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Hi David, good to hear you are looking at splitting the plugins from the themes. Might be more interesting for non-genesis user also...and in that way lead to more sales.

I remember an email coming by about a coupon, but by the time I wanted to check the offer I could not find the email anymore.
Meanwhile the transfer from Atomic to Genesis Blocks which affects all the sites that I optimistically build with Atomic came along, as yet I did not find the time to effect that change for most websites. Also it still remains vague what the Pro will add to Genesis Blocks.
As a one-man band its not that I do not want to do all those things...it is simply hard to find the time.
The hours that I loose on the Atomic transfer are another reason that I am reluctant to switch to Genesis Pro Blocks with its steep annual charge. It does not compare to spending millions on themes and plugins like you do, but for me it is important non the less.

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Hi David, hold your horses. no one said you are unethical. Also I did not ask you to give anything for free. I just pointed out that by giving long time Genesis users a well deserved advantage you would show respect and would prove that you are serious about wanting to keep them aboard.
It does not cost you anything and would probably be a good investment in goodwill and the positive image of your company.

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Hi David,
You supply a long list of perfectly understandable motivations for the way you offer Genesis Pro to all users.
What I do not see in your reasoning is the understanding that long term customers and user of Genesis are and feel special. If I would treat my loyal customers the way you do with users who have been loyal to Genesis I would quickly be out of business.
Emotionally those customers deserve a special treatment to keep them aboard and insure that they will continue to be Genesis Ambassadors.
I would suggest to offer existing users something like 5% discount for every year they have been StudioPress customers. That way they would see that you really wish them to stay aboard instead of just wishing them luck and saying goodbye.

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@RavenManiac's last question was: "How would a ProPlus member get a copy of this tool?"
From you lengthy answer I can only conclude that there is simply no other way for a ProPlus member to get "Genesis Blocks Pro and Genesis Custom Blocks Pro" then to get the whole new 'Genesis Pro' package.

Eric Hamm makes the naming confusion clear in his review which is worth checking out.

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Same here... I just do not understand what the exact added value is and certainly not at such a steep anual charge. The discount offered is only for the first year. Why is the plugin not available for Pro Plus customers at a reasonable price?

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@Nick I tried your suggestion:
define( 'CHILD_THEME_NAME', 'Child Name' ); but that did not solve the issue with the background-images not showing.

Ah just tried again, now it works...!

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Nick's featured Amplified works fine here (3.6 & 2.0 still on xhtml) On a few widgets it had lost the configuration as to from which cat it should display the posts... after re pointing that to the right cats it works normal.

You did activate the option "link title to post" I hope ? (since it may not be default)

Good Luck...

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Sorry I did not use <code> in the right way, you probably have to change the ' (what do you call them apostrophe?) in the code...

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Hi Greg, took the template for a spin while trying to solve some layout issues with the Sensei Plugin and Genesis and it seems to work nicely... (sorry only localhost so nothing to show)

Only thing that I do not like is the reset css. I always use Firebug to do the css and because of the long reset defs you have too scroll way down before you arrive at the relevant css rules.

Does look like there will have to be quite a bit of study into the new elements etc. now that we will soon be looking at html5 on a regular basis 🙂

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I did another test with a base theme for Genesis 2.0 that I found on the forum. (Thanks Greg!)

http://www.studiopress.community/topic/new-html5-base-child-theme-with-2-0-kept-in-mind/

used the same php in the functions file. The css needed turned out to be only:

`
#content-sensei {
padding: 0 0 0 30px;
width: 580px;
float: left;
}`

#content{
width: 100%;
}

I did only a very short test with an imported course & lessons, but the display looked normal...

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I dug out my test install for the Sensei Plugin and did some testing with the code that I found in another sensei topic

/**** Theme Compatibility for Integrating Sensei with Genesis Framework/Child Theme *********/
remove_action( 'sensei_before_main_content', 'sensei_output_content_wrapper', 10 );
remove_action( 'sensei_after_main_content', 'sensei_output_content_wrapper_end', 10 );

add_action( 'sensei_before_main_content', 'edu_theme_wrapper_start', 10 );
add_action( 'sensei_after_main_content', 'edu_theme_wrapper_end', 10 );

function edu_theme_wrapper_start() {
do_action( 'genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap' );
echo '<div id="content-sidebar-wrap"><div id="content">'; //edited here afterwards
}

function edu_theme_wrapper_end() {
echo '</div></div>';
}

I only needed to change the line with id=content as it turned out to introduce a second id=content in the page. After changing the about code to:  <div id="content-sensei"> the sidebar on my page would show up normally.

The layout needed some css fixing, but that was not too hard.
It is probably different for each template, in this case the lines:

.post-type-archive-lesson #content {
padding: 0;
}

#content-sensei {
padding: 0 0 0 30px;
width: 580px;
float: left;
}

were enough to fix the layout for this (older) template. It has different sidebars for home and primary, so I guess the simple sidebars or conditional sidebars will probably work.

Maybe in other themes the <div id="content-sidebar-wrap"> needs to be a different one when you also use the sidebar-alt ?

Hope this helps...

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@bmaven I would be really grateful if you could share your solution if you find one.. I tried to use Sensei before and had a short communication with Woothemes about the problem, but a the time it could not be solved in a simple way, this was just after Sensei was released.

Because the client did not have time to wait I changed to another plugin. Still the plugin looked very promising and I would really be interested in a solution... or just to know if I can forget about using the plugin in the near future.

Thanks in advance.. 🙂

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Thanks for the reminder Chris, forgot the  resolved thingy ... the answers are in this topic

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@Travis I tested Sensei for a bit. The templates do not work out of the box with the Genesis Themes (I tried Metro and an adapted Sleek) but in both themes the sidebars ended up being displayed inside the content div on the Sensei pages…
And my php skills ar just not enough to tackle that.

Have you checked it out yet?

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I am in the process of checking out the various options...  Picked up a copy of Premise in the Valentijn Sale, want to see how that adds in... First glance there are a lot off thing that are already present in Genesis (SEO and such)
I'll try to remember to post what we finally went for with the site I am doing this for...

 

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I tested Sensei for a bit. The templates do not work out of the box with the Genesis Themes (I tried Metro and an adapted Sleek) but in both themes the sidebars ended up being displayed inside the content div on the Sensei pages...

Maybe someone knows how to fix that? I had a quick look but could not figure out where it went wrong.. But I think I saw some html5 specific code which probably does not make it easier  to convert to Genesis.

I was a bit disappointed since the Woo guys claim it will work with any theme... and I though I would be able to set it up quickly 🙁

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@Bill if you just click on your profile link you can see a list of  Topics Started and Replies created...
I see you got more answers than questions...
Forum Role: Participant
Topics Started: 2
Replies Created: 275
You can also use links like this replies by Bill: http://www.studiopress.community/users/bill-murray/replies/
or you can add treads to your favorites..
But I have to agree with you... the forum is not what it used to be 🙁
Lately I learn less from the forum. But also guilty of B type behavior..
And on topic... I mainly use the themes as a starting point for customization, I hardly look at colors etc. just at the general layout, which is decisive to make it a starting point.
I realize that is a developer view and from the type of question asked (lately?) "how can I change the color of the header" etc. I can see a lot of people have a long way to go before finishing their sites

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Thanks for the reply SoZo... it's been so long that I already forgot which site I was working on at that time 🙂
I have used DB-Optimize, but never for this purpose.. I will check it out.

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I have not tried this but maybe the plugin or the code can help?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-email-editor/
says this in the description: "Added support whereby the admin notification can be turned off or a different admin (or admins, support for multiple recipients) can be notified."

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Hi Kev, try using firebug for Firefox or the chrome "inspect element" and you will find css elements and fixes real easy.

The "Subscribe Now widget"  = probably: #page-title p

Code is in page-title.php

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