[hannahransom]

I must not have explained correctly.

I want the widget, but it's not there. There is no after text widget area in my widgets.

[hannahransom]

Thank you for all your help! I really like figuring this all out because I have really been enjoying the small amount of code stuff I have done so far. Trying to learn little by little. I think what you just said went a bit over my head. I'm still weirded out that making my site look so similar to the original took so much work.

Yeah, I have been manually clearing spam because every plugin I have looked into people have said real comments go into the spam and stuff so it sounded pointless if I still had to check through the spam. I have already gotten a few more, so I guess I'll see what happens. My spam has increased a huge amount since I had a traffic bump. Thanks again!

[hannahransom]

Yay! 2 things:

1.) How?!
2.) Can I make the about box full page width again? Did you just change the css? Am I not able to do that for some weird reason on the home?

[hannahransom]

Just sent it.

[hannahransom]

Dang, nope. It was still the static front page (which makes no sense) and the articles part was blank.

[hannahransom]

It works to make the articles homw, but the about box doesn't show up anymore when I do that.

[hannahransom]

Yep, exactly. I did try clicking the "show recent posts for homepage" thing and it doesn't work for some reason.

[hannahransom]

Any ideas? Sorry I have so many questions!

[hannahransom]

I removed the line, so if you view it you can not see it, but the line was through the social share buttons in the sidebar. You can see that the padding on that widget is less than the others.

[hannahransom]

I found it! Just in case anyone else is silly like me it was line 900. Change "none" to "white"

#header .genesis-nav-menu li a:hover {
	background: white;
}

[hannahransom]

Ok, so I can not figure out what is going wrong. When I try to switch to my homepage showing recent articles is still has my static homepage (I cleared the cache) and the article page shows nothing. I'd like to remove the article page and have home show my recent posts, but it ain't happening. Is it something I put in the body php?

[hannahransom]

Great! So, I did it, and now I do have the nice about part over my recent articles, but for some reason when I set recent articles as the home page it won't work. Maybe it has something to do with my current menu and navigation. I am going to be playing around with it!

I will be excited when I get it because the article page is JUST what I want for my home page (other than a few css things that I need to figure out).

[hannahransom]

Ok, so I am finally playing around with this stuff. I was in my FTP looking at the style sheets today (looking for where to change the hyperlink color which seems to be decidedly absent!) and I know for that I can add onto the bottom after a note to myself so that if I ever have to update it I can copy and paste back in my changes.

Is it safe to just change out the home.php? What if there is a child theme update for my theme and I lose everything? I'm still so new to genesis and don't really understand the ins and outs of making changes.

[hannahransom]

Oh, geez, crazy. I thought this was going to be something simple.

Weird that it looks like that on the theme preview but it's hard to do. Is that just because I don't want the jump navigation?

Ok, I still have not figured out how I want to do child stuff since getting genesis, so I am going to do this AFTER I figure that out, I guess. I have left everything default so far, but need to change the fonts and link colors at least, anyway, I've just been preoccupied with work that doesn't have to do with my website. Hopefully for the rest of this week I will have a little more time and can play around with web stuff.

Thanks again!

[hannahransom]

I am planning on putting the articles on the home page w/ home type info (who I am, pic, opt in, what this site is) in the about box and then doing recent articles under that. I have just had the two (home and article) separate for a while, but I'm sick of it and thought the about box would be a good way to have that home info.

So basically no standalone recent posts page, but home is
Header/nav
About box with stuff in it
Recent posts

I also do not want to use the hashtag nav that makes it scroll to different sections. I hate that for some reason.

Just FYI, I have an interview in about 10 min so if you don't here from me for an hour after that and have a question that is why 🙂

[hannahransom]

Here I'll do it so you can check it out and just write "Sorry, be back in a second"... Done, you can check it now.

[hannahransom]

Ok, thanks, I'll have to play with it a little. I'm not sure if what you are saying is just giving a list of recent posts in sidebar or if they are all below the header/nav/about widget (when I put it in there).

It's so weird, this tripped me up when I changed themes, too, a lot of the widgets were populated and I couldn't get to my articles and was freaking out!

Thanks for your help, I'll be back here if I am still having issues.

[hannahransom]

That's why it's weird. I do want to change the recent posts to home, but it's weird that the widget is going to recent posts. And it makes me nervous that it is going there and blanking everything else out!

[hannahransom]

Whoa, that was so fast! Yes, that is because I do not have the widget enabled right now. I wanted to enable the widget so that I could put my site byline and everything in there but when I enable it it goes to the articles page (rather than home) and takes away all of the posts (so the widget is all you see).

I'm wondering if it is because of having a static front page but afraid to try it because I don't suddenly want to have a black box with nothing else on my home page.

[hannahransom]

Thanks! Do you know anything about why the about section is coming up on my (standalone) recent posts page and making all of the recent posts disappear?

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