[hobbygirl66]

You have a beautiful eye- lovely clean minimalist design and just the right pops of colour.
I do like the gray and white my only suggestion is I also find the white on light grey difficult to see. I would like to see more of a contrast.
Great job!

[hobbygirl66]

look for the width in your css. the old width. Then change to your new width/height.

Don't ever worry about especially here- people are unusually helpful on this forum. It is a nice fresh change and makes for a supportive atmosphere in general.

I would defer to some one else opinion on adding slider as header. My background is in SEO and I personally would not do. I don't want to hijack your thread ...

I see there are several posts and couple of plugins that will work if you have your heart set on it....
If you were my SEO client I would wrestle you to the ground til you cried uncle tho 🙂
http://wpsites.net/web-design/image-slider-home-page-only/

Lisa

[hobbygirl66]

You need to change in both functions and css.

in functions.php look for something like:

//* Add support for custom header
add_theme_support( 'custom-header', array(
	'width'           => 400,
	'height'          => 150,
	'header-selector' => '.site-title a',
	'header-text'     => false

and make is exact size of your header.

In css look for

something like:

.header-image .site-title a {
	background-color: none;
	max-width: 400px;
	min-height: 150px;
	padding: 0;
}

It can mess up if you try and use header right widget.

Hope that helps!

[hobbygirl66]

I have used the amplified feature post with Metro. The only issue I have is it doesn't like to change the content/excerpt field and have to fiddle with it. I find this in general with all of my genesis sites,

I use so I can pull posts ( not pages!) to front page in home middle left/right widget positions from different categories.
If their is a better way would love to hear.

Why cant you use that plugin?

Lisa

[hobbygirl66]

Just wanted to say thanks! The last time I used Woo Commerce was several years ago. It has some a LONG way,
I have been dreading overhauling an older site I have and after playing with this seems like it might solve some problems.
Thanks for suggesting!

[hobbygirl66]

thanks!
Lisa

[hobbygirl66]

what are you using for post id to order?

What I did that worked was looked at post/page id by going into dashboard _> Posts ( or pages) and hovering over the post title. you will see code with post ID in it. looks something like :
http://www.DOMAIN.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=193&action=edit

so the post ID = 193

and finally worked for me.

[hobbygirl66]

Hey Andrea- I never did figure out. I cheated my way out and instead of a slder that was 700x300 pixels , made it 1040x 300 across the top.
I am sure if kept plugging away at it we would have figured out but sometimes best to avoid that vortex! Another day 🙂
Thank you again for your efforts!
Lisa

[hobbygirl66]

sorry, also this code,

/** Add the welcome text section */
add_action( 'genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap', 'custom_welcome_text' );
function custom_welcome_text() {
if ( is_front_page())
genesis_widget_area( 'welcome-text', array(
'before' => '',
) );
}

which I think might be the culprit- I think I need to add this to different spot than genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap

Lisa

[hobbygirl66]

I have another thought- How about using the "Home-Top" widget which is configured to fit 3 "featured pages" widgets with a neat little row across . Instead have it be one wider one and using a text widget for home page content?

Am I describing correctly?

Here is the function for "welcome text" widget

/** Add the welcome text section */
add_action( 'genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap', 'custom_welcome_text' );
function custom_welcome_text() {
if ( is_front_page())
genesis_widget_area( 'welcome-text', array(
'before' => '',
) );
}

Lisa

[hobbygirl66]

Andrea- Im sorry to take up so much of your time- If you could be a little more specific on what code to put where I would appreciate.
I have created a widget called "welcome text" but it spans across the top of content + sidebar and much too wide for effect they want,

I don't think I can fix in css 🙂

I think I may have to use widget on home page like I wanted and placer them and content so that gives them more traditional layout.

I really thought this would be an easy fix!!! ARGH .

Lisa

[hobbygirl66]

lol.. Yes I know ... that is the problem 🙂

What theme are you using where you get desired effect?

I tried second method and same result. Slider behaving and looking how I want it to ....but at bottom of page content and i want it above the title.

It needs to be above page content/title otherwise I would just use a slider on the home page "page".

It SEEMS like something that should be easy to do, eh?

Lisa

[hobbygirl66]

Hi- if you scroll down on home page you will see slider at bottom of page, below content. I would like it to at top above content.

thanks!
Lisa

[hobbygirl66]

Sorry- scrolling down I see the slider place where I want but along the bottom AFTER the post...

Otherwise it looks like how I want 🙂 Just need to go above.

Lisa

[hobbygirl66]

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[hobbygirl66]

Hi Andrea- thanks for the suggestion- this method isnt working. The slider is not showing up.
I pm'd you the site address

Lisa

[hobbygirl66]

Hi Andrea- thanks for your quick reply- yes I do need further help 🙂
I used a fix so that slider will show up by creating a widget for home page only but it is not quite what I want- the slider is going across the whole width of content area ( 1140) and I want it to just go width of page.post content area approx 700 px.

I want to to fit how you are suggesting, Just before the post/.page title loop, etc and so primary sidebar stays wehere it is on the side nut under slider.
I don't how how to pop the Genesis responsive Widget code in that loop.

Thanks,
Lisa

[hobbygirl66]

How could you change this to include pages as well?
Thanks!
Lisa

[hobbygirl66]

You may have to play with widgets. Sometimes themes don't have footer1, footer2 widgets. It isn't that cumbersome.
If you just have the one footer with links should be ok.
Lisa

[hobbygirl66]

There is no "code" to actually make the image fade. You would have to create a raster image ( png /jpg ) in something like photoshop then upload in your theme header options. What you want to do isnt actually that hard.

This is a tutorial for a button but same principles. Just make header size of theme defaults to ( usually something like 960x180 pixels)

If you are really stuck pm and I can do up quickly for you.

HTH!
Lisa

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