[Posh JohnParticipant Post count: 32]

Genesis works a little differently, so you won’t have a single.php or page.php. It really depends on exactly what you are trying to achieve. You can create your own templates, or you can use hooks in your functions.php file to add/change behaviour…

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Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear. Genesis 1:9

[Posh JohnParticipant Post count: 32]

This any good? http://www.genesisframework.com/layouts/1152-grid-system/

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Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear. Genesis 1:9

[Posh JohnParticipant Post count: 32]

I usually do as Susan suggested – but it will still be clickable. I had a search around and have read the following:

Put anything you like in the URL field and add it to the menu. Once it is there, click on it to edit it and delete what is in the URL field (leaving the name) then save the menu.

This is reported to have the effect you desire although i must confess that i have never tried this – may be worth a bash!

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Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear. Genesis 1:9

[Posh JohnParticipant Post count: 32]

It’s disappearing from view because you have a max-height:120px; set on your header so there’s no room for it. Once you get rid of that, you will be able to see it and style it to go where you want it to.

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Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear. Genesis 1:9

[Posh JohnParticipant Post count: 32]

In your functions.php you will have the following line

add_action( ‘genesis_meta’, ‘sample_viewport_meta_tag’ );

Try commenting it out by putting // in front of it.

In your style.css you will also have lots of extra style information near the end for different device sizes which you won’t be needing. (Referring to the table of contents, it is the stuff at number 14)

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Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear. Genesis 1:9

[Posh JohnParticipant Post count: 32]

The latest sample theme is responsive, and it seems you don’t want it to be. Have you tried removing the media queries?

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Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear. Genesis 1:9

[Posh JohnParticipant Post count: 32]

Well at least now we all know I have also preferred not to use custom header and keep everything where clients can’t destroy it, but i appreciate that sometimes it may be necessary to do it that way.

Because i’ve been doing it my way so long (and from my own base child)  i didn’t even think to look for that line on the new child sample….and i never noticed the change in the framework.

I guess the moral of this story is if you use a new child theme as a base, check it and rip out the bits you don’t need before you start doing any other mods

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Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear. Genesis 1:9

[Posh JohnParticipant Post count: 32]

Hi Gary (thanks for reopening so i can answer)

I was previously using 1.8.2, but since i start all my projects with a base child that i created i never noticed. I started this project with the included genesis-sample which had the header support line in, and didn’t think to remove it – now that i have done so, all is good.

Thanks

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Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear. Genesis 1:9

[Posh JohnParticipant Post count: 32]

Bill thanks for the clarification. I have removed the custom header support and all is now good!

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Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear. Genesis 1:9

[Posh JohnParticipant Post count: 32]

Normally i choose “image logo” and then set a background for .header-image #title a …. what is the preferred method now?

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Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear. Genesis 1:9

[Posh JohnParticipant Post count: 32]

Hi – take a look here > http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/footer/#custom-footer

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Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear. Genesis 1:9

[Posh JohnParticipant Post count: 32]

I think what Nick means is to create an image to use for the background to the box. At the moment you have background set to #222 and opacity set to 0.6.

What you want to do is create an image (can be small because it will repeat) and have that image be transparent. You can create a transparent image in photoshop/fireworks etc. Then use the image instead of the colour #222 so;

background: url(images/my60percent.png) repeat;

You can then get rid of your opacity setting or set it to 1 (depending if you have opacity declared elsewhere)

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Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear. Genesis 1:9

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Removed badly formatted code…

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[Posh JohnParticipant Post count: 32]

You would first need to register a new sidebar area in your functions.php file – something like this:

EDIT: Sorry i am having real issues posting code here without the format getting all screwed-up

Then you will need to add that area to wherever you want it. To achieve this you will either need to add something to your home.php if you have one (and you want it on your homepage) or use some conditional logic in your function.php file.
When i add several areas to my homepage i usually do it in 3 stages…adding the actions, creating helper functions to test if the sidebars are active, and the actual functions to output the content, so:

EDIT: Sorry i am having real issues posting code here without the format getting all screwed-up

You don’t always need to use a helper function, but that’s the way i do it. You may want to take a look at NickTheGeek’s website for some great tutorials on this kind of stuff…

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[Posh JohnParticipant Post count: 32]

Don’t know about “best” practice, but for me…

If i’m building a site for myself, i’ll often hard-code it into home.php (or whatever page template). If it’s a site for a client, i normally pull-in a page (which i no-index) so the client can easily change the content if they want to.

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