1. New Category Theme Template. We have created a page using the elements provided by the Mikado theme and ideally need this to be set up as a category theme.
(The page can be seen here varient.thisisvolta.com/environment although has a section hidden at the moment)
When selecting it under Categories, we would require the following fields created so we can edit which posts are seen on each new category on a weekly basis.
a) Top Section. Need to be able to put in the ID of posts so which we can then update every few weeks? We will not be using the featured option here on the posts as they show up in a different section so would need to have the ability to add in ID numbers ourselves.
b) Latest News : This draws the latest environment news stories, so as long as it's automatically set to pull in the latest posts from the category section selected we would not need an additional field.
c) Spotlight Videos : These are set up manually (we put in the URL's for them into a block plugin). We would need a field to be able to enter the URL for the youtube videos here.
d) Paid Content Section : (currently hidden on the above page) We need to be able to hide or unhide this section as we will not always have content for this. We would also need to be able to put in the ID numbers for the posts in here.
e) Spotlight : These are posts which should be ordered as featured first then moving on the latest posts. We would need the option to include / exclude any posts by ID number as well.
f) Advertisement : This is a section we will need to change (an image we can alter)
g) What you may have missed : Showing any posts which are 5 days old and beyond.
2. Posts - Featured Image Credit
We are unable to put a credit on the featured image within a post. We’re wondering if you may have a solution other than us putting it on the actual image itself? In an ideal world we would like to have it under the featured image on the right hand side, or if not as an additional orange tab next to author where we could put a photo credit in. Have also attached an image to highlight. Link to where we pulled the screenshot is from below :
3. Excerpt Lengths (currently set to words and not characters)
In some of the blocks we have built under WPBakery pages, the mikado options only allow excerpts to be limited to word lengths and not characters. We ideally need this altered.
I have included some screen shots here too!
4. Spacing issues :
So we have used Mikado blocks on most of the page builds and need to make sure they stay a set size and if titles are longer they "..." according to the size of the screen / box (so responsive). We also have issues with gaps in headers - we tried to put in some custom CSS code to ensure we had posts stay the same size but it then messed up other blocks on the same page. Any help to get it all standardised and then mobile phone optimised would be great.
5. Footer issues : Center aligning the footer details in mobile phone / tablet view (or dependent on smaller screen).
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
