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David ChuParticipant
Oh, good point, I didn't want to presume, but I underestimated you.
I'm pretty sure you can use either underscores or hyphens. I know that when I make custom post type templates, I've used hyphens, but lots of template files have underscores. I'm also pretty sure this has nothing to do with Genesis - they would get in big trouble if they started doing something that "violated" normal WordPress procedure - all kinds of things would break, IMO.
Maybe someone else would know the exact rule. I'm not a guy who reads the "standards manuals" much, and my custom themes generally only have 2 files, functions.php and style.css. Thanks to Genesis, I can pack almost anything I need into that one function file if I want to. Of course, I work with some wild non-Genesis themes that have zillions of template and other files.
One thing that was funny to me was being asked to modify a theme that was built on Genesis, but had many, many files - they clearly didn't use any Genesis functionality at all, they just had Genesis running, but went totally old-school on the theme's development. 馃檪
Dave
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantNot a stupid question at all! One needs to be a serious WP theme geek to know that. Generally this sort of thing has to do with Custom Post Types. And that's not specific to Genesis, but to WordPress. Here are typical WP template files:
page.php - for displaying static Pages.
single.php - for displaying single Posts.If I have a custom post type called "product", I might want a special template for displaying them.
So if I want a static Page that shows the product(s), I would name it page-product.php. If I wanted a single Post page (terminology gets gnarly!), then I would name the template single-product.php. Then you need to code the logic in the template to display all that.
I hope that helps.
Dave
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantWow, the code knocked out my HTML snippets! But hopefully you can follow what I said. 馃檪
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantHi!
Interesting - all the necessary CSS is there! I see the symptom, but not the cause.Here's HTML code from your site:
PreviousNext
Here's the HTML code from the demo:
PreviousNext
The CSS is looking for a.prev, which is in the demo HTML, but not in yours. Maybe there's a slider setting you changed that produced the "flex-prev" class? I can't see in there, so I can't tell that. If you can't change the markup, you could add this bit of CSS. I think it will fix your button. Note the "flex-prev" bit.
#content #genesis-responsive-slider .flex-direction-nav li a.flex-prev {
background-position: 0 0;
left: -25px;
}Dave
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantRob,
I appreciate that!聽 Your site has loads of good stuff on it - we should keep in touch.聽 馃檪
Dave
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantRob,
Glad to help!聽聽 And here's Brian's recipe for disabling Superfish in case you ever need it.聽 (I never have yet).
Dave
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantAh, very good. I hear you - I get asked to do all kinds of bizarre things against advice, and if I do them, I just don't put them in my portfolio!
Here's something I found in a quick websearch that could be of help.聽 Another possibility is the <audio> HTML5 tag.聽 Genesis is not officially pumping out HTML5 yet, although I've experimented successfully in getting it to work.
Cheers
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantYour feed seems to be fine!
Maybe you're referring to having trouble from clicking a subscribe button in your browser?聽 If so, that wouldn't be a Genesis issue, but a browser and subscribe issue.
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantGreat!
Although I love WordPress, there's so much in the admin that it's definitely possible to get lost at times until you're used to it.聽 And some non-Genesis聽 premium themes have such huge admins that a pro developer could get lost and begin drinking!聽 馃檪
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantThe theme still uses Superfish, and one can turn that off.聽 I have another suggestion before you go that far.
Brian, et al, are working on using CSS3 stuff to phase out Superfish.聽 So one thing they have in the latest Sample theme is the CSS3 "transition".聽 It's utterly hip, but I've already found one spot where it wasn't cool, a lightbox plugin I was using, so I did a CSS override for it.
I would suggest going into your style.css, and do a find on "transition".聽 If you see this line, try commenting out the "transition" lines.聽 See if that might help.
a,
a:visited,
button,
input[type="button"],
input[type="submit"],
.btn {
-moz-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;
-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;
transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;
}Obviously you could be more specific than that with CSS overrides, of course.
Best, Dave
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantI've done that myself, using Javascript and sound files.聽 It's way out of scope for Genesis support, though, IMO.聽 Also, I would strongly suggest avoiding that anyway.聽 Using unexpected sound anywhere on a site is extremely annoying to many site visitors, myself included.
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantHi,
And welcome.聽 Hey, everybody's a newbie at first, no worries!聽 What you're seeing are widgets, which will typically (but not always) appear in the sidebar(s) of your site.聽 If you're in the admin area of your site, go to Appearance.... Widgets, and look way to the right.聽 If you open up Primary Sidebar, you would see widgets there which will relate to what you asked.聽 The demo actually has 4 widgets, because Search is one of them, too.聽 So if your site doesn't have anything in Primary Widgets, find the Recent Posts widgets (lower and near the middle of your admin page) and try dragging it into the Primary Sidebar box.聽 Then look at your site, and you should see something in the sidebar now.
Many themes also have special widgets only for the Home page, and they may be labelled as such.
The footer widgets, on the other hand, work similarly but are displayed near the bottom of your page.聽聽 That demo appears to have no active footer widgets, though.
Hope that helps, Dave
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantAh, my shot in the dark hit the target!聽 Very cool.聽 That comes from having gotten that arrow in my back myself.聽聽 馃檪
It sounds like you changed the name of the WordPress document vs. changing the folder name.聽 In the scenario I described, that works, too.
You're welcome, Dave
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantScott,
The "Loaded with features" part puts a different spin on the question.聽聽 Genesis themes do have standard admin features.聽 Some of them have extra admin panels for design features and so on.
There are, broadly speaking, two types of people who use theme frameworks and premium themes: those like me, who develop from scratch and can customize the smallest part of a theme without flinching, vs. those who don't want to touch PHP or CSS and rely on admin panels for all their site building.聽 The latter type of person might find Genesis admin panels a little spartan, but would get excited by seeing the enormous admin panels you'd get in some Themeforest themes, for instance.聽 I like them lean and mean, and with a lot of great programming hooks.聽 Of course, I don't know where you fall in this spectrum.
Also, because I do so much custom work, I don't know all of the Genesis themes' innards - I generally just start with the framework alone and go from there.聽 So I can't really answer your question, exactly.聽 Maybe someone who owns all the Genesis themes can comment on a particular theme's features.
Dave
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantMy best guess without being "inside": you have a folder called /alabama off your site root, and this would conflict with that WordPress document.聽 If so, just rename or delete it.
Good luck!
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantHi!
Welcome.聽 Your site looks pretty nice!聽 I do see that it's not a responsive theme, although Elegant may have an update for that.
I have a history with Elegant themes.聽 They are very pretty, and given the excellent price, I thought, OK, I'll subscribe and have loads of tricked-out themes to offer to clients.聽 As it happens, it never panned out that way (the great majority of my work is custom themes).聽 Also, I was very unimpressed with their support, blogged about it, and I still get comments from people who are also having support woes.
Given that your theme is a gallery theme, I'm wondering if Modern Portfolio or Pretty Pictures might work for that.聽 Both are very clean designs, and could easily be styled for different tastes.聽 The only concern that comes to mind is that if your reviews are Custom Post Types (many such things are!), some custom programming may be needed to get them displayed.聽 A normal WP theme is set up for Posts for the most part when they do this type of display nowadays.聽 Some plugins use Posts and other use Custom Post Types to get more specific functionality and features.
Dave
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantI don't have Lifestyle, so I can't offer any specifics beyond my suggestions above.聽 But it is pretty clearly a custom loop on home, so probably a programmer needed to get what you want, which is further customization as opposed to a small tweak, unless the theme has unusually fancy admin settings for the Homepage.
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantCoolness!!聽 You're welcome, Tracy.
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantHi,
Here's a possible way, but it very much depends on how your theme is set up.聽 You can make a Page called Home, choose the "Blog" template in the template dropdown, and save.
Then you set your site to use that Page as Home.聽 (Settings.... Reading...)聽聽That makes the homepage very bloggy.聽聽 馃檪聽 You will probably need to update your main menu, too, and possibly others.
Keep in mind that this may remove the cool teaser Post scenario you have.聽 Many themes have a super fancy homepage template built in, and if so, my plan would not work without additional changes or custom programming.
Dave
Dave Chu 路 Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers
David ChuParticipantHi!
This CSS should hook you up.聽 Notice how I limit it to just the widget area in the header.聽 This way I won't kill bullets down in your content and elsewhere.
#header .widget-area li {
list-style: none;
}
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