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Heinz, take a look at these:
https://wordpress.org/themes/agency/
https://wordpress.org/themes/prose/
https://wordpress.org/themes/focus/These are ones I know had problems with random updates from WordPress accidentally, which overwrote the StudioPress themes. As for Landscape, that theme isn't even offered by StudioPress anymore, so how could it possibly have done an auto-update on you?
Another thought, I think some Genesis child themes are available on WordPress.com, but I have no idea how they work over there, if they are included in automatic updates through there.
This auto-updating of themes is not a StudioPress problem, because StudioPress does not have a system like that active for child themes. Possibly it's a WordPress problem, associated with their auto-update system, but what you are blaming StudioPress for cannot happen without a human doing the update.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberStudioPress themes do not auto-update, nor do they even give indications in WordPress that updated versions are available.
What has happened twice in the past (only those times that I'm aware of), is when a StudioPress theme has the same name as a theme in the WordPress.org repository, and for some reason, WP throws out an "update available" message and that mistakenly gets a lot of people doing an update through their WP installations, which gives them an entirely different theme, and one that's not even a Genesis child theme to boot. I think in some cases, the theme was allowed to auto-update because of settings in some folks' installations, but I'm not 100% sure about that part.
Unless you manually update a Genesis child theme, they will not update without human intervention. Even when notifications of updates to the framework are available, you are emailed first to be told that one is available.
As for themes with new names, all of the old themes that were redesigned with "Pro" suffixes are new names. "Lifestyle" and "Lifestyle Pro" are entirely different themes; "Lifestyle" was available until 2013 and used version numbers 1.x and 2.x, while "Lifestyle Pro" replaced it, starting the version numbering at 3.0. The theme names are different, even the folder names are different. What will not happen is an auto-update from "Lifestyle" to "Lifestyle Pro", nor would any updated versions of "Lifestyle Pro" ever be updated without a person actually performing the update.
So, which theme of yours auto-updated, and are you sure it changed to another Genesis child theme? I ask because what you are describing sounds exactly what happened when WordPress pushed out an update to a theme from the repository, and it accidentally triggered overwriting of Genesis child themes of the same name and folks updated them, and maybe even was done automatically on sites where auto-updates are enabled.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberIf you look at your Genesis > Theme Settings, what do you have set in the Content Archives section?
If you select "Display post excerpts", it should display the manual excerpts, and only fall back to the automated ones on posts where no manual excerpt exists.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberYes, I don't want to have to add the gradient to the image myself before uploading it, because that makes it kind of a waste of having all that gradient code in the CSS in the first place.
Since this is theme related, I decided to just submit a support ticket about it. If their answer is helpful, I can post it here 🙂
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberActually, if you look at the CSS for Workstation Pro, there is an overlay... that's why you can see it on the one white image, and if the browser loads slowly enough, you can see the overlay on the entry header areas for the other posts start to load, but then the image loads on top of the gradient instead.
The CSS for the linear gradients is visible when you look at the page using Firebug.
I think this may be something messed up with Featured Images again, because I'm having a devil of a time with another archive page using the image size I want and not the image size it feels like using for the content archives instead of what I'm telling it to use in the custom templates.
The suspicion in the behavior is because that one white image is a post image, while the others are Featured Images.
And why the functions called in the templates can't or won't defaults used in the Genesis > Themes Settings has been bugging the crap out of me the past few days. That I actually have to turn them off in Theme Settings to get the behavior I want in a custom template doesn't make sense to me (yes, I'm talking about the Featured Image behavior still).
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberYou would have to do some CSS work to change that top widget area to have the same "configuration" as the bottom area, and then change the sizing to allow for 5 instead of 3, but after that you should be all set!
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberLook at the demos for Enterprise Pro and Executive Pro child themes. They have spaces on the front where Featured Pages are set up as widgets, and you don't have to include any image with them.
You can add widget areas like that to any front page, if the theme you're using doesn't already have them.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberThat site isn't done in WordPress, and the scroller isn't a slider plugin, it appears to be a custom bit of javascript code that scrolls through a list of pre-configured HTML pages.
That said, does what you need have to be a slider or scroller? A page with a series of Featured Page widgets could accomplish a similar effect, unless it's the scrolling part you want more than the list of pages?
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberAll Genesis child themes will use the first post image it finds as the featured image if no featured image is set. Fortunately, there is a way to turn this off as of Genesis 2.0.
Add this to your functions.php to remove the post image fallback from the archives:
add_filter( 'genesis_get_image_default_args', 'genesis_disable_featured_image_fallback' ); function genesis_disable_featured_image_fallback( $args ) { if ( ! isset( $args['context'] ) || 'archive' !== $args['context'] ) return $args; $args['fallback'] = false; return $args; }
or if you want to go all in and remove all image fallback behaviors, use this version (it's what I use, the full hammer):
add_filter( 'genesis_get_image_default_args', 'genesis_disable_featured_image_fallback' ); function genesis_disable_featured_image_fallback( $args ) { $args['fallback'] = false; return $args; }
Should work just fine... I just included the full hammer snippet on a new Streamline Pro setup.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberI've started testing out the Safe Redirect Manager plugin. It's appealing to me because it will import existing redirects from the Redirection plugin, which used to be awesome, but has become less effective with updates the dev has made over the past year or so.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberI've been using the Subtitles plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/subtitles/) on a number of sites running Genesis, without any problems at all, for at least a year now.
I currently have it in use on sites running 4.2.5 and 4.3.1, with Genesis 2.1.3 and 2.2.3, using a variety of child themes, like Epik, Streamline Pro, News Pro. Works wonders on single posts and archive views, and I even submitted a bug to the dev where the subtitle was behaving oddly in the RSS feeds (which he fixed last year very quickly).
What problems have you been running into?
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberMaybe we have different definitions of mobile responsive?
Those themes don't have HTML5 support, and from what I remember last time I looked, they didn't define media screens smaller than 800px wide... I remember seeing 1200px, 960px, and 800px, but nothing smaller.
That's not something I would have hallucinated, at least I don't think so 😉
You're gonna make me go look, aren't you...
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberIf Expose is no longer listed on the themes page, then yes, it's likely been retired.
http://my.studiopress.com/themes/
Be aware that Mocha, Decor, Prose, Balance and Mindstream (the ones listed at the bottom of that page without the HTML5 indicator) are not mobile responsive either.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkAugust 21, 2015 at 2:20 pm in reply to: Which theme is the best one to use to mold into your own theme? #163095SummerMemberEarlier versions didn't have a way to export, but the current versions will create a standalone child theme.
I think it's explained how to do that on the Features list there, as well....
yep, just scroll down that main page: http://cobaltapps.com/downloads/dynamik-website-builder/#ca-product-section-5
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkAugust 21, 2015 at 11:08 am in reply to: Which theme is the best one to use to mold into your own theme? #163084SummerMemberI kinda thought that's what Cobalt Apps did with Dynamik Website Builder and their Genesis Extender plugin...
http://cobaltapps.com/downloads/dynamik-website-builder/
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberFor general plugins, a lot depends on if it's a site of mine or a client's site, and what that site will be used for, so this will be a starting reference, rather than a complete list.
For brand new installations, I always delete Hello Dolly and Akismet immediately, and never install Jetpack 🙂
I'll install either Ninja Forms or Gravity Forms, depending on site needs, and for spam protection I'll go with either WP-Spamshield or Zero Spam.
Regenerate Thumbnails is always a must, and 75% of the time so is Dynamic Widgets.
If I'm not going to always be working on a staging site for the main site, I don't install WP Migrate DB... for backups, depending on the client's hosting situation, I'll use Updraft Plus.
I like WP Recent Comments with Avatars (with my own special customization), and I like Nextscripts Social Network Auto-Poster for auto-posting to Twitter (it can also do G+ and Facebook).
For sites where I will have contributors who don't need their own full user accounts, I create guest user profiles instead of accounts to still give them bylines and author pages, and sometimes I use Avatar Manager to give them custom avatars (since they aren't likely to have Gravatar accounts). I used to use Simple Local Avatars for that, but I've since switched. And with those, comes Genesis Simple Edits and Genesis Simple Share.
I really need to finish writing up my tutorials on setting up user profiles, and finish figuring out the code to fix the author box on guest author pages problem. 🙂
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberUseful only relates to what you need to do on your website, so could you narrow down the parameters a bit? 🙂
Are you talking about additions to users, mods in content structure or display, navigation enhancements, social media sharing, or something else?
I'm actually working on a list of plugins, in two separate designations... the "must have" for my needs, and the "must play" for testing out the cool factor. Nowhere near ready yet, since I'm still testing a few.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberI tend to research SEO best practices at sites like searchengineland.com, moz.com and seoroundtable.com. Most folks there have the time and best interests in keeping up with Google's algorithm changes and changes to results displays & listings.
As for why I dropped Yoast, I had three sites Yoast was installed on go from normal page load speeds to over 35 seconds each with the plugin's upgrade to version 1.5 way back when, and then response in the support forums was basically "switch to managed hosting and your problem will be fixed, oh here use my affiliate link", which was an answer that left a bad taste in a lot of folks' mouths.
Since the problem went away when Yoast was deactivated, I decided it was time to just walk away and never look back. I did give it a shot once again last year just to see if anything had been fixed, but same problem, different hosting setup (dedicated, not shared), and I decided it was 4th down and 40 to go for good for that plugin and my desire to use it ever again for my own sites.
Outdated plugins is not the issue... it's the fact that 40% of people who upgraded to the latest version of Yoast (each time there's an upgrade) have reported problems. I'm not going to chance that with a client site. Problems come up the same way problems with new versions of any plugin or even WordPress itself happen; it's not possible to test for 100% coverage of configuration or installation eventualities, and as a result some things will break. When those things break, the people it affects will almost always yell the loudest 🙂 But when the response is consistently "it's not us, it's you", there's a serious gap in communication and customer service somewhere.
As for Hostgator, their problems have gotten so bad, several of their servers are continually being flagged as spam relays and as malware hosts. I'm talking several clients into moving their accounts off Hostgator because it's become so heinous.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberIf you look at the themes at the bottom of the StudioPress list, you'll see they are not HTML5, which means they are the oldest themes in the bunch, and were not designed to be mobile responsive out of the box, like the newer Pro themes are.
Mocha, Decor, Balance, Prose and Mindstream don't have media queries defined for any of the various mobile screen sizes, so you'd likely have to add those all in yourself in order to get responsive behavior.
Several other older themes aren't listed as available anymore, it seems (like Backcountry, for instance), so my guess is they are or soon will be retired. I had been hoping for a Pro version of Backcountry, an upgrade like some of the other older themes have received over the past year or two, and while the Backcountry demo is still online, I'm not sure if it's removal from the list of available themes means upgrade or put out to pasture.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberFWIW, I had started using the tool at http://realfavicongenerator.net then uploading the resulting package of images and adding the code to the Header scripts section.
No messing with template code, no need to add images to a themes image folder.
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