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With the Magazine theme you can use the built in WordPress header function. Go to Appearance --> Header and upload your header image there.
It takes an image that is 960px wide by 115px high so your best bet is to create an image that size with your logo placed where you want it in that space, usually off to the left.
You're using the Genesis Featured Post widget on the home page there, right? If so, just set the alignment for the image to the "Left" in the widget.
There's a plugin that I use to resize images when changing themes: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ajax-thumbnail-rebuild/
It only shows compatibility up to WordPress 3.2.1 but I've had good luck with it at least as far as WP 3.4.2.
Before you run the plugin check your image sizes in Settings --> Media and make sure those settings are what you want them to be.
Also, if you have inserted, say, a "Medium" size image in your posts then they will still be medium after you run through the size change. In that case you may have to manually edit your posts to change out your images to the size you want.
You're over thinking it. Just add a second text widget to the same Featured widget area above the one with your social links. Or you can even add your text to the same text widget as your social icons above your existing code.
WIth most Genesis themes such as Streamline you don't control the front page via the Settings --> Reading settings. You should change that setting back to display "Your latest posts".
Then go to Genesis --> Theme Settings and scroll down to the "Content Archives" box. You have 2 choices there. You can choose "Display Post Excerpts" but I think you might prefer to keep "Display Post Content" and add a number to "Limit content to 300 characters" instead. Adjust the number of characters to your preference. That way you'll have the "Read More" button.
Adding something along these lines to your functions.php file should do the trick.
add_action( 'genesis_before_content', 'child_add_home_welcome_text' ); function child_add_home_welcome_text() { if ( is_front_page() ) { echo '<div class="welcome-text">'; echo '[PLACE YOUR STATIC TEXT HERE]'; echo '</div>'; } }Change out the [PLACE YOUR STATIC TEXT HERE] with your text and then add some css styling to your style sheet for the .welcome-text class as needed.
I don't think there really is a quick way to do what you want. You'd have to either write your own widget code or use an RSS widget with a combined RSS feed.
You could use something like http://www.rssmix.com/ to combine the Twitter user RSS feeds of multiple accounts into a single RSS feed. Then you could use the RSS widget to display that combined feed of the tweets.
I'd try that first before tackling writing a custom widget.
The easiest thing to do is to hide it with CSS. Adding something along these lines to your style.css file should do the trick.
.page-id-1900 h1.entry-title { display: none; }The .page-id-1900 is the body class selector for that specific page.
If you need to remove the HTML as apposed to just making it not show up in a browser, that will require some php coding instead.
I'm not sure why you would want to hide the post titles on the individual blog post pages. But if you really want them hidden then you can do this:
h1.entry-title { display: none; } h2.entry-title, h2.entry-title a { color: #800000; }Or you can use this to display them all in red:
h1.entry-title, h2.entry-title, h2.entry-title a { color: #800000; }I'm pretty sure because I left out the "h2.entry-title a" property before it wasn't changing them correctly for you. Sorry about that.
You were on the right track. But you also need to also adjust the width of the #content-sidebar-wrap so that it fits beside the #sidebar-alt.
Make the changes like you did. Then add width: 685px; to the css property below (about line 651 in your style sheet).
.sidebar-content-sidebar #content-sidebar-wrap, .sidebar-sidebar-content #content-sidebar-wrap { float: right; width: 685px; }There's a ton of great info in this thread and I confess I didn't read it all. But I wanted to chime in and share some additional resources that can help.
Here is an excellent tool for minimizing the size of theme element png images: http://tinypng.org/
If you don't want to worry about resizing the original images for posts, here is a plugin that can automate that process for you: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/imsanity/ Just adjust the settings to match your theme.
When I need to have a big background image I'll us a jpg image because I can save it in Photoshop with a very low image quality. I basically use trial and error reducing the quality setting as much as I can so it still doesn't look bad to the eye. Since theme background images are usually patterns you can usually get away with a much lower image quality so you can have a much smaller file size to help your site load faster.
Which theme are you using, Max? Also it would help to share a link to your site when asking for help here.
In the meantime, I think this should work in most cases. Add this to your functions.php file.
add_action( 'get_header', 'child_home_sidebar_switch' ); function child_home_sidebar_switch() { if( is_front_page() ) { remove_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'genesis_do_sidebar' ); genesis_widget_area( 'home-sidebar'); } }You will also need to add the new home-sidebar to your functions.php file too. Here's the code to do this.
genesis_register_sidebar( array( 'id' => 'home-sidebar', 'name' => __( 'Home Sidebar', 'genesis' ), 'description' => __( 'This is the Homepage Sidebar.', 'genesis' ), ) );
That's a link to an attachment page. You're looking at an entry in your Media library instead of going to "Posts" and adding a new entry there.
In WordPress 3.5 they made some changes in the media library. So when you are looking at an entry in the media library it looks more like a post than it used to.
Go to your WP dashboard here: http://k2smarketing.com/cmacco/wp-admin/ and go to Posts --> Add New. I bet you'll see what you expect there.
Add this to your style.css file.
h1.entry-title, h2.entry-title { color: #800000; }I'd put that in the place of where you have this at line 850:
h1.entry-title { display: none; }It sure is.
From your dashboard go to Appearance --> Menus
At the upper right part of the screen click on the "Screen Options" tab
In the screen options look under the Show advanced menu properties section
Click the checkbox for "CSS Classes"
Then go down to the menu item you want to have a different font
Add a CSS class like "algerian" (without the quotes)
Then add the class .algerian to your style sheet and define it with that font.Note: I don't know if Algerian is a regular web font so you may need to add it to your site via Google fonts or whatever as well.
It would help to have a link to your site to see what's going on. Generally speaking Genesis themes work with the
<!--nextpage-->
tag no problem.
Make sure you add the tag with the "Text" tab instead of the "Visual" Tab in WordPress 3.5. If you add it with the "Visual" tab your site will just display the tag itself instead of processing it as an HTML tab.
Honestly you are better off choosing an appropriate width for most cases by editing the width in your style.css file. Without a link to your site it's hard to give you specific recommendations.
Then you can edit the "Navigation Label" on the individual links in your menus. That way you can shorten up long page titles so that the work better in your nav menus.
If you try to do some kind of flexible width it will mess up your third level navigation flyouts. You probably don't really want to do that.
Yeah. I noticed that you can still access the old privacy settings page directly via the URL (the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin has a warning when the privacy settings are "on" that still links to this old page location). However when you change the setting on that old settings page in WordPress 3.5 it doesn't "take".
Like Brian said, you have to go to Settings --> Reading and it's now a single check box for "Search Engine Visibility".