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I'm seeing the facebook commenting plugin used more and more on WP sites. Seems to work well. We use it on our bigger site that as a teen-20s demographic.
Disqus seems to be getting somewhat of a following as well.
In the end it's whatever can be used to make it hard for spammers (ie seo link farmers) to create the ubiquitous 'this post is great, I've bookmarked it!' post.
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Updated site I'm developing with genesis & child theme. No issues so far as I can see.
Love the new WP admin theme. Very clean and seems to be a tad zippier. Widget 2-column reorganisation is welcome. Fed up with multiple custom sidebars and having to infinitely scroll just to load them.
The WordPress included jQuery version has moved on somewhat in the last few release cycles especially since 3.5. Along with this is a number of deprecated features of jQuery which may cause issues with existing plugins. In this case the 'live' function is deprecated in favour of event delegation using 'on'
('select.widget-control-save').live('change', function(){will become
('select').on('change', '.widget-control-save', function() {Try that.
You may want to look at: http://genesissandbox.com/
Not sure how up to date it is as far as bootstrap3 & genesis2 but worth a look.
Clean, up-to-date. Good starting point for a lot of templates.
Doesn't have a lot of the knobs & twiddly bits of bootstrap. Uses normalise.css as the core styling for current & legacy browsers which genesis2 does as well.
Though they've lifted the column width calculations from bootstrap there's still a fair amount of work to either integrate the two or take the best bits from bootstrap3 and merge into the genesis child theme - possibly with options / bits from other genesis html5 themes. Saying that there's more similarity between genesis2 & bootstrap3 for html/css standards.
If you've ever dived into bootstrap3 css you'll realise how much they use heirarchy structures for each section. Had my head spinning. Genesis is much more flat structured in comparison.
Not sure whether the core genesis devs would ever get into this, probably too much to support. Something I've considerd doing after using bootstrap with opencart.
Another one I'd like to see genesified is html5boilerplate.
Still an issue. No word from the Genesis people on this or the other structural wrap issue.
In the end I used a non widget workaround: Your theme functions.php
//* Custom header menu add_action( 'genesis_header_right', 'sk_header_menu', 5 ); function sk_header_menu() { //set header menu classes $class = 'menu genesis-nav-menu menu-header'; if ( genesis_superfish_enabled() ) { $class .= ' js-superfish'; } $args = array( 'menu' => 'Main Menu', 'theme_location' => '', 'container' => '', 'menu_class' => $class, 'menu_id' => 'menu-main-menu', 'echo' => 0 ); //add header menu $headernav = wp_nav_menu( $args ); //test menu if ( ! $headernav ) { return; } //set up structural markup $headernav_markup_open = genesis_markup( array( 'html5' => '<nav %s>', 'xhtml' => '<div id="header-menu">', 'context' => 'nav-header', 'echo' => false ) ); $headernav_markup_open .= genesis_structural_wrap( 'nav', 'open', 0 ); $headernav_markup_close = genesis_structural_wrap( 'nav', 'close', 0 ); $headernav_markup_close .= genesis_html5() ? '</nav>' : '</div>'; $headernav_output = $headernav_markup_open . $headernav . $headernav_markup_close; //output menu echo apply_filters( 'sk_do_headernav', $headernav_output, $headernav, $args ); }This was using a menu called 'Main Menu' I created as normal in the admin menu section. You'll obviously have to change this and the id's
IMO just go to the standard 5.4 version. I'm assuming they're using just the standard LAMP stack i.e Apache, MySQL , PHP and not some fancy nginx incarnation. MySQL will probably be 5.5+ which is fine and Apache either 2.2 or 2.4, probably the former for now.
PHP 5.4 is fine with WP and is much improved over 5.2 and 5.3 both of which are end-of-life streams. We're on 5.5 atm with 5.4 the legacy stream. Hosts are always a stream behind at least.
Just noticed the section in the framework init file...
//* Maybe add support for structural wraps if ( ! current_theme_supports( 'genesis-structural-wraps' ) ) add_theme_support( 'genesis-structural-wraps', array( 'header', 'menu-primary', 'menu-secondary', 'footer-widgets', 'footer' ) );So it's forcing the wrap by default for these sections? Seems strangely against the logic of their use and not in the genesis markup guide.
Came here to see if anyone else could figure out the logic. Damned if I can. Might have to join you in the dark corner with a cold towel over my eyes.
Nice theme, and can see plenty of uses. But first impression of any site using it would 'nice, but err, what do I do now?'
Maybe put the menu at the bottom / side and move to the top when scrolling. At least give someone a way to find a contact form!
Bout as useful as a parallax page without a top button, sorry!
