[Catherine_B]

That's great. Thanks a lot!! Much appreciated.

[Catherine_B]

OK, let me see if I got that even somewhat.

Would I be able to use the Featured Page widgets in the widgets page, or once I remove the flexible-widgets class and add a css grid for the layout I want, then everything I do in that section from that point forward must be done via editing the code in the front page template?

If possible, I would like to keep the convenient Featured Page widgets for Home Page Section 2, currently accessible from the widgets page.

[Catherine_B]

Brad - I wonder if that answer applies here. I tried hard to explain it specifically in detail, but without looking, others may not know what I mean.

The particular Home Page Section 2 in question in Author Pro is pre-formed for four Featured Book widgets that are uniquely made for that section. I want additional specific Featured Book widgets to lay out into two and eventually three rows of four books, stacked. I don't see how to put a grid in there compatible with using those specific Featured Book widgets (that list out numerous options) to 'fit into' a new grids. I've used the genesis grids/columns plugin before in the coding and know the basics. But this seems trickier. Ordinary text blocks won't work.

[Catherine_B]

Hi Victor - To the rescue once again! Thank you so much for that very handy link, just brilliant on your part - solved the issue neat and quick. I have been enjoying experimenting this morning. And having read the comments on the page below the formula box, I knew I'd have to be adding a media query which he directs viewers to that appears to work beautifully so far.

I can't think of any reason to keep the original column classes on style.css (currently and temporarily commented out) so will delete them shortly.

Thank you again for that speedy, super referral which I will use over and over. Much appreciated, Victor.

[Catherine_B]

Hi Victor! So nice to hear from you again. Thank you very much for stepping in to stop the self torture.

Your suggestion was very helpful and made a difference. But then I could not satisfactorily resolve further display and thumbnail battles with that plugin. I've since located a comprehensive posts+pix sidebar widget with many easy customizations + an editable css code block right in the widget options.

Thanks again!

[Catherine_B]

OK - HERE is the quick solution, if it will help someone else.

In the dashboard, go to the Customizer, then: "Content Settings - Page and Post Padding" - there is a slider defaulted in my case to 50. I reduced that for less whitespace.

[Catherine_B]

Hi Tom, that was fast!

I've been struggling since you wrote to find the .entry 'padding: 50px; ' you referred to on the css stylesheet and cannot locate it. I would like to learn how to see which plugin is causing the trouble. Would you mind sharing that? I really enjoy learning from these snags.

Are you saying to put the padding instructions (above) one time, on the css sheet, below all the theme colors - and at the top of the Media Queries section?

Thanks!

[Catherine_B]

Hoping ...

Does anyone have any ideas, please? Not impatient, but they don't like the mandatory theme's 2-section header and want a lot of customized imagery, clickable links and wording up there spanning wide. They wanted it changed asap. Needs to be fully customizable; ie, I need full control of the contents it shows, please.

Thank you in advance, I really appreciate the help.

[Catherine_B]

Brad - I don't know who you are asking the question of (How did you go with this?).

If it's my question abt the full page widget, I was stuck at the code mistakes I must have made and posted as above so had to abandon it. I switched to streamline pro from my original exec pro because of issues that were taking too long.

I see you spend a lot of time on here helping, and I know everyone really appreciates you. Thank you.

[Catherine_B]

Victor! You're wonderful! Worked great - you made it so easy. Love it, and better yet, I've learned some new things.

*I have a little question for you, please: Where are you seeing line numbers as used in your instructions above? They're not showing in my wp theme editor, and I downloaded the css to Dreamweaver CS6 just to see, but the line numbers don't match yours at all.

Thanks a million!

[Catherine_B]

UPDATE - I switched to streamline pro, which is working out a lot better. Thanks!

[Catherine_B]

Following up, I had forgotten to register it in the functions file. I did something wrong, because the site would not reload after altering that functions file, so I put the original front page and function pages back, and it reloads like before. That's the bad news. The good news is: I did see the widget, named as I assigned it, in the widget area before messing up in functions and having to putting the pages back to original status.

Just fyi, here is how I registered the widget in streamline, which must be wrong:

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id'          => 'after-entry',
	'name'        => __( 'After Entry', 'streamline' ),
	'description' => __( 'This is the after entry section.', 'streamline' ),
) );

>>>ABOVE IS WHAT I COPIED TO DUPLICATE; BELOW IS MY FAILED ATTEMPT TO PROPERLY REGISTER IT.

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id'          => 'full-width-4',
	'name'        => __( 'Full-width Widget', 'streamline' ),
	'description' => __( 'This is a test full-width widget.', 'streamline' ),
) );

[Catherine_B]

Dear Brad -

I've left something out apparently. (I'm now on the Streamline-Pro template.) For creating a full-page widget, first I duplicated the original php file for safety sake. So I take this existing code from the front page file here:

function streamline_homepage_widgets() {

	if ( is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured-1' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured-2' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured-3' ) ) {

		echo '<div class="home-featured">';
	
		genesis_widget_area( 'home-featured-1', array(
			'before' => '<div class="home-featured-1 widget-area">',
			'after'  => '</div>',
		) );
		
		genesis_widget_area( 'home-featured-2', array(
			'before' => '<div class="home-featured-2 widget-area">',
			'after'  => '</div>',
		) );
		
		genesis_widget_area( 'home-featured-3', array(
			'before' => '<div class="home-featured-3 widget-area">',
			'after'  => '</div>',
		) );

		echo '</div><!-- end #home-featured -->';	

	}

>>>>>>>>>>>> and then duplicate the last entry and change it to THIS in bold: ?

		genesis_widget_area( 'home-featured-3', array(
			'before' => '<div class="home-featured-3 widget-area">',
			'after'  => '</div>',
		) );

<strong>		genesis_widget_area( 'full-width-4', array(
			'before' => 
			'after'  => '</div>',
		) );
</strong>

>>>I'm not sure I renamed it properly to show up and use, as there is no such new widget in the refreshed widget area.

Thank you very much!

[Catherine_B]

Hi Victor - Thank you for writing.

The Yellowwoodgroup site in particular has the components I'm looking for, but it looks very complex. Very nice job. I remember from reading your posts before that you have a ton of experience. I did not know about the helpful snippets and have reviewed them, thanks! I don't see the particular ones I need this time, though. Sadly there isn't time by this weekend (!) to get up to speed sufficiently on the framework and php coding for a lot of style revisions.

With time short, I may need a template design that's more 'ready out of the box' than many code customizations.

[Catherine_B]

Boy, that's a big help, Alice. I'll do as you say and begin customizing other themes to see if I can get one that's easier for me to work with than the ExecPro seems to be.

Thank you!

[Catherine_B]

Dear Brad - When you say 'add a full-width widget' in ExecPro - there is none in the widget choices. I need one on that theme and am stuck. I also thought you could only use the widgets so named as 'home widgets' in that theme, which is causing more problems.

Thank you from Catherine.

[Catherine_B]

Sure thing, done and done. I had it marked resolved with my previous submitted comment, but I guess you have to do them separately or the updated status won't 'take'.

Have a great day!

[Catherine_B]

Hi Christoph - Thank you for the confirmation and peace of mind. One thing is for sure, the forum is always reminding folks to backup before changes, so that's an easy one.

I went ahead and upgraded after reading your reply and did a quick double-take because afterward the dash said 'You're now running Genesis 2.1.' I guess it just does not read the 3rd character in the versions.

Much appreciated!

[Catherine_B]

Dear Erik -

Thank you so much for your speedy reply. I was indeed beginning to wonder if the navigation solution I was trying to find even existed; so you have solved that 'mystery'. As to the genesis layout widget, after reading your response I googled it and have found some helpful tutorials.

I really appreciate your kind help, and thank you again.

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