[BrettOnTheNet]

Thank you Summer. I did spot that there was only the one option in there, but not that it wasn't selected. That did fix the problem.

Great stuff!

In playing with the theme for a little bit, I'm not so convinced now that the hidden sidebar that Novo has is such a great idea, if you want those areas to actually be useful.

And now that you mention it about ZigZag - I remember now that I've had a similar issue with another of their themes. I've not got Prestige yet, I've considered it many times.

Thanks again!
Brett

[BrettOnTheNet]

I know where you are coming from with the free theme & no support. I did hesitate, but I've used ZigZagPress themes in the past and they have been OK. They create nice looking themes, and I have not had a problem with the ones I purchased from them.

There has been no copying/pasting of code. I just downloaded the theme and installed it into WordPress.

I'm typing this on my phone, so I can provide screenshots later if need be.

But the thing is ... free theme or not, this sidebar has been unregistered in the functions.php file, which is also evidenced by the fact it doesn't appear in the Appearance/Widgets area, yet it still displays on page.

I've found that genesis has a sidebar-alt.php in its files, so I copied it to the child theme and commented out all the code. That seems to have fixed things. I had to mess with some CSS widths too.

But I just don't understand how it could still appear. Could this be the result of some non-standard coding by the theme developer? Could it have anything to do with the fact that I am running it locally on XAMPP? The demo theme does not have this problem.

I'm now really just more curious how the sidebar which has been unregistered is still able to appear.

Thanks
Brett

[BrettOnTheNet]

Sorry to bug y'all. I found the answer. Here on StudioPress. Not sure how I missed it first time around.

Brett

[BrettOnTheNet]

Hi Brad

It's a work in progress.

Here's the category page I am currently looking at. Ignore the categories at the top - they don't go anywhere different.
http://hrh.kraiger.net/category/articles/

Thanks!
Brett

[BrettOnTheNet]

So you don't add it to the CSS stylesheet ... It's got to be added to the code of the site itself.

There might be a more elegant way to do it, but this is the best I could find.

[BrettOnTheNet]

The Genesis Extender Plugin is not free, but you can see it here: http://cobaltapps.com/downloads/genesis-extender-plugin/

But you could do this with something like Genesis Simple Hooks as well: http://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-simple-hooks/

All I did was add the CSS above to the wp_head hook.

When I use the Genesis Extender plugin this puts my line of code directly below the line of code that comes from the theme. I can't guarantee that the Genesis Simple Hooks would do the same thing.

[BrettOnTheNet]

I used the Genesis Extender plugin from Cobalt Apps and inserted the CSS I wanted to use into the header, so that it appears after the inline CSS that is causing the problems.

<style type="text/css">#header { background: url(http://paparangiscouts.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/cropped-scouts-header.png) no-repeat center !important; }</style>

If you look at the source of my site you will see this:

<style type="text/css">#header { background: url(http://paparangiscouts.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/cropped-scouts-header.png) no-repeat !important; }</style>
<style type="text/css">#header { background: url(http://paparangiscouts.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/cropped-scouts-header.png) no-repeat center !important; }</style>

Two CSS statements saying basically the same thing except the second one centers it.

It's a bit of a hack, but it works

[BrettOnTheNet]

I've managed to get my additional inline CSS into the header now (using Genesis Extender from CobaltApps), but I still have two inline statements and would like to get rid of the incorrect one.

Anybody got any ideas?

[BrettOnTheNet]

Hi Ian

Thanks for that. I tried it, and it ended up completely removing my logo. All I was left with was the background that shows in the rest of the theme. It left the space for the logo, but no logo.

Cheers
Brett

[BrettOnTheNet]

OK - Very weird.

Perhaps I was too quick to look at the site after the upgrade. The date has disappeared now.

Brett

[BrettOnTheNet]

Thanks Brian... so can anyone tell us where to report bugs?

[BrettOnTheNet]

This seems to be a bug to me. Where do I report bugs?

Thanks

Brett

[BrettOnTheNet]

Awesome. Thanks Paul.  That looks great.

[BrettOnTheNet]

Hi Dorian

There are no images in the post at all. Not in the body, and not in the featured image.

The only association between post and image is in the media library.

The "image" you can see in the post is not an image - it's a video player that expands out. It's not the problem. And the same issue occurs on posts without  a video.

Thanks

Brett

PS - love your sig!

[BrettOnTheNet]

 I think in that very drop down box what you are wanting is “display post content.”  If you pick that, you’ll see an option to limit the number of characters displayed appear under the drop down.

A-ha! Now I get it. Thank you very much for your time everyone.

[BrettOnTheNet]

Thanks for that, but I don't see an option to limit character count... Here's a screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/XVDwoBoivUJ

I did find something that recommends changing something in functions.php, but if there's a "control panel" setting I'd rather do it that way.

Cheers,

Brett

 

[BrettOnTheNet]

Oops - OK I just found the featured image setting in my control panel. I know I looked there before  😮

Just looking for how to modify the excerpt length now.

Cheers,

Brett

[BrettOnTheNet]

Hi there. Thanks for that, but that's not what I am looking for. I want the /category/blog/ page to automatically have shorter excerpts than what is currently showing up, and I want the featured picture from the post to also show up on the blog category page.

I have the excerpt box showing, but I don't want to use that - I just want a shorter excerpt automatically

I have been adding featured images, but they are not showing up on the category/blog/  page.

I'm guessing I am going to have to mess with some php templates here, but just need some help with what to modify.

Cheers,

Brett

[BrettOnTheNet]

Thanks everyone. This is great. Appreciate all the help.

[BrettOnTheNet]

Thank you Susan. I will check that all out. It turns out that 3 columns looks pretty good so we will probably stick with that. But I will take the time to learn.

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