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You can buy and install the UberMenu plugin. I've used it on about 8 sites and it is wonderful! Allows for some pretty fancy menus - including the ability to easily upload an image into the menu.
I've never used the genesis slider, so I wasn't sure what all was involved with replacing wp-cycle. I'll try what you said and give it a shot. If I run into questions I'll post back. Thanks.
If I were you, I would photo edit the height of the blue background to the height I need it, and make it about 5px wide, then using the wp-admin > appearance > background, I would upload that new image and:
position it left
repeat tile horizontally
attachment scroll
background color #You can download the Genesis Simple Edits plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/genesis-simple-edits/) that allows you to easily edit the Byline. You can't add the Byline to pages, but you can link directly with a rel="me" tag to your google plus account in the page content that should allow you to show authorship. I just did this myself tonight and though it will take a couple days to see if Google picks it up, the rich snippet tool shows the profile image so I'm hopeful it works.
If you make those changes, the width of the sidebar will allow for anything to be 300px and it will display it nicely. You need to make the changes in your child theme's sytle.css file. So, using filezilla, connect to you host, navigate to wp-content > themes > magazine and open the style.css file. Then make the changes I mentioned above using an editor program like bluefish, save the changes and reupload the file using filezilla.
Alternatively, you can use the editor built into wordpress by going to your wordpress back end (wp-admin) and going to Appearance > Editor and clicking on the style.css stylesheet on the right hand side. The only problem is there are no line numbers if you go this route. So if you want to go this route, I would copy/paste the CSS straight from the WP Editor into Bluefish, find the line numbers in bluefish and make the changes there, then copy/paste from bluefish back to the WP Editor and save.
And no worries about being new - we all started there. I'm still learning everyday myself.
Try this:
On line 1290 of wp-content/themes/magazine.DISABLED/style.css, delete the padding: 15px 20px 20px;
On line 1276, add margin-left: -10px;
On line 714, change width to 600px;
On line 708, change padding to 20px;
Change your facebook width to 300px.
What is the URL of your site?
I could be off on what it is that you are actually trying to accomplish - but from what it sounds like, you may want to try adding a widget area (http://designsbynickthegeek.com/tutorials/add-widgeted-sidebar) to the area you you want the buttons then use the Genesis Tabs Plugin (http://www.studiopress.com/plugins/genesis-tabs) to create the 'buttons' you are looking for.
If I'm off base, you might nee Nick The Geek to help you out and offer alternative solutions.
A link to your site would be helpful. You can also use Firebug to figure this out yourself then modify your themes style.css file to your liking.
My experience with Genesis child themes is you would need to go into your themes style.css file and modify:
.sidebar {width: 270px;}
to
.sidebar {width: 300px;}
and then also modify:
.content-sidebar #content, .sidebar-content #content {width: 600px;}
to:
.content-sidebar #content, .sidebar-content #content {width: 570px;}
@anitac - I did come across Brian's post but wasn't sure if this would work for pages. I was reading through the comments and saw where one person was getting the following warnings on the rich snippet tool:
Warning: At least one field must be set for HatomEntry.
Warning: Missing required field “entry-title”.
Warning: Missing required field “updated”.
Warning: Missing required hCard “author”.and Brian wrote back saying:
If you are seeing those results on your “pages”, then it is something you can disregard. The meta tags they are referencing don’t exist in pages, while they do with posts.
So that was the reason for me posting the question here on how to get authorship to show up with pages - not posts.
