Essence Pro – How to change Front Page 1 section to full width w/ 1 page/column

[janicholson3]

Greetings, Studio Press warriors. The Front Page 1 section within Essence Pro seems to automatically be a two-column widget area even if only one page is place in the widget.

Anyone know how to tweak the widget so that the area centers and accommodates just one featured page here instead of automatically splitting the area into two columns so that if you put only one page in the area it just hangs out on the left with an empty space on the right?

Working on this on http://www.scribevibe.org

Thanks mucho!

http://www.scribevibe.org

[janicholson3]

In case this helps, I noticed that in the customizer viewing area it actually renders as I hoped it would and as one would think it should when only one Genesis Featured Page is in there (for the record, I tried it one Genesis Featured Post as well and got the same result). A screenshot of that (how I'd like it to render) is attached here from the customizer preview area, along with a screenshot of how it actually does look in several browsers, in case anyone takes a glance at the link while I'm tinkering with it myself.

[janicholson3]

A bottle and a quarter of wine and two more hours of tinkering and I finally found the simple solution... I was editing in the Appearance > Editor area instead of using Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS.

For anyone else who may be confused, when going into Appearance > Editor by long-time habit, the note at the top says "...you CAN edit and live preview CSS changes in the built-in CSS editor. [emphasis added]" However, it doesn't say you MUST edit CSS via Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS.

Evidently that was he problem here. The edits I was doing were not catching, whereas they did once I used the built-in CSS editor under Customize. Had the note been clearer, I would have saved 2 hours and 364 liver cells and one FB rant. Next time I'll try that first.

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