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Dorian SpeedMember
I would suggest you put back the original functions.php file - either from a backup you made before making changes, or from the original theme folder - via FTP. You can probably do the customizations using the Genesis Simple Edits plugin.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!January 30, 2013 at 4:04 pm in reply to: Existing site with request of protected page with these features… #16523Dorian SpeedMemberI'm not all that familiar with s2member, but I think what you're talking about could be accomplished with Premise. Create a product called "Employee Access" and then you can assign Premise access levels for each component of the site. Not 100% sure that would work with a calendar plugin, but perhaps you weren't thinking about using one.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberThat is very strange. I'm seeing it on my desktop machine in both Firefox and Chrome. You don't have two login widgets there, one atop the other, do you?
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberAha! Oh, I should have thought of that. I have encountered that exact same issue. Very glad you worked it out! Bonus points if you managed to edit functions.php without getting the White Screen of Death.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberDid that work? If so, you can mark this thread as "resolved."
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberMy first answer made no sense because I was saying "post" instead of "image." And...this next answer may be totally unhelpful.
What I meant to say was this: if you designate a featured IMAGE for a post, it will show up as the featured image up in the top section and in the grid below. Once a post gets bumped down to the non-featured posts grid section, it will automatically go and find an image to feature, I think, even if you didn't set a Featured Image when you were composing the post. When a post first goes up and it's in the Featured Post section, I don't think it will automatically do that (the finding an image to feature if you didn't specify one), but if you manually set the featured image, you will get your desired result - I think.
(goes back, rereads own reply to make sure terms were at least used correctly)
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberRe: featured posts, are you asking how you can avoid having to designate a post as a Featured Post and just have it automagically pull one for you and insert it? I'm sure that is possible to do, but I'm wondering why you wouldn't just use the existing Featured Post capabilities in the post editor (down on the right-hand side, under the categories and tags) to specify the Featured Post.
I believe that for altering the number of posts you also need to go into Genesis >Theme Settings and scroll down to "Blog pages display..." and do the same thing on Settings >Reading. I think the one in Genesis > Theme Settings doesn't actually apply to the home page but the one in Settings>Reading does, but I'm not positive. Try that, though.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberI believe this should work - in the style.css file, find the following:
#header .wrap { width: 960px; height: 120px; margin: 0 auto 0; }
Change the height to whatever you want. Do the same here:
.header-image #title-area, .header-image #title-area #title, .header-image #title-area #title a { display: block; float: left; width: 340px; height: 120px; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-indent: -9999px; overflow: hidden; }
and I think you should be good. Sometimes there's code in functions.php that specifies the header size but I'm not seeing that when I look at the Metric theme.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberI am wondering if there is something up with the eleven40 theme and the fact that it uses the grid loop on the homepage - I think (but I may be wrong) that it uses a version of the grid loop that doesn't work with the most recent updates of WordPress and Genesis.
I would suggest trying the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin to see if that makes the weird "phantom" thumbnails disappear, and doing a reset by going into settings> permalinks. navigate to Settings > Permalinks. Select the default permalinks. Save. Then reselect your preferred permalinks, and save again.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberHuh - good to know! Glad that worked for you. I'm wondering why I didn't have to do that on the sites where I've used font-face. Regardless, I am going to make a note of this for next time I am trying to use it on a site. I think you can mark this thread as "resolved" if you feel like your original question was answered...even, uh, if you were the one who answered it.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberOkay - in your style.css file, find the line that says h1. It will probably say something about the color of the text, the font-size, etc. Here's an example for the font "Felipa" (which is a Google Web Font, but I believe this same code should work with a font-face kit).
h1 { font-family: 'Felipa', cursive; font-size: 30px; line-height: 36px; color: #457599; }
That's telling it - whenever Heading 1 is being used, the font should be Felipa, with cursive as the backup, and the size should be 30px, etc., etc.
I'm not sure how to troubleshoot that background error. I think I'd try downloading a brand new version of the font-face kit from Fontsquirrel, just to be sure it's all correct, rather than trying to undo changes you made to one of the files.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberIt probably looks at the message, sees I'm the author, and thinks "ain't nobody got time for that." 😉
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberAs a general answer to your question:
If you're familiar with css, and you see a theme that has the underlying architecture you want (the layout of widgets like you've described), what I would do in your situation is purchase that theme and then customize the css to get it to look the way you want. Are you familiar with Firebug? It's an extension for Firefox that will allow you to see the different regions on the page and what in the CSS is determining their appearance.
Alternately, it's not that hard to set up a layout like you've described. This is a really comprehensive overview from Bill Erickson on building a child theme. If you scroll down a bit he describes how to lay out the front page of the site.
http://www.artofblog.com/building-a-genesis-child-theme/I think I would recommend the CSS approach if you haven't done much with PHP before. Find a theme laid out pretty much the way you want it, then peer at the home.php file if you decide you want to add a widget area or so. Otherwise, make changes to the style.css file to make it look the way you want.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberPosted a response earlier, but it's not showing up for some reason. Anyway - Feedburner doesn't do that,I'm pretty sure. And the widget does not do that either. I have been using MailChimp for RSS-via-email subscribers on a few sites, and that does make it possible to get a notification of a new subscriber.
http://blog.mailchimp.com/moving-your-subscriber-list-from-feedburner-to-mailchimp/
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberI'm pretty sure there isn't - I don't think Feedburner offers that. I have started using MailChimp for RSS-via-email subscribers on a few sites and that does make it possible to learn when someone new subscribes. Here's something from MailChimp on the topic of Feedburner:
http://blog.mailchimp.com/moving-your-subscriber-list-from-feedburner-to-mailchimp/
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberHere's what I have done before:
Download the font-face kit from Fontsquirrel and unzip the file.
Place the whole file - not having made any changes - into the theme folder.
Edit the style.css file for the theme to say "font-family: 'ImmortalRegular', Arial, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; or whatever font I'm using. Find the selectors you want to change - so, for example, if you want Heading 1 to always be in your fancy cont, find h1 in style.css and specify that font face.Or - if you're calling from within the post itself via HTML, you would say something like
fancy text.These links may be helpful if you're thinking about using inline styles - styling the text within the post itself instead of via the style.css theme file. (I myself wouldn't do it that way - I'd use CSS.)
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_span.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_css.asp
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberDid you adjust the width of the slider? I believe that would be done via Genesis > Slider Settings.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberIs the image no longer inserted into the body of the post itself, or did you just remove it from the Featured Image section? I may be wrong, but I think if there isn't a designated Featured Image, the theme just chooses the first image in the post to use for thumbnail purposes. You might try the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin to see if that shakes things out, too.
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberDo you know if your homepage uses the grid loop?
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Firebug will light the way to understanding the secrets of the Internet!Dorian SpeedMemberIt really depends on what you want that extra content to be. Do you want to change the text of the "sorry, no results found" response? Add a widgeted area to that page? Customize the 404 page?
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