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Are you sure it's WordPress doing that, and not an SEO plugin rewriting your titles?
I've seen that happen, but I've never seen the basic WP install (with or without Genesis) do what you're describing.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSeptember 7, 2014 at 8:06 am in reply to: Please Suggest a Plugin to Show Menu on Sidebar Selectively #123091SummerMemberYou need to use another plugin that will allow you to selectively display that menu widget on the sidebars you want.
I use Dynamic Widgets, others here have mentioned using Widget Logic.
Conditional Widgets is another one I've seen, but I haven't played with it myself yet.
Either of those should let you pick and choose what pages will display your menu widget or not.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSeptember 6, 2014 at 6:37 pm in reply to: Genesis Title Toggle incompatible with WordPress 4.0 #123095SummerMemberNo issues with the new Media Library? Apparently something in both those plugins is what's causing some of the interference/complaints with Media Library failures.
Both those plugins still work, but they adversely affect how WP 4.0's new Media Library functions, was my understanding.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSeptember 6, 2014 at 5:12 pm in reply to: Please Suggest a Plugin to Show Menu on Sidebar Selectively #123092SummerMemberYou need to use another plugin that will allow you to selectively display that menu widget on the sidebars you want.
I use Dynamic Widgets, others here have mentioned using Widget Logic.
Conditional Widgets is another one I've seen, but I haven't played with it myself yet.
Either of those should let you pick and choose what pages will display your menu widget or not, and you won't need to clutter things up by having 5-10 extra single-page-only custom sidebars.
(second attempt to post this... darned 2 links limit struck again)
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberFor me, the Latest Tweets plugin has been unpredictable and unstable for the past year. After fighting with it one time too often, I ditched it on almost all my sites and just replaced it with Twitter's widget. It has more features anyway.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSeptember 4, 2014 at 11:59 pm in reply to: Display Post excerpt showing blank on category pages #122876SummerMemberEven if you have some manual excerpts, automated ones should still get created for posts where you don't have them. I have several sites where the category archives display a mix of both types of excerpts.
Did you customize your category archives to do something different? What theme are you using, and what version of Genesis?
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberI've been reading on the WP.org troubleshooting forum threads that a lot of people's Media Galleries disappeared or stopped working in some fashion after they upgraded to 4.0... has anyone had a problem with that with any Genesis sites?
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberI honestly think there's a plugin that does this in a widget, and I spent a while yesterday looking through the repository for it, but I couldn't find the exact one I'd seen before.
Most of the ones in the repository just give lists of authors and how many posts they have, but I know I saw one that would let you select an author, and choose how many recent posts of theirs to display... I just can't seem to find it right now!
Then you'd use something like Dynamic Widgets to control which widgets appear on which pages, and that should do it.
Now, watch... Murphy's Laws state that I'll find that authors plugin 10 minutes from now...
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSeptember 3, 2014 at 6:35 pm in reply to: Update Slider Revolution Now: Plugin Critical Vulnerability Being Exploited #122683SummerMemberIt sounds like the bigger problem is that the plugin makers didn't notify anyone they were fixing an extreme security issue, and that premium theme makers who'd bundled the plugin had no idea that it had been updated, meaning there are now lots of people running premium themes that have older versions of this plugin bundled in that are vulnerable, and they had no idea about it. The plugin doesn't notify bundled owners that there are updates available, apparently?
Yikes, that's a scary one... one of those themes was being used by a client of mine until I switched them over to Genesis 2 years ago after taking them on.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberRemoving the footer will not fix the problem. Somehow the permissions on your plugins folder were incorrect, and someone just dropped that ek.php script into the first open writeable directory they found.
What you need to do is delete that ek.php file, change the file permissions on the plugin folder and everything in wp-content to be correct/secure, and make sure there aren't any other copies of that script in other folders on your website.
You should be able to use File Manager from the cPanel and see what the ownership/permissions on that file are (and on the folder).
They either made their way into your hosting account, or slid in sideways from someone else's on the same server. You need to change your passwords asap, and that includes the database passwords for the WP sites.
So, to be clear... Simple Edits was not hacked. They did not change any existing Simple Edits code. Someone hacked your website or your hosting account or both, and planted a trojan in an insecure folder, which happened to be the plugin folder for Simple Edits.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberWhat Anita said.
The plugin does not have the capability to send emails, so it's impossible for it to be the source of the spam. If your ISP told you this, you need to run as fast as you can to another hosting provider, because they know not a thing about WordPress or troubleshooting, and this is a scary thing. To me, anyway.
Okay, now I am scared... you're with Hostgator (so am I). If someone with their tech support told you this, maybe that tech you talked to was just drunk...
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberFor what it's worth, you might not need to worry about fixing that.
Google is killing off Authorship, effective immediately, and the rumors circulating around the SEO pros is that Google+ might also soon follow it to the land of Dead Google Projects.
http://wptavern.com/google-authorship-is-officially-dead-wordpress-authorship-plugins-are-now-obsolete
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JohnMueller/posts/HZf3KDP1Dm8
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberActually, Quantcast wants it's code to be just before the closing body tag, so you should use the Footer box in the Genesis settings.
Yes, I've had Quantcast on 5 of my sites for several years, and was so happy when Genesis added those config features 🙂
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkAugust 29, 2014 at 11:04 pm in reply to: Add featured image support to custom post type in Executive Pro #121786SummerMemberI don't see anything that sticks out as being incorrect. Have you tried putting the code to register the post type in functions.php, just to test out if the code works as expected there? Maybe there's something off about how your plugin is trying to set things up?
Executive Pro shouldn't need the add_theme_support calls, since it already supports them (at least my copy did, out of the box).
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberWhere are you looking for the images of different sizes? You won't see them specified in the Media Library... the only place you will physically see the different files is via FTP or a file manager, looking at the uploads folder where those images might be.
Genesis does not supercede the default WordPress settings, so you can have your theme's image definitions alongside the Media ones you define in Settings, even if you have the same size defined by both.
The easiest way to see what sizes are active is to go to Genesis > Theme Settings, and go to Content Archives. If "Include Feature Image" is enabled, you should be able to click the dropdown and see all of the image sizes that your theme and WP have defined.
And no, picking and choosing which image sizes you want WordPress to use or to ignore is not something that exists yet, even though many WordPress users and admins have been asking for something like that for at least 5 years. Your best solution would be to only define the sizes you need to use in your theme functions, then set the sizes in the Media settings to 0x0 so they won't be created.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberJust disable Simple Edits and see what changes; it's no big deal to turn it back on again... and as I had said in another, Simple Edits works fine on two sites with custom templatesand Co-Authors, but dragonpage is one where it doesn't... I had to get rid of it there.
It's weird, but it's code, so it is what it is 🙂
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberThe filter for the post class just adds a class to each post, so I could more easily style the entire thing. You wouldn't see a visible change on the page, but if you looked at the source, you'd see "library-posts" as an additional class.
Is your theme xhtml or html5? The action call in the second snippet won't work for an html5 theme... you'd have to replace it with genesis_entry_header, and add a priority level number... I think I've seen 12 used in other examples. You'd also have to change the image size to one you have defined in your theme (I'm pretty sure library-thumb isn't something many folks would use).
If you add the snippet for changing just the post info, you should see that change on the page.
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberIf you have purchased those themes, then any one you can download that has a portfolio template it in should suffice.
WordPress does not allow creating new files from the internal editor (and you really should avoid using that if you can, or at least don't edit functions.php with it). Genesis will use whatever templates you add to the child theme, and it really doesn't care if you have them or not, it will fill in the blanks -- that's the beauty of the framework.
If you look at the code I pasted in the first examples, you'll see that those do exactly what you asked about... a featured image and a title. If you add that to the rest of the template example, you'll have 90% of the template you see that creates the Library listings at Dragon Page. All you'd need to do is modify the CSS... or use a widgetized home page, and select the Featured Posts widget to only display the image and post title...
I didn't realize you were asking for the entire template, I thought you were coding your own and had just become stuck 🙂
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMember@Joan, I'm not sure what you're looking for exists yet.
Several theme shops build their themes so they can sell them to as many people as possible, and not everyone wants to use WooCommerce. So a theme shop would be locking themselves out of potential sales by making a theme only for WooCommerce with all the WC CSS built into the theme. It would be more advantageous for them to make sure the theme works with the plugin, and let the plugin do all the work.
The plugin allows people to be able to add WC functionality if they want to use WC, or not worry about it if they choose to use a different cart. For instance, Themedy's Clip Cart works with Cart66, Cart66 Cloud and WooCommerce, but you will need the plugin to get the WC styles.
I'm pretty sure all of the ones in Kelly's list and Ben's list would require the Genesis Connect plugin.
I do recall playing with some themes with WC and not using the plugin, and the cart worked fine, but the CSS was all over the place, as you might expect. I can't recall ever coming across a Genesis child theme that only is for WC, that will work out of the box without the Genesis Connect plugin... but if you find any, I'm sure folks here would be interested to know about them!
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkSummerMemberEverything I listed above. With Genesis you don't have to put in a ton of extra stuff, because it does the heavy lifting for you.
When you look at templates like page_landing.php and page_portfolio.php, does the code there make sense to you? There's typically not a lot there... I have some templates that have 5 lines of code in it, including the closing
genesis();
call.What child themes do you have access to that you can look at the code for? And I'm a little concerned where you'd got the idea that theme-defaults.php would be something you'd need in a template 🙂
Look at category.php for TwentyThirteen. Ignore those calls to
get_template_part();
(please!).Now imagine copying that file to a category-44.php, and changing a few things in that new file to suit your tastes.
That's how simple it is, and with Genesis it would be even simpler.
For example, a template that would modify the post_info as you were asking about in a previous topic would look something like this:
<?php /* Template Name: News Category Template */ // Force full width layout add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_full_width_content' ); // Customize the post info add_filter('genesis_post_info', 'ct_post_info_filter'); function ct_post_info_filter($post_info) { $post_info = '[post_date] [post_comments]'; return $post_info; } genesis();
That code inside a template called category-44.php, where your "News" category has an ID of 44, will change your post_info to only display the date and the comments... handy for if you have a lot of people posting in a generic news category but don't need their username showing up in category listings, but you also don't want to fight with Simple Edits overriding customizations in different displays (so you'd have Simple Edits disabled or not installed).
And that's literally all there is to it. One caveat, the above code was for a site that's still running an xhtml theme... just change the filter to use the HTML5 call if you need it for an HTML5 theme. These days, you could just select Default Layout from the category settings, and call it a day (but this template was written before that option existed in Genesis by default).
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