I have a Wordpress site, therobinreport.com, and for our mobile site we are using a PWA plug-in from Appticles.com to transform our content to reside in a PWA when users are on a mobile device.
My problem is that when users view an article on their mobile device, instead of an ellipsis (...) I am getting the actual characters in the title like
"…"
if you go to the site and click on the first article you will see what I mean. I am not quite clear on "Escapes" in html and how this stuff works.
Any idea how I can remove this and get it to display correctly? I am familiar with html and css but a not really a programmer.
Thanks to anyone that can give me insight into this - my boss is on my case!!!
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I'd like to have a video banner on my WordPress site pages. I saw the following site (http://pictoryproductions.com/) and they have exactly what I would like to do on my site. However, I'm not sure what plugin they used to accomplish this. Could anyone just point me in the right direction?
I'm fairly new to WordPress, so if anyone can suggest what plugin to use, or if there is functionality already in place in WordPress for this how I can use it to get the effect I want.
UPDATE
As per the requirement to show what has been done so far to achieve the result I want, I have created a PHP page that uses the HTML 5 video tags to embed the video I want, with the PNG overlay. I then embed the page using an iframe tag from within WordPress. The problem is I have to create a new PHP page for each WordPress page I want with this layout when it needs a different video and overlay png image.
Thank you!!!
To avoid an opinionated answer on what I think is the best plugin to use, I just did a simple View Page Source on the site you posted and picked through to find where that video banner is displayed. It references a lot of classes and stuff labeled "mejs" which I think refers to a mediaelement.js plugin found here:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-element-html5-video-and-audio-player/
Hopefully someone can help me out with this. I've been tasked with giving a mobile template an overhaul on a site that uses BigCommerce.
Does anyone know of an IDE or a windows based browser that would allow me to preview the changes that I make on the fly, preferably via Dreamweaver CC but this isn't a necessity.
Basically I want to completely revamp the homepage so that instead of having a mundane and dreary menu that take up the entire page, I'd like to change it so that I have responsive windows 8 like tiles that one could use to navigate the site.
Since BigCommerce is a paid service you are limited to what is available. You cannot simply download the site and run it on your localhost. I worked on one of those sites before, the best work around I found what to edit in google chrome's inspect element and console "F12" - this way you can make changes directly to the site to see how they render. But keep in mind, F12 is after chrome builds the page and will not match the actual code all the time.
I have a custom form module installed for a contact us page.
When on a desktop the form will give a confirmation message either that your form was accepted or denied. However this is only working on a desktop
I'm trying to figure out whats causing it to stop working on other devices. I have the ResponsiveThemeMachine theme installed but I looked through the css files and saw nothing about the class .message-Information (which is what the confirmation message uses)
I'm not sure where else to look as to why it wouldn't work on anything but a desktop.
I partially solved this if anyone has the same problem. I had to add a widget in the message field so what I did was created an HTML widget and set the title to not appear and left the body blank and set it to only appear on the contact page. It did push the content down a little bit but now my message works on all devices
Short Version:
I am using Chrome 27.0.1453.94 on Windows 7 Pro
I go to http://www.try-phpbb.com/30x/ using Chrome
I select Print... | Save as PDF
The print preview looks nothing like the web page - layout, links, fonts all wrong.
Why?
How can I fix this to make the PDF styled the same way as the web site?
Long Version:
I am a member of a secure forum (ie have to log in for access), which is base on the phpBB forum template (https://www.phpbb.com/). Our forum will be cleared of all threads and posts soon to make room for the next round of subscribers.
We have been given permission (even encouraged) by the moderators to download the contents of each topic/thread/post and write them into PDF files so we can keep referencing them in the future. We have to do this ourselves, and I volunteered to do the work as I have an IT background. But its proving harder than I thought.
I was hoping to do the following this process...
Download and add "Stylish" Chrome Extension
(https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish/fjnbnpbmkenffdnngjfgmeleoegfcffe)
Add CSS code to Stylish to modify the appearance of the forum pages ready for PDF migration
In Chrome use Print | Save as PDF option to save styled page as a PDF doc
For multi-page forums, repeat this process for each page and then use PDFMate (or similar) to concatenate the PDF docs together into a single long PDF.
Steps 1, 2 and 4 are working perfectly, but step 3 is not.
The print preview in Chrome screws up the appearance of the forum pages. Layout styling is lost, fonts are completely different, links are missing or look terrible. For example, try printing this page (http://www.try-phpbb.com/30x/) - it looks completely different in print preview to how it looks in the browser.
Is there something I can do to fix this? Can I somehow give the print preview version some CSS code to restyle it? Anyone know why this would be happening?
Or alternatively, can you suggest another solution to convert HTML to PDF? I have tried Chrome extensions "iWeb2x" and "Send to Google Drive", but with no success - because the forum is secured, the PDF file they create is the forum's Login page, not the forum thread page I'm currently looking at.
Any help greatly appreciated - thanks.
Have a look here, maybe it's helpful
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/24/how-to-set-up-a-print-style-sheet/
You can set your own css style for the printed page.
Hope it helps, regards
I had a case, where if the iframe is display:none, the css is not loaded, thus not printing the correct CSS style. You can fix it with visibility:hidden; And size zero
I am trying to implement Open Graph and the “Like” button on my wordpress website. I want to have the Like button positioned directly beneath a youtube video posted on one of my wordpress pages.
I have watched the facebook open graph video explaining the code to put onto your page, but it doesn’t explain how to do it in wordpress. I have researched several wordpress plugins that implement open graph into your site, but they all seem to take data from the site itself and automatically implement it into the open graph data. It also seems to me that using the “Like” button wordpress plugins, the like button is automatically placed either at the top or bottom of the page or in the sidebar.
Can anyone please help me understand exactly how to implement the open graph code into wordpress in a manner where I can control all the parameters of the code (image, url, site name, description, etc), and how to implement the Like button directly underneath of the video on my webpage?
Thanks,
It doesn't matter if it's "for Wordpress" or not. Wordpress is a framework, not a language. Use the Like Button Tool to generate the code you need for ANY Page - Wordpress or otherwise - and read up on the Open Graph Protocol to give you an idea on how to write your <head> section.
Facebook's Debugging Tool will also help you with any caching issues you may be experiencing, along with lots of extra information you might find useful in regards to your website.