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Ben @ Inbound CreativeMember
I'm afraid I have no experience with Visual Composer. Might be worth starting a new topic and putting that in the headline.
August 23, 2014 at 1:21 am in reply to: First Genesis site, a bit plain? For a driving school #120605Ben @ Inbound CreativeMemberSorry. Not sure why this post has only just appeared. I posted it about an hour after you posted your thread. It's looking much better now that Anita's suggestions have been added.
Ben @ Inbound CreativeMemberNot sure how that's happened.
Anyway, here's how to fix it. In your CSS file, if you go to line 2005, you'll find this:
.footer-widgets-1, .footer-widgets-2, .footer-widgets-3 { width: 140px; }
And on line 2011:
.footer-widgets-4 { width: 540px; }
Change those to:
.footer-widgets-1, .footer-widgets-2, .footer-widgets-3 { width: 25%; }
.footer-widgets-4 { width: 25%; }
You'll also need to change the margins to padding.
That's really simple.
On line 2018, find where it says:
.footer-widgets-1, .footer-widgets-2 { margin-right: 60px; }
Change it to:
.footer-widgets-1, .footer-widgets-2, .footer-widgets-3 { padding-right: 60px; }
That should solve your problem.
Let me know if you have any more issues.
August 21, 2014 at 1:48 pm in reply to: First Genesis site, a bit plain? For a driving school #119969Ben @ Inbound CreativeMemberI'm sorry to agree, but it is kind of plain. It also doesn't look like what you'd expect from a home page.
It's good that you're trying to keep it minimalist. However, there's a difference between using what appears to be the Genesis Sample Theme and minimalist. Personally, if I was wanting to keep the development short, I'd have looked at using something like , or .
Ben @ Inbound CreativeMemberI second Porter. Disable your plugins one by one and see which one it is that is causing the problem.
Ben @ Inbound CreativeMemberI think you're confusing the terminology. The opt-in form will be in the Primary Sidebar section as a widget. It'll probably be the top widget in the Primary Sidebar section too.
Ben @ Inbound CreativeMemberThe demo only uses one widget per section. Just put the featured posts widget in and set it to show 9 posts.
If you login to my.studiopress.com you should be able to find the theme set up instructions there.
Ben @ Inbound CreativeMemberNevermind, I knew it was because I was tired.
For future reference, if you're having the same issue, go into Genesis > Theme Options and scroll down to Comments and Trackbacks. Make sure comments are enabled on those pages.
Ben @ Inbound CreativeMemberIt depends entirely on what type of websites you want to build.
The best thing is to work out what you want to do, find a template that has a similar function and then look into the functions.php and home/front-page.php files and see how it's done on those.
August 19, 2014 at 2:08 am in reply to: Agency Pro: Transparency for the Posts, Comments, Pages Boxes #119718Ben @ Inbound CreativeMemberBen @ Inbound CreativeMemberBen @ Inbound CreativeMemberThis one's a little different.
You'll need to add a class in your css file.
.home .featured-content .post { position: relative; }
.home .featured-content .post:after { position: absolute; content: url('http://www.analisamendmentblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/samplegraphic.png'') no-repeat; left: 50%; margin-left: 78px; }
It might need some tweaking code wise once it's up. Post here once it's live and I'll give you the final amendment.
Ben @ Inbound CreativeMemberThat's a simple fix. Change the h4.widget-title text to say:
h4.widget-title { background-position: 50% 30px; height: 75px; }
The background position controls where the background image appears – not the text.
The height just makes sure there is enough room for the image to appear with some space under the next to make sure it remains legible.
Ben @ Inbound CreativeMemberAs for the headline, use this:
h1.entry-title { background-image: url('xxx'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: -xpx -xpx; /* Make these what ever it takes to position the image here you want it. */ padding-left: xpx; /* Width of the background image plus some for space */ padding-top: xpx; /* If necessary – might not be, otherwise 0 it */ height: xpx; /* Height of the image – you may need to use !important on the height */ }
Ben @ Inbound CreativeMemberAh, okay.
That's not too difficult. You would – however – need to find your own graphics to do this. Using either of those sites' graphics would be stealing as they'll have either created them themselves/outsourced it or paid a licence fee.
In terms of the widgets, you'd need to add this code to the relevant classes (or add them):
.widget-title { background-image: url('xxx'); background-repeat: no-repeat; }
h4.widget-title { background-position: 0 20px; }
Place your image's url where the three xxxs are.
Obviously, the background position's second value may need to be changed based on the size of the image.
Ben @ Inbound CreativeMemberThe StudioPress guys will have a much better way of explaining this, but from what I understand, that line calls the Genesis code before any of the child theme's code is executed.
You might have more luck asking on Twitter with the hashtag #genesiswp.
Ben @ Inbound CreativeMemberDo you mean like about the featured box is a frying pan?
Ben @ Inbound CreativeMemberThe best thing to do rreeve is look through some Genesis child themes – especially the official ones. They tend to be commented pretty well.
Those comments will explain what each line does.
If you really want to know what the point of learning to use a framework over a bog standard WP theme is, consider this.
A year ago, before all our themes became based on Genesis, it could take up to eight weeks to develop a website.
Today, we've got it down to two to three weeks. By the end of the year, I'm hoping our internal processes will get that down to one to two weeks.
That's because a framework does a lot of the grunt coding for you, leaving you to make the changes you need to get the functions you want.
The reality is that if you want to do anything in web development, you're going to need to learn how to use PHP and JS, framework or not.
Ben @ Inbound CreativeMemberVery little. Either will do the job.
Ben @ Inbound CreativeMemberNo problem. From the sounds of things, it should take you a full day. In fact, you might even get it done in an hour or two. But that full day gives you time in case things don't go to plan.
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