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David ChuParticipant
I will concur that it's not working on my latest Genesis install, even though it worked on a previous version. That plugin was last updated in 2011, so it's not a huge surprise.
Tabs are a moving target, I've found. That being said, I've had great results using WP UI. It does way more than tabs, too. So there's something you could try. I've run into several pretty nice plugins of this type.
Correction: jQuery UI Widgets is the latest thing I've been using.
Dave
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David ChuParticipantHola Elena,
隆Que bueno, mi espa帽ol es mejor que mi portugues! Y soy guitarrista flamenco. 馃檪 驴Si es tan amable, de que regi贸n es Vd.?Claro que tiene raz贸n... depende de lo que quiere para SEO en la homepage. I have a homepage that's also "not a page". I am using the Home Meta Description (Genesis SEO Settings... Homepage settings). I also use h1 and h2 tags in the widget that I'm using. Es suficiente para mi, funciona bastante bien.
You might be more of an SEO expert than I am, though. What are you looking for to be on the homepage for SEO?
Ciao, Dave
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantHi,
I hear ya, that's frustrating. I must say, though, that both those pages really look great! I like the contrast between the 2 layouts. (it's way better than the things I was referring to in my backstory, which were misshapen) Is the client putting the screws to you for those changes?After taking a closer look, I actually can see an answer to make that happen. I often can give someone a nice sprig of CSS to do something like this. But this is a bit more involved, requiring HTML markup AND CSS, so some PHP programming involved, and possibly an additional template. Definitely a bigger deal.
So I suppose the choice isn't too bad... sticking with a pretty nicely done existing page, or getting a coder in there to do some alterations.
Dave
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David ChuParticipantHi,
I have run into that, too. I'm sorry, I don't have a quick solution. A dirty little secret about Woo Commerce (and really any Woo product) is that Woo uses TONS of styling on any element. And my designer friend with whom I make many sites is VERY particular about what she wants, so I have to un-style and re-style Woo Commerce pages big time. Many premium themes are like this or worse, and I've blogged about it.I'm guessing you know this, but.... Woo does have some self-awareness, so they give you an option to shut off all Woo styling for Woo Commerce. That's not a panacea, though. Then you may have to style it all over again, because stock Genesis code won't address all their elements, spacing, blah blah, that's what I found. You could try it, though, painlessly, and see if it inherits more of the Genesis goodies.
With Woo, you either buy into their frou frou CSS wholeheartedly, or end up writing a lot of CSS overrides. Nothing too tough if you're a CSS hacker like me, the biggest pain was getting things to fit in sidebars. And if you do anything at all exotic with sidebars, like swapping them or moving them around, the Genesis Connect is a must.
Maybe someone else will have additional ideas.
Dave
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David ChuParticipantHi,
Your site has a LOT of plugins. Plugin authors often have CSS skills that aren't great, so they get lazy and use inline styles. [Did I say that?] So this is very hard to get rid of, unless you start uninstalling plugins. This also relates to having lots of javascript files. Plugin authors love using them, although more and more plugins are being changed to only use the stock jQuery, for instance. But again, if you have lots of plugins, then you're stuck with many Javascript files, generally speaking.But none of the above necessarily makes your site slow. A Facebook Like box practically guarantees occasional slowness - if FB loads slowly, so does your page. That scrolling thing might slow you down a bit, too, but not sure.
I ran a test on your page here and it came out pretty good! So maybe all is well.
Dave
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David ChuParticipantHi Elena,
Are you, by chance, from Brasil? If so, boa tarde!That's an interesting question. I think you will still be just fine. I use a widgeted homepage, too, and I use header tags and other tags to help SEO in the widget itself.
For some Google code, you can go to Genesis... Theme Settings, and near the bottom there is a place for code such as Google tracking code.
If you go to Genesis... SEO settings, you will see some other helpful SEO things you can do.
And then on each Page/Post, there are lots of good SEO fields to use.
Maybe someone who is a full-time SEO might have more ideas. But to me, that's a good set-up for SEO, and I don't bother using SEO plugins with Genesis.
Tchau, Dave
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantCool! Right, if there was no HTML markup with a class of "format_text" on it, it wouldn't do anything, so your solution is spot-on. Hope you enjoy Genesis.
Dave
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David ChuParticipantGotcha. There's almost always a class or ID you can use for this type of thing. Just replace .genesis-feature-1 above with:
#home-featured-2
If that works for you, I suggest viewing the HTML so you can see how it worked. The concept is to get more specific than the thing that covers all featured items.
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David ChuParticipantHi!
I can't find a cream color on there, just white, but if I'm following you, you could do something like this for the Post excerpt at the top. CSS to add: (I just picked a beige-ish color at random).featuredpost { background-color: #FCF9E5; }
Of course, the text will meet the edge of the color, but it's a start.
Dave
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David ChuParticipantHi,
Ah, the fascinating challenge of landing pages! 馃檪 You have a nice class just outside the title that will help with that. Here's a quickie example. Note "genesis-feature-1", and the next post down would be 2, and so on..genesis-feature-1 h2 a, .genesis-feature-1 h2 a:visited { [[your styles here]] }
Cheers, Dave
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantWelcome,
I have not seen those two classes. Any framework system will have its cool CSS classes, and no two are alike. I've used a bunch of frameworks, including Thesis 1.8, which was nice. If I were coming from another framework and wanting to keep cool stuff, I would just collect my fave CSS, and either thread it into mine or even pull it in separately. So it's possible to have your cake and eat it, too.One of the coolest built-in bunch of Genesis classes are the column classes... two to six columns and lots of variations! Ten times better than using evil HTML tables.
Also, the latest Genesis Sample child theme is very dialed in IMO - it's got lots of built-in responsive code, for one thing. And if you're a CSS person, you'll recognize how cool it is that this theme has a rem base for sizes with pixels as a fallback for dopier browsers. Very useful and flexible, and as a CSS guy, I may have tried to manually make that happen, which would have take a ton of time.
Hope you enjoy it,
Dave
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
March 26, 2013 at 1:45 pm in reply to: Pretty Young Thing – Removing "Continue Reading" at post bottom #31393David ChuParticipantHi!
The quickest, dirtiest method would be to add this bit of CSS to your stylesheet:.home .entry-content p { display: none; }
..which vanishes homepage paragraph content. 馃檪
If you're comfy editing code, a nicer way is taken right from here, but altered. The following would be added to functions.php. I'm just returning one blank space instead of some content. The is_home part limits it to your homepage. I didn't test it, so check it over.
add_filter( 'get_the_content_more_link', 'custom_read_more_link' ); function custom_read_more_link() { if ( is_home() ) { return ' '; } }
Cheers, Dave
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David ChuParticipantThat's a good question. I see that your Simple Social Icons plugin has its own stylesheet. I'd include a link to it, but that seems indiscreet. 馃檪
You could find that in the Plugin editor and edit, but then a plugin update will kill your custom CSS. You could just override the code you need above and stick it in your regular stylesheet, as along as you use enough selectors to override the stock stuff, like using #wrap before those lines might do it. 馃檪
Hope that clarifies!
Dave
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David ChuParticipantVery cool!
btw, I think others ran into this, and there's some sort of color interface for the plugin, so maybe something really is out of whack in the plugin. I don't use it, so I don't know its innards.
We'll see you on Twitter, my man!
Dave
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David ChuParticipantWow, that's very fancy. Your URL gave me a clue. This PrettyPhoto thingie appears to be what's running, and here's a WordPress plugin for that. Beyond that, it's up to you. 馃檪
Maybe that will get you started!
Dave
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March 26, 2013 at 11:31 am in reply to: Custom Sidebars for CPT Showing Primary Widgets as Well #31350David ChuParticipantI'm with ya. 馃檪 And I could be wrong, because I'm not in the guts of your code, but if I'm understanding you, it's actually doing just what I said: the following bit of code won't work (because of Genesis Simple Sidebars killing it), so it leaves the regular widget there; Primary Sidebar will stay! That's my best guess based on experience, and based on what little info I have here.
remove_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'genesis_do_sidebar' );
Hope that gets you a bit further! Good luck,
Dave
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David ChuParticipantHey Bob!
Here's the code that addresses that color. Note the line with the nines in it... just change that color..simple-social-icons ul li a, .simple-social-icons ul li a:hover { background: #999999; border-radius: 3px; color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 16px; padding: 8px; }
If you want to have a different hover color, you can play with the color in this block;
#footer-widgets ul li a:hover, #sidebar ul li a:hover { color: #3E3E3E; }
I found this very fast with Firebug... say, aren't you the guy that said he doesn't like Firebug or other CSS inspectors? 馃槈
Best, Dave
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
March 26, 2013 at 11:14 am in reply to: Custom Sidebars for CPT Showing Primary Widgets as Well #31343David ChuParticipantHi!
I have one lead for you. If you're running Genesis Simple Sidebars, that will kill any custom remove_action or add_action sidebar activities. I scratched my head for awhile before figuring this out. Genesis Simple Sidebars is an awesome plugin, but one can have one or the other, not both.If that's not it, you could display get_post_type and see if that's coming through.
Dave
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David ChuParticipantIt's possible that the Super Cache is innocent, and sorry if that's not it. So no need to necessarily delete it.
Before playing further with the cache, you may want to try using a hard refresh. That varies from browser to browser. It's Ctrl-F5 in several browsers for Windows, and something like Command Shift R for Mac. You may need to look that up.
Beyond that, hard to say. I would defer to people who use Agentpress all the time (I don't). You may want to directly contact support, they may be able to get further. They'll probably need more info than you provided here.
Good luck!
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantMy money would be on Super Cache, which could easily prevent changes from quickly showing up. There is a setting somewhere in Super Cache, as I recall, that will force a cache update when you update a Page/Post. Of course, that won't help if you made a CSS change, for instance.
If it is that, you could try disabling Super Cache while you're developing so you don't go nuts.
Dave
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