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Carla the MooseMember
This article by Bill Erickson helps me understand the purpose of the home.php and front-page.php files. I've been needing this education. It's been a missing link in my understanding of how Genesis functions.
http://www.billerickson.net/dont-use-genesis-blog-template/
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Carla the MooseMemberMy question is clearly stated in the first paragraph of my OP. :o)
I'm not asking how to magically 'get' widget areas. I am asking how to remove all blog content from the home page. On the other website I designed, I recall wanting full blog content on the home page; not just removing the grid.
So I am left with full length blog posts. Lots of folks don't want any blog content on the home page. Are they creating a static page, then?
I'm not sure how this works.
Carla the MooseMemberOkay, I remember doing this for my first StudioPress website using the eleven40 theme.
You just change the home.php file to home.txt. I found that online and it works.
For anyone reading this, the home.php file is literally the home of the grid loop! Hide the home by renaming the extension, and the grid doesn't display.
I'll try it with eleven40 Pro and see if I get the same results and will post back here.
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Carla the MooseMemberI already created the widgets.
So I guess eleven40 and Minimum are different in more ways than just the backstretch feature. I was able to easily remove the grid and blog posts from the Minimum home page without having to create a new file.
I did create a page and made it static as the home page. But I don't understand how to implement my design using a page. It's a clean slate, but I'm not sure how to proceed.
That's why I decided to just remove the grid. I thought it would be straight forward. Do I create a home.php file?
Carla the MooseMemberI don't know what you mean.
I don't want any blog post content displaying on the front page. It shows one full-length post, followed by a grid of excerpted posts.
This is an author website. She doesn't need blog content on her home page, so I want to remove it. There's a nav link for blog posts.
I have an image for the site title and nav links to the right. Then I have a custom banner widget for a slider. Below that I am creating a row of two side-by-side widgets for her author photo and description. Then a row of three side-by-side book reviews.
I just need to remove the blog component.
August 11, 2014 at 12:16 am in reply to: Minimum Theme – How to move my banner above the site tagline #118141Carla the MooseMemberHey, I figured this one out on my own!
I think before HTML5 there were more hooks. But I didn't know this and kept looking for a hook to use. I was able to create a widget area for a banner, but it displayed below the site tagline instead of above.
Hours later as I scrolled through the functions file, it occurred to me that maybe order matters. And sure enough it does!
This was a very easy solution. I was using the right hook, but I added the code to the bottom of the functions file, instead of scrolling up and putting it above the tagline function.
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Carla the MooseMemberThere's something about how this theme renders the background image that's causing the problem.
This is a responsive theme, but it looks like the background image is not responsive. It seems to stretch the image no matter what size I'm using. And depending on screen size, the amount of the image that displays is not the same.
I can make the background image responsive. I'm hoping that will fix the size problem.
I'd love some input on this.
Thanks!
Carla the MooseMemberHello Wiggles!
Why, hello there, friend! How's it going?
Oh, you know. This, that and the other!
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Anyhoo, note to self . . .
So I uninstalled and deleted the Minimum theme, and then installed a fresh copy. Some interesting things happened.
1) When you use text for the site title, it breaks onto another line because of the narrow width.
2) But it doesn't do this when I'm using an image for the site title.
3) Without having made ANY changes to the fresh install, the site title image loaded without any problems. But if you use text that matches the width of the image, it breaks onto another line. Why?
4) The fresh install erased the problem of the site title image being cut off in Firefox. Whew!
5) The header image problem was not fixed. I am totally perplexed. This is should be super easy to work with. It's gotta be something I'm doing. But what?
6) All I'm doing is cropping the huge image to the dimensions mentioned on StudioPress's tutorial page. And I've tried other dimensions as well, and it only displays a zoomed image.
7) To see the image correctly, I have to activate the inspector tool.
I would love some help, folks. I'm using Pixelmator to crop the image and am doing the cropping in pixels.
Carla the MooseMemberI sent a support ticket, but I just noticed something that somehow (strangely) could be causing the problem.
When viewed in Firefox, the huge and slow-loading placeholder image cuts off the 'Carole Price' image logo at the top left. I followed a simple tutorial to increase the size of the site title space and loaded an image instead of using text.
That's pretty much the only change I've made to this site, aside from fonts.
Also, in Firefox the same thing happens when the inspector tool is opened. The header image reduces down in size to how it should be displaying. Otherwise I only see a zoomed version.
Carla the MooseMemberI thought I would try again.
I can't continue work on my site because of this problem. The placeholder image is magnified for some reason. Only when I open the developer's tool does it display correctly.
I tried sizing the image to the 1600 x 600 recommended on the StudioPress theme notes page, and I tried resizing it according to the dimensions of that space shown in the developer tool.
But it does the same thing no matter what.
I'll send a support ticket, but they will probably tell me it's a design issue and they can't help.
Any suggestions?
I've cleared the cache, everything is up to date, etc.
Carla the MooseMemberI just found a post that says DPI doesn't apply to web images. The web only works in pixels.
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/02/the-myth-of-dpi/
That's the first I heard of that. It says adjusting DPI for a website image is a wasted step.
Good to know!
August 6, 2014 at 3:41 pm in reply to: Things to know when creating a full screen, non-scrolling webpage #117442Carla the MooseMemberOh, good to know. Much appreciated!
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August 6, 2014 at 3:32 pm in reply to: Things to know when creating a full screen, non-scrolling webpage #117432Carla the MooseMemberI wondered about that. Thank you!
So if I design the homepage to entirely fit inside the scope of my 11" screen, there could be extra space on the bottom when viewed on a larger screen?
Do you feel people know to scroll these days when they see a parallax theme? The way some of these sites are designed any more, it's not obvious there's a ton more content if you just scroll.
Carla the MooseMemberI ended up getting a refund for this plugin.
It's been a few days since I submitted two different support tickets to them, and I've since had some other problems. When I changed a font from 16px to 17px, the jump in font size on my website was huge. It skipped several sizes and seemed to produce something closer to 25px.
And I could only intermittently get my site to show up in the preview box, and that's only when maintenance mode was disabled.
But I do think this is a fantastically designed plugin. It's possible there was some kind of plugin conflict or something else I couldn't figure out on my own. I was just short on time and couldn't wait around for some help.
I'd love to add it back in at a later date, so I'm hoping to learn more and would love to know of anyone who regularly uses Design Palette for their websites.
Thanks!
Carla the MooseMemberMy site is hosted by SiteGround. They have their own caching plugin they installed on my account.
I did clear the cache when I reset Safari. But good suggestion trying another browser. I'll see if that works.
Thank you.
Carla the MooseMemberI wanted to add, I have made no other changes to the CSS. I am just now beginning on the design.
Everything you see are placeholder images, and I set up the theme to look like the demo.
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Carla the MooseMemberI wanted to add for anyone reading this, you can install a Palette Pro extension and have access up to 30 Google fonts.
I'm going to stick with handling this myself and remove the plugin, but it is otherwise pretty impressive.
Carla the MooseMemberOh, that's an awesome plugin. Thanks so much. I'll use that one from now on. It's so clean-cut and looks great.
I still can't see my site in the plugin's preview mode when maintenance mode is active. I'll have to contact them about that.
Thanks for your help today!
Carla the MooseMemberGood point. I'm so used to working CSS and code myself, that I think I'd rather save the money and not use the palette plugin.
Thank you.
Carla the MooseMemberThanks, I just sent them a support request. It's a pretty awesome plugin. I don't know anything about the backend stuff (does it slow things down, is it heavy, etc.). But coder or not, it can really speed up putting together a new site. It's actually more comprehensive than I was expecting.
But the fonts are a huge drawback. If nothing can be done about that, I'll have to request a refund. It's not worth it if I have to tweak CSS for fonts.
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