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Bill MurrayMember
500 errors almost always are PHP errors. You could see your PHP error log for the exact reason.
Metric is compatible with WooCommerce and the command you're using is correct. One thing that's hard to judge is whether your single quote marks are correct, because the forum may change those. They need to go straight up and down.
Beyond that, in Metric, make sure you added it cleanly at the end of functions.php. To avoid the occasional typo, I have this code as a plugin and activate it before activating WooCommerce.
https://gist.github.com/4463505
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Bill MurrayMemberIn the Balance theme, the Portfolio page is simply a page template applied to a category, which is Portfolio. In other words, Portfolio is already a category. What appears on that page are the posts in the Portfolio category. If you create sub-categories, you could modify the page template to make sure they display, but it would be a bit of work to have templates for sub-categories.
You may find custom post types more to your liking. If you're a Pro Plus member, you could grab the CPT functionality from another theme, stick it into Balance, and adjust the responsive CSS accordingly.
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Bill MurrayMemberIt's not possible using the pre-installed category widget. Have a look at this WP codex page on the template tag wp_list_categories.
That's how you can fully customize the category list. If you're a coder, you could put that into a shortcode with parameters, and then put the shortcode into a text widget. You could implement the parameters that you find most useful, and that would make it pretty flexible.
If PHP isn't your thing, you could see if there's a plugin with a more powerful category widget. Just try a search on the WP plugin repo.
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Bill MurrayMemberLooks like you sorted this out by adjusting your top margin and z-index of #header? The header stays below and in front of the nav for me.
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Bill MurrayMemberOn your resources widget, the CSS is:
#footer-widgeted h4 {
color: #FFFFFF;
font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Verdana;
font-size: 16px;
font-weight: normal;
margin: 0 0 5px;
padding: 0;
}
[/css2]so you could change the starting line to #footer-widgeted h2, #footer-widgeted h4
That would apply the same styling both. However, the H2 is a link, so you may want to add some link styling.
Keep in mind that your post/page title will always be the H2. You can't have 1 text as a clickable link in the widget and a different post title. That may lead you to have bland post/page titles. So you could spice those up with a H2 in the post/page itself, just below the opening title. The downside to this is that for SEO, the H1 will carry more importance. And you don't want to apply the same page title (a generic one) to different content. If you want different text as the widget title compared to the post title, it won't be clickable and it won't be dynamic.
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Bill MurrayMemberI don't have Simple Hooks installed so I can't test this for you, but if my memory is correct, I'm fairly certain I've used Simple Hooks in the past with the Corporate theme. There are a couple of things for you to check: 1) Make sure your Genesis version is the most current. I recall problems with Simple Hooks where users tried to install it on an older version of Genesis; 2) try re-downloading and re-installing Simple Hooks in case your original download was incomplete; in these cases I always recommend deleting the server files, then copying the new ones; 3) try deactivating other plugins; and 4) if the problem still exists, try another Genesis theme.
Post back and let us know how it worked out.
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Bill MurrayMemberYes, it does. The best approach for you is to install and activate Nick's Genesis Featured Widget Amplified plugin. After doing that, your current featured post/page widgets should be replaced with the better-featured widget that comes with that plugin. Visit the widget areas, and adjust them. For the widget title, don't enter anything. For the featured image placement, choose "after title". Choose to display the post/page title. This will put the post/page title above the featured image, making it dynamic.
You have to go the plugin route because you can't put HTML in the title areas for those widgets, and even if you could, it wouldn't make it dynamic.
Once you've set up the widgets the way I've described, you can adjust your CSS for the post/page titles for those widget areas to make them more to your liking. That's because the post/page title links will become H2's as opposed to the H4's they are now. That markup change won't have any impact once you adjust your CSS.
Hope that helps.
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January 4, 2013 at 5:38 am in reply to: How do I create an open chat forum similar to a facebook group. #9458Bill MurrayMemberI haven't used bbPress in a while, but I believe there is a login widget. You could either a) have your forum page include a sidebar (ie, not be full width) or b) create a page template and include a widget area in which you'd place the login widget. For plugin specific questions, you might have better luck with the bbPress forums. This site uses bbPress and there may be users here familiar with it, but there are likely more of those folks on the bbPress forum since that's their focus.
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Bill MurrayMemberThe ID's will change as you change widgets. If you don't want to be that specific, stick to classes, as in:
#footer-widgets .footer-widgets-1 { your styles }
etc
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January 3, 2013 at 11:02 pm in reply to: How do I create an open chat forum similar to a facebook group. #9393Bill MurrayMemberFor forums, see bbPress or Simple:Press.
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Bill MurrayMemberSorry, I misunderstood. I overlooked the comment about your sidebar. Have you tried setting a new image size that has a height of 100px and a width that is proportional? You'd then do the steps I outlined - change the image size, change the widget to use that new image size, then regenerate. If you want an image that is a minimum of 100px high, you have to have an image size that supports that. Won't a 100px high image have to be over 200px wide to be proportional to the images you already have? Is that the look you want for your sidebar?
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Bill MurrayMemberYou're going about it in the right way but missing a step. After you change the image sizes your theme supports, you need to generate thumbnails, using a plugin like this one.
Whether you want 80 x 80 or 100 x 100 thumbnails on your blog page, edit your child theme's functions.php, adjust your widget, then regenerate your thumbnails.
Hope that helps.
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Bill MurrayMemberAround line 894 of your child theme's style sheet, you can try changing the top/bottom padding for your #nav a to something like: padding: 15px;
That will have the effect of making the vertical area for clicking bigger, and it might reduce the complaints you receive.
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Bill MurrayMemberCan you post a link to your site and describe the widget where you don't see this happening?
The headline for the featured posts widget should update the way you describe, where it is the title for the post below it. If that's not happening, either your widget settings are wrong or we're not talking about the same things.
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Bill MurrayMember1) Make your slider image 1060 px wide. You might need to regenerate your thumbnails after changing the size.
2) Are you using a custom header? If so, look at the image size for your custom header and create an image that matches those dimensions exactly. You'll set the background you want when you make your image. You'll place your logo where you want on that header. That will lead to a new question - how to change the link area to where you position your logo? I can't answer that until I know where you'll place your logo, but the concept is to set a left margin on the elements around line 225 of your child theme's style sheet. Post back once you made the other changes if that's not obvious.
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Bill MurrayMember@rick4him - RickRDuncan's article is basically an article on setting up WP multi-site aka a WP network. I run a managed WP hosting environment, and you might benefit from how we accomplish what you want to do. We have multiple networks, but that only adds a layer of complexity that you may not need or want.
1) Starting with your live site on a WP MS network, create a new staging site; immediately after creation, block search engines from the staging site; the live site should be a subsite on the network, mapped to its TLD
2) Create the staging site as you see fit, using a variety of tools to get the current site content into the staging site (WP Importer, PHPMyAdmin, etc)
3) On a WP MS network with the live site mapped to the TLD, you now have 2 options to make the staging site live:
a) Simple - delete the mapping of the TLD pointing to the current live site and add domain mapping pointing to the current staging site (that makes the staging site the new live site); immediately make the old live site set to block search engines; or
b) Less Simple - Manually make the live site like the staging site by activating the same set of plugins, the same child theme; there are plugins to allow you to export/import widget settings, and if your child theme changes are largely CSS, the manual option can sound like more work than it actually is.You may ask why anyone would opt for 3(b) since 3(a) is so simple. If you have a live site that is generating a lot of new content (even comments) and the time to go from staging site to live site is long, the content on the staging site will be stale by the time you attempt 3(a). Therefore, that approach only works if it is done quickly or the site has infrequent updates.
In our setup, we sometimes set up the staging site on a separate network (but still a subsite), drop the tables from the live site, then move the tables from the staging site network to the live site network, making sure to match the same DB prefix and site ID (both of which you can do through PHPMyAdmin). Then, as a final step, we make sure the tables we effectively swapped contain the right network reference (we keep the subdomain the same). All of this works much smoother than it may sound. These migrations take a strong attention to detail, but the tools to do them work reliably.
Hope that helps.
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Bill MurrayMember@Marc - The Matt Cutts tweet you quoted in your article gets talked about a lot, but people should re-read it to fully understand what the change is trying to do (emphasis added by me): "reduce low-quality “exact-match” domains in search results." If one has an EMD that, among other things, is long, hyphenated, or contains stop words, one has a low-quality domain name. And those low quality EMD's tend to have bad/spammy content; that's why Google is out to reduce the chance they show up in search results. Good EMD's with good content have nothing to worry about.
As you point out, the positive value of an EMD is declining, but it's hard to say if this is only because weeding out the large number of low-quality EMD's causes the overall EMD value to decline. And EMD's - if good quality and not done in a spammy/bad-content way - are a positive, not a negative. After all, if you have a popular brand and an EMD for that brand, it SHOULD rank well for that term.
The bottom line is that if the original poster has a good EMD (no hyphens, is short, no stop words) and fills it with good content and keeps it fresh, the EMD will be a positive factor for some searches. If those searches occur frequently, it can have a big positive impact on her business, so she should exploit her EMD. If it isn't a good EMD and the content is spammy, it will hurt her more than it helps.
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Bill MurrayMember#1 If you are only planning to have 2 posts in each "grid area", consider dropping the Genesis Featured Grid plugin and using Nick's Genesis Featured Widget Amplified plugin. You'd then set the widget to display 2 posts in a widget area of some specified width with a float of left. With the right margins & padding, you'd get 2 columns of posts.
#2 If you adopt #1, you can drop the text widgets for your titles.
#3 Your div.faith-category needs a height, as will each of your widget areas. If you use a tool such as Firebug and you hover over the div in the HTML and the hover in the browser doesn't match the div, you know that something is messed up. In my quick tests, a height on the div.faith-category fixes some, but not all, of the problems.
Hope that helps.
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Bill MurrayMemberCPT's and category templates could be 2 approaches to the same problem. If you did a category template, it would only serve 1 category, not multiple. By using a CPT, that takes content outside of the normal post structure and allows the designer to limit what it supports (which can make it easier to create content) and to control how that content is presented. A category template does the 2nd part of that task, but because the content is a post (not a custom post), it uses the typical WP post entry screens. For a true CPT, all the normal post stuff may not be desirable. If you keep all of your content in posts, you then may have to separate that content. For example, in the normal Genesis blog (Genesis->Blog page), you have the option of all categories or any single 1, but not 2 or more. (Yes, a blog page with 2 or more categories can be done, but it's a little more effort.) A CPT solves that problem, because CPT's are separate and are not included with your posts. Your perplexed reaction is really due to the fact that the portfolio CPT doesn't show off all of the bells and whistles of a CPT. If you saw a great example of a CPT, you'd better appreciate their power.
If you want multiple portfolios, you have a couple of options:
1) use the portfolio CPT as a model, and add your own CPT (or multiples) for your specific purposes; create whatever templates for each CPT you need; this approach works best when you want this content out of your standard loop;
2) use posts and categories, and then create category templates to control how each category archive is presented; for this approach, consider creating a "Blog" category, and put any post you want in your blog loop in that category;Option #1 is the full control approach, but it's more work to implement and you may not value its benefits. Option #2 still takes some work, but it's less work and is probably more suited to your site and the vast majority of general WP blogs. When WP CPT's became powerful features, a lot of tech writers conveyed the message that even your dog's blog desperately needed CPT's. In my opinion, that was way overdone. Categories and category templates work great.
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Bill MurrayMemberNot quite.
You said (emphasis added by me):
So for a real estate site what I think I understand is that it should be ok to build a .com and a .ca pointed site using my name
You don't want to build both - just 1 or the other.
The listing site could also link back to my name site.
Yes, but you have to be careful to have a natural link pattern. Don't make every reference to your name be a link to your name site, because that can appear unnatural to search engines.
I assume if I wanted a blog I could then maybe make a sub domain if I wanted the layout again to bemore blog related look and link it on name site site.
There's no advantage to having a subdomain. A blog is a natural thing on the site under your name. Without a blog, that site might have little content. In fact, you can have a blog on both sites. On your personal name site, your blog would be focused on YOUR perspective on RE. On your listing site, your blog could be focused on interesting new listings that hit the market.
Keep in mind that first and foremost is having great content. A great structure won't save bad content, and a bad structure won't ruin great content. Worry less about structure and more about constantly generating fresh content that will make readers want to come back.
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