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Dorian SpeedMember
I would start with Bill Erickson's grid loop plugin and configure it to show 0 features on the homepage and however many "teasers" you want.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberYou're using Prose? Can you provide a link to your site? I'm pretty sure that theme doesn't have a widgeted homepage. Are you sure you're looking at the correct set of tutorials?
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberI'm not sure I understand why you've added that to your functions.php, but that code would have the result you are describing. It's going to move the subnavigation above the header.
The subnavigation is, by default, below the header. So you shouldn't need to add anything to functions.php.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberExcellent. If that's it, you can mark this thread as resolved.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!March 15, 2013 at 11:35 am in reply to: On "Outreach" theme, switch frontpage Twitter area to a 3-column area #27185Dorian SpeedMemberLet's see - resizing based on how many were in use. That might be tough; or, at least, I don't know how you'd do that.
However, you can customize the width of either each individual widget or, if you were using something like Genesis Featured Widget Amplified to show three posts, you could customize the widgeted area using the .featuredpost selector, I think.
For example, on this site: http://victoriachamber.org, underneath the slider, there are four Featured Page widgets. That sidebar is home-featured, and the css for it is as follows:
#home-featured .featured .widget { -moz-box-shadow: 0px 3px 8px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 3px 8px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); background: #fff; box-shadow: 0px 3px 8px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); border-radius: 10px; clear: none !important; float: left; margin: 10px; text-align: center; width: 22%; }
The "width: 22%" is the part that says "fit four of these in this area." 22%, not 25%, because it leaves room for the margins/padding.
Alternately, you could create more sidebars to fit inside that div, but I don't think I would go that route.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!March 15, 2013 at 11:27 am in reply to: Generate Theme: 'Read more' on home page BOTTOM excerpts #27184Dorian SpeedMemberI would try this:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt#Remove_.5B....5D_string_using_Filters
or possibly this:
http://www.wpsquare.com/customize-genesis-post-excerpts/I think that theme uses the homepage grid loop, right? It's probably possible to change something in the home.php file to make this work but I'm not sure what it would be.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberVery nice!
I have a couple of unsolicited pieces of advice:
1. Change the favicon from the default "G" that comes with the theme. I usually create an image in Photoshop, shrink it down to 16px square, and upload it to favicon.cc to have it coverted to a favicon. You can then transfer it via FTP into your theme's images directory.
2. The logo has some "noise" in it. You can actually just use text there, or you could resave the logo as a .png file. It would probably remove a lot of the squiggly lines you see around the text. (And if I'm telling you stuff you already know, my apologies!)
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!March 15, 2013 at 11:06 am in reply to: On "Outreach" theme, switch frontpage Twitter area to a 3-column area #27178Dorian SpeedMemberCan you post a link to your site?
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!March 15, 2013 at 11:05 am in reply to: Generate Theme: 'Read more' on home page BOTTOM excerpts #27175Dorian SpeedMemberI see "continue reading" on the bottom grid posts, too - it's just underneath the social sharing links. Personal preference, but if I were you I'd disable those on the homepage as it looks kind of crowded.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberNice site! It's looking fine on my Android phone. Is it possible you need to clear your browser caches?
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!March 14, 2013 at 6:10 pm in reply to: Creating Another Template Page Like Blog Template in Minimum #26920Dorian SpeedMemberI believe you can just copy the home.php file and rename it something like page_quickblog.php, creating a new page template (make sure you name the template). You'll have to specify that the query should include only your custom post type.
Then you can create a new Page and specify in the dropdown that it should use the Quickblog template.
Here's an example of creating a page template:
http://designsbynickthegeek.com/tutorials/creating-page-templates-in-genesisHere are some links about customizing the query:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types#Querying_by_Post_Type
http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Type_Parameters
http://www.carriedils.com/custom-post-type-archive-template/2704
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!March 14, 2013 at 5:56 pm in reply to: Genesis Featured Posts Widget | How to make Horizontal Layout? #26916Dorian SpeedMemberCan you post a link to your site? The basic issue is that you need to make changes in the style.css file that tell it to make each featured post in that widgeted area be less than 100% width.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!March 11, 2013 at 11:40 am in reply to: Genesis Feature Post Widget Not Selecting Correct Categories #25482Dorian SpeedMemberDo you already have posts in that category? If you don't, it will not display anything.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberThe theme is made up of several structural elements - basically, the different "boxes" on the site. So there is not one setting that can be changed to make it wider.
If you use Firefox as your browser, there's an extension called Firebug that will let you look at the underlying code to see what determines the layout. You can use the HTML tab in Firebug to see how the elements are set up, and then switch to looking at the style.css document to see what determines the styling of those elements. You're going to be looking for things like "inner," "wrap," "header," "content-sidebar-wrap," and "footer," to begin with. The cool thing about Firebug is that you can change values in the style.css file and see how it would look if you made the changes on your actual site. I believe Lifestyle is based on a 960px setup so that would be the first thing you would want to increase - that width.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!March 6, 2013 at 12:33 am in reply to: Alternate excerpts on the home page (left, right, left) #24497Dorian SpeedMemberHmm. Well, this would be kind of an inefficient way to go about it, probably, but it seems like you could stack a bunch of Genesis Featured Widget Amplified widgets atop one another on your homepage, and switch back and forth between which way the image is aligned. There's a setting in GFWA for how many posts to offset, so you could use those to "fake" a homepage loop that was in chronological order or whatever.
I'm sure there is a BETTER way to do that, maybe somehow working off of Bill Erickson's grid loop, but I don't know what it would be offhand.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberHi - right now, I'm getting the "parse error" message when I try to look at your site, which means you should put back the original functions.php file via FTP.
The homepage is styled differently; without looking at how you have it set up, though, I can't tell you what you need to change. When you say "Genesis theme," you mean that you are using the default child theme, right? Not that you are editing the actual framework files?
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberThe slider works with either Posts OR Pages, but not a combination of both.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberThe Genesis slider only works with pages and posts. I believe Soliloquy might do what you're describing, but I'm not positive about the external links.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!March 6, 2013 at 12:14 am in reply to: Can you have a different footer on Home page than the rest of the site #24491Dorian SpeedMemberSo, if I understand you correctly, you would like for one widget to display ONLY on the front page, and for it to display on the sidebar on the rest of the site - right?
There's a plugin called Widget Logic that lets you specify which pages of the site should and should not display a particular widget. If you install that plugin, it will add a little box at the bottom of the widget in which you can put something like is_home (for the widget that should only display on the home page).
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