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  • September 1, 2015 at 6:35 am #164201
    unklee
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    Hi, I am new here. I am considering buying the Genesis Framework and the Ambiance child theme, but I have a few questions please. I plan to use it on an existing website and blog - i.e. it has many pages as well as posts, and most or all pages have individual graphics. I am familiar with CSS, and can do a little PHP coding too.

    1. If I make a static home page, will I be able to use widgets on that page to show featured posts with a small featured image/thumbnail, also a search box, also a sidebar with widgets, etc, to give me good flexibility in the design?

    2. If I use featured image to create thumbnails for posts and pages (say with a related posts/pages widget), will that require the thumbnails to be stored as a separate graphic, or is the thumbnail created by automatically cropping the larger image?

    3. Is it possible to have a widget area at the bottom of a post or page, not in the footer, but in the text?

    I suppose these may sound like weird questions, but I'm just trying to understand what this child theme can and can't do. Thanks.

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    September 1, 2015 at 6:44 am #164202
    Brad Dalton
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    1. The theme already includes an index.php page which you can add widgets to or replace with a front-page.php file.
    2. WordPress generates several copies of each image you upload according to your Media settings and any additional custom sizes added to your functions file using add_image_size and stores them in your uploads folder according to date.
    3. Yes. See the code snippets page. Requires the addition of 1 line of PHP code to your child themes functions.php file.

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    September 1, 2015 at 6:51 am #164204
    unklee
    Member

    Hey Brad, thanks heaps, that was amazingly quick.

    I should be able to manage 1 & 3.

    Re 2: is that standard for all WordPress? I guess that obviates the need to generate images on the fly as the page is loaded? My present site is a hand coded website with a WordPress blog, and uses images that are stored in 3 separate places - in a graphics folder I have created, on Picasa and uploaded to WordPress. I guess I'm going to have a lot of work moving some of them around to the right place.

    I can see this upgrade is going to be time-consuming!

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