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October 14, 2013 at 3:55 pm in reply to: Display Agency-pro background image on only home page #66710MarcParticipant
Thanks Brad! Good approach, and my first thought. Appreciate your confirmation confirming.
I was just hoping that someone might have an edit for the theme's background functions code, but I need to proceed quickly so I will use the method you mention.
FWIW here is the response from SP support -
I would recommend you utilize our support forums for customizing your theme in this manner. I'm sure many users would benefit from the collective feedback the community can give you. You can open a thread here: http://studiopress.community/. If you don't have an account, simply register and a password will be emailed to you.
We have a growing collection of code snippets that can be used as a starting point for many customizations. You can find the code snippets at http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/
Thank you for choosing StudioPress.
Regards,
Dorian Speed
Technical Support Advocate
MarcParticipantYou could create a new page with the 3 column layout. Then set that page as your static home page in Settings > Reading
Alternately you could leave the Reading settings alone and choose to use the outstanding Genesis Extender plugin to generate a new home page layout, but it is a premium plugin - http://cobaltapps.com/downloads/genesis-extender-plugin/
MarcParticipantAugust 10, 2013 at 12:24 pm in reply to: Genesis theme ran updates and now header is transparent instead of white #55503MarcParticipantThere are effectively competing stylesheets in your site which is creating much of the difficulty. The style information that is present in the HTML is overriding any changes you make to the theme's stylesheet.css. I would advise removing the styling related to the header that is in the custom-background-css. To learn more, review the page source particularly the section snippet below located immediately above the closing head tag -
<style type="text/css" id="custom-background-css"> body.custom-background { background-color: #1f9db9; background-image: url('http://dad.squarehub.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/dark_blue_bkground1.png'); background-repeat: repeat; background-position: top left; background-attachment: scroll; } </style>
MarcParticipantHave you explored using Genesis' built in Content Column Classes rather than tables?
I think it would resolve the issues with mobile responsiveness while giving you most of the control and display options of a table.
If you haven't, below are link providing additional info and use options for column classes.
http://my.studiopress.com/tutorials/content-column-classes/
http://www.billerickson.net/using-column-classes/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-easy-columns/
MarcParticipantYou're welcome! Glad it worked.
MarcParticipantFirst try this plugin -
http://designsbynickthegeek.com/plugins/genesis-responsive-header-customizer-updateThen, depending upon the child theme theme you are working with and the size of your header logo you may, or may not, need to edit the theme's css
MarcParticipant@mitchellm regarding Wes, Epik and Appfinite. My experience is I have used Optimal and Epik themes. In customizing the themes I find that Wes does an excellent organizing and commenting the functions and stylesheet for the themes he offers and the support is even better - altogether equal to Genesis. Plus lots of personal follow-up attention from Wes in the theme support forums.
MarcParticipant@Herman - Yes, you can and even the admin "backend" will be in French, if you want. A full French WP based site is not a problem, There is even an "official" French WP site - http://fr.wordpress.org/
And this is a good tutorial -
http://www.solostream.com/blog/tutorials/translate-wordpress-theme/
MarcParticipantFWIW - Wes Straham expects to have the HTML5 Genesis child themes http://appfinite.com/ released tomorrow! Really looking forward to the updated Epik!
My updated themes will be released tomorrow, FWIW. #genesiswp Wes Straham (@WesStraham) August 7, 2013
MarcParticipantNothing I have completed yet, but there is a showcase -
http://genesissandbox.com/showcase/
MarcParticipantHi Doug,
Sorry this is not a direct answer to your question regarding a solution, but Jonathan Perez and Travis Smith have a starter child theme named Genesis Sandbox which does have and present the hamburger menu for smaller display widths.
Give it a try and/or download and explore how they created the mobile menu. I like it!
http://genesissandbox.com/
http://demo.surefirethemes.com/
MarcParticipantYes! Work well, thank you. I appreciate your direction and code.
MarcParticipantThank you Brad! As you tested the icon appears!
Unfortunately the title area in the header is no longer clickable to home. Any thoughts as to how to effect and return that action?
MarcParticipantHi Brad, I feel as thick as two short planks but I can't get this to work. What I am seeking in the text title displayed in the header is "word icon-font word", in simpler terms I am trying to have a Font Awesome icon font appear between two words. The site title will Google Webfonts and that the CSS is edited to do. The issue is getting the Font Awesome Icon to display correctly in the site title in the header. I have tried a number of plugins as well as the code provided by Font Awesome and placed in the HEAD.
Any additional insights would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
MarcParticipant@rglohre - You don't actually need to move it (the new site) "to the home folder" so you do not have any issues . You just need to transfer two files; the index.php and .htaccess files from the "wp2" folder to the public_html. You can learn more with the links below.
@abbypanda - This is an excellent how-to from the WordPress Codex -
http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_DirectoryPer thread above just install WoirdPress in a new folder and develop the new site using that sub-directory. Then when you are done, just transfer the htaccess file and the index.php file from the "wp2" folder to the root folder. And just edit the index.php file to include the path to "wp2" Eg - change the line that reads
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
to
require('./wp2/wp-blog-header.php');ps - The method above also does not require any domain name DNS changes so you do not risk the potential for SEO related issues. And the new site is available instantly upon completing the edit/transfer of the two files, as the DNS does not change it does need to wait for the propagation of any change.
MarcParticipantI fully agree with GaryJ.
Please leave MY browser settings to me to adjust.
Don't be intrusive and subvert settings/adjustments that may be preferred or needed by your site visitor ... unless you are perhaps seeking to increase your site's bounce rate.
Please, what is your disagreement with GaryJ's last point, "someone with poor eyesight for instance may need to zoom in."?
MarcParticipantI use the method below linked below which works great for Metro, and it also provides a better more scalable header image and the image is also available for your FB posts.
http://blackhillswebworks.com/2013/05/10/how-to-replace-the-studiopress-background-header-image-with-a-real-image-logo/FWIW - since you are using Metro you may also want to use this link to fix the widget titles -
http://blackhillswebworks.com/2013/05/19/how-to-fix-studiopress-metro-theme-widget-titles/
MarcParticipant@chalfant - No need at all to keep a Prose based site "minimalistic".
In actuality it is now very easy to create a site with Prose that looks very much like Magazine or Backcountry just by using David Decker's excellent FREE plugin named Genesis Prose Extras - http://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-prose-extras/
And it will not "create issues in regard to loading times and such."
"FINALLY: Add a Widgetized Homepage to Your Prose Child Theme
Finally have a homepage template for Prose that's widgetized! Plus, it works with Prose 1.5+ auto update system, that means, you don't lose your home template/ widget stuff when performing these sweet auto updates!
In general, a great helper tool for the Prose Child Themes for Genesis!"
July 24, 2013 at 3:04 pm in reply to: Best Tutorials for building a Genesis Site from Scratch #52322MarcParticipantYou might give a look to the Genesis Extender plugin -
http://cobaltapps.com/downloads/genesis-extender-plugin/
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