[designhappy]

Hello,

I’m having a lot of trouble getting this template customized for a client. I’ve tried to edit some of the css, but keep running into issues.

1. Info boxes. I want to be able to have multiple paragraphs here and be able to have an image (with link) instead of text under the main featured image. None of the boxes will link to “read more”, so I see where to disable that, but not how to get the entire box’s content to show. I tried to add breaks in the text area, but that doesn’t seem to work. And when I add an image to the text area, nothing shows up.

2. Menu. I want to have an image appear at the top of the page. When I add a featured image, nothing shows.

3. I’m not sure how to get just the main Menu items to show on the page. The Catering category should appear on the Catering page. Right now each page just lists Catering and Menu on the left side instead of the categories listed within them.

4. Can I add paragraphs to the menu item descriptions instead of each sentence following the next? Some items have multiple items included.

5. The client has multiple locations, so the way the locations page is done doesn’t really work for this. Is it possible to modify some of the code to allow for a location page for each of the locations? So a drop down on the locations tab with each location listed and then a similar page to what is currently there.

6. How can I remove the form on the locations page?

7. How can I put my own custom info into the footer areas? Again, with multiple locations, one fb, yelp, etc icon doesn’t work. Can I use the footer and add in multiple logos under the header with links to the social media areas instead of using the default versions you have?

Any help pointing me in the direction and which areas of the css to edit is appreciated. Thank you.

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

Hi,

Thanks for writing. With regards to your questions:

1. Yes, the infoboxes display the_excerpt function in there. If you want to display the full content you’ll need to edit the file template-home.php in order to change the function nice_excerpt() for the_content()

2. The menu template doesn’t have the featured image functionality. You can try by adding the image directly to the page content.

3. Pages and menus are different things. On that case what you can use are menu categories. If you go to “Food Menu > Menu Categories” you’ll see a list of the different menu categories. If you step over any of them, you can click on “view” and you’ll be redirected to the automated template generated for each category. Then, on the theme options you can pick to display that as a list or grid.

4. The problem here is the same as the infoboxes. The menus only display the excerpt function.

5. Unfortunately the theme isn’t prepared for multiple locations. There’s only space for one map, and only one set of business hours.

6. You’ll need to edit the file template-contact.php in order to remove the form.

7. Unfortunately the theme isn’t prepared for multiple locations. You can only add a set of social links, as they’re saved on the options panel. You can always use the Text Widget in order to add some random text, though.

I hope this helps. Please let us know if we can be of any further assistance.

Best,
Juan.

[designhappy]

Thank you for your quick reply.

1. I found where to edit the excerpt, but I still can’t get it to have paragraphs. It looks too confusing with all the text right after each other. Is this not possible to do? I tried to use “” but that doesn’t work.

3. I already have my menu’s displayed as a list, which I’m fine with. When I uploaded the sample content you provided, I was able to create a menu that showed up on the page I have titled “Menu” (http://thehummusfactory.com/wp/menu-2/). Right now, on the left you see “Catering” and “Menu”. What I’d like is for the navigation button “Menu” to show this menu: http://thehummusfactory.com/wp/menu-category/menu/ but without having such a long url, and the “Catering” button to show this menu: http://thehummusfactory.com/wp/menu-category/catering/. If I have those urls in the navigation menu, I can’t add a photo to the top, or have a place where I can upload a pdf of the menu. Does this make sense?

Thank you!

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

Hi,

Thanks for the follow up

1. As mentioned before, that part of the theme is using the excerpt. That is a non-formatted and short text. http://codex.wordpress.org/Excerpt

In order to change that into formatted, extended and rich text you’ll need to change some code of the template-home.php file. As mentioned before, that would be changing the function nice_excerpt with the_content – Unfortunately we can’t do support on customizations, we can give you only hints on how to make that possible.

3. Well, that should be fairly simple and it has to do with a WordPress feature, the navigation menus. So, in order to change that, you need to edit the navigation menu. Go to Appearance > Menus, and once you’re there pick up the Menu category you want to add to the navigation menu.

If you don’t see the box containing the Menu Categories items, click the “Screen Options” button on the top right part of the screen, and tick the “Menu Categories” option.

You can learn how to set up navigation menus in our detailed and explanatory documentation:
http://nicethemeswp.com/article/setting-navigation-menu/

Best,
Juan.

[designhappy]

Thanks so much!

I got the Menu’s into the navigation, but since they aren’t pages, I can’t add any info or a header photo above all the text on those pages. The url also still lists “menu-category”. The sub categories in the menu also appear in alphabetical order now, where when they were listed on the page (via choosing the Menu-List on the Template area) they appeared in the correct order. I have both menus on my navigation in case you want to take a look. http://thehummusfactory.com/wp/

Sorry for so many questions. The only other template I’ve purchased (from ThemeTrust) had so many options and so much support in the forum, I never had to ask any questions. They also provided a lot of people custom lines of code to modify, so I thought that was a standard. But I greatly appreciate all your help!

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

No problem.

Yes, that’s right, they’re menu categories and you’re unable to add content or change the slug of the URL. Unfortunately that’s the only way to have multiple menus for a website.

What do you mean by correct order regarding the sub categories?

We’re happy to help with theme related issues, unfortunately every product have its own limitations and some times the general solution doesn’t applies for some projects.

Best,
Juan.

[designhappy]

I have a “Menu” and “Catering” menu. Each of those has categories in them (Appetizers, Salads, Plates, etc). When using the menu category way to accommodate the 2 menus, the order of those items within each menu default to alphabetical order. I’d like to be able to put them in order myself (ie: have “Drinks” at the bottom). Is there a way this can be done?

Lastly, I was able to change the nice_excerpt to the_content on the template-home.php file, but I don’t see that same area on the template-menu-list.php file. I’d like to remove the excerpts there as well and allow for the rich formatting. I can only see get_the_excerpt. Am I looking in the wrong place?

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

Well, ok. Then that’s the order of the different menu categories. Unfortunately WordPress doesn’t give a simple option to handle that. However, there are several free plugins in order to set orders for categories and taxonomies. Something like https://wordpress.org/plugins/taxonomy-terms-order/ should work fine.

With regards to the excerpt/content issue, the difference between templates is that the menu template retrieves the data, and create an output string.

So, in that particular case, that the function is get_the_excerpt, you should replace that with get_the_content

Best,
Juan

[designhappy]

I’m so so close! THANK YOU!

I can’t get the top portion under “catering” to have rich formatting. I looked through a bunch of the files and tried to replace all the “excerpt” areas, but no luck. The items under the menu items are no longer excerpts, just not that top part. Which file can I find this part in?

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

No problem 🙂 I’m happy to help.

Well, actually that’s a WordPress limitation. Taxonomies (the generic term for tags and categories) doesn’t have rich text editors. However, as usual in open source, somebody has been nice enough to write some code and shared it in the plugin public repository. You can try this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/rich-tax-description-editor/

It looks like the exact solution for what you need.

Best,
Juan.