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@braddalton - That was awesome info. I didn't know you can tap into a feed out of any category. That's great because I've been considering building a separate list out of a very specific custom post type. THANKS!

Anyway, I'm going to be using the native feed to feed email mailing list. I'm going to move away from RSS readers altogether. If someone wants to use RSS for Apple Mail or something like that, they probably know how to do it themselves. I'm just going to funnel everyone to signup via email.

I've been using AWeber for email campaigns, but I'm a little disappointed with their interface, and hugely disappointed with the blog broadcast feature. I'm tired of paying them and now that I see how crappy their blog broadcast interface is, I'm even more tired. For that reason, I'm going to migrate everyone to Mailchimp and use them for both email campaigns and RSS to email blog updates...

Again, thanks.

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I ended up here after searching "feedburner" - It does seem Feedburner hasn't been updated in ages. Any thoughts on whether it's worth to continue using them, or go solo?

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Finally got around to trying this. @frobn - That worked perfectly, thanks. (Had to get a bit of help from a friend as well) Here's the edited snippet:

//** Remove page title from About Page landing page */
add_action( 'get_header', 'bourncreative_remove_page_titles' );
function bourncreative_remove_page_titles() {
if ( is_page(176))
remove_action( 'genesis_post_title', 'genesis_do_post_title' );
}

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Well here... I found this under Minimum functions.php...

/** Customize the post meta function */
add_filter( 'genesis_post_meta', 'post_meta_filter' );
function post_meta_filter( $post_meta ) {
if ( !is_page() ) {
$post_meta = '[post_categories before="' . __( 'Filed Under: ', 'minimum' ) . '"] // [post_tags before="' . __( 'Tagged: ', 'minimum' ) . '"]';
return $post_meta;
}}

Now, my question would be... What do I change to include my custom taxonomies?

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"1) Are you talking about custom taxonomies? If so, check get_the_term_list() in the WP codex. You’d include that in your template where you want the terms for the taxonomy to display."

Yes, exactly... Custom taxonomies. The Genesis/Minimum function that displays "Filed Under:" at the end of posts only lists stock WP categories, it won't work with my custom taxonomies. I'm looking at the articles and forum posts in the WP codex related to "get_the_term_list()", but I can't make sense of it.

2. I looked on genesis/lib/init.php - I see what you mean. Then I looked on functions.php for Minimum and looked closely at how the portfolio CPT is registered in there. All the supports added are stock WP supports, plus genesis-seo (that CPT doesn't use layouts). Makes total sense. Thanks for that.

I think once I figure out how to make the custom taxonomies list under "Filed Under:" this thing will be complete. Thanks for all your help. I'll look around some more and see if I can crack that. I have a feeling the function is solely under the Genesis framework and not on the Minimum Child Theme. So if I do find a way to make it work, I have to copy that to functions.php under the child theme.

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One more thing, @Bill Murray - Is there a list of Genesis supports? I'm wondering where you got those terms you shared with me. I suppose there's a list of these somewhere.

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As a followup to the post above... I looked in functions.php and I found the code snippet below for the "filed under" function. I just don't know how I would modify it to work with my custom post types and custom taxonomies. It's probably pretty simple, but I don't quite write PHP. I can see "post_categories before=", so I suspect I have to add something along those lines like "cpt_taxonomy name before=" or something like that, just not sure how. Anyone?

/** Customize the post meta function */ add_filter( 'genesis_post_meta', 'post_meta_filter' ); function post_meta_filter( $post_meta ) { if ( !is_page() ) { $post_meta = '[post_categories before="' . __( 'Filed Under: ', 'minimum' ) . '"] // [post_tags before="' . __( 'Tagged: ', 'minimum' ) . '"]'; return $post_meta; }}

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I found one more bug. Under posts, there is a section at the end of every post that reads, "Filed Under:" and that is usually followed by a category name. Well, that only works for the standard WP category taxonomy.

My new custom post types will not show their taxonomy types display there. It's just blank. Like "File Under:" and displays nothing. Obviously, the custom taxonomies for my custom post types are not registering with Genesis. Any ideas how to fix that? Thanks.

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^ Ok great, I'll try that. Not sure what all the divs in each line are for though. I suppose I don't need to include those, right?

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Oh nice, that's a much better snippet than the one in the tutorial recommended by the CPT plugin developer which dumps all CPT's and even pages into the RSS feed. This one's way more selective.

THANK YOU!  I'll look into the plugin and see what I can find.

 

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^^^ Oh dang, that was simple! THANK YOU!

There is a little field called "Advanced Supports" in the CPT settings. I added those separated by commas, and voila!

Is there a simple method like that to add RSS? Or am I going to have to work some magic in the functions.php file?

Also, I just noticed there is one small thing that is not working yet. I installed a plugin called, "Genesis Minimum Images Extended" recommended by @Kraft. This plugin basically places a large banner image were the Featured image goes in Minimum Theme, while you use a small square image for your post thumbnail featured image. Well, that one doesn't register in my CPT. Any clues?

Again, MANY THANKS.

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Hi, oh, I know how to find the post and page id's. The CSS is relatively simple. What  I'm unsure of is editing Brian Bourn's PHP code from "page template" to "page-id." What I need done has to be done via PHP and not CSS.  It's not simply a display issue, it's also an SEO issue. If I hide the title using CSS, I will still have the title in the code wrapped in H1 tags. I can't have that because I want to apply H1 tags to a specific line of text in the body of my page - I'd end up with two different lines of text wrapped in H1, and you should only have 1. Using PHP to remove the title from the page will do it cleanly - also removing it from the source code of the page, not simply hiding it like CSS does. See what I mean?

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docmas, it's better to edit functions.php on your desktop and upload via FTP after every update. That way if you break the site with a tiny PHP error, all it takes is fixing the error in the file on your desktop and re-uploading - and all it fine with the world after that.

@Brian Bourn - I want to use that snippet, but I was originally going to apply a page ID to it to only use it on one specific page (a landing page), in my case page-ID 176.

Any tips on editing that code to make it target id-176 only?

I undertand why you apply it to all pages. It's probably an SEO thing so that you can have a short page permalink, with a long H1 tag for your title. I do that sometimes by publishing the page first and then changing the title afterwards so the permalink doesn't change. However, in this case I simply want to add a <div> wrapped H1 tag in the body of the landing page itself. In order to avoid having 2 sets of H1 tags in my page, I want to remove the title (which automatically gets an H1). You think this code snippet with a little edit would do the trick?

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I have a car blog. That is totally acceptable in my niche. Just look at thesmokingtire.com and jalopnik.com. However, my original idea for a Quick blog was so I could segregate detailed professional articles from quick blog posts.

Because I of this, I've gone back and forth a couple of times from naming the blog "Stories" or "Blog" I feel that if Quickblog exists as a separate custom post type, then the blog would be named STORIES to help differentiate the two. But, if the Quickblog is going to be a category of the main blog (or department in my case), then the blog can be named BLOG.

You can take a look at what I have going on here: http://rightisbackside.com (eventually it will go and replace the current rallyways.com site).

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Hi Susan, that's what I did. I still haven't published the site, so I can change my mind still. I might run a couple of more tests, but I think I'm 95% sure I'll keep it a category only. My only debate is the quality of the content from Quick Blog to the rest of the categories might not be up to par. I mean, discussing YouTube videos, a quick car meet, etc, etc, might not be content suitable to be alongside the quality of the main blog. That's my only hold up. Not to mention, the photography in the main blog is 100% professional level. In the quick blog I might want to share a low quality cell phone photo. I'm afraid it might dirty up my main blog. Still feel the same way?

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So I'm leaving it as is for now. It looks ok in most browsers & while it doesn't look very good mobile, it's readable. Ultimately, I'm not happy... and I'm quite disappointed at how it seems this very simple feature was seriously overlooked when the design of this child theme was originally made. Never had I had so much trouble with something this simple.

As of right now, the logo is displayed via CSS with a variation of the code @investingsystems kindly provided.

To be 100%, I would like to display the logo, in a sensibly small size (280 x 35px) to look the way it does now in Chrome and Firefox but using the Header Image interface in the WP UI, and still look good in mobile. This, I believe is the way this should have been designed in the first place. Uploading a 1140px wide transparent PNG with the logo on the left side, is a hack job, and there is no way that will ever look good mobile.

The site is currently temporarily hosted at http://rightisbackside.com but by the time you read this it might be at it's finally location at http://rallyways.com

Even if it's in the next 2 months, I would LOVE to sort this problem out. So, if you run into this thread and feel keen on helping me out, please let me know.

Regards, Danny

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Hi, for the "From the Blog" text, just open the file page-title.php and find the "From the Blog" text, change it, save it, re-upload the file. Remember to save a backup copy first, just in case you break the file.

For the featured image info, you might want to read this thread: http://www.studiopress.community/topic/minimum-theme-best-practices-for-featured-images/

Hope this helps, Danny

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Hmmm. I'll give it a try, thanks. I do however, want to hide the title ONLY on 1 page (it's an about page). But I should be able to modify that code with a page ID so that it only affects that one page. I'll try it and report back. Thanks, Danny

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Hi, that very nearly worked. I had to modify it a bit, but not too much - So far, these are the results:

1. Firefox: works perfectly

2. Chrome and Safari: Works, but creates a tiny 1px gap between the menu red boxes and the featured image.

3. Mobile: It works, but it does not look good in mobile. Mainly because it's not responsive and doesn't resize like every other image on the page. Also, it doesn't center and it sits flush on top of the menu.

Still, I'm surprised at how hard to do this has been. I'm not a complainer by any means, but you would think that a feature as simple as replacing a text logo with an image logo would be easy to do, intuitive and mobile responsive. But no.

I appreciate the help @investingsystems. But let's see if someone else can point at to what's missing to fine-tune it. Again, normally I wouldn't be so picky about something like this... or be so adamant about getting the code perfect. But being what it is, the logo, and having fought this thing for so long, I'm now pressing to get this fixed.

These are my current styles after @investingsystems suggestions (what's missing? Would the fix be inserted in the mobile CSS section?:

/* Header
------------------------------------------------------------ */

#header {
background-position: top center!important;
margin: 0 auto;
min-height: 60px;
overflow: hidden;
width: 1140px;
}

#title-area {
float: left;
overflow: hidden;
width: 35%;
}

#title {
font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
font-size: 30px;
font-weight: 700;
line-height: 1;
margin: 15px 0 10px;
text-transform: uppercase;
}

#title a,
#title a:hover {
color: #333333;
text-decoration: none;
background: url("images/logo.png") no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
display: block;
height: 35px;
width: 280px;
text-indent: -9999px;
}

#description {
display: none;
}

#header .widget-area {
float: right;
width: 65%;
}

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^^^ You sir, are a genius. So simple, yet so elegant.

I'll keep you in mind when it comes time to debug this thing. Maybe we can work a deal out.

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