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coralseaitMember
No worries on the help, that's the beauty of the Genesis community.
Can you give us a bit more info on your current environment? Which Host? Amount of memory /etc? It will be listed in your cPanel.
Depending on the host you may have have some good results with W3 Total Cache helping, if CPU limitation is there CloudFlare could help with minification and some CDN for free, but we just need a bit more info.
Of course upgrading to a better host would likely help, but again we need more info.
coralseaitMemberThat's a good suggestion from Brad with the native gallery esp with all the recent problems with NG updates breaking sites.
December 8, 2013 at 4:00 am in reply to: Executive Pro – Home Slider & Featured Pages Content #77663coralseaitMemberYes, just make sure it is the child theme files you are updating and not the main framework. Also keep in mind that child theme updates are possible (but again from the history rare) so good commenting and grouping of your custimization practices will minimize any impact should it occur.
December 8, 2013 at 3:43 am in reply to: Executive Pro – Home Slider & Featured Pages Content #77660coralseaitMemberSome of your confusion may rest in that it is the main framework that is updated and not necessarily the child themes. Therefore your customizations will typically remain. Whereas other frameworks' child theme developers may update the themes frequently Genesis updates the framework as needed.
If you want to take that next step, as Brad mentions, you can write your own page templates which won't be overwritten with any possible child theme updates.
Note, in my experience and from the theme archives, it is the main framework that tends to be updated more often than the child themes themselves which seem similar to say a final release. In that regard updating functions.php with filters / hooks or using the hooks plugin is good enough to remain stable over a long period.
In any case you are free to write your own templates which genesis will notice per the correct declaration at the top of the template file and you can then use / set in the drop down section for page type at publish time and they will not be overwritten upon child theme update.
coralseaitMemberA problem with many VPS hosts is simply over subscription. They load the boxes with far too many sites and [depending on which virtual technology] you end up using swap space too often and over loaded CPUs; even though your admin or cPanels will report no memory issues or CPU issues, the host OS is overloaded.
Of course there are pipeline issues too, if are you on a segmented 100mbit or heavily throttled / shaped 1000mbit link to the public internet and you have many concurrent connections you'll have issues.
One of the keys to WPEngine performance is they don't oversubscribed their instances so you actually get the physical resources you are sold.
When researching VPS hosting it is important to understand the differences in host OS and container virtualization techniques. For example OpenVZ and KVM are very common.
OVZ is an OS level virtualization and therefore subject to impacts from other sites shared on the host OS image. However, it requires less memory and resources and therefore is usually sold as a cheaper solution.
KVM is a true virtualization so your OS instance is completely isolated from the others on the machine so you are not sharing resources within the host OS, but have your own OS instance and resources. This however requires more memory and resources so is usually more expensive and more difficult to maintain.
OVZ is actually more efficient in some regards so if your VPS host doesn't over subscribe it is a very good choice for self administered VPS. RamNode is an example of a great host that doesn't over subscribe either their OVZ or KVM instances. They'll actually stop selling the service until new nodes are brought online and their performance metrics prove this out.
Of course there are other virtualization options as well such as Plesk but all will also suffer if the box / instance is over subscribed which most VPS hosts as routine.
In summary an important bit of research is to find out your virtualization options on a given host and how subscribed their instances are.
coralseaitMemberQuad Core 4gb is way overkill for that site, you could host dozens and dozens on a non oversubscribed VPS of that size.
Your current host is def the problem because time to first byte is horrible and your page is very minimal. Who is the host? The instance must be way oversubscribed or under powered.
December 7, 2013 at 4:23 am in reply to: Executive Pro – Home Slider & Featured Pages Content #77514coralseaitMemberThere's quite a bit in here to digest, but basically from what I believe you are asking
1) Per page / post SEO can be controlled at the page and post level. For even more control install Yoast SEO and tune your metas per page / post along with key phrashing
2) Markup is stripped by default because of excerpting which is standard in wordpress, you can mod that along the lines of http://wpdecoder.com/html/dont-strip-html-from-excerpts-or-content-limit-teasers/
3) child themes by default are the way to preserve your changes over major updates. Some people install genesis extender plugin to keep all their mods in one place, but generally I'm fine modding the child themes. They are generally sound, solid, stable releases that don't change much unless the framework itself is updatedI agree with Brad, you'll get better and more specific answers by asking a single question per thread.
coralseaitMemberSmall world!
Up in Cape Tribulation, we live in wonderful Port Douglas normally. Satellite connection is atrocious up North now, as everything is over subscribed 🙁
Thankfully Port has ADSL/ADSL2 and hopefully with NBN coming, fiber one day!
coralseaitMemberHello,
Thanks very much for the reminder, I meant to get back to this but have been up in the wilds of North Australia with dodgy internet access.
Yes it is resolved, ended up coming out quite well. http://www.eliteautobahn.com/ although the solution was a custom loop and css / js.
Cheers!
November 13, 2013 at 10:02 pm in reply to: Full page width Genesis – Responsive Slider in Lifestyle Pro #72877coralseaitMemberMy apologies gents, I've been up in the wilds of Cape Tribulation / Far North Queensland without reliable connection and quite busy. When I catch up on things I should be able to review this more.
November 6, 2013 at 3:51 pm in reply to: Full page width Genesis – Responsive Slider in Lifestyle Pro #71320coralseaitMemberBe happy to help you; you are almost there anyway so just a bit more learning and you'll have it nailed. You can reach me via my website email if you want to take it offline.
The structural wraps in Genesis, you can think of as walls / containers holding everything nicely in their place so they don't spill out everywhere. Because of this the responsive slider won't expand past them - if you make them wider the slider can be wider too.
Soliloquy is really drag and drop and developer version for unlimited sites gets you everything and is a great investment.
November 6, 2013 at 3:08 pm in reply to: Full page width Genesis – Responsive Slider in Lifestyle Pro #71310coralseaitMemberYou'll need to set the appropriate widths / modify your CSS for
.site-container
and/or.content
because the slider is contained within them and they are 1140px and 800px respective.But ... that will impact your sidebar, so keep that in mind. It will push it down to below your posts, I suspect.
It would probably be better for you to use Brad's link and set soliloquy outside the structural wraps. You'll have less modifications ahead.
You can use the Genesis Hooks Plugin or modify functions.php per Brad's instructions. Carrie Dils has a good primer to get you started on moving things outside the wraps.
http://www.carriedils.com/move-header-footer-genesis/948/
November 6, 2013 at 1:54 pm in reply to: Full page width Genesis – Responsive Slider in Lifestyle Pro #71303coralseaitMemberAre your images big enough for full width and do you have CSS appropriate for full width (ie the class and / or container / structural wrap are set width 100%) ?
November 5, 2013 at 10:58 pm in reply to: Full page width Genesis – Responsive Slider in Lifestyle Pro #71203coralseaitMemberDo you see the markup for
<div class="full-width" class="widget-area">
in your source?If not, you may need to tweak your conditional checks, as it is a sign the test fails and doesn't actually output the widget. Perhaps is_home() instead of is_front_page()
If you do see the markup something else is wrong with the slider itself. You've probably checked, but just make sure you are telling the slider to actually display something.
I can second Brad's advice of using Soliloquy though, it is a fantastic plugin. I'm actually using it for a full width / size landing slider and it is fast as could be.
coralseaitMemberNo worries at all. I think for sure you want to use schema and any other structured markup that makes sense for your site.
However I agree it would be a good idea to step back, take stock and form a wholistic approach. Just looking at your markup it appears you have a lot of plugins and extras you may not need.
One of the aspects that drew me to Genesis was how clean and minimalist the markup is, and that it comes as light as possible. You've got a lot of social and other tracking markup in there; if your data shows it is used and you get value keep it, but you may want to consider removing a lot of the extras if not.
It is clear Google putting a lot of emphasis on structured data so you do want to use it, and probably prioritize it over other things. You've got some homework to tackle but through it your site will improve 🙂
coralseaitMemberIt is coming from whatever you have in footer widget 2, Meet The Owner. At least that's where the Schema Person markup appears.
coralseaitMemberAre you implementing page caching or other caching tools? I still see all of the Yoast OG markup in your source.
coralseaitMemberBoth Yoast and Genesis Framework / Child themes (depending on version) implement schema markup, in fact that's one of their pluses.
You can see what structured data Google finds via the testing tool http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=http%3A%2F%2Fbigrockinvestments.com%2Fhelp-a-homeowner-friend%2F
What version of the Framework, Agent Press and Yoast are you using? Also, are you using any other significant plugins?
coralseaitMemberPerhaps google is doing a little too much google foo ?
http://yoast.com/google-page-title/
Sometimes, I have to re-save things in Yoast SEO; for example after WP updates or even some plugin updates I notice my sitemaps will not work. So I just re-save Yoast SEO options.
Also, very rarely, I've seen clearing open graph cache for sites fix things, such as for facebook http://facebookhelpdisk.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/facebook-open-graph-not-clearing-cache.html
Note sure how google implements a cache or if they do however.
Cheers!
coralseaitMemberThat's the kind of effort you like to see from a developer, thanks for the feedback on that I'm going to seriously check out that plugin.
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