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Hello @arminunruh, hello community.

I have the following issue: I would like to use an external lightbox plugin ("Featherlight") with LayTheme. It works fine when I do the first load of a page. But when I transition to another page the plugin/script doesn't get initialized/loaded and my lightbox-image-links just open in a new browser window – no lightbox effect. This of course makes sense since header and footer of the pages are not newly loaded so the script won't initialize. Is there any way to work around this and force LayTheme to always load that plugin/script?

I could deactivate AJAX in LayTheme but then I'll lose the smooth transitions.
I use the external lightbox to link to the full versions of my images or even sometimes to an alternative image.

Here is the website I am working on: https://arneteubel.com/kunden/manz/artikel/touristik-2024/

Any iead how or if this is to be achieved?

Thanks and regards!
Arne

Thank you @arminunruh that solved the problem! :-) I did not see it, though I am sure I have checked it… sorry! I will document my problem better next time, promised!

Yes, you click the star and the overlay opens. The overlay then has a background image which is a random image from the page underneath.

This is the image that gets displayed:
https://kollaps.work/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Kollaps-Marker-Klinge-Collage.jpg

And here is a screeshot from the mobile overlay view:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hrkhk4s1e9hv4bs78tqdv/Screenshot-2024-05-15-at-18-24-38-KOLLAPS-he_artwork.png?rlkey=vc7j955t4gxtam8zvedi3a946&st=shiyq7tr&dl=0

Hello Armin!

Thank you, that solves problem 1
but do you also have an idea for problem 2?

Cheers, Arne

Hello.

I have two problems with the carousel plugin in an overlay in mobile view:

• 1. it doesn't loop
• 2. it displays a random image from the page it overlays as background

Here is the main page: https://kollaps.work
This is the page that overlays: https://kollaps.work/latest-and-greatest/

Thank you and cheers!
Arne

Ahhhhhh, perfect!
Thank you very much! I didn't realize you could fill in "auto"!
Cheers, Arne

Hello, hello.

I am building a website where I want to have a carousel that has only text slides. Since those will have different text volumes is it possible to either have the one with the longest text (responsively) set the height of the carousel or make each slide adapt to the height of the text?

See here in the right column:
https://diekletterbande.de/wp/

Thank you!

Cool, thank you @arminunruh !

Yes, that is a good work around! Didn't think of this.

Maybe another solution would be to make the smartphone menu available to the tablet layout. In my case this would be useful as my desktop menu is too wide for a tablet portrait view anyway.

Let's do some research on how others solve this…

Hello. There is a serious bug in the menu system (or I don't see the solution). When you have submenus via dropdowns there is a format for the desktop version and a variant for the mobile (smartphone) menu. On the smartphone menu the tab on the main menu entry triggers the dropdown on the desktop version it is by mouse over.

BUT if you are on a tablet you will have the desktop menu by layout but the functionality of the mobile menu until the breakpoint for mobile/smartphone kicks in. So you tab the main menu entry and the dropdown comes out but it doesn't navigate to the main menu point's page.

So you have to the desktop menu build like the smartphone one and use the main menu point ONLY as trigger. This is bad for UX as there is an unnecessary click in the desktop version.

Check it out here: https://digitale2023.de

Any ideas here? Thank you!

Hello @arminunruh. It is not really a problem. It is a feature I would need.

I have this overlay with a thumbnail grid. That grid lists all my portfolio posts with the category "aktiv". In my case these posts are workshops as parts of the whole event. I use a plugin that removes the category "aktiv" after the workshop has finished so ut won't appear in that grid anymore. BUT if the user doesn't reload the page – for example he/she is at the event and always has the page open on his phone – he/she will not see when the grid changed because it doesn't automatically update/reload.

So my idea was to have a script that reloads (AJAX call) the content in the overlay when I open/display the overlay so it only really displays the currently active events.

Hello.

I have a a little situation here where I would need to update/reload the content of an overlay when it is opened. I am currently building an event website for a small workshop/discussion event. I would like to use the posts for the single workshops and I use a plugin called "PublishPress future" to remove a category called "aktiv" so that I can have a thumbnail grid with only upcoming ("aktiv") events.

BUT that means that I need to reload my upcoming events/posts when I open the overlay so that when a visitor has the website open on his browser or phone he will only really see the upcoming (or currently running) events.

In my fantasy I would have a script that reloads the content inside the overlay when I hit my "AKTUELLES PROGRAMM" button.

Any ideas how to do that?

Here is my site in development: https://digitale2023.de/willkommen/
Here is the thumbnail grid with the upcoming events/posts: https://digitale2023.de/aktuelles-programm/

Thank you! Arne

That's okay! ;-)

@arminunruh when I reload the website I also reload the anchor so the site jumps to that anchor again. It feels "cleaner" have that happen. Alternatively if a "back to top" link would reset the URL maybe…

Hello, hello. Is there a way to remove the applied hashtag and id from the URL on an anchor scroll link?

When I click an anchor link…

The anchor link
https://mywebsite.de/#arbeiten
becomes
https://mywebsite.de/
when it is clicked and still moves to the id?

https://kiliankrug.de/wp2023 (in the main menu under the hamburger…)

Thank you, sweeties!

@arminunruh Hello Armin! I implemented it and it seems to work fine! I will test it some more but thanks already for the nice work! Cheers, Arne

@arminunruh I've send the login credentials! Cheers, Arne

@arminunruh yes, the theme update solved my problem! Thanx a lot!

@Cristian I have the same problem on my website: https://kollaps.work but only in mobile view. I scroll down and the site "locks" at the bottom. It freezes and I have to close my mobile Safari browser. I don't see this issue on the desktop view (tested in Firefox).

@alasdair17 Thanks for the confirmation that it’s not just me failing on this one. Do you have experience with „Sendy“? Is it easy to incorporate in WordPress/LayTheme? Can you run the whole subscription/unsubscribe part through WP? Cheers, mate!