per menu strip. The second provides a "at a glance look" at what your menu system is set up as with the parent child relationship settings in your pages. Although ours through legacy were mostly done, it allows you to fix any that are in the wrong order. This fix provides the ability to conserve system resources and to not have to call your host for an increase in the suhosin variable. Hope this information saves someone the days it took us to understand and fix the problem should you have the same issues. SteveYoung on "Menu Selections Limited" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-selections-limited#post-68076 Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:36:22 +0000 SteveYoung 68076@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ Dude, Thanks for your attention. We continue to work this. More testing and search for work different solutions today. We will share it here should it help others. We were mislead a bit by the fact that 20-10 has one menu system and Newscast has two menu systems. If readers of this thread go to the start you can see the odd situation where we had 250+ menu selections. One day a tech here moved one and we lost all but 90 in each menu bar. Menu1 had 90, Menu 2 had 90. Trying to add a menu, if you saved it would not add the menu. If you added a menu and put it higher in the menu system the last menu would be deleted. For us the 90 limit was hard. Research has found for others this can be as low as 16, bit more often the limit is between 60 and 90. Checking again, 20-10 only would allow 90 (it was a different menu set than Newscast was allowing) it just jumbled up the 90 menu items it allowed looking like it supported more. When we counted it came to 90. We bought and installed another authors (modern, 2 days old ver. 1.0) to see if it would help. We had to rebuild the menu system (we moved this to another part of the shared server we are on for development) when we hit 91 it would not take it. That took us back to our research. <a href="http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14134" rel="nofollow">http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14134</a> In the wordpress development trac we found this is a known (but clearly not published well) problem. Depending on the host, if they have it set up for security and performance issues to limit the number of functions you are stuck. So if you can not get them to increase the suhosin variable you can not get any more than the limit they have set. Some users have been able to add "php_value max_input_vars 2000" to the .htaccess file. In my case that did not work it just created a server error. I expect my host has restricted that. Interesting, Newscast actually allows us to double the number of menu items. Since we can have 90 in each menu we get 180! The only reason I can come up with for getting up to 250+- is our tech was setting up menu's and never did a save till the end. Then months later when she moved one it had to process all the menus on save and invoked the limit. But without further testing a guess on our part. It appears this is not a limit to the menus, it is a limit to how many you can save at once. The menu system is rather clunky, ok for a few menu's but not a complex system. The attitude on the trac is positive and wanting to help. However, some argue that you should never need this many menu's. I remember a bug I found in 1989 on disk drives. The software we were running would not work on a drive larger than 40meg (yes that is not a typo they were that small.) The developer told me when they developed the software they never thought a drive any bigger would be made, that was the reason for the limit. So while people may not be using many menu items today, they will in the future. More and more WP is being used as Content Management system. they will need to fix this problem in the future. Some trac contributors indicate the group is small that is having this problem, so it need not be fixed. They are right the group is small since not many look to have so many menu items. Still WP was based on simple good clean code (we started with ver. 1.2) they need clean menu code. I am going to continue our testing and provide all that data on the trac with the hopes that it helps to update the menu system on the backend of WordPress. We are also trying some plugins and hacks to split up the menus so our server can swallow them when we save them. More to come, Steve P.S. I felt bad buying a theme from someone else, we love Newscast and the support here has always been very good. It did help with our testing so was worth the money. Dude on "Menu Selections Limited" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-selections-limited#post-67978 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:35:33 +0000 Dude 67978@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ I marked this thread for Kriesi. Tbh I've no idea how to solve this issue or what causes it. The suhosin variable affects all wp menus - thus it would affect other themes too. The only reason I can think of is that Newscast requires more resources (processing time, vars, etc.) and triggers/hits the limit whereas the standard theme does not. However that's just a guess... SteveYoung on "Menu Selections Limited" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-selections-limited#post-67762 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:30:54 +0000 SteveYoung 67762@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ We have turned off all plugins, we downloaded the latest Newscast theme, made no changes to that theme and activated it. We still only have 90 menu selections allowed in both the primary and secondary menu. Switching to a WP default theme and the menu selection 250+- all come back. They were there, all 250+- in Newscast earlier this week. The only change was to drag a menu item to a different location. This ran fine for over a year, it just makes no sense to us. Testing continues but we need some help. With no answers, we are working a parallel path of changing to another theme. If anyone has recommendations on one we would appreciate it. <a href="http://VisitLondonderry.com" rel="nofollow">http://VisitLondonderry.com</a> is a Chamber of Commerce or Visitors Center style website. "Magazine style" appears to be the best template. SteveYoung on "Menu Selections Limited" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-selections-limited#post-67566 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:57:57 +0000 SteveYoung 67566@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ Sorry I should have put that in the first posting. <a href="http://www.VisitLondonderry.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.VisitLondonderry.com</a> Also we installed this quite some time ago, could be two years, I know more than one and a half. Have there been theme upgrades? We are now on the latest version of WP. Thank you so much for your support. For our members and the community we just lost 2/3 of our content. While it is still there no one can tell without the menus to access it. Thanks so much for your contact and help. Ismael on "Menu Selections Limited" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-selections-limited#post-67437 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:50:50 +0000 Ismael 67437@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ Hi, Sorry for the delay. I will report this back to Kriesi and the rest of the support team. Can you give us a link to your site? Regards, Ismael SteveYoung on "Menu Selections Limited" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-selections-limited#post-67436 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:18:47 +0000 SteveYoung 67436@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ By the way, we are willing to switch to a more modern theme. However we like the Newscast theme very much the 2 levels of menus, the sliders. Our site is a chamber of commerce style site and it just has worked very well. It is a little slow, we would like it a bit faster. It may not be optimized for SEO or hand held devices, that would be nice to. If we do switch, the support here has been very good. We would like to stay with Kriesi. We must solve this problem ASAP. SteveYoung on "Menu Selections Limited" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-selections-limited#post-67432 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:34:36 +0000 SteveYoung 67432@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ Ok more data. Our hosting company is unwilling to make any changes to the server (shared server) we expected that. When we switch to the standard themes all the menus come back. So it appears to be related to the Newscast theme. The thing is we did not change any of the theme files recently. We hacked the index.php more than a year ago to make the slider access pages, so we change the reference number from time to time manually to alter the slider. I checked this file against a backup version from a year ago and it looks fine. All worked fine till we moved one menu selection, then we dropped to 90 on first and 90 on second menu. The last menu change was 2 weeks ago it worked fine like it always does. SteveYoung on "Menu Selections Limited" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-selections-limited#post-67427 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:14:52 +0000 SteveYoung 67427@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ We have been running with no problems, for a year or more. Today, we moved one item in the menu system from a sub menu third level to a sub menu second level. We have a first and second level menu We had approximately 250 menu selections in varying sub menu configurations. We now have 90 in the first and 90 in the second. When we add a menu (drag in the old one to rebuild our menus) the bottom one is always removed. Our tech found this post. <a href="http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/limitation-of-number-of-menu-items" rel="nofollow">http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/limitation-of-number-of-menu-items</a> but it deals with a windows server. ___________________________________ The solution The way to resolve it is to amend the suhosin settings in your php.ini file. If you’ve gone blank by now then you just need to contact your hosting providers support department and ask for the following to be updated: suhosin.post.max_vars = 5000 suhosin.request.max_vars = 5000 After this update you’ll easily be able to add further menu items in WordPress – appearance – menus. ___________________________________ I am contacting our host to see if they made any changes today that would cause this because it has worked right along. Appreciate any thoughts and help on this. I will continue to report our progress so it can help others. SteveYoung on "Menu Under slider" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-under-slider#post-56547 Fri, 18 May 2012 12:07:20 +0000 SteveYoung 56547@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ We just figured this out on our own it took a while, but one of our techs Jacklynn found it. The Headwrap was set differently in the VisitLondonderry.com site from the ZigPosterman.com website. No notes on us changing this although we have made changes to the top logo to make that work. Could have been when this happened. since we did not need the secondary menus we did not find it in the original development of the website. It was; #headwrap, #footerwrap{ width:100%; clear: both; float: left !important; /* ie6fix */ float: none; position: relative; z-index: 1; } We changed it to; #headwrap, #footerwrap{ width:100%; clear: both; float: left !important; /* ie6fix */ float: none; position: relative; z-index: 6; } This fix allowed us to roll out a incredible new product just in time. <a href="http://zigposterman.com/flashing-board/" rel="nofollow">http://zigposterman.com/flashing-board/</a> Plus we now have room for growth. Looking to spin off this product to a separate website, we will be looking at some of Kriesi's newer themes for that. We do appreciate the efforts and time spent by others looking into this. I hope our discover helps others that may have this problem in the future. Devin on "Menu Under slider" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-under-slider#post-56327 Wed, 16 May 2012 18:13:50 +0000 Devin 56327@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ Hi Steve, I've asked Kriesi to re-look at this is issue again. Sorry for the wait! I know its frustrating not knowing what could be causing the issue. Regards, Devin SteveYoung on "Menu Under slider" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-under-slider#post-53710 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:38:22 +0000 SteveYoung 53710@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ Kriesi, I am sorry to ask, but could we get some help with this. We are holding off announcing some new products because we can not add menus. Steve SteveYoung on "Menu Under slider" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-under-slider#post-52158 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:46:31 +0000 SteveYoung 52158@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ Hi Chris, Yes I have seen "A problem I found was that hovering these dropdown links doesn't always work" I visited a customer for <a href="http://www.VisitLondonderry.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.VisitLondonderry.com</a> and saw that problem particularly on a slow IE system. At ZigPosterman.com the menus appear to be "slow" in the dropdown, in testing. Though read on, I may have found something. I added the code from Ismael and your code to it. #top .nav li ul a { position:relative; z-index: 999; display: block; height: 20px; } At first glance it appeared to work I could now see "Biggie 50mm Tip" and "Ziggy Creatives" menu selections they were not under the slider. However it looked like another change occurred. The addition of ; display; block; height:20px changed the menu selection from "Biggie 50mm Tip Chalkboard Cleaner" to one line "Biggie 50mm Tip" No problem, these are just testing the production menus can be shorter. So I added a menu. "Big and Broad Tip 50mm White" so we have three drop down menus. That goes under the slider. Plus the "Big and Broad Tip 50mm White" is two lines and out of the box. We will just make shorter menus this is only for testing. I was able to change the height setting to 40 and fix it too, but I prefer shorter menus. As you use this drop down menu the last menu item can not be selected, I added a few more for testing. I also found the menu goes under the text! Plus you can not select any drop down menu that goes below the second menu bar! I think the note in bold may help to find a fix. If the drop down menus are under the slider, and go under the text, and are not accessible, when they are below the menu bar. How do we get them to the top? The issue appears to be with anything that goes below the menu bar. I have put my style.css at the following link so it can be viewed. <a href="http://imageability.com/kriesi/zig_style.css" rel="nofollow">http://imageability.com/kriesi/zig_style.css</a> I do appreciate the help, we are very proud of the look and feel of our site using the kriesi theme. I do not want to leave these test menus to long. They also confuse the customers. SteveYoung on "Menu Under slider" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-under-slider#post-52006 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:14:29 +0000 SteveYoung 52006@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ Thank you Chris, I will. We need to fix this since we can not use the drop down menus. Our other site works fine, never been a problem. I will report back. Chris Beard on "Menu Under slider" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-under-slider#post-51482 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:51:30 +0000 Chris Beard 51482@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ Hi, I'm not sure if I'm grasping the problem - A problem I found was that hovering these dropdown links doesn't always work, to fix this add following code to the code Ismael provided within the brackets. <pre><code>display: block; height: 20px;</code></pre> Could you elaborate your problem further for me? Cheers, Chris SteveYoung on "Menu Under slider" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-under-slider#post-51443 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:46:53 +0000 SteveYoung 51443@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ That did not work. We do not have a custom style, I placed it in the style.css Tried it in different locations if that is important. Ismael on "Menu Under slider" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-under-slider#post-49006 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:06:19 +0000 Ismael 49006@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ Hello, Please drop this on your custom.css. <pre><code>#top .nav li ul a { position:relative; z-index: 999; }</code></pre> Hope it helps. Regards, Ismael SteveYoung on "Menu Under slider" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-under-slider#post-48767 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:06:07 +0000 SteveYoung 48767@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ Thank you Kriesi! We do like your product very much and send many to buy them from you. I tried a few days ago but the forum was down. I just set up a menu dropdown. it is under Special Order. two drop downs "Biggie 50mm Tip Chalkboard Cleaner" and "Ziggy Creatives" You can only see the First the second goes under the slider. Again this does work on <a href="http://www.VisitLondonderry.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.VisitLondonderry.com</a> with the same template. Kriesi on "Menu Under slider" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-under-slider#post-45502 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:39:17 +0000 Kriesi 45502@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ Hey! Would be glad if you could set it up once again, we will have a look at the issue. For the least impact on your customers I would recommend you set it up starting next week when all of our support staff is available. with the new support system in place your thread shouldnt be overlooked for that long again :) Actually I am sorry that you had to wait that long for a reply. let me know once the menu is in place ;) Cheers SteveYoung on "Menu Under slider" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-under-slider#post-45272 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:38:26 +0000 SteveYoung 45272@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ We took down the menu that goes under the slider, a customer complained. We could set something up if anyone has some ideas on this. Thanks! SteveYoung on "Menu Under slider" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/menu-under-slider#post-44449 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:31:52 +0000 SteveYoung 44449@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <a href="http://www.ZigPosterman.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.ZigPosterman.com</a> We just added more menus so now we have drop down menus, the site has been running since December. They are going under the slider, under the feature images on pages too. We checked the Z order and changed it with firebug but were unable to get the menu to come to the top. Any thoughts on how we could fix this? We use Newscast on <a href="http://www.VisitLondonderry.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.VisitLondonderry.com</a> and have never had this problem. SteveYoung on "Featured image larger please" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/featured-image-larger-please#post-21568 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:10:12 +0000 SteveYoung 21568@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ Rereading this you asked for the URL of the "modified state" I had that in a prior posting. <blockquote> Here is the page I am testing on <a href="http://visitlondonderry.com/2011/05/strawberry-fields-forever-in-londonderry/" rel="nofollow">http://visitlondonderry.com/2011/05/strawberry-fields-forever-in-londonderry/</a> </blockquote> The files function.php and single.php would be in the appropriate WP locations, the reason I sent you my email on your personal contact page. I did come up with a possible workaround, but intend to hold off on that testing until you have a chance to look at this. The thought is we would remove the preview image code in single.php and add the full width image by hand in the post. I note this if others want to try that option. SteveYoung on "Featured image larger please" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/featured-image-larger-please#post-21509 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:43:05 +0000 SteveYoung 21509@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ Thank you James, I was pulled away on another project, sorry for the delay. I can provide you an admin login I sent you a message on your personal contact page. Dude on "Featured Slider - Pages ?" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/featured-slider-pages#post-21141 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:57:47 +0000 Dude 21141@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ Great, glad that it works now :) katalintamas on "Featured Slider - Pages ?" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/featured-slider-pages#post-21070 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:14:02 +0000 katalintamas 21070@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ Yes, changing the dates is a working solution! Thanks a lot! James Morrison on "Featured image larger please" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/featured-image-larger-please#post-20997 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:07:51 +0000 James Morrison 20997@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ Hey Steve, Can you provide the site URL for the files in their modified state? The code I provided worked in my test environment so this needs further investigation. James SteveYoung on "Featured image larger please" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/featured-image-larger-please#post-20964 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:45:02 +0000 SteveYoung 20964@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ We are not in production yet so I left my files as you indicated, with my change to the "unlimited" size operator. I can also provide a login, if you need it for debug, just email me for that. tiktacs on "Featured image larger please" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/featured-image-larger-please#post-20939 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:26:36 +0000 tiktacs 20939@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ Hi james, I went and did it again. I'm sure I followed directions properly and this time came up with the same result Steve describes above. I have restored to my original files but hope you can offer further advice. Thank you. SteveYoung on "Featured image larger please" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/featured-image-larger-please#post-20871 Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:20:02 +0000 SteveYoung 20871@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ Well James, that had odd results. I am going to go check the code, I must have made a mistake. Made the changes, and I regenerated the thumbnails with the plugin... rechecking the code... Looks like the changes to function.php and single.php match what you gave me. The image is distorted with lines of color and is still the original "M" size 180x180. I changed the "99999" you recommended in the height setting to "320" and that eliminated the distortion. We are planning on a standard 700x 320 for our feature image so that works for us. We do not need a unlimited height for this project. With that change the feature image is still 180x180, oddly a magnifying glass is in the middle of the post at what would be the center of the new wider image. I think we need to make one more change to have that image span the entire column, but I am not sure what that is. Here is the page I am testing on <a href="http://visitlondonderry.com/2011/05/strawberry-fields-forever-in-londonderry/" rel="nofollow">http://visitlondonderry.com/2011/05/strawberry-fields-forever-in-londonderry/</a> Also once we find the changes, I would also like the single pages to support this option, not just the posts.