Turbo theme menu bar anomaly

W.W. Webster

On my home page, the vertical menu bar provided by the Turbo theme I use for my site has a slightly darkened colour which makes it stand out against the background image. However this effect does not appear on any other page (as far as I can see).

Why is this? I'm very sure I have done nothing to cause it. I reckon it's a bug.

leftquark

I took a look at your site and thankfully it's not a bug! We don't like those critters crawling around in SmugMug!

If you go into the customizer and click on the "Themes" tab and expand "My Themes" you'll see you have 2 different themes that you've customized on your site:
1) "My Working Theme from Turbo" (used on the Homepage)
2) "Turbo w/More Sidebar Transparency" (used on everything else)

You can see which pages use which theme by clicking on "Entire Site", "Homepage", etc and seeing which theme shows up.

You don't have any Advanced CSS in either so the only difference is that in your theme's "Advanced" tab you've set a color to the "Left Sidebar" in theme #1 (my working theme from turbo). Theme #2 doesn't have any color set for the left sidebar. If you'd like to remove the slight color from the homepage, just click the "x" next to the "Left Sidebar" color.

Let me know if I can be of any more help

W.W. Webster

leftquark wrote: »

I took a look at your site and thankfully it's not a bug!

Thanks for your help, Aaron. It had totally escaped me that I had two different themes happening!

All fixed now!

leftquark

Were you able to figure out how to apply the themes to the different aspects? Perhaps it's not the most intuiitive that if you click on "My Themes" and then click on the theme name, it'll change it to that theme, but it is that simple

W.W. Webster

leftquark wrote: »

Were you able to figure out how to apply the themes to the different aspects?

Nup!

I have several 'information' type pages that I don't want the background image to display in but I'm totally stumped as how to achieve this at present - even though I had it sussed previously.

leftquark

The way I did this on my site was to create different themes for the different pages. I then applied a different (or no) background in the theme's background setting.

In your page (make sure it's custom):
1> Enter the customizer.
2) Click "Themes
3) Click "Create Theme"
4) Give it a name and apply similar settings as your old themes.
5) In advanced, make sure "Background graphic" is set to nothing.

Allen

"apply similar settings as your old themes"
... and just how is it possible to go thru the old theme and recognize what's been toggled?
... and remember that to apply to new theme.
Perhaps use two tabs? One tab for each theme in edit mode and compare?

W.W. Webster

leftquark wrote: »

The way I did this on my site was to create different themes for the different pages. I then applied a different (or no) background in the theme's background setting.

In your page (make sure it's custom):
1> Enter the customizer.
2) Click "Themes
3) Click "Create Theme"
4) Give it a name and apply similar settings as your old themes.
5) In advanced, make sure "Background graphic" is set to nothing.

Can I just clone the new theme from the old and then make the one change I need (no background graphic), or have I got to note all the parameters for the original theme on a sheet of paper and re-enter them?

leftquark

Allen's subtly bringing up the feature request for the ability to copy pages/create templates I completely agree with both of you ... it's not intuitive. We need to add it but I can't comment on if, where, or when we'd release it.

As Allen suggested using two tabs to compare is one option. I did notice that you don't have too many custom settings so it shouldn't be too difficult (I feel like a total putz for having to say that this is the only way. This is not easy and certainly not a very heroic answer). Let me know if you'd like me to do it for you!

W.W. Webster

Thanks - I've found I could muddle my way through by changing just that one (advanced) theme parameter on just the relevant pages.

All good!

Allen

I only posted that because with my old brain I have a hard time remembering a bunch of settings unless I do that all the time.
.. and didn't think of any feature request.