New user issues with the eleven40 theme

[Matt Henderson]

Hello everybody,

I just purchased and setup my first StudioPress theme, the eleven40, and have the following initial issues and questions:

1. The theme offers a three-column layout in which the primary sidebar is on the right, and the secondary sidebar is on the right. I would like to exchange that order, such that the primary is on the left. I've seen some examples in the "code snippets" area of the StudioPress support side for "repositioning sidebars", but there are separate "reposition primary" and "reposition secondary" clippings, but I'm unsure whether those are intended for my purpose, e.g. I would have expected something like "switch position of sidebars".

2. Previously I was using a default WordPress theme. In that theme, when I oEmdedded Flickr images with the [embed] tags, the images spanned the full width of the body column. In this eleven40 theme, they are not, as can be seen in this travel article. Would anyone know how I can fix that?

3. Finally, I was really really hoping to have a widgetized home page, but it seems this isn't included in the eleven40 theme. Does anyone know whether there's an option to create/add this functionality manually?

Thanks so much, in advance, for any help you can provide.

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[carasmo]

1. http://www.studiopress.community/topic/eleven40-pro-sidebar-content-switching-sidebar-widgets/
(read the thread)

2. The 2015 WP theme has a narrow content area and most likely their css for all images inside that area are 100%, Genesis uses responsive css (max-width:100%). If you want to globally make all images 100% of the width of the content, even though the quality will not be good since they are being enlarged from a smaller image, then you can add this to your style.css file near the end of the file and outside any media queries:

/*full width image in .content column */
.content img {width:100%;}

If you just want to make some images full width, create a class in your style.css file and add that class to the img tag itself:

.content .full-width-img {width:100%;}

<img class="full-width-img" src="..."/>

3. The description of eleven40 does not indicate a Widgetized home page. If you are very good with php and css: https://wpbeaches.com/creating-widgetized-genesis-home-page/. Make a complete backup of all functions.php, styles etc., before doing anything. Or you can hire a Genesis developer to do this for you. However, consider what you want, do you just want the two sidebars and a middle content that is static? Consider that you can probably use just a static page with the content in that area.

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Genesis Theme Customization and Help

[Matt Henderson]

Hello Carasmo,

Thanks for the help. Here are some follow-on comments:

1. Regarding my desire to switch primary/secondary sidebar positions in a three-column layout, I read the article and installed the recommended Genesis Layout Options plugin, which does seem to offer a layout corresponding to what I need. However, selecting that layout resulted in the primary/secondary sidebars appearing _on top of each other_. I posted a screenshot in a reply to that thread.

2. I added the first CSS you suggested, and indeed it displayed the images full-width. However, as you suspected, the images appear pixelated. I'm referring to the images in post using the oEmbed method, e.g. [embed]{flickr_url}[/embed]. For some reason, in the eleven40 theme, Flickr is delivery smaller images than what get delivers in the standard WP theme.

Thanks again.

[Matt Henderson]

I think I've solved the Flickr image width problem by using this:

[embed width=maxwidth]{flickr_url}[/embed]

...instead of this...

[embed]{flickr_url}[/embed]

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