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RonnyMacMember
And.... found it.
https://studiopress.community/topic/older-versions-of-genesis-available/
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Ron McElfresh
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http://noodlemac.com/RonnyMacMemberCan't say enough good things about using Genesis Simple edits plugin, and Genesis Simple Hooks plugin. The former is a good way to add a few customized items. The latter is a rich way to customize Genesis without wrecking the site. Master Simple Hooks and you go a long way to knowing Genesis.
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Ron McElfresh
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http://noodlemac.com/February 11, 2013 at 6:13 pm in reply to: Strange SPAM ad appearing on one of my sites – mobile only #19732RonnyMacMemberIt doesn't look as though you're running any ads (AdSense, et al) on your site, so it seems odd that any ad would show up, mobile or otherwise.
I pulled the site up on Safari on my iPhone. Here's a link to the home page screen image. There appears to be some kind of text overlay in the middle right column.
Click Here for a screen snapshot. I can't make out the text.
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Ron McElfresh
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http://noodlemac.com/RonnyMacMemberThere are plenty of schools of thought and multiple 'best practices' regarding CSS files. For some sites I'll edit the style.css file directly. For others, especially those with minimal edit requirements, I'll create a separate custom.css file and leave the original style.css file alone. My overall preference is to have a single style.css file, so sometimes I'll simply add edits to the bottom of the original style.css file.
All that matters, though, is what fits best in your work environment and work flow.
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Ron McElfresh
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http://noodlemac.com/RonnyMacMemberAgreed. The new Child theme stylesheet is a big disappointment. It might be lean and mean and all that, but it's much more cumbersome to customize, and I've been digging into it for awhile now.
What might be nice is to hear from someone at StudioPress as to why it the new stylesheet is designed the way it is, what the benefits are to using it as a basis for a custom Child theme (seems to me as that would be its purpose), and perhaps a few pointers on how it can be used to create a custom theme.
I'm open to change, and don't mind learning old dog tricks, but an official word would be beneficial.
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Ron McElfresh
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http://noodlemac.com/RonnyMacMemberSmells like an advertisement for an incredibly expensive product.
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http://noodlemac.com/RonnyMacMemberWhat would you do? Can something like this be done using SP or would you just buy that theme?
The answer is, 'Yes.' Almost any layout and design can be built using Genesis and a customized Child theme. That's because Genesis is remarkably flexible.
But math enters into the equation. If a fully customized theme costs $100 and building the same layout and design in Genesis would cost $1,000, someone has to make a decision. There are times when billable hours are your friend. Other times, it's simple math.
I want to start on good footing and focus on one or at the most 2 frameworks as opposed to using various different ones for my clients.
For a developer it's usually a better practice to stick with one or two flexible frameworks vs. hopping and skipping all over the place. Unless billable hours is your objective.
That approach would be too all over the place and would cause my hair loss to accelerate.
Amen. There are few layouts or designs I've run into that cannot easily be used as inspiration for a Genesis Child theme project. The benefit of an out-of-the-box custom theme is that it's finished, complete with bells and whistles. And, some of those custom bells and whistles can burn through a lot of time trying to build in a Genesis Child theme (there's a point of diminishing returns then trying to reinvent the wheel).
I use Genesis for most sites and projects because it's fast, flexible, very easy to update and upgrade, as well as easy enough to add components without wrecking the whole site. That's not the case with the more esoteric frameworks, such as ElegantThemes, which are beautiful, but difficult to customize beyond what's there. But, I use ElegantThemes for sites and clients that need pretty more than flexibility and don't want to pay the billable hours required to replicate an ET site in Genesis.
After a year plus search for a WordPress framework (I came from pMachine/ExpressionEngine before WP) my favorite was Thematic. Free and very, very flexible (the leader developer was hired by Autommatic, which runs WordPress). I remember reading somewhere that Genesis was inspired by Thematic. The problem with free, of course, is ongoing development and support. The former is sporadic and the latter is almost non-existent.
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Ron McElfresh
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http://noodlemac.com/RonnyMacMemberLearning disabilities seem to be everywhere. Since childhood I've had an inability to remember strings of words and numbers. I cannot remember seven digit phone numbers. Algebraic and geometric equations? Won't happen. Login IDs? Nope. Passwords? Uh uh.
So, how do I overcome the affliction and still work in the technology world?
I'm a good speller and the King of Snippets.
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Ron McElfresh
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http://noodlemac.com/RonnyMacMemberHere's something I've noticed about using Genesis themes vs. using the more esthetically pleasing themes from ThemeForest or ElegantThemes and others where the designs and layouts are, shall, we say, prettier.
Generally speaking, Genesis themes are not as visually attractive as other themes, but they're usually more flexible, and more customizable. Therein lies the big difference. If you work on Genesis themes, customization and personalization, even of Genesis themes off the shelf, carry a common structure, therefore you're leveraging your knowledge of both the framework and plugins as well as the layout. That's not the case with most of those prettier themes with all the bells and whistles built-in. Customizing one of those is a nightmare most of the time because you have to learn where everything is, and why it's there, even before making cosmetic changes.
A mastery of CSS helps, yes, but I often dread the client who wants an ET theme and then wants a laundry list of customizations. There's only one remedy in such a situation.
Aren't billable hours wonderful?
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Ron McElfresh
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http://noodlemac.com/RonnyMacMemberCheck with the host to see if any mod_security changes were made. I once had some sites on a host that was paranoid about security; so much so that I sometimes had trouble saving a post on a site. Sometimes specific words can trip it so it won't accept posts.
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http://noodlemac.com/RonnyMacMemberAmen, Bill.
I, too, have responded to more than a few posts in the new forums only to have them disappear upon Submit. That puts a damper on future responses. Which puts a damper on future visits to the forums. Which means less interaction, and the cycle perpetuates. I don't expect a support forum to have every bell and whistle (similar to some vBulletin forums), but there are certain basics that don't exist here, and that inhibits participation. Forums should be about participation. I'm visiting less often since the forum and support changed.
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http://noodlemac.com/RonnyMacMemberBill, I'm not as pleased with the new arrangement as I was with the old arrangement. In the old forums arrangement there were more problems and solutions visible to all logged in Genesis users. That is a wealth of information that we don't have access today with the new forums. I miss that.
That said, I also haven't had a problem recently that requires a support ticket, so I can't speak to SP's support ticket response capability. Yet.
I suspect that the reason SP went to a ticket system has to do with math. Support is an expense, and the price model for Genesis isn't provided on an annual basis. That means, as the customer base grows, so grows the support expense, which is compounded by the extra support provided to new customers, as well as support provided to older customers, but without on ongoing revenue stream from older customers. It seems to me, and it's speculation on my part, that a support ticket system helps to mitigate and focus those support costs, and provides more support to those who really need it now.
But I miss wading through some of the user problems in the forums (new forums are not as extensive as the old forums) and helping out where I can. That's a bit old school, I guess.
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Ron McElfresh
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http://noodlemac.com/RonnyMacMemberI can't speak to Rocket as I haven't used them for a few years (great looking themes, though), but I still use Elegant Themes. Some clients simply want pretty vs. performance (and don't have traffic to worry about) and ET is good for that. And, of course, sometimes I can be inspired by an ET theme and build something similar using Genesis.
Many framework and theme developers are going to an annual model which means that's the only way to get updates and support.
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Ron McElfresh
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http://noodlemac.com/RonnyMacMemberBill, I'm in total agreement. Back links are where the true value is in SEO, and it's not an overnight solution. It requires the most effort by far (both from creating content, to cultivating links). The rest of SEO is diminishing returns but is, obviously, the easiest to accomplish.
The problem with SEO often has to do with expectations. There are plenty of SEO solutions that work on the 5-percent bells and whistles portion, but few that actually work toward the back link portion, which offers the highest return. Yet, many site operators expect instant search engine rankings based only on the 5-percent portion.
If only there was someone I could pay to give my site plenty of back links, higher search engine rankings, and more referral traffic.
😉
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Ron McElfresh
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http://noodlemac.com/RonnyMacMemberThat's an odd way of setting up menus and pages but Google won't really care, so the impact, if any, on SEO is nominal. Besides, about 95-percent of what constitutes good search engine ranking and results is based more on back links than bells and whistles and traditional SEO efforts.
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Ron McElfresh
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http://noodlemac.com/RonnyMacMemberHear! Hear!
Yes, that brings up another often overlooked but very important point. Support.
If there's a framework with better support than StudioPress I don't know what it is, and I've used a few dozen frameworks from Elegant to Woo to Thesis to Headway to Rocket's Gantry to Carrington to Hybrid and others, including a favorite, Thematic. Support exists in places, but nothing like StudioPress.
What sold me on Genesis was the framework's roots to Thematic (flexible, powerful) and support.
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Ron McElfresh
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http://noodlemac.com/February 8, 2013 at 1:42 pm in reply to: What Genesis plugins from wordpress.org do you suggest everyone downloads? #19021RonnyMacMemberFor Genesis, I use Nav Menu Amplified, Simple Edits, and Simple Hooks.
That is all.
I've tried a few of the others but it's a bang for the buck issue for me. It doesn't take long to have a few dozen plugins running on a site. Sometimes, less is more.
Other plugins I like, though, include Amazon S3 for WordPress (makes Amazon your CDN), Google XML Sitemaps, Mini Loops, Shortcodes Pro, Simple Lightbox, Use Google Libraries, WP-DB Manager, WP Super Cache and Quick Cache, among a few others.
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Ron McElfresh
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http://noodlemac.com/RonnyMacMemberIf there were a problem in Genesis 1.9.x for remote publishing wouldn't there be more users with the same problem? I remotely publish to half a dozen Genesis blogs, all on 1.9.x and WP 3.5.1, and all seems well. If you find out where the problem is, please let us know.
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Ron McElfresh
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http://noodlemac.com/RonnyMacMemberI have a similar problem with the new Child theme CSS. It forced a change in how I work, which is both disconcerting and tedious, not to mention time consuming while trying to figure out both why and how style.css works, and how it can be adapted to sites.
That said, I'm not complaining.
The nature of a life in technology is change, often in fits and starts, but always changing, so it's best to learn how to adapt to changes quickly and efficiently. Once we get locked into a groove we become comfortable, so change, when it comes, isn't always welcome. It can make us uncomfortable. A friend once told me that, 'Nothing improves without change.'
So true.
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Ron McElfresh
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http://noodlemac.com/RonnyMacMemberIt happens less than it once did, but often when there's an update or upgrade problem it's the result of a corrupt file during the update process. A manual reinstallation using takes care of it.
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