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301 Redirect Blog.example.com To Example.com/blog I have install wordpress at example.com/blog Cloudflare SSL Full (Strict) is... Posted:
By Neha Vilash Sr. |
3 comments Latest: March 7, 2024, 1:27 pm EST |
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Update to WordPress 6.2 Has anyone updated yet? Any issues? GG... Posted:
By Gary Guss |
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Using Right Sidebar Area Hi - We are not using the primary or secondary sidebars and we want to expand... Posted:
By Chris Piekarz |
7 comments Latest: March 7, 2024, 1:27 pm EST |
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Wordpress 6.0 has anybody updated Well, Wordpress does keep coming out with updates don't they.... Posted:
By Chris W. Jordan |
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Wordpress 5.9 has anyone updated? Wordpress 5.9 came out on January 25, 2022. Has anyone tried it with the UUA... Posted:
By Chris W. Jordan |
1 comment Latest: March 7, 2024, 1:27 pm EST |
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Wordpress 5.8 has anyone updated? Wordpress 5.8 came out on July 20th, 2021. Has anyone tried it with the UUA... Posted:
By Chris W. Jordan |
7 comments Latest: March 7, 2024, 1:27 pm EST |
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Wordpress 5.7: Has anyone updated? I'm getting the update notice but want to be sure about about the sidebars... Posted:
By Ms. Cat White |
3 comments Latest: March 7, 2024, 1:27 pm EST |
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WordPress 5.6 Naomi Moon reports that updating to WprdPress 5.6 didn't cause any trouble wi... Posted:
By Margy Levine Young |
1 comment Latest: March 7, 2024, 1:28 pm EST |
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Is WordPress 5.5.1 a problem? We've gotten a report that WordPress 5.5.1 (and maybe 5.5) don’t play well... Posted:
By Margy Levine Young |
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Customization Window Blank on WP 5.5 Wondering if someone can assist. I recently just installed standard WP 5.5... Posted:
By Will Judy |
7 comments Latest: March 7, 2024, 1:28 pm EST |
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"Youtube.com refused to connect" I'm at UUCC and I've been asked to embed a Youtube video on the UUCC.org... Posted:
By Chen.Zhang |
1 comment Latest: March 7, 2024, 1:29 pm EST |
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Duplicating a Service page If you'd like to make a copy of a service page and edit it, rather than start... Posted:
By Margy Levine Young |
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Staff "read mores" go nowhere I lately noticed that the "read more" links for our staff bios no longer work... Posted:
By Kit Binns |
1 comment Latest: March 7, 2024, 1:29 pm EST |
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HTTP ERROR 500 after my host upgraded to PHP 7.2.14 Although my site displays fine for visitors, I cannot login to my WordPress... Posted:
By Mariann Davis |
2 comments Latest: March 7, 2024, 1:29 pm EST |
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Info about WordPress 5.0 & Gutenberg Editor If you’re using the UUA WordPress Theme for Congregations, you’re also using... Posted:
By Anna Bethea |
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Digital Signage Hello. Does anyone use a Digital Signage plugin with the UUA Theme to power a... Posted:
By Alan Jacobs |
1 comment Latest: March 7, 2024, 1:29 pm EST |
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MP3 files not playing I converted our WordPress site to the UUA theme but afterwards I find our MP3... Posted:
By Rick Lott |
1 comment Latest: November 25, 2020, 10:48 am EST |
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WordPress consultants who are familiar with the UUA Theme We just posted a list of WordPress consultants who are familiar with the UUA... Posted:
By Margy Levine Young |
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Author role - ability to edit a single page How do we use the uua theme to let a user edit just a single page without giv... Posted:
By Claire M Wagner |
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Warning when viewing Services I'm getting warning when viewing all services using the latest UUA theme. Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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How to protect plugin modifications? We've modified the uua services plugin to change the display a bit.... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Service Archive: Sort order I've been busy adding old services to our new uuatheme'd website and it has... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Insert Next Worship into Newsletter (Post) Until the latest UUA services update, I was using a plugin called... Posted:
By Lyn Pearson |
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Problem with pages using uua_staffer shortcode I'm using the UUA Congregation theme version 1.1.2. On pages where I use the... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Service archives Naomi reported: We are also experiencing trouble with the display on the serv... Posted:
By Margy Levine Young |
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UUA Services Plugin I have just started using this plugin and I notice that when I click on our... Posted:
By Lyn Pearson |
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UUA shortcode for upcoming services When I use the [upcoming-services] shortcode on a post page, it produces a... Posted:
By Lyn Pearson |
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v1.1 theme jquery is breaking other plugins, here's a workaround A number of my plugins, including event calendar, broke after updating to UUA... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Updating child theme after upgrade to 1.1 The "Version 1.1 Changes" page says in part: "Created a child theme. Remember... Posted:
By Jim Gasperini |
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past-services-archive-service-archive-shortcode-problems-after-version-1-1-update I\'ve noticed a few problems after the upgrade regarding past services and th... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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HTTPS mixed content with custom logo If I have a custom logo set in the header it loads over http when loading the... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Beta Burps I recently updated my theme with the beta update, and my own beta testers are... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Staffer plugin v2 update - be aware of changes before updating A new version (v2) of the Staffer plugin was just made available, and I updat... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Services not updating The "services" widget is not automatically updating. Posted:
By David Wilder |
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Code includes var_dump() statement While chasing down how the left sidebar menu was determined I discovered the... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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ETA on next update? As we're strategizing about when to roll out our redesigned website, we're... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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upcoming service shortcode Is there shortcode for adding just the upcoming featured service, without usi... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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I'm having trouble changing colors in the theme We're using the UUA theme with a child theme.... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Favicon anomaly on attachment pages Hello-- We use a favicon (small icon that displays in the URL box) based on t... Posted:
By Jim Gasperini |
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changing the background image We're using the UUA theme with a child theme. I'm trying to change the... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Services Plugin Shortcode position on page I noticed when using the Services Plugin's [upcoming-services] shortcode that... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Customizing Footer Logos We are not a Green Sanctuary but we are Freethinker Friendly.... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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HTTPS configuration problem with mixed content and logo image I changed over to HTTPS today and have a Mixed Content error: Console:... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Correcting Problems With Zero Speakers or Multiple Speakers in UUA Services Widget We noticed a few problems with the UUA Services featured and upcoming service... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Realm for WordPress user management Thought I'd create a separate thread here on whether Realm can provide member... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Events Manager - Resume Payment Message from Events Manager Pro support: "...also, I notice your site has som... Posted:
By John Schiffel |
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Member Management Systems What do congregations who are successfully using UUATheme using to manage... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Plugins for Theme Additions: Accoridons, Buttons, Tabs, Etc. Greetings UUA Themers, We're looking to add additional UI widgets to our page... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Child theme enqueuing Hello, I am starting on a new site using the UUA WordPress Theme and would li... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Change 'SERVICE ARCHIVE" to "SEMON PODCAST" -- homepage widget Hi Chris We would like to change the wording on the homepage that the uua... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Directions #location-toggle stopped working. http://missionpeakuu.net/ It throws a Javascript error " "Oops!... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Service titles aren't links On the cvuus.org home page and on... Posted:
By Margy Levine Young |
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Testimonial Widget repurpose Our site is jeffersonunitarian.org. We have a new program called Keeping the... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Unable to activate UUA Services Plugin I am trying to install the UUA theme in a subdirectory for a church client.... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Unable to activate UUA Services Plugin I am trying to install the UUA theme in a subdirectory for a church client.... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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CSS for UUA Service Archives So I've been tearing my hair out trying to get the table in the Service-archi... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: December 11, 2020, 11:32 am EST |
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UUA Services Plugin - Upcoming service rolls over too early I checked in on our web site this morning at 7:30 am and was dismayed to find... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: December 11, 2020, 11:30 am EST |
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WP Fullcalendar not working For some reason, I cannot get WP FULLCALENDAR to word at all, either as a pos... Posted:
By Lyn Pearson |
1 comment Latest: December 11, 2020, 11:27 am EST |
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Some code in child theme style.css does not work Some of the css I enter in my child theme style.css works fine. Other code in... Posted:
By Jim Gasperini |
1 comment Latest: December 11, 2020, 11:26 am EST |
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Events Calendar Pro/Community Calendar We're using The Events Calendar Pro with the Community Calendar add-on. The... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: December 11, 2020, 11:23 am EST |
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Table of Contents Plus plugin widget issue I've tried to use the Table of Contents Plus plugin widget to add a custom... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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centering Images in Feature Box Widget Is there any way to center an image in the Feature Box Widget, or will the im... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: December 11, 2020, 11:45 am EST |
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Main.css file overrides the child theme's Style.css I have installed and activated a child theme but the css (main.css) from the... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: December 11, 2020, 11:43 am EST |
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Help with 404 errors uucs.org - We are running into a problem with 404 errors. I have reset the... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: December 11, 2020, 11:40 am EST |
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Does someone have a good way to print the calendar? Looking for a good way to print the calendar. Thanks! Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Events sidebar - remove the location? All of my events are showing the town as the location in the events sidebar.... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: December 11, 2020, 11:37 am EST |
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"You Make the Call" inserted above Sermon title on homepage I have no idea how this happened or how to get rid of it: On the homepage (no... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Update for UUA Service Plugin It was noted in this forum that the UUA Service plugin was in the process of... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Is there a plugin to increase speed of site loading? Several of our members report difficulties or inability to load the site. Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Search Widget doesn't Work When I put the Wordpress Search widget anywhere on the site, it doesn't work.... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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upcoming-services shortcode I have embedded the upcoming-services short code in our church newsletter. Posted:
By Lyn Pearson |
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Searches only giving one result, missing "Home » You searched for" I just noticed that when I use the top page search, I'm not getting all of th... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Events - can I safely delete categories? The event manager comes with a lot of categories that I don't need.... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Our Minister and Staff -- staff not showing up I've entered two staff members and marked them both as members of the... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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lgbtq-and-green-sanctuary-graphics-and-links-missing I don\'t seem to have the LGBTQ and Green Sanctuary graphics and links, thoug... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: December 11, 2020, 11:46 am EST |
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uua_testimonials vs woothemes_testimonials shortcodes If I use the uua_testimonials shortcode, the resulting testimonials summary p... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Testimonials not working right in many ways We have the WooThemes Testimonials plug-in version 1.5.4, and I've disabled t... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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UUA Feature Box question I can't seem to use the Events Manager shortcode inside the UUA Feature box.... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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increased spam to our email connected to website In the past week, the amount of spam mail to the @jeffersonunitarian.org emai... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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staffer-shortcode Hi All, The shortcode used on the demo's "Our Minister and Staff" page,... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Media Player is not showing up Hello - I am using the Seriously Simple Podcasting plug in and the media play... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Header text covered by menu Hello, I saw a problem I could probably suggest a good fix for if I knew css... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Events pages as "blog" Is there a way to get rid of the "Blog" classification in the Events pages?... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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podcast listing out of order Podcasting listing question: Why is it showing podcasts sorted reverse chron.... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Conflict with UUA-Services plugin? A bit of a mystery.... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Next Service Widget - time Our church has two services at 9:15am and 11am.... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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UUA Congregations Theme is incompatible with Gravity Forms This is an informational post just in case someone else is trying to use Grav... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Problem with customizing Home 5 widget When I changed the link URL in the Home 5 widget (Customize section) in order... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Font appearance problem We're hoping to go "live" with our UUA Themed website very soon, but have a... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Directions Widget - editing content We restructured our menu, and the... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Organizing Your Media Files There was a just a question on the Websters list that I thought would be wort... Posted:
By Margy Levine Young |
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How do I deactivate comment form on events page? i have deselected all comments checkboxes I can fine in wordpress to try to... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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How can we work within the limits of the UUA Services Plugin? Folks using the UUA WordPress Theme have been noting a few limits on the... Posted:
By Sarah Gibb Millspaugh |
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Is there an easy way to increase the size limit on uploads Currently on our site the size limit is 8mb. I have just started trying to... Posted:
By Jennifer Hamlin-Navias |
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Suggestion for Services Plugin It would be nice if upcoming services could show two times vs just the one fo... Posted:
By Charles J Schott |
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Links to Service Entries The links to the services entry work fine in admin mode but not in visitor more. Posted:
By Charles J Schott |
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EventsManager with FullCalendar Hi, all...... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Unable to Publish Events After entering the appropriate info for a new event, and clicking the Publish... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Syntax error in services-pagination or uua-services plugin Moving from localhost to server. uua services plugin works locally; will not... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Customized Left Sidebar does not show up on category archives Under the "News" menu, we're using custom links to category archives as well ... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Icon weirdness in UUA Upcoming Service widget Something is wrong with the way the icons above "first time visitor," "upcomi... Posted:
By Jim Gasperini |
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Lost pages Our site has lost some of its pages. I have backup files using the Updraft... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Lost pages Our site has lost some of its pages. I have backup files using the Updraft... Posted:
By Jennifer Hamlin-Navias |
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Footer Widgets What are the IDs of the three left-most footer widgets (contact, meet ministe... Posted:
By Charles J Schott |
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Need a global setting for all off-site links for target=_blank I have a firm rule.... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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How do I change where the links point to in upcoming services plugin? Specifically how can I change the First Time Visitor button to go to a differ... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Calendar/Events Integration with Google Calendar Is there any opportunity to integrate an existing Google Calendar with the... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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How to increase the number of staff that appear on the “Our Ministers and Staff” page? We have a relatively large staff, but I can only get the 5 most recent entrie... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Problem with Carousel I'm setting up a trial UUA Wordpress theme for our congregation and was doing... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Woo Themes Testimonial It appears that the Gravatar item must be filled in with an Email address kno... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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How to make Service posts/Speakers more accessible? Hi, setting up my site in the UUA theme. I've put in an upcoming month of... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Conflict between [upcoming-services] shortcode and Yoast SEO plugin on Upcoming Worship Services page I am seeing a conflict between the Yoast SEO and the UUA Services Plugin v0.4... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Generated Events Page layout pushes into right sidebar Has anybody encountered the following generated events page issue?... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Images in Feature Box Widget are cut off In Safari, but not in Firefox, the front-page UUA Feature Box images are usua... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Left hand sidebar menu in mobile format On the UUATheme documentation page at... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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The Speaker does not show up in my Service Post Hi, Thanks for the great theme! I've just started setting up my dev site and... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Can carousel images link to other pages? I am using the carousel like you are using on the demo, but I want the images... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: November 25, 2020, 10:53 am EST |
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Services Plugin Issues, and a Couple Wishlist Items Issues: When multiple speakers are selected for a service, there is no spacin... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Suggestions for a Document Management plugin? Our site has a section for documents: policies, forms, meeting minutes going... Posted:
By Jim Gasperini |
2 comments Latest: March 7, 2024, 1:28 pm EST |
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Has anyone gotten the site to work on GoDaddy? I built the site on HostMonster and it was running well. Transferred it to... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: December 1, 2020, 5:48 pm EST |
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What's the recommended way of generating a site map? The subject of a site map came up, raised by someone I work with on our web... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: December 1, 2020, 5:41 pm EST |
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How many past worship service titles will display? The UUA Services plugin is just great. Using [service-archive] is there a... Posted:
By John Schiffel |
1 comment Latest: December 1, 2020, 5:40 pm EST |
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How do I reorder the staff? I need to put the staff in a certain order when adding them.... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: November 25, 2020, 10:55 am EST |
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How do we get categories to show up in menus (both main and left sidebar)? I have some categories for posts, such as building updates and minister's... Posted:
By Rev. Kimberley Debus |
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How to include Staff photos on Minister and Staff page? I've filled out the staff info on the Minister and Staff page, but I only see... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
2 comments Latest: December 8, 2020, 4:03 pm EST |
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Services Plugin doesn't respect the order of presenters entered. I just noticed that the Services presenters appear to be displayed (I think) ... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: December 8, 2020, 4:01 pm EST |
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How to add a qualifier to a Speaker's name in the Services Widget I have just added a few upcoming services on our test site, based on the real... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
2 comments Latest: March 7, 2024, 1:28 pm EST |
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Calendar Functionality Our old Open Outreach Drupal 7 site has a slightly hacked calendar.... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: December 8, 2020, 3:54 pm EST |
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How do I include a recorded service in the past worship services items? I've added an mp3 recording into the text area of a past worship service and ... Posted:
By John Sayer |
1 comment Latest: December 8, 2020, 3:49 pm EST |
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How do I get next service to show up in the next service widget? I have put the UUA next service widget on my page but it does not show the... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
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Contact item shows only short-code - what else do I need for this to display a form? The "Contact" item on the Utility menu shows shortcode with [contact-form... Posted:
By John Sayer |
1 comment Latest: December 8, 2020, 3:53 pm EST |
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Add video to a page? Would like to keep the photo carousel and create a separate page containing a... Posted:
By John Schiffel |
1 comment Latest: December 8, 2020, 3:46 pm EST |
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Recommended Image Aspect Ratio The "Image List" documentation page indicates that images should not be small... Posted:
By UUCH |
1 comment Latest: December 8, 2020, 4:12 pm EST |
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z-index of .navbar-static-top too high? We have added a plugin for a popup login box, and the .navbar-static-top clas... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: December 8, 2020, 4:11 pm EST |
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Recommended plugins for managing roles and access Christopher mentioned recommended plugins for managing roles and access in th... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: December 8, 2020, 4:08 pm EST |
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How do I remove the yellow box? I removed the service widget.... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: December 8, 2020, 4:15 pm EST |
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Recurrence for Events? Our current events calendar has a "recurrence" setting. Example: every 3rd... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: December 10, 2020, 4:53 pm EST |
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Suggestion to provide child theme starter files and instructions Many WordPress themes provide a very useful item: the basic files and... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: December 8, 2020, 4:20 pm EST |
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How to populate the Events page? When I click the 'Events' submenu item under 'News' on the main navigation me... Posted:
By John Schiffel |
1 comment Latest: December 8, 2020, 4:21 pm EST |
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Multiple services, service plug-in settings The Services plug-in is nicely designed. A few questions: 1.... Posted:
By Jim Gasperini |
1 comment Latest: December 8, 2020, 4:18 pm EST |
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Trying to imitate the Home 4 area of Demo Site The News page states: "Use this static Page to test the Theme's handling of t... Posted:
By John Schiffel |
1 comment Latest: December 11, 2020, 10:28 am EST |
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Why does published date appear? Do you know how to get rid of the published date that shows up under My Story... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: December 10, 2020, 4:56 pm EST |
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How do we have a password-protected area for member-only information to be stored/accessed? We store a fair amount of documents, policies, and directory information behi... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: December 11, 2020, 11:19 am EST |
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Is there a way to put a blank line in a service description? I tried using and adding a horizontal line, but I can't separate the... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: December 11, 2020, 11:11 am EST |
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Login links? I'm trying to figure out how to login to the dashboard.... Posted:
By UUA Web Team |
1 comment Latest: December 11, 2020, 11:10 am EST |
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