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By support, I mean anything under the sun that they could need post completion. Some of my clients take their one hour of training and admin access (I give everyone admin access) and I never hear for them again. Others contact me regularly for content changes and little things, and a few I hear from on a yearly or bi-yearly basis. I find it difficult because it is harder to plan my schedule. Take this week - I have two huge projects going live, but I am suddenly getting inundated with malware attacks on sites that had not been updated (5 so far in the last 3 days) and content update requests. I like the income, but it can be rough. This last week has me wondering if I should change to a policy where I only support people on a maintenance plan, because that would allow me to plan ahead more...but I'm afraid it'll be a turn off to new prospective clients and I don't want to make past clients angry since I get so much business from referrals.
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Thanks!
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For some reason I never saw the email notifications about your responses, so I am just seeing them now. I really appreciate all of the thoughts. I did end up sending her the original proposal and a timeline of changes that were requested, beyond the scope requests, etc. I told her that I would not charge them for the hour spent on the phone that day but reiterated my hourly maintenance fee for future work/meetings, telling her I would very much like to continue working on the website but that I hoped she could understand that I cannot do so for free.
And then I never heard back...so I guess that wasn't the response she wanted to see. It still bothers me since she is a local business very visible in the community, but I know that I more than delivered what was promised so I'm working on getting over the fact that she is just going to be dissatisfied no matter what.
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Changing the float does not impact half of the posts rendering outside of the content-sidebar-wrap. This is a custom post type archive and it seems to be ignoring some of my settings on the archive page, which may be associated to this issue?
This is what I have in archive-member.php
<?php /** * This file adds the custom member post type archive template to the MOBA Theme. * * @author Au Coeur Design */ /* Template Name: Member Archive */ //* Force full-width-content layout setting add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_full_width_content' ); //* Remove the breadcrumb navigation remove_action( 'genesis_before_loop', 'genesis_do_breadcrumbs' ); //* Remove the post info function remove_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'genesis_post_info', 5 ); //* Remove the post content remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_content' ); //* Remove the post image remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_image', 8 ); //* Add member body class to the head add_filter( 'body_class', 'executive_add_member_body_class' ); function executive_add_member_body_class( $classes ) { $classes[] = 'executive-pro-member'; return $classes; } //* Add the featured image after post title add_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'executive_member_grid' ); function executive_member_grid() { if ( $image = genesis_get_image( 'format=url&size=portfolio' ) ) { printf( '<div class="portfolio-featured-image"><a href="%s" rel="bookmark"><img src="%s" alt="%s" /></a></div>', get_permalink(), $image, the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); echo strip_tags(the_excerpt($post- id)); } } //* Remove the post meta function remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_post_meta' ); genesis();For some reason, it is ignoring the forced full-width command. I actually hid the sidebar with CSS. That is probably why you see the float.
Any other ideas?
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Hi Susan,
I am working on this now. The problem I seem to have is related to the current category generation. I am trying to use this code:
//* Add List Above Category Archives function post_list_on_category_archive() { if ( is_category() ) { echo '<div class="before-category">'; echo do_shortcode( '[display-posts posts_per_page="-1" order="ASC" orderby="title" columns="2" category="$category_id"]' ); $category_id = get_query_var( 'cat' ); echo '</div>'; } }; add_action('genesis_before_content', 'post_list_on_category_archive');If I remove "category=..." the short code will display as expected. But for some reason adding in category="$category_id" returns nothing where the shortcode should be.
Thoughts?
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I just did this for a client. If you add a file called page_blog.php in your child theme folder and then add this code:
<?php /** * * Template Name: Blog * This file modifies the blog template. * * @author Au Coeur Design * @link http://www.aucoeurdesign.com * @package Genesis */ add_action('genesis_loop', 'genesis_standard_loop', 8); genesis();The title and any content you have on that page will appear before the loop.
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Hey @gabk77, I just did this for a client. If you add a file called page_blog.php in your child theme folder and then add this code:
<?php /** * * Template Name: Blog * This file modifies the blog template. * * @author Au Coeur Design * @link http://www.aucoeurdesign.com * @package Genesis */ add_action('genesis_loop', 'genesis_standard_loop', 8); genesis();The title and any content you have on that page will appear before the loop.
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...I also never spent a lot of time trying to figure it out with Bill's plugin.
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Nope, never got it resolved.
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Have you read through the WooCommerce documentation or posted in the support forums over there? You are starting to drift away from Genesis issues...
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http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_background-color.asp
Add that to the div I mentioned 🙂
If you want it to be white, use #fff;
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@Gordy, Sorry I didn't see your question before. Dancey Pants Disco uses Genesis Connect, Hydrex does not. The main thing that I have noticed the plugin doing is enabling the use of simple sidebars.
@megaking22, executive pro is not a plugin, it is a theme. If you want to use Genesis, then you need to use a genesis child theme.
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Just add a background to .content-sidebar-wrap in your CSS file.
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Yes, you are correct that it would require ongoing CSS changes. Another thing you could do is add a background to the content sidebar wrap. This would make them appear to be the same height because they would be in the same visible container. This would remove the visible site background that currently appears between them though, so you have to decide if that is something you want to do stylistically.
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You might find this helpful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11878887/keeping-hover-state-of-menu-button-when-using-sub-menu
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Did you find the section I reference in your CSS file? That is what is controlling your text color change on hover.
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This explains minimum height: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_dim_min-height.asp
As long as your sidebar is the same on every page, you can add the min-height to .entry in your css file and it will make it the same height as your sidebar.
Making the sidebar longer on pages with longer content is trickier because you have to do each page individually. You would add the appropriate height to each page's sidebar and also add the white background to the sidebar.
So on the process page, for example, it would look something like this:
.page-id-146 .sidebar {
color: #999;
height: 1338px;
background-color: #FFF;
}You probably want to round the corners to match.
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You can add a minimum height on a case by case basis to whichever one is shorter. How familiar are you with CSS?
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No idea why that posted so many times. Sorry.
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For the future, please create a separate post for each of your questions.
Here are some answers:
1. Try making the height bigger in your slider settings or remove your content or make the excerpt area wider. The title is getting cut off because you have too many things to display in that space. You can adjust your image settings to see if a different image size would display your image better. The best way I have found to control how images are cropped and appear in the slider is to set the slider to display full-size images and then to crop my images to the exact dimensions needed before uploading them.
2. The Genesis Responsive Slider is not set up to run multiple different sliders on a site. I found this hack tutorial, but I never could get it to work. http://www.wp-code.com/wordpress-snippets/different-genesis-reponsive-sliders/ I ended up just using a different slider on sites that need multiple sliders, in which case I use either SlideDeck or Portfolio Slideshow (the Pro versions) depending upon the needs for the sliders.
3. The easiest way for a "novice" to put a photo to the left and move the location of the Site title and description is to create an image that looks like what you want the header to look like (containing the photo and text) and upload it as a full-width header.
4. I would just go through all of the theme demos and find one that looks closest to what you want. You could try the sample child theme, possibly.
5. ALWAYS, ALWAYS make changes in a child theme. If you make changes to the genesis framework, you will lose your changes every time you update Genesis.
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