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The Redirection plugin is probably one of the best solutions.
What isn't working for you?
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To your child theme style sheet, add a selector for:
#featured-post-3 h2, #featured-post-3 h2 a {
font-size: 30px;
}
add whatever styling rules you need to target them. If you make changes to your widgets, the ID will change. Right now, the styling rules around line 920 of your child theme style sheet are making the headlines smaller than they would otherwise be according to the rules around line 902.
Hope that helps.
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There's virtually no difference between putting code in your functions.php and running the same code in a plugin. I think WordPress.com is running about 500 plugins and it's reasonably fast. Speed is more a function of what the actual plugin code is and attempts to do than the number of plugins you run.
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@Steve - Stretch is a very basic blog theme. For the added flexibility you asked about...
1) I posted the code to add custom header support in your other thread, http://www.studiopress.community/topic/stretch-theme-headerlogo-question/. You said you tried that and it didn't work for you, but it's pretty easy to do and works just fine, as you can see on our demo site: http://stretch.wpperform.com/. One of the mobile responsive layouts needs a bit more work, but supporting custom headers is fairly easy.
2) It would be nice to be able to control which category displayed, but I think more customization (such as displaying more posts) would make the end result not very Stretch-like.
3) StudioPress tends not to offer that kind of ability as a theme option, leaving it to the developer to change it. I suspect the thinking is that options add overhead, and if you don't like the Stretch approach, maybe another theme is a better fit. All Stretch does is reposition the navigation using CSS and change what is displayed with a filter.
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When you run into a wall, perhaps it's a good idea to go in a different direction...
Why not add this to your functions.php, somewhere after the define for the child theme near line 10:
/** Add support for custom header */
add_theme_support( 'genesis-custom-header', array(
'width' => 1600,
'height' => 48
) );Then, upload a custom header with your logo on the far left side. It might take adding a few styling rules to the child theme's CSS, but it gives you far more control to easily change your logo from within your WP dashboard.
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Great, but you don't need to wait until tomorrow. Here is your feed. http://www.americanadagencies.com/blog/feed/
Mouse over any link, including the one in your original post and you'll notice the campaign variables are gone.
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@jcohen, WordPress SEO and Google Analytics for WordPress are 2 different plugins by the same author. The first is for SEO settings, the 2nd is to add/manage Google Analytics to your blog.
Your problem is likely caused because you have a bad setting in Google Analytics. Open your feed in a new browser tab and you'll see the URL's that trouble you. Visit the settings page for that plugin, find the Advanced Settings metabox, and uncheck Tag links in RSS feed with campaign variables. Save your GA settings. Refresh your browser tab containing the feed. Your problem should have been fixed.
Hope that helps.
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You'd use it after. You'd 1) migrate 2) activate and use the plugin 3) check the migrated data (visit some posts) 4) check your overall Genesis SEO settings 5) deactivate the plugin.
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Hi Ron - See http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_upload_dir near the bottom on using the UPLOADS constant.
Glad to see you're still searching for the perfect snippet.
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The best approach is to integrate your SEO with your sitemap, which Yoast's WordPress SEO does.
For a pure XML sitemap, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/.
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That theme uses the Genesis Featured Page widget in the Featured widget area. To change the text, you simply change the page that the Featured Page widget is pointing to.
The "more" text is not really a call to action. It is a link to the rest of that page. You can customize what the more button says and where it breaks by putting this in your page content:
<!--more More About our Company »-->
...where you change "More About our Company" to your desired text. That will not change where the more link takes you, only what is displayed on the button. If you want a button that behaves differently (ie, takes you to a different page), you might be better off using a text widget where you include your text, followed by a link that is styled to look like a button. Of course, that will make it more difficult to use a featured image, but it will give the power you want.
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Do you have a link to your site? Have you tried deactivating all other plugins except AIO SEO? AIO SEO should work with Genesis and should set the SEO title properly.
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That's really a question about how to use AIO SEO, which is best directed at the support for that plugin.
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You can use tools such as Pingdom or Yslow to analyze your page weight and load times. Yslow shows your total page weight to be about 7.2 Mb, which is huge. 500 Kb is a more suitable page weight for your home page. Pingdom shows about 1.6 Mb, which is still far too big.
A lot of your page weight does come from your background, so that is a big part of your problem here. There's no code snippet that can get around your desire to have a big picture as a background. You can use a lower resolution image, compress it, use a smaller image, or find a smaller image that can be repeated.
The question of whether your site is "too slow" depends on the visitor's connection. For me, with a fast connection, the site is slow, but not annoyingly so. If I were on a mobile device not using WiFi, I would have clicked away long before the page finished loading. Not everyone has a fast internet connection or access to it all of the time. Slow load times will cost you visitors and $.
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Those are likely bots submitting comments without using your comment form.
Let's take a step back: are you thinking this will reduce spam or are you just hoping to avoid URL's of which you don't approve? For reducing spam, this technique helps, because it will break the form submissions on some bots, causing them to go elsewhere to post their spam rather than to have a solution that applies to you. However, the reduction takes a while to happen. Some use a 2nd piece of code that marks any comment with a website field as spam, since that comment could not have come through your form. This is just 1 way to reduce spam, and probably not the best way.
If you just want to avoid URL's of which you don't approve, you removed the URL field but that might encourage commenters to include more URL's in the body of their comments, which is a common indicator of spam. That might cause legitimate comments to appear as spam. You might be better off leaving the URL field, moderating comments, and have a good anti-spam plugin.
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Susan can address the issue of changing your CSS, but you might want to consider modifying your Paypal widget. The drop down takes its width from the items you populate it with. If you dropped the word "Listing" from each of your drop down items, in all likelihood you wouldn't have to change your CSS. Because of the width of your longest entry, you may find the CSS changes that are necessary to fix your problem make your content area too narrow.
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Enticing offer, Nick. If it hasn't expired, how about a) making a link somewhere for something like Forum Views, of which this would be one and b) adding another view of threads the current user has posted in?
For (a), it would be so much easier to use the view you created if it were more easily accessible.
For (b), I found the My Forum Posts link on the old forum very useful. For example, if I answered a question, that allowed me to check back and see if my answer worked. Without that link, it's not as simple. I realize I can use a favorite and drop that later, or subscribe/unsubscribe. But both of those are 2 steps, which makes it less likely that I follow up on threads where I've contributed something. The fewer threads per page on the new forum makes it far more likely that by the time I check back, a topic is harder to find without these helpful views.
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Are you referring to support threads on WP.org? There's nothing that stands out as something out of the ordinary. The plugin works just fine for me on > 100 sites. If you try it and get different results, just deactivate it and delete it, and post back with the problem you observed. That will help to refine what might work for you.
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Genesis->Theme Settings is a good place to start.
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Visit Appearance->Menus and take a look at your secondary navigation. You'll find a block for Description. Enter the text you want for each menu item there. If you don't see Description, visit Screen Options in the upper right of your WP dashboard.
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