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Your PHP opening tags are messed up. They should be <?php not <!–?php. And you don't need the header, sidebar or footer calls since that is all handled by genesis();

A bare page template looks like

<?php
/*
Template Name: THE_TEMPLATE_NAME_GOES_HERE
*/


genesis();

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Refer to this entry on conditional tags

if (is_single() && ! in_category( array (’188′, ’189′, ’192′, ’1485′) && ! is_bbpress()))

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Please include a link to your site with all questions so that people can see what is going on.

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You’re welcome

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You need to increase the height of #header

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1) You can add the category to your menu and add archive intro text in the Categories panel otherwise if you are using the blog page template you would need to add it through a function added to functions.php with conditional tags.

2) That setting is in the Content Archives section of the Genesis settings panel.

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You’re welcome

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If you have another theme you could grab the style rules you need from there but if you are unfamiliar with the structure of Genesis or CSS I would recommend going with a different theme that has sidebars. Maybe Minimum? That is really similar to Pretty Pictures.

Or if all you need is a donate button you could put that in the navbar on the right.

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If you’re copy/pasting from somewhere make sure that all the quotes are plain quotes and not curly quotes.

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Ya, that’s what I said A “widget area” is really a sidebar

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Assuming you want it in place of the featured sidebar, open home.php and replace this with wpcycle’s template tag

dynamic_sidebar( 'featured' );

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Pretty pictures has all those layout options disabled. You’ll find this in functions.php

/** Unregister layouts */
genesis_unregister_layout( 'content-sidebar' );
genesis_unregister_layout( 'sidebar-content' );
genesis_unregister_layout( 'content-sidebar-sidebar' );
genesis_unregister_layout( 'sidebar-sidebar-content' );
genesis_unregister_layout( 'sidebar-content-sidebar' );

Note that there aren’t any style rules for the sidebars or those layouts in the style sheet so you’ve got a bit of work ahead of you getting everything styled.

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Custom fields are most likely just disabled in the screen options, the link for which you’ll find in the upper right corner. Also you can just add the category itself to your custom menu.

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The init line he is referring to is at the top of functions.php

<?php
/** Start the engine */
require_once( get_template_directory() . '/lib/init.php' );

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You’re welcome

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