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How good are you with PHP? It can be done, but it’s a non-trivial code change and cannot be done using a Child Theme, so I’d want you to understand the implications before giving you direction on how to accomplish it.

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I would be interested in this investigation as well, as I have a client experiencing what I think is the same issue (using IE8).

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Kate –

I don’t want to leave you hanging but I think that, if you can’t get this working after seeing my instructions, you may want to consider hiring someone more versed in web design to help you.

You can use the theme documentation and demo content to *possibly* get what the demo looks like, but I don’t know for sure as I’ve never used the demo content – maybe someone from the Swift Team can say how that works…

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You can easily do this, but for me to help you, I’ll need to see your site and know where on the site you want to have the link.

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That was it! Thanks!

One note – the location was actually includes/sf-content-display/sf-post-formats.php

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I actually found an easy way – after inserting the image they can click on it to edit it and, in the Advanced options, add ‘prettyPhoto’ to the Link Rel field, which will open it in a lightbox.

Not as cool as the overlay when using the shortcode, but still works well enough and is easy enough for the client to understand.

I already knew how to show attachment ID’s – still too many steps for the client to do it that way, but maybe useful for someone else trying to use the shortcode.

Quick question – will the documentation ever be updated to clarify some of these areas? It seems like there are a lot of answers in these forums that could be added to the docs and make it a lot easier on people using your themes…

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Yes, I read what you wrote, but see nothing about excerpts or $limit in either area – ‘Around line #1184’ in functions.php is the last line of the ‘/* Content Return Functions’. Line #1210 is a line in the middle of the ‘/* CATEGORY REL FIX’ section. Are we referencing the same functions.php file from the root of the Flexform 1.5 theme folder?

I can’t, nor do I want to, split the content manually – this needs to be auto-generated, as the client is not savvy enough nor will even remember to have to manually split it.

I’ve attached a screenshot of what I’m referring to – the excerpt next to the post thumbnail, which starts with ‘Two red eyes later..’ needs to be longer. Instead of ~20 words, it needs to be ~60.

The site is set up to ‘latest posts’ in the Settings>Reading section if that’s of any help.

Thanks!

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I’ve looked through functions.php and changed the ‘200’ from the ’60’ that was there previously – this code is from Flexform 1.5 lines 1247-1253:

/* EXCERPT
	================================================== */
	
	function new_excerpt_length($length) {
	    return 200;
	}
	add_filter('excerpt_length', 'new_excerpt_length');

That didn’t change anything though. The site is now live at:

http://urbanbackpacker.com

I’m trying to change the excerpt length on the Home page blog posts. I want it to pull from the content and NOT use a custom excerpt.

Thanks!

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What is the exact CSS that you entered? Do you have a link to your site so I can see the exact element you’re trying to style?

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You could use the Reveal ID’s plugin to get the ID of the page, then use a CSS rule to only style the element on that page, per it’s ID:

.page-id-163.page-heading h1 {
text-align: left;
}

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Actually, now that I’ve thought about it a bit more, try this first:

1. Login via SFTP (or FTP if you must) and delete the .maintenance file from the root of your site folder.
2. Try resetting your plugins via SFTP – here’s a link on how to do so:

http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F
3. In your wp-content folder, delete the contents of the folder named ‘upgrade’.

Then try viewing your site while logged out. If it works, rename the plugin folder back to ‘plugins’ (via SFTP) and check the site once more.

Let us know how it goes.

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Can you try commenting out that line of code in your functions.php file and tell me if your site loads while you’re not logged in?

I’m thinking there’s something going on with script registration/deregistration but it’s difficult to say for sure, as I don’t have access to your site, logs or anything else that may help diagnose the problem.

I have Flexform 1.4.2 available, but I want to see if the above test works first…

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Nevermind the question about whether you updated the theme – I’ve had a long day!

Try uploading an older version of Flexform for now – hopefully that works until someone can look into this further…

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What happened between when it was working and when it started having problems? Did you update the theme?

You say the site works fine with other themes, so that *does* seem to indicate a problem with Flexform, but the fact that it just stopped working is very odd.

When you uploaded the theme files again, did you do it from a fresh download or from the same download you had used previously? If you used the same download – try downloading the theme files again and upload those.