Jesse Owens

Hi Madeleine-

Question 1- I’m not sure I understand the question, but if you were able to use your form in WordPress without BoldGrid, you can use it with BoldGrid too.

Question 2- Our flagship theme is Crio, but we have a total of 20 other themes, which you can see and even try out on our themes page.

Question 3- While we don’t offer migration services, you can easily migrate a website with Total Upkeep. Here are instructions to migrate your website to a new host.

Hi Susan-

I checked out the website that you sent over privately, and it looks like you may have already solved this on your own, but here’s how you do it, just in case anyone else finds this question.

In all of the BoldGrid Themes other than Crio, navigate to Customize > Advanced > Footer Settings, where you’ll find checkboxes to hide the various attribution links:

Hi Alan-

If you’re not seeing the Easy SEO box at all, check your Screen Options at the very top of the editor window, and make sure Easy SEO is checked:

Once you’ve made sure it’s checked, it should appear at the bottom of the screen, below the editor.

Hi Tom-

The most common cause of this is missing the Total Upkeep main plugin. The Total Upkeep Premium plugin still requires the free Total Upkeep plugin to be installed alongside. You can install it by navigating to Plugins > Add New and searching for “Total Upkeep,” or you can download it directly from this link.

From what you’ve described, it may also just be that you’ve installed the plugin, but it is not active. Make sure that in your Plugins > All Plugins menu, you see that Total Upkeep and Total Upkeep premium are installed and active.

Hi David-

Yes, if you’re just getting started with your Photography/Design website, you can use Inspirations to give you a head start. There are two pre-made Photography sites, and two pre-made Design websites available:

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Hi Alan-

There was a bug that was recently patched in BoldGrid Easy SEO that caused the status indicators to disappear on sites running WordPress 5.5, so please make sure that you’re using the most recent version of the plugin.

If you’re still not seeing the status indicators after updating, it’s possible you might have found a new bug. If you can do us a favor and check your browser’s error console while you’re using BoldGrid Easy SEO, and let us know what errors you’re seeing, we can get to the bottom of it for you. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to use your browser’s error console:

All that said, you should see a section in the Easy SEO box for Title & Description:

Hi Max-

You can add custom Social Media Networks to the icons by following the instructions in this guide.

To summarize, this is kind of an advanced procedure using a Custom PHP snippet. Install and activate the Code Snippets plugin, and navigate to Code Snippets > Add New.

In your new snippet, paste the following code:

function bgsc_add_custom_social_network_bandcamp( $networks ) {
	$networks['bandcamp.com'] = array(
		'name' => 'Bandcamp',
		'class' => 'bandcamp',
		'icon' => 'fa fa-bandcamp',
		'icon-sign' => 'fa fa-bandcamp-square',
		'icon-square-open' => 'fa fa-bandcamp fa-stack-1x',
		'icon-square' => 'fa fa-bandcamp fa-stack-1x',
		'icon-circle-open-thin' => 'fa fa-bandcamp fa-stack-1x',
		'icon-circle-open' => 'fa fa-bandcamp fa-stack-1x',
		'icon-circle' => 'fa fa-bandcamp fa-stack-1x',
		);
	return $networks;
}
add_filter( 'boldgrid_social_icon_networks', 'bgsc_add_custom_social_network_bandcamp' );

Important tip: When you save your snippet for the first time, set it to Only Run Once just in case you’ve made a typo. This will prevent you from needing to activate Code Snippets’ safe mode.

As long as your site didn’t crash when you ran it once, you can go ahead and save it to Run Snippet Everywhere. It’s always best-practice to “prefix” your custom code. In this example, I used “bgsc_” as the prefix, for “BoldGrid Support Center,” but you can use a different prefix if you like. Otherwise, simply paste the code in as-is.

Once your code snippet is active and running, you can add a Custom Link menu item to your Bandcamp page and the icon will show up in your social menu:

Hi George-

I took a look at the single post that your sent over privately, and it looks like this CSS rule will accomplish it:

body.single-post, body.single-post .site-content{
  background-color: white !important;
}

I clicked around on your site to see if you also had an archive page for posts, and I didn’t see one, but if you are using a posts page, you can also add this one:

body.archive, body.archive .site-content {
  background-color: white !important;
  color: black !important;
}

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by Jesse Owens.

Hi Jonathan-

Normally you can accomplish this with a little bit of custom CSS, as demonstrated in this forum post.

However, I checked out the website you sent over privately and it doesn’t look like you’re not using the “Home” page template for your homepage.

If you’d like to use the solution found in that post, you’ll need to edit your home page and change the template from “Default” to “Home,” and then add the Custom CSS to match your background (white):

body.page-template-default.custom-background {
 background-image: none;
 background-color: #ffffff;
}

Hi Peggy-

WordPress doesn’t have this capability built-in, but I searched around and found a plugin that you can use to accomplish this. Try out the Revisionary Plugin which lets you create “pending revisions” that you can publish when you’re ready or schedule to be published at a certain time.

Hi Alan-

What you’re describing is known as “wrapping” text, versus “overflow” text.

Generally speaking, scrolling left-and-right is considered a poor user experience for smaller devices like phones. However, if you’d like to do this anyway you can accomplish it with a little custom CSS.

Here’s how I would accomplish this. First, come up with a custom class name for your elements that you don’t want to wrap. In this example, I’m using the class text-no-wrap. First, identify the paragraphs that you don’t want to wrap, and then add the class to them using the Advanced Control in the Post and Page Builder:

Then, navigate to Customize > Advanced > Custom JS & CSS and paste the following CSS rule in your Custom Theme CSS:

.text-no-wrap { white-space: nowrap; }

Hi Michael-

Do you have the text from the error that you were experiencing? The easiest place to find it will be from the email you received when your site went into recovery mode.

Once we know what the error was, we’ll be able to find out what caused it so you can start using W3 Total Cache again.

Glad to help Alan, keep ’em coming!

Hi Ron-

I definitely understand the learning curve moving from manual web design to WordPress, but I’m certain you’ll get the hang of it before long.

One of the fundamental concepts for WordPress is the separation between content and design. Since the header of your website appears on every page, you don’t edit it from the page content itself, that’s part of the Theme.

While BoldGrid’s Post and Page Builder works with any theme, using one of ours ensures a consistent experience and the powerful BoldGrid Theme Framework’s customization options.

To make changes to the theme itself, head over to the Customize menu, where you’ll find controls for your Header, Footer, Typography, Color Palette, and more. Once you’ve got the theme customized, then you can move on to editing your page content.

Hi Kristin-

You’ll paste this into your Custom Theme CSS, which can be found in your Customzier.

From the WordPress Dashboard, navigate to Customize > Advanced > Custom JS & CSS and you’ll see it there. Check out this video, where I walk another BoldGrid user through the process:

Hi Ron-
Lodestar isn’t one of BoldGrid’s themes, and it hasn’t had an update in over two years, which might mean that it’s not up to date with modern WordPress.

I did check it out, and I wasn’t able to find typography options either.

If you’re starting out with BoldGrid, I recommend starting with BoldGrid Inspirations which will let you pick out a design and theme with all of the customization options you need.

Hello Ahron-

You can download the BoldGrid Premium plugins from your BoldGrid Central account, which you can access from this link.

You can also download them directly from the server:

• Total Upkeep Premium
• Post and Page Builder Premium

I’m not sure I understand your second question, but generally speaking, the database for your WordPress installation is going to be controlled by your web hosting provider.

Hi Jim-

One way you could accomplish this is to add additional widget columns. Navigate to Customize > Advanced > Header Settings and set it to 3 or 4 columns.

Then you can add a widget that will only take up the right-most 1/3 or 1/4 of the header, respectively.

Hi Jason-

The most common cause of this is missing the Total Upkeep main plugin. The Total Upkeep Premium plugin still requires the free plugin to be installed alongside. You can install it by navigating to Plugins > Add New and searching for “Total Upkeep,” or you can download it directly from this link.

If you’ve confirmed that you have both plugins installed, but you’re still not seeing the Total Upkeep menu in your WordPress Dashboard, your WordPress user may be missing the permissions to use the plugin. Navigate to Users > All Users and verify that your username has the role of Administrator. If not, log in with an administrator user and change your role to an administrator.

Hi Jennifer-

Have you taken a look at the “Services” block type? There are a lot of options there that I think meet the “menu” type of layout you’re looking for.

By default, your background image will show on all the pages, but you can change this with a little bit of custom CSS. Navigate to Customize > Advanced > Custom JS & CSS and paste the following lines into your Custom Theme CSS:

body.page-template-default.custom-background {
 background-image: none;
 background-color: #1e1e1e;
}

You can change the color to suit your needs, I thought #1e1e1e (a dark charcoal color) fit pretty well with your site’s design.