246 Responses

1. Dan

   Hi Devin…

   Is there a recommended resolution and size for the pics to use in the posts?

   Thanks

   1. Devin

      I’d upload as big as you have (within reason). The theme will automatically crop and resize.

2. ken

   Hi Devin,

   I’m thinking of migrating our site to your Visual, its at http://originalartworks.net
   But, and I’m no computer buff! I’m a little concerned as to what the changed over site would look like and run like if I hit the accept button. Could you just confirm that the features I have on the site will all run on your theme, as I love the background colour etc, etc,

   1. Devin

      Hi Ken. If you go to “Appearance > Customize” you can preview the theme without having to commit.

3. Gihan

   He Devin, Thanks for such an elegant theme. How do I add my tagline under main name ?

   1. Devin

      No tagline option for Visual.

4. Marco van der Ploeg

   Hi Devin,

   I very much like the Visual theme you built. Great job! But has something changed in the way the ’tile mosaic’ gallery is shown?

   Because if I use ’tile mosaic’ nowadays my pictures will all have the same size;
   https://marcovanderploeg.wordpress.com/la-palma/

   But in older pages pictures would not all have the same size, which looks nicer;
   https://marcovanderploeg.wordpress.com/ghana/

   Thanks,

   Marco

   1. Devin

      There are drop-down options for gallery style when you insert the gallery. Check those out.

5. Howard S

   certain browsers (I have Opera and Vivaldi installed) have suddenly begun to present the blog in which I use this theme with an italic version of Raleway font. Firefox presents in non-italic version. I have tried opening in a private browser window to see if cookies were affecting anything, but no. I don’t use any custom CSS.

6. Philipp Pfneisl

   Hello Devin

   I’m using the Visual Theme since 2 years “www.toothycritters.net) now and I really like the design. Is there an option to have two or more pages where I can blog articles? I only can blog under the “Home” menue but want to have a second page.

   Thanks

   1. Devin

      You can have different categories and link those from the menu.

      1. Philipp PFNEISL

         Hello Devin

         Yes I created different categories and assigned posts. But how do I link those categories to the menue that those post appiear under a specific menue item. I can’t find any possibility to set this. I’m still useing WP 4.0.12. Is this the problem?

         Thanks for your support
         greets
         Philipp

7. Eva

   Hi Devin
   Such a lovely theme, thank you.
   Q. How do you ask the website to only show a small sample of the article’s text in the home page/blog page design? (as in the example on the main Themes page)

   I’d like it so that scrolling down reveals lots of articles in a short time, each with the first paragraph beneath the image, and then you click on the article to read the rest.

   1. Devin

      You can use the “more tag” to limit text: https://en.support.wordpress.com/more-tag/

8. charlie

   Thanks Devin, we’ve tried this theme on http://www.dedicated-it.com.au and it’s great.

9. Donna

   Hi Devin! I really like your theme, been using it for two years, and I really do not want to change it. I looked at other themes, but, I like yours best, it fits with what I am working on. All of a sudden, I cannot change the header image! The customization menu does not work. The header customization menu seems disconnected. I am working for a cause and I have put many hours in the blog. I wish you could help. It was working when I started it. Is there an update that I did not see?

   1. Devin

      You’ll need to ask in the WordPress.com forum. That version of the theme is managed by the WordPress.com team.

10. JeanP

    Visual is terrific, I’m considering using it to post images and text snippets. Because I won’t be using is as a blog, is there a way to remove the “Posted on …” part?
    If not, where do I adjust its position?

    1. Devin

       You can hide it with CSS. Use the CSS Module in the Jetpack plugin. .entry-header .entry-meta { display: none; }

11. Nikola

    Hi Devin,

    First I want to thank you for the great work on the Visual theme which I use!

    I’ve just updated it to Version: 1.3.1.

    And now there are 2 more rows in the menu bar (“Menu” + “Skip to content”) which I don’t want.

    My site is: http://combobets.com/

    How can I hide (delete) them?

    Best regards,
    Nikola.

    1. Devin

       Update to 1.3.2!

12. PhB

    I tweaked the dates of my posts so that they’d appear in the order I want (I’m using the free version) but posts are not sorted by date. Isn’t that supposed to happen by default, like on your Visual Theme demo page?

    1. Devin

       Yes, post should be in chronological order by publish date.

13. KT

    I have been enjoying your Visual theme very much, though I’m in the process of integrating an e-commerce function, and thus will only continue to use it for the blog part, as a multi-site setup.

    WordPress keeps complaining that there is a new version of the theme available. I’m using 1.2.0. What has been updated? I don’t dare to update unless I know.

    1. Devin

       The changelog is here: https://github.com/devinsays/visual/blob/master/readme.md. If you want to know specific files, etc- you can use GitHub to compare versions.

14. David Rosen

    Hi Devin

    How do you change the order of included images. I have changed publication date and used an order changing plugin but the images stay in the original order

15. JeanP

    Since in Visual a single image can affect the appearance of the whole, is there a way to preview the site before committing a change?

16. George Knight

    Awesome theme.

    1. Noticed lately on Visual (after WordPress update), embedding YouTube videos makes the preview show up with an odd vertical crop. Only happens on the home page.

    2. Is there a way to stick the header to the top of home page as user scrolls down?

    Been using this theme for a few years and has been great.

17. Philipp

    Can Visual support Adsense ads?

    1. Devin

       There’s no built in support for AdSense, but many plugins will provide widgets which you can use in the sidebar.

18. Andrew

    My longer post titles are breaking in the middle of words. Is there a way to fix this?

    1. Stuart

       I did this by modifying the CSS making
       .entry-title {
       word-break: normal; /* Stop titles chopping words */
       }
       I did it through a Child Theme (safer than messing with the distributed code) but the above change (wherever done) sorts this.

       Visual is still probably the best WordPress theme available. I hope is is being maintained as WordPress core moves forward.

19. Aju John Varghese

    Dear Devin, thank you for ur wonderful theme…Is there anyway of getting social media icons instead of having to add separate links? I wanted to know if I missed something since I cant find the icons options for social media links (FB, Linkedin etc)…

20. Julien Fischel

    I’m wondering if when I migrate the WP.com site to a web host the site will be exactly the same ?

    Thanks

    1. Devin

       The themes are very similar, but not 100% the same. WordPress.com also offer some functionality you don’t get when self-hosted.