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Styled or Default Responsive Menus

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 10:44:21 +0000

There are 2 responsive menu types that can be used for mobile responsive mode.

These 2 styles are: "Modern dropdown" and "Native selectbox" which are found in the "Menu Buttons" tab of the Control Panel.

These can only be seen in responsive mode or mobile devices.

Some mobiles (such as Samsung Galaxy) have an excellent default html menu mode which looks and works great. In which case the "Native selectbox" option works great. But on some other devices, the default html menu looks a bit drab or awkward and so in those instances its better to use the pre-styled "Modern dropdown" option.

Creating an Inline Text Link For Video

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 10:35:54 +0000

LBSB is set up so that whenever you paste a standard Youtube or Vimeo share link (E.G. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3uG4x7xrLs ) into any page or post, then when that text share link is clicked, the video will pop out into a lightbox and be ready for playing.

For example: To make this work, you would create some text like "Watch Video" and select that text to make it into a link. Then when you insert the standard share link of either Youtube or Vimeo, it will display that video automatically via a lightbox when the link is clicked.

Removing The Featured Panel

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 10:34:34 +0000

Remove Featured Panel But Retain The Featured Sidebar.

This is easily done by simply selecting the "Page + Featured Side Panel" template from the Page Attributes (Template options).
Once done, you'll see the featured gallery panel disappear to allow the page content to move up into its place.

Creating a Video in the Featured Gallery

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 10:30:38 +0000

To feature a video in the main gallery is very simple.

Whatever page you are featuring as the page for the Video Featured Panel to appear; scroll down to the "Custom Fields" part of the Page editor (if you cant see it, then you might need to activate that section to show up by clicking the "Screen Options" tab in the top right corner of the page editor).

Once you have the Custom Fields section before you, you'll see 2 field entry boxes. One called "Name" and the other called "Value".
In the "Name" field, just type in the word "video" (exactly like that using all lower case letters). Then in the "Value" field, just paste in your video embed code and then save and you are done.

Now when you open that page, you'll see the video appearing in the featured gallery panel

Creating a Static Image For the Gallery

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 10:20:16 +0000

There is an option within the "Featured Panel" tab to "Use Main Feature Panel Image instead of Gallery Slider". When you select this option and upload an image (ideally 645x400px), then that image will appear in the gallery window.

You can use jpeg, png or gif images for this purpose.

Creating a Sliding Gallery

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 10:16:13 +0000

You can create a sliding gallery by selecting posts to appear as your content for the sliding gallery.

The images that will appear in the sliding gallery are determined by the "Featured Image" which you assign to any specific post. N.B. If you don't assign an "Featured Image" then nothing will appear in the sliding gallery.

The Sliding Gallery posts are controlled by nominating a post category so that all posts within that category will be rotated in the Sliding Gallery.
You can create multiple galleries simply by creating multiple post categories which you might name "Slider-1", "Slider-2" etc.

To create gallery slides from pages or that link to pages, just do this:
Example: To create a gallery slide for your "About" page, just create a Post and name it "About" (NB: the permalink path for the post must be identical to the one used for the page, which in this case we'll assume to be "/about".
You can copy and paste the first paragraph of the the About page, over to the Post, and then when your "About" post appears in the sliding gallery, it will look identical to the actual "About" page.
Now here the magic begins because whenever the "About" framed image within the sliding gallery is clicked, it will open up the Page "About".. and NOT the post!

Placing An Inline Text Linked Video

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 10:02:04 +0000

Menu Bar Types

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 09:37:12 +0000

There are three types of menu bars for you to use.

1) Standard Button type: With this style you can set the height, spacing, border sizes, and you can set the gap (padding) under the tabs which accentuates the gap between the bottom of the menu buttons and the top of the header.

2) Ribbon Style: This style gives a continuous menu bar effect. You cannot control the border sizes in this style.

3) Ribbon Full-Width: This style extends the continuous menu bar across the full horizontal width of the site header.

Locating the menu bar into the Top Thin Banner: There is an option allowing you to move the menu bar away from the header and into the Primary Top Thin Banner. You can choose left or right side positioning.

NB: You can change colors of the menu tabs either as single solid colors or as gradient colors. To set as single solid colors you simply set the top and bottom gradient colors exactly the same.
You can set a minimum height for the tabs, and the size and type of font which makes the menu tabs look larger.

Footer Widget

Mon, 09 Jan 2017 16:11:45 +0000

In LBSB 3.5 there is a new Footer Widget which allows you to insert column seperated content in a horizontal panel just above the footer.

To activate this, open the "Footer" tab in the Control Panel and select "Enable Footer Widget". That alone will NOT make the footer widget show up because you first need to go to Widgets (WP-admin/Appearance/Widgets), and place some content in the footer widgets of which there are four (all numbered 1-4).

You can feature any normal WordPress widget, or any plugin widget, or any html content (including videos) by selecting a "Text" widget to paste your content within it and then assign it to whichever footer widget you choose.

So you can have 1 section or 2 or 3 or 4, simply by populating the widget with content.

Show or Hide The Skin Switcher Box

Mon, 09 Jan 2017 14:53:17 +0000

Built into LBSB 3.5 and located in the Top Thin Banner, there is a "style switcher" drop down menu box that basically allows the site visitor to select any of the default colors in your default skins library (found in the General Tab of the LBSB Control Panel).

This can be very useful if you create a site for demonstration purposes that you'd like the site visitor to be able to view using the various skin color/design choices.

In the "Header" tab of the Control Panel you'll see a checkbox option that says "Enable Style Switcher at Header". When you check that box it will activate a dropdown menu which features every saved site style that you have saved to Custom Styles.

OK,... save your page and you're all done.

Dual Top Thin Banners

Mon, 09 Jan 2017 14:51:42 +0000

In LBSB 3.5 there are twin Top Thin Banners which you can activate together, singularly, or not at all by a control in the "Header" tab of the Control Panel.

There is also a control option to show/hide the top thin banners for each individual page you publish.

Switcher: You can also flip the positions of the Top Thin Banners so that they appear above or below each other according to your preferences.

NB: These Top Thin Banners are HTML sensitive so you can feature hyperlinks. Also you can feature plugins such as Social Media icons and the Ditty News Ticker plugin by inserting the plugin short_code in the input box.

Please refer to the post that discusses using the social media icons plugin in the Top Thin Banner: http://supportforum.localbizsitebuilder....ad-28.html

The "CSS" Control Panel Tab

Mon, 09 Jan 2017 14:33:13 +0000

You can use this Custom CSS Codes section to customize the styling of your site.
When installing a new update of the theme, these CSS code snippets will be retained for your new site.

IMPORTANT:It is recommended that you copy the contents of this section and save them to a text file just in case you encounter any issues or accidentally overwrite them, you can then paste them back in and save them once again.
If you do add custom CSS code to this section, you can save the style as a Custom Style (in the "General" tab) which can then be used on other website installations. It is recommended that you save any personal custom styles and download them from "/addons/profiles" of your theme to your desktop which can then be uploaded to the "/addons/profiles" folder of any new site theme installation.

Footer Credits

Sat, 13 Sep 2014 17:43:06 +0000

The footer credits are controlled via the "Footer" panel in the LBSB Control Panel.
Here's an html example text below that you can copy and paste and edit to suit your own site:

Code:

Phone Text Color In Mobile Browsers

Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:31:49 +0000

The text color in all browsers is determined by the link color settings in the LBSB Control Panel.
In mobile browsers you may want to change the link color from the default link color to prevent the default link color from displaying.

The only way of changing that is through the CSS style link color control as mentioned above. The other way would be to disable the click to call link function so that it shows as normal text.

Try placing this html meta tag before the phone number:

Code:

If you want to retain say a "click to call" link function but wish to change the link color to a different one for the site overall, you can insert an extra in-line html styling snippet such as:

Code:

Click To Call

Note: replace #FF0000 with your hex color of choice!

Making home pages fit all screen sizes?

Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:13:33 +0000

One of the downsides of creating an above the fold site (where 100% of page content appears within the browser view without scrolling) is that the home page or featured panel pages will be just right in the average monitor browser (14" to 15"), too big in 10" to 11" and too small with lots of white space below in bigger screens such as some bench-tops and of course 26" and 32" Mac style monitor set ups.

The only way of combating this... which is a good idea,..to use the "featured panel +content" template and create some content below the fold so to speak. Bearing in mind that the only folks that'll really see the extra content (without scrolling) will be the bigger screen resolution viewers.
Therefore you could place information in there which either is a repeat or overview of the main featured content, or other content that isn't so critical that you need first time visitors to essentially view it.
You can also achieve this objective by placing more content in the "featured text" panel so that the page is extended down further to occupy any white space.

Unfortunately there are no scripts that detect the size and resolution of the site visitor's monitor and thus have it then make an intelligent adjustment. That does happen with mobile but only via the "user-agent=" detection script that tells us when the browser is either iPhone or Samsung or Blackberry or whatever,- in which case the mobile version of the site gets served.

Hope that helps you obtain deeper understanding and more control.

Disappearing editor control in WordPress pages editor

Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:04:58 +0000

If you encounter a situation where the visual/html page editor does not show up or work properly then you should read the solution below:

html/visual is a function of WordPress and nothing to do with nor controlled by themes. If you go into WP-admin and select Users/Your Profile/ You'll see right at the top of the page in "Personal Options" an entry field that says: "Visual Editor [] Disable the visual editor when writing"
If that box is checked you will lose control in your editor.
Apart from that,.. sometimes it can be caused by a plugins conflict in which case you can try installing an independent mce editor from the free WP plugins directory called "tinymceAdvanced" and that should do the job!

WordPress Multi Site Compatability

Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:03:35 +0000

Localbiz Site Builder has not been specifically designed to use with WP Multi-Site and as such we're not able to provide direct product support in that regard. However, the original foundation framework that LBSB was built on a very staple and standard type of WP theme although we have applied massive customization work since inception.

Personally I do not like the concept of hive type configurations because I previously encountered some serious database issues and eventual near impossibility when it came to transporting any sites within the hive.
Having said that, the current WP Multi-Site system is built upon the same principles of the WPMU framework which is a very stable system to work with.
In fact, we know that many of our members have used LBSB in a Multi Site environment and we have never had any complaints saying that the site manager ever had any problems.

This is the forum thread to share any of your issues, successes or whatever with regards to using LBSB with WP Multi-Site.

Disappearing CTA Arrow/Box

Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:53:44 +0000

If you find that your CTA arrow/box in the right side featured panel disappeared then that could be because you somehow placed a widget in the header widget area.
As soon as you place any widget in the header it removes and replaces the Arrow.
This is good when you want to use a graphic or a video via a text box widget but otherwise just remove the unwanted widget and your CTA arrow/box will miraculously reappear ;-)

Fatal Error Notice Upon Installation

Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:50:21 +0000

When you have installed Localbiz Site Builder and activated it you if you see an error message as follows then that indicates that your hosting company does not have Ioncube Uploaders installed or activated.

In vast majority of cases (at least 95%+) all modern hosts have Ioncube Uploaders installed which enables the reading of encrypted files. In the event that your host has not facilitated this then you will get the error message. Godaddy is one such company that will not comply with this industry standard. This can be rectified but it is highly recommended that you seek out a hosting company that complies with the standard rather than dictate their own terms and unwillingness to comply and support.

The error message you will see should look something like this below:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_get_theme() in /home/services/public_html/wp-content/themes/LocalBizLBSB/functions-base.php on line 1622

In the event that you encounter such an error message please contact your hosting company to request activation of Ioncube Uploaders. If they refuse, you may submit a ticket and we will discuss the matter with your further.

ABOUT IONCUBE:
Ioncube is a file encryption system for the protection of PHP files (from copying and piracy). WP-LocalBiz files are protected by Ioncube. Most hosting companies have ioncube installers configured on their servers but if not then you will get an error message. If that happens we recommend contacting your host and asking them to install the ioncube installers (which are freely available as they would know) or alternatively you can upload the included folder containing the ioncube installers to your site directory.

How to remove Skype phone number auto-formatting

Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:47:47 +0000

The skype image is something that is configured by your browser (Firefox & IE usually does this). When the browser sees any phone number it automatically adds a CSS style value to create a default logo style for the phone number. You can remedy this by doing a couple of things.

1) install a plugin that removes autoformatting:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ps-d...ormatting/

2) follow the instructions in this excellent guide:
http://bacsoftwareconsulting.com/blog/in...e-numbers/