[Resolved] Restrict Content Pro conflicts

[Philippe]

Hi,

I saw that Restrict Content Pro plugin is often recommended by Generatepress support (or at least mentioned). However, I could not find answers to my issues with it.

Basically, RCP prevents other plugins from working at all, such as Sticky Sidebar and Pop-up Maker. But it also prevents sticky navigation in Generatepress from working too.

Not having a fixed sidebar is an absolute no-no for me.

Thanks for your help,

[Ying]

Hi Philippe,

It seems a issue of the RCP plugin, it sounds like it’s blocking JS from loading.

Have you reached out to their support? I think they might have some insights.

[Philippe]

Hi Ying,

I did contact them. I’ll let you know how it goes.

[Philippe]

Hi,

For now, I just deactivated RCP and would like to try setting a fixed right-hand column with css.

Can you help out with this?

Thank you,

Philippe

[David]

Hi there,

can you share a link to a page where i can see the sidebar ?

[Philippe]

Sure.

https://onehomeplanet.com

[David]

Ok, i see you already have this CSS on your site:

@media (min-width: 769px) {
    .inside-right-sidebar, .inside-left-sidebar {
        position: -webkit-sticky;
        position: sticky;
        top: 60px
    }
}

That will work, if you change the Customizer > General > Structure to Flexbox.

IMPORTANT, that change is a one way change, it cannot be reversed. So if you select that option you should check for any issues before publishing the customizer changes. Or make the change on a staging server.

If you don’t want to make that change then update the CSS to this:

@media (min-width: 769px) {
    #content {
        display: flex;
    }
    .inside-right-sidebar, .inside-left-sidebar {
        position: -webkit-sticky;
        position: sticky;
        top: 60px
    }
}

[Philippe]

I did not change to Flexbox (what is the advantage of doing so, anyway?). The other script works, which makes me happy because RCP seems to take a lot of software real estate. Now, I will have to figure out how to make the Pop-up Maker work again.

Thank you!

[David]

(what is the advantage of doing so, anyway?)

It was a big change we made in GP 3.0.
You can read more on that here:

https://generatepress.com/generatepress-3-0-a-new-era/

TLDR: It removed a lot of Grid specific CSS that GP required when using the old Floats structure as well as improved the way CSS is generated. Ultimately leading to quite a big performance improvement in terms of the number of resources GP loads and the size of those resources.

[Philippe]

Now that you tell me, I am going to change to Flexbox.

It seems I miss registering for the Generatepress newsletter, if there is one.

[David]

You’re welcome!

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