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Carla the MooseMember
I'm using WP Maintenance Mode.
I should be able to see my site in maintenance mode with the Palette plugin.
Carla the MooseMemberWhew, got it. Good to know.
I'll make sure I do a backup before tackling the other site with the older version. Thanks for explaining this to me. I wouldn't have known otherwise.
Carla the MooseMemberIt says eleven40 Pro in the downloads section with a recent update of July.
That's the theme that installed in WordPress today. But I think I see what you're saying. The concern would be with the original eleven40 theme I installed early last year, right?
Carla the MooseMemberI've done so much customization that it seems I could have gone with the Genesis framework and created my own child theme. At the time I didn't understand how that works.
It may help save some money as I create more sites.
Carla the MooseMemberHuh, I had no clue about that.
I logged into my account today and download a fresh copy of eleven40. I didn't realize it now has a new name.
In my downloads on my account it does say eleven40 Pro. I just now checked. That's what I downloaded and installed today. So I'm starting fresh with that one.
For my other site, though, it's out of date. If I click an update link in my dashboard, will it update to eleven40 Pro?
Thanks!
Carla the MooseMemberI did some browsing on the Studiopress site, and they do say the professional themes for sale are child themes.
But I was still kind of confused. So if I go to the editor in my dashboard and make changes to the functions or CSS file, those are child files? Any changes I make there won't be compromised when a theme update comes along?
Carla the MooseMemberThanks, Tonya, but amazingly I found an error. I inadvertently deleted a closing tag in my stylesheet. All code after that point wasn't publishing.
Whew! :o)
Carla the MooseMemberGreat article, Tonya.
I was able to customize the font and spacing of the page number links, but those darn ellipses are hard to pinpoint. I can clearly see the class in the developer tool, but even when I add 'important' nothing happens.
I've had this happen before, where I can see the code I need, but the stylesheet doesn't recognize it for some reason.
You'd think changing the color of the ellipses would be very straight forward. I want them to be lighter in color than the numbers. I can only do this through the developer tool.
About the revisions in your post, I had no clue about that. So I add the line of code to my functions file and made the number consistent with my stylesheet. You're saying a browser will see this as a fresh file and load it, instead of recognizing it as something that's already been loaded?
Thanks so much for that tip!
Carla the MooseMemberAfter lots of experimenting and really hoping for a clean way to do this, I finally resorted back to span tags and creating a class in my CSS. It seems to work consistently.
This is the CSS:
.first-letter { float: left; font-family: georgia, serif; color: #4B5481; font-size: 327%; line-height: 0.85em; margin-right: 0.15em; margin-top: 0.06em; margin-bottom: 0.0em; vertical-align: baseline; }
And for every post, I wrap the first letter with <span class="first">H</span> so that the H is the drop cap. There are cleaner ways to do this, but nothing seemed to create drop caps across all browsers. My solution may not be ideal, but it seems to work great for me.
I hope that helps. Is that you were doing but wasn't working?
September 3, 2013 at 5:55 pm in reply to: How do I replace the page navigation arrows with an image? #60530Carla the MooseMemberBig duh! moment . . .
I just style the padding directly within the image source.
September 3, 2013 at 5:53 pm in reply to: How do I replace the page navigation arrows with an image? #60529Carla the MooseMemberThis worked great. I didn't know I could use HTML inside of the code like this. I hope it works in all browsers.
/** Customize the next page link */ add_filter ( 'genesis_next_link_text' , 'custom_next_link_text' ); function custom_next_link_text ( $text ) { return g_ent( '<img src=" ... type in the file name ... " />' ) . __( '', CHILD_DOMAIN ); } /** Customize the previous page link */ add_filter ( 'genesis_prev_link_text' , 'custom_prev_link_text' ); function custom_prev_link_text ( $text ) { return g_ent( '<img src=" ... type in the file name ... " />' ) . __( '', CHILD_DOMAIN ); }
But as dumb as it sounds, I can't figure out how to adjust padding. Nothing is responding. Ugh.
June 21, 2013 at 5:40 pm in reply to: Drawing images for websites: Canvas size and upload question #47134Carla the MooseMemberThis is a general discussion area for anything related to websites and WordPress.
A few days ago I found a great drawing app for the iPad called Procreate. It's awesome and lets you customize the canvas size. It's the best drawing app I've used to date. I used to upload images to a widget and fiddle with the width and height. WordPress makes this easy to do, but it still resulted in some difference between my images, since I wasn't able to draw them on the same canvas size.
So for anyone reading this, I recommend this app. If you need to upload images to different areas of your website not covered by the widgetized areas provided by your theme or WordPress, you can always add a new area like I did.
Thanks!
Carla the MooseMemberI think I figured this out, but I'm still testing. In case anyone else is reading this, I copied the image class from the featured posts widget and applied it to my Etsy images. I need to try this with several images to make sure nothing is distorted or cropped weirdly.
Carla the MooseMemberAlmost forgot to ask . . .
To get the photos displaying as the same size, I think I need to somehow apply a thumbnail wrapper, but I'm not sure. I haven't worked with thumbnails before. Since the photos are being pulled from my Etsy shop, and sometimes they're different dimensions, the image gets skewed when I specify the height and width.
So I thought that I could copy the technique used to place a thumbnail image on a page of post excerpts. I'm just not quite sure what I need to do to make this happen. I've been poking around, but I'm missing something. Do you have any suggestions? I know it's kind of difficult addressing this, since my site isn't live yet. But I think (not sure) thumbnails are WordPress specific and not specific to my eleven40 theme.
Thanks!!
Carla the MooseMemberI found two Etsy plugins that some of the community members created, but the last time they were updated was well over two years ago. The plugins do seem to work on the demo websites, but I'm not comfortable using something that's out of date.
So for now I'm creating my own widget and manually pasting in image sources. But on the side I'm studying up on how to create my own Etsy plugin. Flash and iframes is a drawback with the Etsy mini. I'm going to contact the developers and see if they intend to update their plugin, but the chances are, I'll probably just create my own. I'd love to learn how to do that.
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Carla the MooseMemberIt's almost as if the third footer area was somehow de-widgetized, since swapping the ad with a simple search box didn't display anything. You may want to contact support and see if they have some suggestions for you. Without being able to see the code and interact with your files, I'm not sure how to help.
If it was working a few weeks ago, can you recall what you worked on since then? Do you keep all of your backups? I've been manually backing up the files I work with and dating them in case something like this happens. By pasting in the most recent CSS just prior to a recent error, I was able to recreate the steps I took that resulted in the error.
Sorry I can't help resolve this, but would you post back here and let me know what you figure out? Thanks!
EDITED TO ADD: By the way, I'm not seeing the third widget via the page source like you mentioned.
Carla the MooseMemberI tried taking another look at your website, but the page wouldn't open.
I wish I could help you resolve this. Something is forcing your footer to sit at the bottom of your sidebar on the homepage. Hopefully once your site is accessible again, someone else can chime in and lend a hand.
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Carla the MooseMemberI don't know if I can resolve this for you, but I can help with some detective work. 🙂
There's a ton of code and a massive link that follows the footer 2 area. I'm assuming it's for your Google Adsense badge. Have you tried removing it from your footer widget and putting something simple in there like a search box? See if you can get the third footer and your copyright area to display correctly when you've removed Google Adsense.
Also, are you using a plugin for the ad or did you copy and paste code directly into a text widget? Did it suddenly stop displaying the Google ad, or did it just not work from the getgo?
Carla the MooseMemberIf you install Firebug in your browser (for Firefox) or use Safari's developer tool, that helps you see the code.
Doing this I found an empty div called "title area." It takes up most of the white space above your banner. Click on Genesis in your WordPress sidebar. This brings you to the theme settings page. Scroll down and look for Header. You should see "Dynamic Text" in the box. Change it to "Image logo." That should remove the title area.
If you had typed your website's name on the Settings - General page (for site title), you would see that text in the white space.
Another way to remove this is via CSS, as follows:
`#title-area {
display: none;
}`But try the theme settings first. 🙂
Carla the MooseMemberDo you recall what you were last working on just before noticing this? Which files have you recently opened?
On your homepage, the sidebar div closes just after the footer. So your footer is contained within your sidebar; hence the truncated width.
On your news page, the sidebar div closes above the footer, allowing the footer to display full-width across the bottom of your website.
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