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TerenceMember
Turned out to be real simple in the end. Don't know what the problem was.
.site-header { background-color: #f77564; border-bottom: none !important; padding-top: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; min-height: 85px; }
Thanks for your help.
TerenceMemberOh dear. Don't be confused. Its bad enough with one of us.
When I get it right I will post the code back to this thread so anyone following it later can see what I/we did.
Many thanks,
TerenceMemberOK, what I have at the moment is this...
/* Increase height of site header -------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ .site-header { background-color: #f77564; border-bottom: none !important; padding-top: 12px; padding-bottom: 12px; min-height: 125px; } .site-header .wrap { margin-top: 20px; }
Not sure if you meant to remover them but if I remove the padding top/bottom the navigation is not vertically centered.
Also the menu items still are not vertically in the right place and the header is now 125px and not 85px.
This is the look I am working towards with this site.
TerenceMemberSure I can. And thanks for asking.
I've only just started to "improve" the theme, so there's not a lot to see at Election Club.
Yet! 😉
TerenceMemberThis reply has been marked as private.TerenceMemberThe reason being on a Mac is relevant is that, typically, Mac users hardly ever have need to handle old antiquated systems like a host file, and most ~ not all ~ don't even know what it is. And probably couldn't care less.
I am pretty sure that it was the same with this developer.
I sent him the instructions on how to find and edit it, but so far no reply... 🙁
About line #544 in your css you have a "min-height" element set to 150px which when I set to 100px the header is much smaller.
I live in Scotland now but in the 80's I was living and working in St. Louis.
Small world!
TerenceMemberFunny, I was just reading a post on that over at How to Customize the Genesis Search Box.
Hope that helps.
TerenceMemberGot it. Done it. Happy bunny. 🙂
TerenceMemberGreat information Bill.
I'll check it out right away.
And many thanks.
Terence.
Later ~ OK, given I am running a child theme and don't want to edit Genesis core files, what's the best way to ensure Genesis recognizes SEO Ultimate? How do I set it up? Still very much learning about Genesis.
TerenceMember@Ozzy ~ thanks for the info. Do you know where I can get a list of the SEO plugins Genesis supports like this?
TerenceMember@digisavvy ~ one of our SEO goals is to do away with the blog entirely, and to organize chronologically posted content to be integrated closely with specific keyword based "cornerstone" content pages, which normally cannot be associated with categories or assigned tags.
As for the code, not being a coder, I am very sorry but I don't recognize its value or how to use it.
Could you possibly help me out a little further so that the effort you have obviously gone to isn't wasted?
TerenceMember@Jesse_Peterson ~ the simple thought behind the idea is that we are trying to cut down the options of part-time authors and editors to compromise on-page SEO and at the same time take a positive step toward creating a cornerstone content strategy, by forcing all content to appear in one of 6 cornerstone sections on the website. I guess that's it in a nutshell.
TerenceMemberOoops.
Oh well, you know what they say about a fool and his money... 8^)
Yes, my first approach was to publish that cheat sheet, do some online screen-sharing training and install a workflow, so that only editors could publish. I even loaded it as a help text custom post-type available when publishing or editing a post or page.
Excellent ~ praise all round!
Then the first articles started to appear, no attention was being paid to what they had "learned", and the editor then quit because she was "expected to do SEO now".
The rest then gave up reading what they wrote and the on-page SEO went to hell in a hand-basket in no time flat.
Oh the joys.
However, I had not thought about using Custom Taxonomy, and that could be a solution. I'll will investigate.
Thanks for holding my hand.
Terence.
TerenceMemberActually Bill, I don't disagree with your arguments.
I just disagree with your reasoning and conclusion. Let me tell you why.
All discussion of anything esoteric and highly technical, apart from the potential lack of understanding of either party, is always open to perception, opinion, prejudice, agenda and context.
And with those six friends, who needs enemies, right?
So, let me deal with what I see as some of the differences.
My reality ~ perception ~ is of a workplace full of computer illiterate workers trying to help other folk, or endangered animals, or the environment, and who, as part of their job, have to get the word out about their cause ~ so they blog.
They don't know the difference between a category or a tag, much less, which is which, why and how you use them. However, if they have one choice ~ and only one ~ either this section or that one (as in Cornerstone), which I can control, they will choose one.
And from the SEO point of view, that's better.
My opinion is ~ its not WP that's the problem here. Its people.
And SEO of course.
My prejudice is ~ I'm not going to give them all the tools they won't understand, since they don't have the knowledge or even the inclination to learn. KISS.
My agenda is ~ that even with all this lack of knowledge and several authors hammering away at keyboards in several countries, I still have to deliver the SEO result their website/enterprise needs to be successful.
My context is ~ not that of a knowledgeable blogger running his/her own blog, but of authors and editors who can't even spell SEO, and care even less how its done; just when its not done well.
I bet they're not the same as yours, right?
Terence.
TerenceMember@Bill_Murray ~ thanks for humoring me... 8^)
Essentially you are right, but I think its a bit more than just not liking the default WP filtering for posts ~ nobody does, which why every theme seems to d it a little differently ~ Genesis for example.
WordPress is great for blogging ~ displaying sequential pages of chronologically-ordered posts. That’s what it was built for. But what if you want to build a site with other sections as well ~ a site with structure?
One of the most common workarounds is to use categories to create the illusion of a structure for your site. Categories can be hierarchically organized, and you can include a link to a category archive page in your navigation so that it looks like it’s an actual section on the site and the archive page will list all posts in that category.
There's a huge SEO payload if its married to a "cornerstone" content creation/management strategy and if done correctly.
There's no point in me repeating it because its all been written by the Cornerstone author ~ Posts in Sections in WordPress with Cornerstone ~ and Derek Halpern on CopyBlogger ~ How Cornerstone Content Gets You Traffic and Subscriber.
First, I read this article by the author of Cornerstone (vested interest, of course) ~ 5 Reasons Why You Should Never Use Categories for Site Structure in WordPress ~ but, even so, it made sense to me.
So with with Cornerstone taking care of the permalink structure with ~ /%postpath%/%postname%/ ~ that's where the problem started.
How to run searches and list posts on pages when they were no longer defined the way the theme expected them to be?
And now I have gone full circle.
If I were Brian Gardner, I would be forking the code and differentiating Genesis even further with integrated "cornerstone" posting as a switchable option for corporates users.
Hey, but that's me, and what do I know.
Terence.
TerenceMemberBrad,
How come you can dig in and really help these guys with code and ideas, and all you can do for me [ http://www.studiopress.community/topic/cornerstone-sections-and-not-faking-site-structure/#post-31717 ] is send me to other people's websites?
I don't mean that all bitter and twisted ~ its a serious question.
I have been struggling with this for days and without an answer I have wasted my money on both Dynamik/Genesis, so you can see why any help I can get would be very much appreciated.
Terence.
TerenceMemberAs you have just managed to get the result you wanted, could you spare a moment for someone struggling with the same sort of thing, but not a developer and really needing to be hit over the head with the answer?
I tried to get some help over here [ http://www.studiopress.community/topic/cornerstone-sections-and-not-faking-site-structure/#post-31717 ] but didn't really get what I needed.
I am not a developer, not even a designer, just an integrator, so any help you can give me at alll would be much appreciated.
My goal is to not use a separate blog page but end up with a structure like this http://domain.tld/page/post/comments/
I believe I can do this with the Cornerstone plugin ~ [ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cornerstone/ ] ~ but I can’t figure out on this [ https://gist.github.com/SocialStrategy/5270605 ] alternative loop code how I replace the loop in Genesis with a loop that loads Cornerstone's post URLs rather than categories.
Can you help me?
Terence.
TerenceMemberI am just trying to end up with a site structure that looks something like this...
http://domain.tld/page/post/comments
So I guess my quest continues ~ perhaps with more good intention than common sense.
Thanks anyway, Brad.
TerenceMemberBrad, the code he shows there....
<?php /** * * Template Name: Projects * This file handles blog posts with the category Projects within a page. * */ remove_action('genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop'); add_action('genesis_loop', 'custom_do_cat_loop'); function custom_do_cat_loop() { global $query_args; // any wp_query() args $args= array('cat' => '30'); genesis_custom_loop(wp_parse_args($query_args, $args)); } genesis();
looks to me ~ not a developer ~ like it's making an array of categories for the loop, which is not what I am trying to do.
In fact I am trying to avoid using categories and tags for site structure entirely.
Can you help me a little bit further?
Terence.
P.S. But as a result I did find the Display Posts Shortcode plugin, there.
TerenceMemberThanks for pointing me in the right direction Brad ~ learning by doing ~ I made a mistake and I learned something.
I'll try again...
Hi,
I want to get rid of the separate blog altogether and integrate all posts using the site's structure to place them in the correct cornerstone sections.
Let me explain what I mean.
I am new to Genesis so I am having difficulties tracking down how the loop works exactly.
The loop is generally started with the following code:
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
For working with posts, I want to organize this new site's content into "sections" using the Cornerstone plugin [ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cornerstone/ ] and not fake the site structure with categories and tags, so I want to use a couple different functions in place of the default ones:
<?php if ( cnr_have_children() ) : while ( cnr_have_children() ) : cnr_next_child(); ?>
In the loop, displaying the post’s content should be exactly the same as with any other template in a theme. So I assume I can use template tags such as
the_title(), the_excerpt(),
etc.
Here’s an example loop that displays the title and an excerpt with a link for each post in the section when using Cornerstone...
<?php if ( cnr_have_children() ) : while ( cnr_have_children() ) : cnr_next_child(); ?> <h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3> <div><?php the_excerpt(); ?></div> <?php endwhile; endif; ?>
My questions are ~
A) how is this form of post structuring likely to affect (or not) the loop and other functions within Genesis in general, and more specifically in Dynamik for Genesis?, and
B) where does the loop start in Genesis?
C) Can I simply use, say, a Dynamik Custom Hook Box with “genesis_loop” to replace the Genesis loop entirely and not worry about A) & B) ?
Terence.
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