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Neither the Genesis Slider nor the Genesis Responsive Slider have shortcodes. However if you want to place the slider in a widget area you can just use the slider widget.
Rather than doing in-line CSS you can add the CSS to your style.css file to make the slider appear the way you want.
You can add something like the following to your home.php file:
add_action( 'genesis_before_content', 'child_home_welcome' ); function child_home_welcome() { echo '<div class="home-welcome">'; echo '<p>YOUR WELCOME MESSAGE GOES HERE</p>'; echo '</div><!-- end .home-welcome -->'; }Then you will want to add a little CSS to your style sheet for the .home-welcome class to make it look the way you want.
Stupid question here, but this site isn't on a Multisite install is it? If it is then unless you have SuperAdmin rights it will strip most object embeds and scripts from your widgets on you.
Can't tell you how many times I've gone in to make a CSS change and not seen it behave the way I expected because W3 Total Cache was enabled. Always disable caching when you are making changes. Or it will drive you bug nuts.
It's good to turn off other plugins that affect the presentation too, which is why I recommended disabling the copy protection plugin.
I do a fair amount of converting layered PSD's to Genesis themes. I don't know of a way to automate the process.
What I did find that helps is to start with a base child theme that has many of the pieces I use over and over again already in place. For example Bill Erickson has a good starter child theme here: https://github.com/billerickson/BE-Genesis-Child
He also has a generic Genesis plugin for a bunch of features he uses regularly here: https://github.com/billerickson/Core-Functionality
Using aids like that speed up the process. But I still have to go through and modify the CSS, add functions for widget areas and whatnot. And I have to create all the image elements needed for the theme manually.
Or you can use the same custom body class for all the pages to keep things simpler for you. Something like a body class of nopadding might be less confusing instead of the page title.
Add the style like Jared said with the "generic" class instead. As long as it is below your existing #inner definition in your stylesheet you only need to add the bit(s) you want to change. In this case it's the padding. So you can simplify it to this:
.nopadding #inner { padding: 0; }Look in the functions.php file that came with Decor. There you will see a function or two that adds those extra divs. Add the functions back into your new functions.php file.
Here is the code you are looking for:
/** Add post/page wraps */ add_action( 'genesis_before_post_title', 'decor_start_post_wrap' ); add_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'decor_end_post_wrap' ); function decor_start_post_wrap() { ?> <div class="wrap"> <div class="left-corner"></div> <div class="right-corner"></div> <?php } function decor_end_post_wrap() { ?> </div> <?php }If you go to your Genesis --> Theme Settings page and scroll down to the "Content Archives" box there is a setting for "Select Post Navigation Technique:" You can select "Numeric" and it will get you close to what you are looking for.
Yeah. Deselect CSS minification while you are making modifications. From your WP dashboard go to Genesis --> Design Settings and scroll to the bottom where you see "General Settings". Uncheck the "Minify CSS?" box and click "Save Settings"
Then when your site is done and customized the way you want it you can re-check that box.
I also recommend you turn off the "copyprotect" plugin while you are customizing things. It's triggering strange behavior on your site that might be making it harder to see your changes.
You're also going to want to turn off W3 Total Cache until you are done customizing your site. If your site is caching things it will keep your customizations from showing up.
Honestly search is one of WordPress's biggest weaknesses right now in my opinion. There are some plugins that improve the basic WP search. One good one is Relevanssi. Here is their free version in the Plugin Directory: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/relevanssi/
It sounds like you're going to want to use their premium version to get closer to your "fantasy world".
It's a width & margin issue. You can change the first one to this:
.footer-widgets-1 { float: left; margin: 0 10px 0 0; width: 275px; }and then change the width of the .footer-widgets-2 and .footer-widgets-3 to 275px also and then they should fit.
WooCommerce works just fine with Genesis. I use it on several sites and it's the eCommerce solution I recommend.
You may find it helpful to use the Genesis Connect for WooCommerce plugin because it will make integration a bit easier for you.
Beyond that, if you share the specific problem you are running into we might be able to help you out.
The easiest thing to do is to assign them to a category all their own. Then you can use the query_args to hide that category from the blog page. Here's a good tutorial that explains how it's done: http://www.wpframeworktutorials.com/genesis-framework-using-query-args/
You're going to need to add something like this to your functions.php file.
add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'add_my_leaderboard' ); function add_my_leaderboard() { echo '<div class="leaderboard">'; ?> [banner HTML goes here] <?php echo '</div><!-- end .leaderboard -->'; }Obviously you'll have to change out [banner HTML goes here] with the code for your banner. Then add some styling to get it looking the way you want it in your style.css file.
So are you saying that you want to be able to change the font for each post title on the fly?
Do you have an example of a site that does that? It's not something that's normally done.
There really is no good solution. Using "Show Content Limit" will always be a bit of a crap shoot as to exactly how many characters are displayed. You would think that it would be "exactly" whatever number you put in. But it doesn't seem to. Often I have to vary the number by 20 characters or more to make it actually change.
For starters it looks like you are using a Windows server instead of a Linux box.
WordPress can work on a Windows server. But unless you really know what you're doing, it's going to be frustrating at best. Here is the Codex entry that might help: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_on_Microsoft_IIS Step 5 about how to enable pretty URLs in particular is worth reviewing.
My suggestion since you are just getting started is to switch to Linux hosting. It will save you tons of heartache and grief.
If you just want to have a different sidebar on your blog page you can use the Genesis Simple Sidebars plugin. I think that will be easier for you that the Layout Extras plugin.
You can use Firebug to see which CSS selectors to change when customizing your theme.
It looks like you are using a custom css plugin to modify your style sheet. You will need to adjust where you have entered this line here:
h1,h2,em,b{font-family:calibri}
