[bmaven]

Hi @susanv - did you get that issue worked out? I checked your site, but I only see one navigation bar and it's the #E7E3E0 color. If you still need help, please let me know.

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Blogging growth strategist & revenue coach at The Blog Maven, fearless leader of 3 preschoolers…tweeting it up @theblogmaven

[bmaven]

Hi Jules,

You'll still be placing the image in the WP background function, but you'll need to change the content area to white. To do this, go to your style.css file, scroll to just above the Media Queries section, and add this:

.site-inner: background-color: #ffffff;

Here is a screen shot where I changed the color to dark gray so you can see where the white will appear: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s308/sh/5502c2dd-cf55-4774-9096-f0503a1fb8e2/2c0625a89874fdf8e588d7a390eba02d

Hope this helps!

Warmly,
Jeni

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Blogging growth strategist & revenue coach at The Blog Maven, fearless leader of 3 preschoolers…tweeting it up @theblogmaven

[bmaven]

Hi Jessica,

If you don't set a featured image, the thumbnail will just be the first image from your post. To choose the image you'd like to appear there, look at the bottom right of your post editor area for "Featured Image" and upload the image you'd like to set as the thumbnail, then make sure you hit "Update" to save your changes.

Hope this helps!

Warmly,
Jeni

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Blogging growth strategist & revenue coach at The Blog Maven, fearless leader of 3 preschoolers…tweeting it up @theblogmaven

[bmaven]

Hi James,

It looks like you got the spacing issue between the rows worked out - is that the case? If there's still something you need, please let me know and I'll be happy to help. Otherwise, great work!

Warmly,
Jeni

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Blogging growth strategist & revenue coach at The Blog Maven, fearless leader of 3 preschoolers…tweeting it up @theblogmaven

[bmaven]

It's really not very good. Woo has a habit of pushing things to market before they're very good, and they work the bugs out with all the first people who buy. The client I installed for initially told me she hated it and we went with Wishlist Member to deliver her e-courses instead. Maybe it will be decent in the future, but for now, save your money.

Hope this helps!

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Blogging growth strategist & revenue coach at The Blog Maven, fearless leader of 3 preschoolers…tweeting it up @theblogmaven

[bmaven]

Hi Ann,

I'd love to help. If you'll post the URL of your site, I'll tell you where the code is that you need to change.

Warmly,
Jeni

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Blogging growth strategist & revenue coach at The Blog Maven, fearless leader of 3 preschoolers…tweeting it up @theblogmaven

[bmaven]

It's because your posts have different lengths of text. Some are short (and don't need the full space) and others get cut off. ...and on the ones that get cut off, some have shorter words and some have longer words. It's not a perfect fix, but if you go to line #581 in style.css where it says:

#content .portfolio-posts

and find this line:

min-height: 280px;

you can change it to:

height: 295px;

and all the boxes will be exactly the same height. I said it's not perfect because the "read more" text wouldn't all line up, but if you really want things to be evenly sized and spaced, this is one way to do it.

Hope this helps!

Warmly,
Jeni

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Blogging growth strategist & revenue coach at The Blog Maven, fearless leader of 3 preschoolers…tweeting it up @theblogmaven

[bmaven]

Hi Jan,

You can use eNews Extended to subscribe to a number of services, including MailChimp, MadMimi, Feedburner, Feedblitz, and others. The "magic" is in the extra fields Brandon has added to the bottom of the widget.

I just found a page where he lists tutorials on how to integrate it (through CSS) into different Genesis themes:

http://www.brandonkraft.com/contrib/plugins/genesis-enews-extended/tutorials/

Jeni

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Blogging growth strategist & revenue coach at The Blog Maven, fearless leader of 3 preschoolers…tweeting it up @theblogmaven

[bmaven]

Hi Gary,

Line #578 of your CSS has the code for the background color of the subnav bar. Right now it's reading the subnav.png file. You could change this to a solid color by erasing the "background" line and adding another line:

#subnav {
background-color: #333333;
}

#333333 would give you an almost black color, but substitute that hex code with whichever color you'd want.

For the header height, you need to go into functions.php and look for this code:

/** Add support for custom header */
add_theme_support( 'genesis-custom-header', array( 'width' => 920, 'height' => 170 ) );

Change the 170 to fit the height of your header - maybe 180 or so? Then I believe you'd need to reupload the header image.

Hope this helps!
Jeni

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Blogging growth strategist & revenue coach at The Blog Maven, fearless leader of 3 preschoolers…tweeting it up @theblogmaven

[bmaven]

Have you tried doing something like this?

#inner {
background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.8);
}

You're basically giving the RGB values for the color you want (255,255,255 is white) and specifying the opacity as the last value. This is CSS3 and I'm not sure which browsers will display the effect properly. I'm on Firefox and mine does it just fine. 🙂

Of course you might want to go through each section and apply the same effect (for your navigation, breadcrumbs, etc.).

Hope this helps!
Jeni

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Blogging growth strategist & revenue coach at The Blog Maven, fearless leader of 3 preschoolers…tweeting it up @theblogmaven

[bmaven]

Is it the Genesis Visual Hooks guide plugin showing up? Check and see if you have that plugin activated. If so, deactivate and it should go away. If not...I'm stumped!

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Blogging growth strategist & revenue coach at The Blog Maven, fearless leader of 3 preschoolers…tweeting it up @theblogmaven

[bmaven]

What is the URL of the site this is for? Have you tried using the Genesis eNews Extended plugin? You can use that for Mailchimp. Here's a little more info:

http://www.brandonkraft.com/contrib/plugins/genesis-enews-extended/

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Blogging growth strategist & revenue coach at The Blog Maven, fearless leader of 3 preschoolers…tweeting it up @theblogmaven

[bmaven]

Hi John,

You can select for this text with this CSS:

#text-7 caption {
font-weight: 700;
}

That will use the same font, but in bold. If you want to make it look like your other widget titles, you'd do:

#text-7 caption {
font-family: "Oswald", sans-serif;
font-size: 18px;
text-align: left;
margin: 0 0 15px;
}

Hope this helps!

Jeni

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Blogging growth strategist & revenue coach at The Blog Maven, fearless leader of 3 preschoolers…tweeting it up @theblogmaven

[bmaven]

If you already know which posts you want to remove from the category archives, just to go Posts > All Posts and find a post you want to remove from categories. Hover over the post's title and select "Quick Edit." In the middle of the dropdown options, you'll see "Categories," and the categories a post currently is listed under will be checked. To remove the category from this post, just uncheck those boxes, then click Update at the bottom right. Do this for each post you don't want to show up under various category archives.

Hope this helps!
Jeni

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Blogging growth strategist & revenue coach at The Blog Maven, fearless leader of 3 preschoolers…tweeting it up @theblogmaven

[bmaven]

Hi Jan, I don't know this for a fact, but I think you probably need to use the Genesis eNews Extended plugin and widget to do this. All the Genesis themes I've seen are using this plugin to serve blog subscriptions. You can find out more about the plugin here:

http://www.brandonkraft.com/contrib/plugins/genesis-enews-extended/

and the download can be found here:

Genesis eNews Extended

Hope this helps!

Warmly,
Jeni

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Blogging growth strategist & revenue coach at The Blog Maven, fearless leader of 3 preschoolers…tweeting it up @theblogmaven

[bmaven]

Hi Maggie,

I usually use 72dpi resolution and 80% quality for a .jpg. If you use a program like Photoshop Elements, when you "save for web," it will let you preview what your image will look like at various qualities so you can make an informed decision. You definitely have to balance loading time with the visual effect...although with a .jpg, I've found the resolution and quality I mentioned to be fine.

Hope this helps!

Jeni

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Blogging growth strategist & revenue coach at The Blog Maven, fearless leader of 3 preschoolers…tweeting it up @theblogmaven

[bmaven]

Sam,

I'd love to help you but it's impossible without access to your files; I can't see everything that's going on on your site. If you'll send the FTP information and a WordPress login for this site to [email protected], I'll be able to take a look this afternoon or tonight...and then I'll post the solution here on the thread for you and everyone who reads this afterwards.

Jeni

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Blogging growth strategist & revenue coach at The Blog Maven, fearless leader of 3 preschoolers…tweeting it up @theblogmaven

[bmaven]

Hi Sam,

Here is an alternative method - name your logo "logo.png" and place it in the /images directory. This will overwrite the default logo that's in your theme. Then inside WordPress, go to Genesis > Theme Settings and in the box that says "General Settings," the first option should be "Use for blog title/logo." Select Image Logo and save your settings.

Try this and let me know what happens -

Jeni

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Blogging growth strategist & revenue coach at The Blog Maven, fearless leader of 3 preschoolers…tweeting it up @theblogmaven

[bmaven]

If you're using a child theme that has a home.php file inside the theme folder, you can create a new category called "Press Releases" and then follow this tutorial to remove a single category from showing up with the other posts:

http://www.wpsyntax.com/wordpress/exclude-category-genesis-grid-loop

An alternative, depending on how deep you want to dive into coding, would be to create a custom post type (CPT) for press releases. @cdils wrote a great tutorial for how to do this:

http://www.carriedils.com/custom-post-type-archive-template/

Hope this helps!

Warmly,
Jeni

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Blogging growth strategist & revenue coach at The Blog Maven, fearless leader of 3 preschoolers…tweeting it up @theblogmaven

[bmaven]

You just need to find #header in your CSS stylesheet (somewhere around line #518) and change this:

#header {
min-height: 87px;
overflow: hidden;
}

to this:

#header {
height: 0px;
overflow: hidden;
}

Hope this helps!

Warmly,
Jeni

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