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July 17, 2013 at 11:18 am #51170MealtogMember
Hi all,
I am wondering is someone can answer a few pre-sales questions. I am looking around and see a bunch of great themes included with the full price purchase. Seeing I am only going to run 1 website, I was wondering if we bought 1 theme, can we:
- adjust right sidebar to a wider width to accommodate a 300x250 ad spot? At the moment, many themes are made to fit 125 ad spots
- drop in a slideshow of featured content on the home page
- adjust the footer with our own content; say the theme shown has one wide footer. I want to add a 3 column footer
- add a menu in the top of site that is based on Categories (not all themes have this)
- be able to tweak ad codes do a mobile agent will be served different ads than a desktop computerI am pretty sure the above is possible with a vanilla WordPress install but without being to demo a working website of Genesis and some of the themes before I make the purchase, it is difficult to know how easy it would be to achieve the above
Any help would be most appreciated.
July 17, 2013 at 11:26 am #51171Brad DaltonParticipantAll can be done. The last one is the hardest as you'll need custom coding with mobile conditional tags or find a plugin which does this.
be able to tweak ad codes do a mobile agent will be served different ads than a desktop computer
July 17, 2013 at 11:49 am #51175MealtogMemberThanks for the prompt reply brad. I also think all can be done but can you elaborate if these assumptions are correct as to the complexity?
- adjust right sidebar to a wider width to accommodate a 300?—250 ad spot? At the moment, many themes are made to fit 125 ad spots (css tweak; 1 or 2 line of code)
- drop in a slideshow of featured content on the home page (is there a widget that we can drag and drop here using an editor inside Genesis/)
- adjust the footer with our own content; say the theme shown has one wide footer. I want to add a 3 column footer (hardcode some HTML into the footer file of theme)
- add a menu in the top of site that is based on Categories (add PHP in the header file of template)
Does these sound right?
July 17, 2013 at 12:31 pm #51179Brad DaltonParticipant- adjust right sidebar to a wider width to accommodate a 300?—250 ad spot? At the moment, many themes are made to fit 125 ad spots (css tweak; 1 or 2 line of code) Few lines of CSS changing values for width of sidebar and content area.
- drop in a slideshow of featured content on the home page (is there a widget that we can drag and drop here using an editor inside Genesis/) Depends on the theme but you can easily create a new widget or hook the slider in using PHP
- adjust the footer with our own content; say the theme shown has one wide footer. I want to add a 3 column footer (hardcode some HTML into the footer file of theme) One line of PHP if it isn't already included.
- add a menu in the top of site that is based on Categories (add PHP in the header file of template) Create a new menu and add category links. Reposition if needed using 2 lines of PHP code.
July 17, 2013 at 1:13 pm #51187MealtogMemberok, almost exactly what I thought. Thanks again Brad. Appreciate your help here.
July 17, 2013 at 10:19 pm #51268MealtogMemberBy the way, once we purchase and install Genesis, is it something that sits on top up of WordPress?
1. Do we install WordPress first and then install Genesis?
2. For updates, do we run regular WordPress updates or run updates inside a Genesis module?Thanks for your patience. Still trying to figure this out without being able to see the coding.
July 18, 2013 at 3:25 am #51284StewartMemberHi,
Yes you would install WordPress first then install the Genesis Framework, and for updates both WordPress and Genesis Work independently.
Hope this Helps
Stewart
WordPress Developer – Need help upgrading to Genesis 2.0? – My Blog
Follow me on TwitterJuly 18, 2013 at 7:58 am #51297Brad DaltonParticipantHere's a beginners video tutorial series for getting started with WordPress.
Includes videos on how to install WordPress.
July 18, 2013 at 12:07 pm #51332MealtogMemberThanks for all the replies. Is there a video for installing Genesis? That would be most helpful.
July 18, 2013 at 1:06 pm #51336Brad DaltonParticipantJuly 18, 2013 at 1:28 pm #51339MealtogMemberHey Brad, thanks for the link. Not only was that video helpful, the rest of the videos are great too. Thanks very much!
So Genesis is really a parent theme that sits above the activated Child theme. That makes more sense now. WordPress updates would be independent of Genesis. Not sure if this still classifies Genesis as a true framework but it makes sense now.
July 18, 2013 at 2:18 pm #51350Brad DaltonParticipantGenesis is the framework which you install on top of WordPress.
It makes customizing your WordPress site easier without changing any of the core WordPress files. This way your site is unaffected when you update WordPress.
StudioPress child themes contain custom coding to change the appearance and customize Genesis. They are installed on top of Genesis. This way, your site is unaffected when updating Genesis.
Can you link to your site please?
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