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I totally overlooked the Widget settings for this!! I'm so used to most of the forum responses coming back with lines of code and hooks that I didn't think my fix should be this easy.
Anyway, go to WordPress dashboard and look for Appearance, Widgets. Look for Featured. Open and look for Genesis-Featured Page. Open and look for More Text:. This is where you can type anything you want. Once you type something in that box and save, a button will show up underneath your Featured Image (if you have set one up) that will have whatever you previously typed on it. This is where I saw "Read More" in my settings.
To remove the button from underneath your Featured Image all you have to do is delete whatever is typed in the "More Text:" field. In my case, I deleted Read More, clicked on Save and woo hoo, the button disappeared from underneath my Featured Image!
Stefani80, does any of this sound familiar from Brad Dalton's post "How to Remove Date and Author Name from Posts in Balance Theme?" He's talking about the Genesis-Simple Edits plug-in. Brad is awesome! He's always been such a big help and never makes me feel dumb no matter how many dumb things I do in WordPress.
Hi Stefani80, I am having the exact same problem. I failed to document my changes and now I can't remember what I did to remove the author, date and category. I searched my functions.php, my theme css, all the post php files I could find, my Genesis settings, etc. This doesn't require another plug-in download. We changed something but now can't remember how we changed it.
Don't give up on my yet....another thought.
When using the WordPress menus I am able to add items to my theme's Primary Menu and Secondary Menu. These menus can have dropdown sub-menus if I add them in. I created the new menus for each department within my website through the WordPress menus, creating the menu structure in basically the same manner as the Primary and Secondary menu. So why don't the department sub-menus dropdown if the Primary and Secondary menus have that capability?
I am using the Simple Page Sidebars plugin on each department page. I drag the WordPress custom menu widget into the custom sidebar created for each department. Could the Simple Page Sidebars plugin cause the department sub-menus to not dropdown or is that just the way the WordPress menu is set up to work?
Was that clear as mud?
Jon, thanks for responding. Cool stuff. I do understand that learning CSS/HTML through the forums is not possible but what you have given me is more than I expected but exactly what I was hoping for. I do have one dumb question though. Would the CSS be placed in my child theme style.css?
Originally, when I first created the website I was using a jquery accordion plugin but it conflicted with something on my site therefore I was forced to delete it and use the WordPress menu. I will study what you have posted and hopefully I will succeed.
Thanks again!
Jon, yes, with this particular department you see the menu items, "General Info", "Recorder Info", "Voter Info" and all of them have quite a few sub-items listed. Dropdowns would help shorten my page lengths.
Do you have any CSS suggestions?
Thank you for responding.
I went into my wp-content folder and renamed the Genesis folder. I logged into StudioPress and downloaded the Genesis 2.1.0 folder to my computer Downloads folder. I then copied the Genesis 2.1.0 folder and pasted it into my wp-content folder (themes). When I went back into WordPress it was running Genesis 2.1.0. Is this an acceptable way of updating the Genesis since I couldn't get the WordPress Dashboard to run the update?
If you haven't already solved your problem you may need to try the following:
In wwwroot open your wp-content folder.
Open Themes folder.
Open Education folder.
Open Images folder.
Look for the image file which is probably called "logo.png".
Rename the file
Example: logoOLD.png or logo1.pngYou can always go back in and rename the file to it's original name so that the theme's CSS can find the image again if you need it.
I just discovered another post titled "Creating Custom Post Templates". Included in the post is this link: http://designsbynickthegeek.com/tutorials/creating-page-templates-in-genesis . Nick has been very helpful in the past so I will read up on his tutorial.
For example: Let's say the Elections Department has 10 pages, so each Elections page will have the image pertaining to their department on each of their 10 pages. Let's say the Board of Supervisors Office has 25 pages, so each Board page http://www.graham.az.gov/board-of-supervisors/board-meetings/ (image example) will have the image pertaining to their office on each of their 25 pages and so on and so forth with all other departments/offices.
Mayur, if inserting an image on every page (I have 352) is better than creating templates, then that's what I'll do. Thanks for responding to my post. :0)
Mayur, I'm thinking about creating a template for each department/office on our web site. The template would be the same as the Education Theme default template with only one difference, I would add an image to the top (in this case it's the first line of content on a page) which would be specific to each department/office. See http://www.graham.az.gov/board-of-supervisors/board-meetings/ . On this page I inserted an image at the top that says "Board of Supervisors". It would be a good way of visually identifying which department a person is in. So each page that belongs to the Board of Supervisors office would be created with that particular template. The Highway Department would have it's own template, the Treasurer's Office would have it's own template, etc. etc.
I'm not sure if it would be better to continue doing what I'm doing (just inserting an image/graphic) or try something else.
Please advise. Thanks!!
Oops, not sure why that did not link. http://designsbynickthegeek.com/plugins/genesis-responsive-header-updated
John, I believe the area for the Education Theme title/image is 332 x 83. My image is 500 x 125. We loose a lot of detail in the Seal when we go smaller. You say it wouldn't hurt to downsize but will it hurt to try to keep the larger size? Does the larger size cause other things not to function properly or does it just mean that I will have to edit many more areas of the css?
Sorry for all the added questions. I can't believe that just trying to insert a logo (into this theme design) has turned into a mini nightmare. You had no idea what you were getting into when you responded to this post! Thanks for all the patience/support.
Cool. And would I compare the css files by using the Firebug?
I did notice that my logo is more than twice the size of the one on your sample site as well as on others that are using the Education Theme. Could this be creating more problems for my site?
Thanks a bunch!
John, I changed everything back to the way it was. http://72.165.8.69/GrahamWEB13/
Hi John, I recently discovered that my jQuery Vertical Accordion Menu plugin is conflicting with either my theme or something in IE9 and below. When I disable the plugin my logo becomes visible but unfortunately my menus become only linked list items and aren't very dynamic. The Genesis Responsive Header plugin (Nick's plugin) has made my header logo responsive.
I tried the steps in the link you sent. My logo changed sizes from it's actual size and my entire website disappeared except for the primary menu, logo and footer. When I re-sized my browser to see if the logo was responsive, the rest of my website reappeared (only in the smaller format). Unfortunately, I'm not fluent in css and I'm not very good at knowing how to use the Firebug efficiently. So, figuring out why most of my website disappeared after making the suggested changes is beyond me.
Thank you for responding to my post. I won't give up on using the information you have given me. It's just going to take quite a bit of learning on my part.
David, I tried Nick's plug-in. I even had to add some code to "@media only screen and (max-width: 800px){" section. I still encountered problems with the menu overlapping the logo. I noticed that I had 5 menu tabs whereas the Education Theme demo had only 4, so I deleted the 5th tab and now everything looks good. Unfortunately, I can't use more than 4 tabs in the primary menu.
Today I discovered that my logo is invisible on my website when viewed with Internet Explorer 9 or older. I can hover over the place where the logo should be, click, and it takes me to the Home page. I converted the original .png image to a .jpg but it is still not showing up. Any ideas why IE9 and below won't display a .jpg graphic logo? Also, some of my jquery menus are not viewing properly in IE9 and below. On some pages they are viewed perfectly and on others they are not.
Thanks!