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Judy, it would really help the rest of us offer suggestions if you would post a link to the site you're having trouble with each time you ask a question.
You can also cheat it with CSS. Add something like this to your style.css file and that category will be hidden wherever you use that widget.
.widget_categories .cat-item-4 { display: none; }Yeah. Some FB plugins don't get the meta info correct for some reason. I've had issues with the title tags getting added to the meta info before. For example, when I look at the page source for one of your blog posts I see this tag in the code:
<meta property="og:title" content="<title>U.S. home prices take big jump! « </title> Andover MA real estate for sale" />
That's being pulled by whatever plugin you have adding the Facebook OpenGraph info.
It's one of the many reasons I'm a fan of Yoast's WordPress SEO plugin. His plugin constistantly handles the OpenGraph tags correctly. I haven't had that problem since I started using it.
Glad that fixed it. I don't know where folks are at. But Word ads a bunch of junk that wreaks havoc on web files. Some new folks don't realize that and can really mess up their sites editing files in Word. So I always through that caveat in just in case.
I'm not quite sure what your question is here. But you can create a home.php file, put all the remove_action statements you need to remove the items like with a landing page. Then you can add in the HTML with your image and links.
For the flash page you can create another page template that also strips out the unwanted elements. Make sure you remove the genesis loop on this page template with
remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
Then add the script to your flash video. You can make any page URL you want show the flash video then by adding a new page using that page template.
You are seeing the normal WordPress import behavior so I'm not sure what you need to be "fixed."
What it's asking is which user you want to assign the posts you are importing to. User accounts don't transfer over with this method of importing content.
If you want to keep things the same as before then you should create the same user accounts on your new install as were there before. Then run your import and assign the post authors to their corresponding new user accounts.
You can also assign all the old author's posts to a single new author if you prefer, or assign some to one new user and others to another.
Just edit your home.php file to add your banner code. Open your home.php file in a text editor (NOT Microsoft Word!) and look for this code:
<div id="homepage"> <?php if( function_exists('wp_cycle') ) : ?> <?php wp_cycle(); ?> <?php endif; ?> </div>Change it to this
<div id="homepage"> <div class="home-banner"> [BANNER HTML CODE GOES HERE] </div> <?php if( function_exists('wp_cycle') ) : ?> <?php wp_cycle(); ?> <?php endif; ?> </div>Replace the [BANNER HTML CODE GOES HERE] with the HTML code for your banner.
Then add any css styling you might need to your style.css file to make the .home-banner area look the way you want it to.
In the thread she referenced, Maria already explained the theme she is customizing isn't compatible with Simple Edits. She tried it and it broke her site.
In the function where you removed the navigation for the home page you can also add it back in using a the Genesis hook that places it where you want it.
add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'genesis_do_nav' );
Just change out the genesis_after_header hook with one that puts it where you need it to go.
There really isn't a good way to filter the post meta with Simple Hooks, which is why the Simple Edits plugin is there to deal with this.
However, since the theme you're using isn't compatible with Simple Edits your best bet is to modify a function in your functions.php file.
Open your functions.php file in a text editor (not Microsoft Word!) and look for this code at about line 49:
/** Customize the post meta function */ add_filter( 'genesis_post_meta', 'post_meta_filter' ); function post_meta_filter($post_meta) { if (!is_page()) { $post_meta = '[post_categories] [post_edit] [post_tags] [post_comments]'; return $post_meta; } }Edit the line that sets the $post_meta value to this:
$post_meta = '[post_comments]';
Save your functions.php file and FTP it back up to your server.
Then you should be good to go.
Heya Rachel!
Your RSS feed is coming up for me. However both it and your site are loading very slowly. I don't know if there is something going on with your site, or if your server is just very slow.
Positioning elements on a page is usually a CSS issue, not a php issue. If you add this to your style sheet (style.css file) it should do what you want:
.home-custom-1 { margin-bottom: 20px; }Obviously you can change the pixel hight to whatever suits your needs.
You already have this rule in your style sheet which should be changing the color of the footer link hovers (at about line 1690):
#footer a:hover { color: #0094d2; text-decoration: none; }You can change that color to whatever you want your link hovers to be.
However, the reason it is not working is that here is an inline style on those links that is overriding the styles in your style.css file. I recommend you remove the spans around the links first so that this:
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.marineinsight.com/contact/"> <span style="color: #ffffff;">Contact us</span> </a>[\html] looks more like this: [html]<a target="_blank" href="http://www.marineinsight.com/contact/">Contact us</a>
Then your style sheet can do it's job and make the links display the way you want them to.
Instead of using the "Category Post" plugin you can try the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified. It let's you set the length of the post titles in the widget without getting into extra coding.
With Genesis child themes you can mix and match code from various themes. It's one of the big advantages of using a theme framework like Genesis.
For example, you can use the home.php from Beecrafty with the rest of the code from Eleven40. You have to make sure any functions referenced in the file you are bringing in are either present or you must add them to your existing theme.
An example of what else you would have to bring across in your case is the widget areas used on the home page. Look at which widget areas are called in the home.php file of Beecrafty. Compare that to the widget area setup section in the functions.php file of Eleven40. For the ones that aren't already in the Eleven40 functions.php file, copy them over from the Beecrafty functions.php file.
It's not uncommon to get a "white screen" with an error message when Frankensteining themes. Don't let that throw you. Look at the error message and track down the problem file. The error message will tell you either the line number where the typo is, or the function name that is the causing the problem.
Then you can either fix the typo, or go find the function from the theme you are stealing code from and add it to your new hybrid theme.
After it is "working" then you have to add the CSS rules to your style.css file to make everything look the way you want it.
It may sound like a convoluted process. But trust me it is much faster and easier than the old way of doing things before we had frameworks like Genesis and we had to create every new theme from scratch.
Oh, Susan, Susan. The horror! 😉
For low end shared hosting I've had good experiences with HostGator and BlueHost. About the only host that I've had anywhere near the hassles as GoDaddy is 1and1. I wouldn't go anywhere near either of those companies myself.
I feel for you. I've worked in corporate settings where the IT department kept everything so locked down and out of date that it was frustrating.
The problem isn't with WordPress. GoDaddy hosting is a horrible nightmare. I cringe any time a new client comes to me on their hosting. I use every ounce of influence I can to encourage them to host elsewhere.
To remove a category from your RSS feed, you can add something along these lines to your functions.php file.
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'sc_remove_feed_cat' ); function sc_remove_feed_cat( $query ) { if ( $query->is_feed ) { $query->set( 'cat' , '-10' ); } return $query; }Change out the "10" in '-10' with the category ID for your featured images posts. But be sure to keep the minus sign in there so that it removes the category.
