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@Jamie, thanks for that.
That indeed does work, but I find it strange that all the genesis columns demos and how-to's do not mention this markup.
For anyone in need here's what works for me:

<!-- row 1 -->
<div class="clearfix">
<div class="one-half first"><img src="some-url"></div>
<div class="one-half">Some Description text</div>
</div>

Thanks again.

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It's been a dicey development process but I did get it working with mailchimp and eNews widget. In the Hidden Fields: input of the eNews widget I included this:

<input type="hidden" value="1" name="group[15585][1]" id="mce-group[15585]-15585-0" checked="checked">

I figured this out by looking at the checkbox source code that is created when You make your own opt-in form at the mail chimp site. I simply changed it to a hidden field.

Not sure if this is a hack but it certainly does work.

If anyone else is try to do this as well, there was one other thing I had to do to prevent subscribers from accessing the list of groups through their "preferences" once they were about to opt-in.

I had to go the section where you develop an opt-in form and make all group/checkboxes hidden. Even though I am in no way using the form/code generated by mail chimp it apparently sets a global setting. Sneaky, and unexpected but until I hid the fields users could access my list of groups through their preferences.

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@genwrock - yep, that did it, thanks!

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I appretiate your efforts but that code doesn't work. In fact I don't see any change on a post.
I'm using wordpress 3.9.1 and genesis

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Build the site, produce the best content you can, grow your audience, then worry about shaving an extra half a second off your site load times later… you may find out that you don’t even need to, and find something more worthy to obsess about

This is where I am now. I moved the site to siteGround. Everywhere I have tested it the site loads in under 3 seconds; So I think that is good enough for now 🙂

Thanks to all who have contributed to this stimulating discussion!

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@coralseait : at first I thought you advocating staying away from wordpress caching plugins and then you seemed to endorse W3TC. Can you clarify please?

@joseph Lee : that's a great resource. I'm scoring 85+ each time. I'm now on site ground with just this site which is a huge improvement over godaddy. I don't usually get more than 50 visitors a day though so I don't think I need a rocket ship yet 🙂

Since I'm running on apache server what do you think of including this in my .htaccess?

# Set up caching on static resources for 1 year based on Google recommendations
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
<FilesMatch "\.(flv|ico|pdf|avi|mov|ppt|doc|mp3|wmv|wav|js|css|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|swf)$">
ExpiresDefault A29030400
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

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yeah, sounds pretty sketchy. I'll definitely be looking to create some form of "legit" backlinking strategy (since we're now on the topic).

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@summer

No not the title, the "href" and the link text. I have heard bloggers talking about how google frowns upon mismatches such as click here for this only cause it can be misleading to users and google's algorithms are trying to be as humanly possible. So in my instance I'll be doing something like Video Tutorials I'm probably being too knit picky I know 🙂

[bionary]

all good stuff to think about. thanks a bunch!

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@Porter, sounds super interesting although I know many think W3 Cache is problematic. Since I just switched to hosting:siteGround I'm going to see how it goes for the next month, collect data and then maybe I'll try the caching duo you suggest for a month and compare results.
Thanks!

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@summer ... point take and ice pick = yes. My wife, mother and many work colleagues still don't understand address bar vs. search bar; even though I have politely explained and demonstrated 100+ times.

Now I am right on the edge of being convinced however I have one *slight caveat. The category is called "Videos" and the page/page link is called "Video-Tutorials". I know google can penalize for link text not matching link pointer (href). I know I'm being a super seo-pain-in-the-@$$ but that again is one of the reasons I went with word press and a premium template. I could have rattled off a custom site in a fraction of the time I've spent learning and hacking away at wp.

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@summer

But I thought I wouldn't be penalized for duplicate content because genesis applies a no-index meta tag to categories. That was in fact an important selling feature to me when deciding to go the word press route. I'm definitely no seo expert, not yet anyhow. Thinking about it, I just get annoyed by long buried urls I suppose especially when they have lots of "/" s

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cool, maybe next year... I just signed up with siteGround

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One question, how would the Video Tutorials page be different from the category archives of Videos? Unless I’m missing something, it seems you’re duplicating your content.

They are essentially the same. It's a UX thang. I want users to be able to have a convienient list of video tutorials as a page with a simple url... without having to click on a category link and I don't want the extra slugs in the url otherwise I realize I could just link to the categories/videos url.

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I don't think I'm ready for all that, sounds expensive and complicated.

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@braddalton

Managed hosting has been the best move i ever made for site speed.

Is this the same as a dedicated server or virtual dedicated server?

Managed server side caching is also more effective than plugins.

Is that something that can be set up with .htaccess? If so can you provide an example?

Thank you.

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So I got so aggravated with slowDaddy thanks to their timing out and all kinds of slow issues that persisted last night that I just up and moved the site to siteGround hosting. So far it's way faster, hopefully it stays reliable. The godaddy server wasn't even usable to be honest.

Is there anything I can do to optimize wordpress for even more speed? for example: I used to place gzip directives in .htaccess files? Does wp do this automatically prior to export?

what do you guys do to speed up your wp sites?

Thank you

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http://helloartsy.com/video-tutorials/

<?php
/**
 * Genesis Framework.
 *
 * WARNING: This file is part of the core Genesis Framework. DO NOT edit this file under any circumstances.
 * Please do all modifications in the form of a child theme.
 *
 * @package Genesis\Templates
 * @author  StudioPress
 * @license GPL-2.0+
 * @link    http://my.studiopress.com/themes/genesis/
 */
 //* Template Name: Videos

function display_videos( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'cat', 'videos' );
    }
}
add_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'display_videos' );

//* This file handles pages, but only exists for the sake of child theme forward compatibility.
genesis();

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so now I'm using the following in my videos template with no success:

function display_videos( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'cat', 'videos' );
    }
}
add_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'display_videos' );

I even get a fatal error "Fatal error: Call to a member function is_main_query() on a non-object in..."

I also tried using pre_get_posts and WP_Posts object but can't get it to work.
What am I missing?

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@Summer

that looks like a good comparison of hosting. Thanks.

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