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you can make some adjustments in the settings/media section of the dashboard
If you want other changes check this http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Thumbnails
.sidebar .widget::after {
border-bottom: 1px solid #222;.post-meta::before {
border-top: 1px solid #222;get rid of the borders
looks like you changed your #content-sidebar-wrap from 880px to 840px so you lost 40px. You also have your #sidebar float: left .
change your #sidebar to float: right and then you'll have to make the widths of either your #content, #sidebar or both smaller.
Hi Eric,
You are right, problems can crop up on most things, especially when dealing with computers, and the support of the authors are most important. Thanks for the assurance that you "are on it". From my experience those are the words I like to hear. I'm looking forward to using it.
That code is in the home.php file that I have for that theme. It's also in the code you posted. Did you already delete or comment it out in your home.php?
I'm not really afraid of them deactivating it. Most are too scared to even click on the plugins. It's just that as wordpress does updates it's possible that the plugin would need to be updated also. I don't know if a Genesis update would be a problem. I would doubt it, but that's my only worry about plugins, even though I do have confidence in Eric.
Very nicely done. I also like how you used a small version of the home middle pictures in the sidebar of the other pages.
I also liked your old site design. There are lots I like about this one.
the menu split with the header in the middle.
the mobile menu.
the background
the portfolio slider and the hover effect
// Remove the navigation menus
remove_action( ‘genesis_after_header’, ‘genesis_do_nav’ );
remove_action( ‘genesis_after_header’, ‘genesis_do_subnav’ );there are no menus to reposition on the home page. Try removing one of these actions.
Keith I'm familiar with your site. I actually read your review and wrote you an email with a few questions about it, and also his child theme. I have also read some background about Eric also and am confident it does what it does. My concern is that it is still a plugin and sometimes there are conflicts or sometimes they need to be upgraded. Even if it's just 1 day, a site could be down for that day. I would feel much more secure with a page template.
Eric,
For me adding the widgets in the functions.php and css is not hard to do.
Setting up the home or static php page is what takes more coding knowledge. And that's where the child themes differ the most.
If I could use this plugin to spit out a home or static php page I could use that on any child theme and just add the little code to the functions and css. So once I use this to make my static page, can I find the php code for it somewhere?
Hi Rick. On your home page the thing that hit me was blue scheme with orange buttons. Really stood out nice, but then all your links are green. Then you have another button in the ad bar that is grey/silver. My thought would be to keep all your buttons and links the same color.
Looks like a good mechanic or "garage putterer" site. I too had a problem reading the menu at the bottom, the grey on black, but it could be my ages old laptop.
I don't see the bricks, so maybe you already changed that. I like the slider idea. Emerald green is the pantone color for 2013 so green is a good choice. Maybe your links should be green also? On your top 50 leaders page the bottom button is orange.
hi Ronny,
yup I was in the same boat. I knew it was better than the old way but seemed so much harder.
Gotta go get your cheese, lol, I remember reading that book.
What I have started doing is loading up a child theme and then opening up the sample child and the other child theme stylesheets
in notepad ++. Then you have to go through the child theme for the obvious things like home widgets and such and then add them
to the sample child theme. That alone helps in learning where things are in the new stylesheet.
Once I've done that I just use the new sample child stylesheet, don't forget to change the very top info.
You set the divs like #header, #nav, #subnav etc to 100% and give the .wrap the width you want. The wraps are inside the divs so you could try
#header, #nav, #subnav, #inner, #footer-widgets, #footer width to 100%
then set #header .wrap, #nav .wrap etc to whatever width you want.
Nick wrote a good tutorial on it here