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April 28, 2015 at 3:18 pm in reply to: Replicating Altitude Pro Front-Page for other static pages #149445GenesisNewbMember
Hi Trish,
Thanks for the response! 🙂 Sadly I am not stuck with how to set a static home page. I am trying to determine what process I need to go through in order to use this theme's front-page design across all pages.
Currently this theme is only configured to allow background images and widget areas for the front page is you choose to set up a static home page. I am wanting to have this functionality for all pages, not just the home page.
Sorry for any confusion.
GenesisNewbMemberHere is a link demonstrating the issue I am having.
Left video is straight url of video
right video is with iframe embed stripped down.
A second issue would be the black bars at the top and bottom. Not sure how to get rid of those 🙁
GenesisNewbMemberThere was a very simple fix for this, feel pretty silly.
I used the code from Sridhar Katakam's full width soliloquy tutorial and failed to see that it was set for both home and frontpage. Removing "is_home() ||" from the below snippet solved my issue of the slider widget displaying on both the frontpage and blog page which I guess is considered "home". On to bigger and better things!
//* Register Home Slider widget area
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'home-slider',
'name' => 'Home Slider',
'description' => 'This is the home slider section'
) );add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'sk_home_featured' );
function sk_home_featured() {
if ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) {
genesis_widget_area( 'home-slider', array(
'before' => '<div class="home-slider widget-area">',
'after' => '</div>',
) );
}
}October 30, 2014 at 9:36 am in reply to: Changing themes from Avada to a Genesis child theme #129887GenesisNewbMemberAvada has certainly not been anything easy from my experience with it thus far. The theme is insanely bloated, (typical of such themes) it was difficult to cache or minify without breaking the entire theme, the form builder for page layouts is clunky and will sometimes not publish correctly and you are forced to recreate, etc. There are also a lot of browser compatibility issues.
The biggest hurdle I had personally was performance issues. Mobile responsiveness is there, but the load on mobile is incredible if not optimized. You also need to go in and set a lot of things up to have anywhere near an acceptable page score from google or yahoo's yslow. For an out of box solution, the time I spent getting it anywhere near something I could get by with was way more of a time sink then recreating the site off of the Genesis sample theme so far.
At the end of the day I feel Avada theme is just trying to capitalize on the "bootstrap" style everyone seems to associate to responsive site development.
A theme like Avada obviously takes a good amount of work to put together, but they seem to have to do more maintenance to keep it working, then they do making drastic improvements. Just my two cents. 🙁
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