Tutorials
Fixing PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: with widget.social.php on line 4
It came to my attention this week that versions of Socrates 5.029 and below, installed prior to May 2018 are causing fatal php errors and breaking sites using the latest version of PHP 8. QUICK FIXES BELOW I apologize for the issue and have some quick fixes to resolve below, however, I want to explain […]
Adding Custom Font to Advanced Editor Tools (TinyMCE)
I had a customer mention that the Font dropdown in the Advanced Editor Tools Plugin doesn’t match his chosen font in Socrates Theme. This is because our default font for the visual editor is set in the file /css/editor-style.css If you’re using this plugin and wish to match the editor font, you’ll need to edit […]
How To Make A Single Post Full Width
If you want to change your blog archive and post layout to full width you can do that in the customizer. Appearance > Customize > Layout > Blog Layout > Full Content – No Sidebar However, if you want to make just the blog post full width, and keep the sidebar for the Arcive you […]
How to change the header search background color
Here’s the CSS that controls the header search background. It’s uses an Opacity of 0.1 of a white background to give some transparency with darker background color options. So if you want to make the search box pop out more on dark background try changing the Opacity first. Like this from 0.1 to 0.5. If […]
How To Hide Date, Author, Category, Comments and More
In our themes you can hide different elements in the Customizer. Just goto Appearance > Customize > Other You can hide the entire date and author line or just specific elements like date, author, category or comments. You can also control featured images, search forms and more.
How To Add Copyright symbol and Current Year to Footer
There are two codes you can use in your footer/affiliate link text to display the copyright symbol and current year in the latest versions of our themes. Just use $copy$ $current_year$
How to add an Affiliate Disclaimer to bottom of page
If you’d like to add any type of disclaimer to the bottom of your site is quite easy using the Socrates Toolkit plugin. For example say you’d like to add a general affiliate and Amazon affiliate disclaimer on every page. Goto the WP Admin sidebar and click on Socrates Icon (make sure plugin is installed), […]
Installing Rank Math & Yoast BreadCrumb code
You don’t have to mess with template editing to insert RankMath breadcrumbs. Here’s how to use their shortcode. 1. In Appearance > Widgets drag a custom html widget to Top Banner location 2. Drop this code in there 3. Save and view.. See if that serves your needs and remember you can use Widget visibility […]
How to use a Child Theme (and export options)
If you’re an advanced user and wish to customize theme template files.. then you need a child theme. Don’t worry it’s not that difficult. (and can be done in less than 5 minutes) But first, please realize we already have hooks and options for Header and Footer includes in our Toolkit Plugin. So if you […]
How To Add a Red Notification Dot To A WordPress Menu
Most everyone is used to seeing red notification dots now. And they are drawn to clicking them. So this is a neat trick to add one of those notification dots to your WordPress menu. Image shown is for the top nav, but it will work on any menu. It’s very easy to do and only […]