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Is the image in your favicon a black silhouette on a yellowish background? Because I'm seeing it show up in both Firefox and Chrome.
Apparently there's something wrong with the image you uploaded or your server configuration; I get a 500 Internal Server Error when I try to view http://partsmasterbrand.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/header.jpg. Try deleting the file and uploading the image again as your Featured Image for that page.
Learning WordPress terminology can be confusing, and trying to figure out Genesis at the same time is even more complicated - so just be prepared for some frustration along the way. The wordpress.org site is a great resource; their codex is useful when you get stuck on specific backend things, and they cover the basics really well. If you haven't already, then you could start here to get up to speed on the terminology:
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Semantics
Figuring out the difference between WP Posts and WP Pages - and understanding that not every "page" on your website is a WP Page - is very important, because they behave differently and are used for different things. As just one example, when you set up your menu, the menu items are (usually) the Pages on your site - so that means you need to figure out how you want your site to be structured first, and then create the Pages, at least empty ones with no content, in order for them to appear in the Menus screen to become menu items. But generally you would never make a Post a menu item.
Admittedly, that paragraph might not make a lot of sense to someone just starting out...!! 🙂
Anyway, keep going with it and it'll click into place for you, and if you get stuck then you can always come back here (or wordpress.org forums) to get some guidance.
Good luck!
Hey there - it's possible that you're hitting up against standard behavior in WP that often causes confusion. This post might help:
http://bobwp.com/exactly-what-is-that-featured-image-in-wordpress/
(The part about the Genesis theme specifically.)
I wasn't able to tell which part of your site you're having the problem with. Are you talking about the WP Posts (like the mega-crete thing)? Or WP Pages? If you're still stuck please link to the actual URL you are referencing since I couldn't quite follow you from your description.
Looks like you've made some good progress!
Did you want the Featured Pages to do something different from how you have them set up now?
For the Latest from the Blog part, you'll probably need to modify one of the theme files. Swank is a third-party theme and I don't have access to it so I can't guide you on what needs to change and where. Or if you're feeling brave, Brad does have a bunch of tutorials - here's one that might be what you want: http://wpsites.net/web-design/using-the-genesis-grid-loop-for-different-home-post-layouts/
Just some cautions though: If you have a typo when editing files like functions.php, you will bring down your entire site! Before you begin, be sure that you know how to log onto your server using FTP, and create a backup of the functions.php (or any PHP file that you're changing) so that you can restore it on the server if you need to.
When copying in code from a tutorial, use the "raw" link (or pastebin) if available, and don't copy in the opening php tag of any snippet.
The Genesis for Beginners guide is useful, if you haven't read it yet; it is available as a download from this site.
That site looks good for someone who's new to this! Nice job so far. The theme developer may be a better resource for your Swank-specific questions but we'll try to help out here too when you get stuck.
From the theme setup instructions:
This theme uses the content-sidebar-sidebar layout, with the two sidebar offset on the home page only.
The blue sidebar to the right will only show with this layout option.
Have you tried disabling all plugins? Not familiar with that Responsive Header one but it seems suspicious. Working with a clean slate with something like this will help.
Edit: The plugin isn't suspicious (Nick is well respected Genesis developer) but it looks like it may not have been updated in some time, and lots has changed with Genesis 2.0, plus you're trying to do something with the header which is where my "suspicious" comment was intended vis a vis the plugin.
Well it looks to me that you have a typo with a partially-commented block of CSS in http://awesomescreenshot.com/0d12qyvw21 - I'm seeing
/* .header-image .title-area,as the first line.
Did you try posting on the plugin developer's support forum? Seems you'd have better luck there.
@shillise, which theme are you using? Many of the features of that site you referenced are done in the theme. There are also plugins available. Please link to your site and identify the theme so we know what you're starting with.
You don't seem to have the latest version of Genesis running. I would start over by installing the current Genesis theme (2.0) and then re-installing your child theme on top of that. If that doesn't fix it then come back and we can look for other possibilities.
It's actually not a Genesis thing. By default, shortcodes aren't supported in WordPress widgets. You can enable them by adding this to functions.php:
add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');@sundara, did you go through each separate step in the codex link that Lauren posted?
It could be as simple as this one:
13. If your theme supports menus, links to your home page may still have the old subdirectory embedded in them. Go to Appearance::Menus and update them.
I've never worked with Parallax so this is a total guess but I'm wondering how you have defined your CSS for the "contact" style that you declared? You don't have any "parallax"-type styles on the body tag so that is the first thing that looks suspicious.
I haven't used Streamline so this might not work, but you could try this snippet from Brad Dalton:
It's probably done with JavaScript. This link shows some code for how:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15594881/triggering-a-video-autoplay-based-on-scroll-position
There's a couple plugins out there that support autoplay on videos but I don't know if they feature the on/off thing based on scroll/window focus.
Note also that lots of users find this annoying and look for ways to turn it off on sites that have it.
We've used Genesis with bbPress, a few glitches (particularly with the editor displayed to users) but got them worked out satisfactorily. This forum is on bbPress so you've got an example site right here. You'll want to get a couple additional plugins like this one from Jared Atchinson:
Andrea at Nuts & Bolts has this small tutorial to remove the author box in bbpress:
http://www.nutsandboltsmedia.com/how-to-remove-the-genesis-author-box-from-bbpress-forum-pages/
She'd probably be a great resource if you need help.
I'm pretty sure that this is a WordPress thing, not a Genesis thing, however you can find a filter for it by David Decker here:
The way that WP serializes it’s data in the database, you are just asking for problems messing with it externally.
Which is the whole point of that tool that I linked to.
