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David ChuParticipantDavid ChuParticipant
Hi,
Those columns float left, so centering becomes tricky. One idea is to have the "classed columns" in that container usedisplay: inline-block;
... instead of float left. That's the quickest and easiest way to make that work. Depending on how you code that, you may also need to have
float: none;
... for that to cancel the float explicitly. Then just double-check it at responsive size. One last thought.... the varying amounts of text for each column might make some appearance variations at smaller sizes, but you probably already saw that. 馃檪
Dave
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David ChuParticipantSharon,
There was a feature in Genesis 1 that automatically included an option for that, but it was removed in Genesis 2.There is a workaround here if you're willing to do some code editing. It offers either a search box or current date. You'll want to uncomment the search box part, just as it says in the comments.
I just tested it, and it worked fine. You may need to style the search box to taste, of course.
Enjoy,
Dave
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David ChuParticipantBrad's idea is excellent as usual!
As a variation, here's a raw code example. You can use get_the_modified_author as well, depending on context, and that's what I did.
Enjoy,
Dave
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July 13, 2015 at 3:39 pm in reply to: Foodie them blog page not showing post excerpts on certain posts #159318David ChuParticipantJohn,
Good question. You will, on occasion, be directed to get help with this from the vendor. But I get asked to work on, fix, and modify Foodie a lot. I'm kind of a food specialist (not only that, but I've also been a food blogger). Besides, I think this is more of a general WordPress issue, so it's a grey area.I've run into the problem you describe various times. It has much to do with what WordPress considers an "excerpt". This gets a little tricky, because the stock WP excerpt is cleansed of various types of HTML. So if you have something like a photo (which can have lots of HTML code), for instance, it's somewhat of a mystery where the excerpt will begin and end, and whether it will work at all.
Anyway, something easy for you to try: Go to Genesis.... Theme Settings, and scroll down to Content Archives. I'm guessing that you have "display post excerpts" selected there. Instead, try selecting "display post content". Then you'll see a setting for "limit content to...". For that, pick a figure, such as maybe 200 or 300 characters.
If you use that, your theme may behave better, even if Posts have images all over the place. 馃檪 Essentially, the content type of setting is more precise and predictable. Same idea applies to some Genesis plugin widgets settings, btw, such as Featured Posts.
Let's see if that does it for you.
Dave
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David ChuParticipantYou're welcome. There are loads of frameworks out there of all kinds. I've seen quite a few of them, and each has something to offer. Something for every taste. 馃檪
I believe that there are also plugins for adding bits of PHP code, but I've never felt the need to go that route.
Enjoy!
Dave
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David ChuParticipantGreat!
My psychic powers are good today... I guessed it even before I saw your site.Since Genesis 2, they've loved those CSS3 transitions. They're everywhere! And I like them too - except in situations like yours, where links get messed up. The first place I noticed it was on a slider - you know, the ones where if you hover over the slider, the arrow links appear. The problem is that the arrow hover might make this Huge Awkward Move if you have a transition on it. And if you're not familiar with this, you'll blame the plugin. 馃檪
So I usually leave it on for the other stuff, but often kill it for links.
Your site is very stylish! Super job, and I'm glad I was able to help.
Dave
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David ChuParticipantDavid ChuParticipantHi,
Try editing those 3 pages. On each one, set the Parent to be the Tech page, and save.Dave
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David ChuParticipantHi,
The simple answer is that you have big left and right margins on .site-inner. Getting rid of those (or adjusting them) will help you get fuller width, but you may have more work to do with re-aligning the content and quite a few other changes after doing that, especially at responsive sizes. Looks like a big job to me.I hope that gets you started.
Dave
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David ChuParticipantHallo,
That's a tricky one. I think removing links ("a") from the CSS3 transitions would help. (It's a bigger pain to add border-radius to your photos because of your right-left layout.)Do a find on "transition" in your style.css, and it's a big bunch of items, look for the first "a". I tried to include the code here, but bbPress wouldn't let me do that for some reason. Some word filter, I'm guessing.
I hope that helps,
Dave
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David ChuParticipantHi,
You can't do a child of a child, so yes, you'll play with stylesheet and functions. Back up your theme before updating.That being said, you don't have to update child themes necessarily. IMO, generally the only compelling reason to update the child theme might be to upgrade an old XHTML version to get an HTML5 version. And some people are surprised to find that the HTML5 version of the theme really does look somewhat different.
A middle ground would be to use one of the zillions of custom CSS plugins to change your theme styling, but of course that does not allow PHP programming changes.
In the hierarchy of updates, I'd say that WP itself is most important, next would be the Genesis framework (even that often isn't urgent), and finally the child theme.
Dave
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David ChuParticipantHi,
The demo uses photos at 1600 x 900 pixels, so that would be a good guideline. You'll have some wiggle room if you stay close to that size and orientation. As I tell all my clients, if you use giant photos, any flaws they have will be extremely obvious, so prime quality photos are the key for any theme set up like this. If you use a much smaller photo than that, it will expand to fit, but will be extremely grainy.In a nutshell: top quality, wider than it is tall, and quite large. 馃檪
Dave
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David ChuParticipantHi,
Sorry about all the false clues. I took another look, and could not solve it, but can point you in a direction. I experimented with your site as it is right now. I tried doing only CSS changes. To do accessibility with CSS only, ":focus" is a very important item. By using the adapted code below, I was able to get the top row of items to work with tab, but could not "reach" the dropdowns because of the structure of the rest of the CSS.Focus is not the same as hover, so the hover values don't work here. So you'll also notice that I changed the left and margin figures for the focus part. So maybe you could use that plugin that gave you the funky spacing, but adjust the left and margin figures. It won't be exact.
Ironically, this would work for blind people, as the spacing isn't as less of a concern I think, but someone sighted and using a mouse might find it a little "off". Bottom line: this theme's CSS works well with hovers but not with focus. They may end up changing it for accessibility, but they may not.
.genesis-nav-menu .menu-item:hover, .genesis-nav-menu .menu-item a { position: relative; } .genesis-nav-menu .menu-item:hover > .sub-menu { left: 50%; margin-left: -100px; opacity: 1; } .genesis-nav-menu > .menu-item a:focus + .sub-menu { left: auto; margin-left: -35px; opacity: 1; }
If you're quite handy with Javascript or jQuery, those could probably help.
That's about as far as I will go from the outside as a volunteer. Good luck to you,
Dave
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David ChuParticipantHallo,
Es tut mir leid! My mistake.... the theme I'm using has special code for this even without those plugins, so I misunderstood how to make this work.Please try this instead. Go back and use Genesis Accessible plugin. And here's what I forgot: go to Genesis..... Accessibility Settings, and be sure to check (select) "Add keyboard accessiblility to the dropdown menu".
I think that should work. 馃檪
Thanks, Dave
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David ChuParticipantNicole,
I understand. The WP Accessible plugin is not the same as the Genesis one, and that's the one that does the "magic". Did you try it?Dave
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David ChuParticipantSandra,
Glad to hear it, you're welcome.Thanks,
Dave
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David ChuParticipantHi,
Sehr interessant. 馃槈 I can see that your tabs work fine, but they don't make the sub items visible (it would already be fine for blind people, maybe). I don't have a positive answer - each theme is different, and each site has different plugins. But I have some ideas.I have spent some time working with accessibility in Genesis, and I would recommend that you try WP Accessibility:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-accessibility/When I use that and tab through menu items, it applies a class (via Javascript) that helps to show sub menu items well. It also has other helpful settings if you need them.
My favorite solution is actually to avoid dropdowns as much as possible. 馃槈
Mach's gut,
Dave
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David ChuParticipantHi!
Being somewhat of a detective, I found your page and took a look at it. 馃檪The errant CSS is coming from a plugin, All In One Event Calendar. I don't know if that has any areas for writing custom CSS, but it might. You could also just "out-specify" their CSS by, for instance, putting ".entry-content " before IMG in your code.
I have to say, though, that plugin spews out more code onto an HTML page than any plugin I've seen!?! So even if it works, that can't help your site speed. The last time I used that plugin, they were already beginning to get out of hand with huge amounts of code as well as doing things that were not standard WordPress. Just total code bloat. To put that another way, IMO they jumped the shark long ago, so I never use that one. If it works for you, though, great. 馃檪
Dave
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David ChuParticipantHi,
My basic answer is, I'm not sure. 馃檪 But if one of your pages is web-accessible and fully pumped into Google, then there's no keeping it secret, just as you thought.Why not just do what everyone selling something like that does? Just give a sample of the content, just enough to get Google-searchable terms in there, and to get more, they have to opt-in. The opt-in procedure could be as simple as forwarding a Mailchimp-connected contact form to a page with the download. You can "nofollow" the page so that hopefully the search engines will ignore it. Or if you want to get all secure and fancy, there are loads of membership plugins for that.
Maybe your client thinks that every word is precious to Google, and that's why she has this peculiar idea? I can assure you that "the" and "and" and "this" and all the other common connector words are worthless to Google. 馃檪 Just the important key search words are important, and that's what you want in your sales pitch leading to the opt-in. But you knew that. 馃檪
And yes, I also have the occasional client for whom every tiny word they write is a precious gem, even when grammatically messed up, misspelled, and nonsensical. But you didn't hear that from me. 馃檪
Dave
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