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Gary JonesMember
In short, no, and nor should there be. Just because you like to see it zoomed out, doesn't mean everyone else should - someone with poor eyesight for instance may need to zoom in.
WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ
Gary JonesMemberInstead of all of the echoes, I'd assign the field divs to a variable, then just check that variable to see if it contains anything, before adding a wrapping column div. If that result then contains anything, then output. Same end result as Rob (not echoing empty wrappers), but avoids having to specify that big conditional on line 14.
Don't echo until the last possible moment. Build all of the required data first.
WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ
July 7, 2013 at 6:11 pm in reply to: Requesting site visits to see if you can replicate display issue #49723Gary JonesMemberTested on Chrome, Win 7, and loaded fine.
What error message did they say they were getting?
On an unrelated note, some of the slugs for the listings seemed to have got mangled - listing 12, 13 and whatever the last four are before the more properties by the water link. For example http://indianalakehomes.com/listings/1140-pintail-court/ suggests it should be 1140 pintail court, yet the text and photo on the home page and single page suggest 11991 W. Grandview Drive.
WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ
Gary JonesMemberYes - 2.0beta2 is stable enough to release new sites on. There's a couple of small changes and fixes between beta 2 and what's currently committed, but not enough to stop you from going for it.
WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ
Gary JonesMemberBe aware that Genesis 2.0 specifically handles breadcrumbs for taxonomy archives, so any filter you do now may need tweaking.
Since taxonomies can be applied to multiple post types, it's not easy to correctly work out which of those post types you want as the "parent" crumb. As such, in G 2.0 it's treated like a standard archive (since that's what a taxonomy archive is), albeit with a different filterable label and different filterable output.
WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ
Gary JonesMembereluviis - you can use the SEO Data Transporter plugin to convert all of the Genesis SEO meta data to Yoast's SEO meta data (and between several other theme and plugin formats).
WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ
Gary JonesMemberYes - but you'd need to have widget areas on the home page (your theme might already have that).
WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ
Gary JonesMemberPresumably, as this is marked as resolved, you found the option under WordPress Settings -> Discussion 🙂 I'll close the thread.
WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ
Gary JonesMemberI just asked Joost (Yoast) if he happened to know off the top of his head if the issue was likely to be in his plugin or Genesis. He immediately replied and said it was a bug in his plugin, and it would be fixed in the next release.
WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ
Gary JonesMemberEdit your genesis_sample/style.css file to include:
.widget_recent_entries a { text-decoration: none; }
WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ
Gary JonesMemberStart with http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types to get a little bit of background information.
You might then like to try http://www.blazersix.com/wordpress-code-generators/ which is a wizard for creating CPT code.
WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ
Gary JonesMemberI guess it really depends on your target audience. You've clearly already gotten some feedback, and how much you listen to them really depends on the exact wording of the questions you asked.
If all is equal between the two camps, consider some points:
- if it's a relatively new site, splitting it up over a root site and subdomain may mean you not hitting the critical mass of traffic to make the site / community work.
- splitting up the site may make it harder for BuddyPress and other community plugins to work as well.
- Posts can always be assigned to categories, which clearly delineate between official interviews, and personal events. You could even create custom post types which handle something similar.
- You can always split up a site later on if you feel that staying with one site wasn't working.
- Managing / administrating a single site is easier than a main site and subdomain site.Depending on your actual content format, I think a mix of official and personal content provides a nice mix - stops all of it feeling "dry", or just an overly fun social site.
WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ
Gary JonesMemberGlad it worked 🙂
The relevant bit of background reading can be found at http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_action
In short, when two functions are hooked in to the same hook, WP needs a way to work out what order they should be run. By default, it's first come, first served, which is what was happening with your original situation - that is, Genesis was being processed and added the sidebar in at that point, and later on your child theme was being processed and adding in the closing tag.
So that the order can be changed as required (just like we needed to do here), then the priority argument was added, with the default as 10. So what WP really does is check for anything hooked to that hook with priority 1, then processes them in the order they were given. Then it looks at priority 2 and processes them in order, and so on. [*] So here, we're saying that YOUR function should go at priority 5 (an arbitrary number that's less than 10), which means it happens well before the Genesis function at priority 10. You could have used priority 9, 8, 7 and so on, but 5 is as good a number as any, and means anything else you want to squeeze on to the same hook can go on the intervening numbers.
[*] It doesn't actually check each priority like that - it just looks at what functions are hooked in, and sorts them by priority first, but I think the above makes it clearer to imagine.
WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ
Gary JonesMemberBill
1) Site links are not ALWAYS helpful
1) Always? No. But more often then just obvious front-end related questions? Yes, for the examples I gave. For instance - I can tell that you're running the WP 3.5 branch, with a heavily customised / empty theme, but Genesis 1.9.2, Prose 1.5.2, Metro 1.0 and likely other themes present. I think your host runs PHP 5.2.6. Even if it's not quite correct, that's a good starting point in my mind to go back on post 4 of the thread with a possible solution, given the context.
Of course, some threads can have an offer of a solution in post 2, and that's great - the person answering should make that call, and that comes from experience as much as anything. You or I might not need that info to answer a question with confidence, but if someone else does, then not let's knock them for it - especially if no-one else up until that point had made *any* reply to the thread. I disagree that asking for a site link, when it might not be needed is in and of itself, bad for the person asking the question. That's why I've made this suggestion in the first place - more info (especially that which is going to be readily to hand for professionals and novices alike) is better.
I deleted my responses to question 2 and 3, as they weren't relevant to this topic of discussion.
However Bill, I would like to see you make less of the fact that some volunteers have a "moderator" tag, and that it some how means people will follow their advice to the letter, even it's incorrect. What it means, as I'm sure you know, is that they simply have extra permissions for this forum. It's one of the reasons they aren't called Community Leaders any more. There are more experienced folks who don't have that label, so what matters is the quality of the answer that is given, whomever it is from.
WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ
Gary JonesMemberTo expand further on all of the correct advice above, if none of the posts have changed corresponding category / sub-category, then that's when regex's would be useful. For instance, if all of the posts from promotions-miles-points -> airline are now in travel-coupons -> airline-offers, then you could do something like:
RewriteRule ^promotions-miles-points/airline/(.*) http://www.milepro.com/travel-coupons/airline-offers/$1 [R=301,L]
and not have to target each of the individual posts.
The advantage of doing the redirect in .htaccess, is that it should happen quicker - no need for PHP and a whole WordPress bootstrap to be included and parsed, just to be able to let the plugin jump in and send you off site anyway. That in turn means you don't have to leave an install of WordPress present along with a database - the domain could point to a free / very cheap bit of hosting (sometimes provided by the domain name registrar) that just needs support for .htaccess.
WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ
Gary JonesMemberYou won't need to install the Sample them. Just install Genesis (you likely already have), then the files into the themes directory:
wp-content/themes/genesis <== Likely already present.
wp-content/themes/avalancheIf you have the child theme style.css located at:
wp-content/themes/avalanche/style.css
then you've got it right.
WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ
Gary JonesMemberMake sure your administrator isn't called admin, administrator, root and so on.
Consider the Stealth Login Page plugin.
Don't both with IP based solutions, including Limit Logins plugin - with a botnet of 90,000 or so, it's not going to solve anything.
WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ
Gary JonesMemberNo, and I'd strongly recommend not looking too hard to find one.
It's confusing to visually impaired users, especially if it interferes with text-to-speech user agents that are busy trying to read the content of the link out.
It's annoying at the best of times, or really annoying if your speakers / headphones are up loud and you weren't expecting it.
It's rude - I want my computer to play sounds when I want it to, not when a website tries to control my hardware for me.
WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ
Gary JonesMemberBill,
I completely agree that improvements need to be made to the forum (hopefully the next version of bbPress will help with searches and so on), but for the sake of there being seemingly no improvements made since the forums were released, I was trying to suggest a bite-size improvement that could be in the meantime. The same goes for my other suggestion, regarding setting the default Notify checkbox, which for all purposes, is amending a couple of characters in a template file somewhere.
Regarding the request of site links - it is usually handy to have them even for certain PHP issues - duff back-end code might be throwing a warning or notice on the front-end that the thread doesn't mention. Furthermore, back-end code that adds markup to the front-end without error, but somehow incorrectly, is still more understandable by looking at the DOM than trying to get the OP to explain where they think something should be appearing, and where it actually is appearing.
Sure, some queries might not need a site link added, but often the person with the problem won't necessarily know if their problem would be solved quicker with a site link included or not (if they did know, then they'd more likely know what the cause of their problem was and may not even be asking in the first place). Getting users into the habit of providing as much contextual information as possible IS a good practice - for any support forums, not just here.
Asking for the site link also means that the person answering the question can easily go and find out:
- the version of WordPress
- the version of Genesis
- the child theme
- what plugins might be running via their code signatures.
- which host is being used (and therefore the likely server set up as well - PHP version, web server etc.)Being able to get that info just from asking for a user's website address is far easier than trying to explain how to find out all of the individual pieces of data. I know that I've answered several questions where someone said some PHP customisation wasn't working, only to find out there were using Genesis 1.1, and I've seen several answers from others where this fact wasn't determined until 15 posts into a thread.
> In my experience, users get more frustrated as more time passes without a good answer.
Agreed, but I see debugging someone's problem as at least two stages - collecting the information I think I'll need (which they most likely have not provided in the opening post, as the may not have the mindset to solve a problem like they're asking about), and then offering solutions. I'd much rather see an extra pair of replies in the thread that can determine that information first, rather than launching wildly into possible solutions - since I think it's more of the trying differing solutions and failing that frustrates users more.
> I recall at least 1 thread where a longtime SP forum participant said he spends less and less time here, and I understand why.
That was probably me, but it has nothing to do with the requesting of site links or not so it's irrelevant here.Looking forwards, I hope that SP can rectify the community support situation to make it less frustrating to those asking, and those answering, and that those with sufficient knowledge and the good will to spend time helping others out, can do so, in their own preferred ways.
WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ
Gary JonesMemberI've directed Nick (author of that plugin) here - he may or may not be able to make a suggestion that would enable you to have the plugin activated, but not get the jump.
WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ
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