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I couldn't use the eNews plugin to sign people to the correct group. What I did was that I added a checkbox for groups in the Mailchimp confirmation email. It works, but not well, because people that I know would've have signed for a certain group are not doing it - because they didn't see it. For others that see the option it works well. Not the best solutions I think.

I might have to separate the groups into separate lists even though Mailchimp doesn't recommend it. Unfortunately, I'm getting a few unsubscribes from people that are obviously getting some emails they don't want.

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Hi @nutsandbolts - I thought it was a hosting/server problem, but I think I have some kind of plugin clash.

Not sure why, but the Fast Secure Contact Form by Mike Challis has always worked brilliantly and it broke recently. I fixed it and then anytime I had it on, it would cause problems on the site. So I turned it off.

Then I noticed I'm having problems when I activate Jetpack or any plugin that uses a Jetpack module. So for now I turned both of those off and I'm working just fine. However, I think one of my other plugins - one of the actual active ones is the culprit that's causing the clash when I turn either of those other two on. Just don't know which.

Not exactly sure what to make of it.

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@cdils - I also went and changed the heading of Testimonials from red to yellow. This is until I decide on how to enhance this widget.

That particular yellow and red tints are the RallyWays brand colors, so I have to find ways to make them work with the design.

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Hi Carrie,

THANKS! Tunnel vision I tell you. Ha. You work on something for so long, you don't see the problems.

Thanks for that info. I'm going to go correct the typo right now.

As far as the "What people are saying" box on the homepage - That's not how I want it to be ultimately. I want to have a slider displaying people's testimonials. Just haven't gotten around to doing it.

This new site was launched earlier this year (March) and it's going really well. Originally it was a Thesis 1.8 design for a whole year, before I decided to move it to Genesis. Essentially, it's a 2 year old site but growing very well.

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Awesome. I'm from Puerto Rico and spent some time in Hawaii. Only been in SD for a few years. Eventually we'll have a boat again, but likely not doing the liveaboard anymore even when we have a boat again. We were considering it 4-5 years ago, but since then we've grown into a lifestyle that we kinda like but brought us away from the easy possibility of living aboard. Cheers, Danny

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This is awesome! I'm a big boat guy. Been on them since I was born. Power boats at first, but then I learned to sail when I was 9 or 10. Most recently, for the last few years I've crewed on a 30-foot Columbia Sport Yacht for local San Diego regattas. My wife and I have considered living aboard with kids, but it's much more complicated in SoCal than it is in other parts of the country.

I have this site: http://floatways.com - I was developing it for a while but eventually let it sit on the backburner while working on other more profitable projects.

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Hi @Susan - Finally had the time to get this done. The tutorial was excellent and I was able to put to get what I wanted. Thanks so much.

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Hi Brad. Thanks. I'll give it a shot and report back.

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Hi! Thanks for the posts. I just got back here and saw them. At some point I cracked it and got it to work. The only thing I could never get right was getting the logo image to look super crisp on Retina display iphones and ipads, but other than that it works great. I'll keep this in mind though just in case I need to do this again. Needless to say, and coincidentally, I'm working on a new site in Modern Portfolio... so I might need this soon anyway. Again thanks.

The development site is no more. Now I'm working exclusively on the actual final site... http://rallyways.com

The new site in Modern Portfolio is actually my design portfolio 🙂 http://dannycruzcreations.com

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Hi guys, hmmm, I see the topic has sprung somewhere else as well. I see I'm not the only one that wants to sort this out.

Thanks for the suggestions. I've been a little busy and haven't been able to try them yet, but I will soon.

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^^^ Hi Robin, thanks for that. I'll look into it and see if I can make it work. I'm a little concerned about trying it, because there's really nothing wrong with my images, just the featured image. But I'm happy to try it on some test posts late at night and see how they feed to my campaigns.

That's sort of what I did last night while testing various featured image sizes. The test post feeds live to my Mailchimp campaign. But since I have my campaigns set to email at a specific hour in the morning every day, as long as I turn the test post back to "draft" before the morning, it will never feed a complete email out. Good for testing.

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Hey, let me add something here...

I found Mailchimp RSS to Email to be extremely easy to setup - much more so than Aweber's Blog Broadcast (their brand name of RSS to email).

I did find one problem however, and I can't seem to find a solution.

The featured image, if it's only used as a featured image and not in the body of the article per se, will not feed the Mailchimp campaigns.

Any idea how to get around this? I use Minimum, where the featured image is usually big a important. No need to repeat it in the body again. I really would like it to feed to the Mailchimp RSS to email campaign. The merge tags seem to be fine - the same ones @Robin listed.

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I also don't understand why pasting the code here strips out some of the code. Whether I use the code tags or not. (There should be more code on after the 'before' that gets stripped out when I post it here. This is so frustrating. I'm going to be giving this one up soon...

 

EDIT: There. I finally got it to display all the code.

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After much trial and error, this is the code I used to display the 2 boxes:

`

/** Display custom content box 1 widget after the post content - Needs debugging */
add_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'add_custom_content_box_1' );
function add_custom_content_box_1() {
if ( is_singular( array( 'post', 'quickblog', 'specialty', 'show' ) ) )
genesis_widget_area( 'custom-content-box-1', array(
'before' => '<div id="custom-content_box_1 widget-area">',
) );
}

/** Display custom content box 2 widget after the post content - Needs debugging */
add_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'add_custom_content_box_2' );
function add_custom_content_box_2() {
if ( is_singular( array( 'post', 'quickblog', 'specialty', 'show' ) ) )
genesis_widget_area( 'custom-content-box-1', array(
'before' => '<div id="custom-content-box-2 widget-area">',
) );
}

`

Unfortunately, it's not working right. The boxes display... but what happens is, whatever I put in the first widget gets repeated in the 2nd widget.

I've tried to contract some people to hire them to help me debug this, but everyone's super busy.

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@Marco - Just got back to take care of this. Been quite busy.

That worked GREAT! Thank you very much!

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Thanks @braddalton - I'm working 99% of the time on my car site. That's a site I started building post panda-bear and post penguin-bird. 🙂 - My approach is much more social than my previous sites. I'm on the field all the time shooting photos, meeting people and writing stories. The time spent behind the computer is because I have to.

So, I'm not too worried about Google. I'd just like the site to be as optimized as possible, but for the most part, it's social.

These days SEO competition is too fierce. I can't spent my days searching for low-hanging fruit and having to write about "10 ways to tighten a lug nut" just because competition is low. Competition is low, because traffic is low. I now longer write for keywords, but rather find keywords in what I'm already writing.

Have a good one and thanks, Danny

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@Marco - Not sure I fully understand. Why add 3 band new widgets if I'm not using the stock 3 widgets yet. Am I missing something.

I want to use those 3 widgets, but what I will display on them I only want on the homepage and nowhere else. Can I just modify the PHP that displays those widgets with a conditional rule or something? (I'm not a PHP expert).

Like... this is the code in functions.php that seems to add those 3 widgets:

/** Add support for 3-column footer widgets */
add_theme_support( 'genesis-footer-widgets', 3 );

Now, what would I need to do to it to tell it to only display on the homepage? Like, "if is home" or something like that?

Thanks, Danny

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@Garyj - Hi, I did it yesterday, thanks. And big thanks to Brad Dalton too. The conversion was easy and I didn't lose any data. Not only that, but configuring Yoast's WordPress SEO was quite intuitive even without reading the manual or watching the video. The best part is that if it doesn't work out for me in the end, I can always switch back rather easily. So far I like it though.

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@braddalton - Thanks Brad. I'll check out that article. Nonetheless, I easily converted the my SEO to Yoast with that plugin you mentioned. Dude, you're full of great ideas.

The nice thing about it is it seems to be easy to switch back if I need to. But so far, I'm liking the features in Yoast WordPress SEO so I'm going to try it out for a little longer. It does seem to provide more power over Genesis' standard SEO options.

Here is the post I found when originally searching for a solution to the problem. I thought it was pretty useful:
http://www.famousbloggers.net/replytocom-links-image-attachment-wordpress.html

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Nevermind @braddalton - The plugin does offer the functionality for Yoast. The problem is it's listed as "Wordpress SEO" and not branded as Yoast. Confusing eh? 🙂

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