[ItsJustMe]

As I've since determined this issue was apparently largely (but not fully) related to the plugin itself not wanting to work with the child theme, I'm closing this post off but may eventually come back with a new post if I can't resolve the rest.

[ItsJustMe]

Ah, got it (the clarification, not [yet] the fix 🙂 ). I guess what threw me was your opening instruction to "OPen up the author pro functions.php file". Since the child theme I'm using is not author pro (I am using the Wellness Pro child theme, have added the Author Pro plugin), I thought you were suggesting that somehow the plugin had its own functions.php file.

[ItsJustMe]

Andrea, thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not finding a functions.php file for this plugin.

Browsing through the plugin files, I wonder if this segment of code is what's driving the visual result:

require_once( GENESIS_AUTHOR_PRO_FUNCTIONS_DIR . 'template.php' );
add_filter( 'genesis_site_layout', '__genesis_return_full_width_content' );
$Genesis_Author_Pro_Template = new Genesis_Author_Pro_Template( $template );
$template = $Genesis_Author_Pro_Template->template;
}
return $template;
}

If so, then I'm guessing any edits to the code would need to add in a second layout and then be specific as to which is used where, because the only front end page generated by the plugin I'm wanting to change is the archive books page (showing all book titles), not the individual book or author pages.
(The archive books page is showing a body class of "archive post-type-archive post-type-archive-books custom-background header-full-width full-width-content genesis-author-pro")

As for your closing suggestion ("You might need to just fork the plugin"), unfortunately, I don't know what that's telling me or means.

[ItsJustMe]

Well, try as I might, nothing I've attempted have given me the desired results.

Prior to posting my question here, I had added to my child theme the code I found here

I then stripped that out and instead added the code to add the filter and force the sidebar, as follows:

if ( is_post_type_archive('post-type-archive-books') ) {
//* Force content-sidebar layout
add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_content_sidebar' );
}

But again that effected no page change. I don't have a clear enough understanding on how the pieces and parts all work together to know if that was the right condition to use. Reading the instructions and other information here (which mentions the get_query_var('post_type')), which is here, I'm now totally confused and my brain hurts.

Might someone be able to tell me what I overlooked or didn't get right?
Thanks in advance!

[ItsJustMe]

Well, try as I might, nothing I've attempted has given me the desired results.

Prior to posting my question here, I had added to my child theme the code I found at sridharkatakam on how to set-different-sidebars-archives-pages-genesis

With Victor's suggestion, I then stripped that out and instead added the code to add the filter and force the sidebar, as follows:

if ( is_post_type_archive('post-type-archive-books') ) {
//* Force content-sidebar layout
add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_content_sidebar' );
}

But again that effected no page change. I don't have a clear enough understanding on how the pieces and parts all work together to know if that was the right condition to use. Reading the instructions and other information I found in Codex (re: Function_Reference/is_post_type_archive) (which mentions the get_query_var('post_type') Function_Reference, I'm now totally confused and my brain hurts.

Might someone be able to tell me what I overlooked or didn't get right?
Thanks in advance!

[ItsJustMe]

I added a follow-up response (as I'm still having problems), but unfortunately that response is not showing up here. When links to source sites (such as Codex) are included, does that result in responses being temporarily held? (I'm speculating that may be the case, but...)

[ItsJustMe]

Thanks for the additional guidance; much appreciated.

I'm glad you mentioned the dashboard editor as that's something that has perplexed me in recent weeks. I use to have an editor somewhere, but haven't been able to find it the last few times I've looked. (I've created a couple of websites over the last two or three years, so there are relatively long stretches in between my layout / design efforts, so memory is vague.)

As for finding the page name, the body class shows no page ID, but is instead listed as "archive post-type-archive post-type-archive-books logged-in admin-bar custom-background header-full-width full-width-content gppro-custom genesis-author-pro customize-support". Would I need to specify that entire name?

Once I get this part done, I'm still not clear on how I'd add a tag cloud to a page sidebar since the author pro plugin settings do not include widget options and this page is generated by the plugin.

[ItsJustMe]

Thanks, Victor.
I'm apparently not clear on how the pieces and parts all fit together. I grabbed the line of code for the filter that forces the content sidebar layout and added it to Genesis Author Pro > Templates > archive-books.php However, after clearing the cache and refreshing the page, it looks no different. I then added the line of code that sets the layout as a default layout, but again it changed nothing.

Even once I'm able to get the layout as I want, I'm not quite sure how I'd go about adding a widget for the tag cloud in the sidebar, as the settings in the Library section (including Archive Settings) provide no means to incorporate widgets.

[ItsJustMe]

Thanks, Victor, for the additional information and insight. Am I correct in my read of the latter portion that that jQuery code would be for the parent page page header?
The developer/author of the plugin left me with the impression that what I was trying to accomplish would require access to the source page, which I don't have. Thankfully it turns out the primary vendor for which I was needing the IFrame has their setup in such a way that it eliminates the primary challenge. (Thank goodness for businesses that actually make it easier to do business with them. 🙂 )
I'm not sure that I'm going to get so lucky with some of the other vendors, so your guidance on this could prove to come in handy.....

[ItsJustMe]

Thanks! For some reason when I was looking to the theme demo, I didn't notice the text of the top widget and so didn't make that connection.
I likely want/need to have text above the two anyway, but once I put an empty widget above the other two, they magically fell into place, side by side.

Thanks again.

[ItsJustMe]

Update: I'm now speculating that the brief time it was working was due to something not having been refreshed. I've fiddled and fought with this some more and here's where I currently am with this issue.

Revisiting the instructions that guided me in the setup and placement of this second carousel slider, I'm now realizing that this was written for the top of the home page, and is creating a Home Carousel widget area - not where I've been dropping the short code. I've since modified the php for the slider to look to Front Page 3, but it's now registering a second Front Page 3. If I drop this in the second (new) one, the carousel appears at the top of the home page, above my first slider. if I drop it in the original Front Page 3 widget area, it goes back to falling off the page and is tangled up with the top of the page (noted when clicking on section 4 menu link).

When studying the functions php, I noticed one section of code that apparently swaps out action, as follows:

//* Reposition
remove_action
add_action

Is that something that can be accomplished here with the carousel slider, moving it from home carousel to Front Page 3, or is there another way to do this? (Surely this can be done, right?)

[ItsJustMe]

I should add that I had both of them working and then turned my attention to fixing the center justification issue. I'm not sure what it was that I did at that point, but... (Note to self: don't try to carry on a phone conversation and work at the same time...)

[ItsJustMe]

Victor, you are my hero for the day! Y'know... At one point I had actually thought something like that may be the issue, and had tried to study the code to get a sense as to what was happening and why. (I sorta get it, but have a difficult time stepping back to see all of the parts and their role in the big picture.) I think I even at one point added a min-height line in there, but the other css modifications that someone else has recommended, and that I'd already made (before turning here), were apparently overriding or otherwise negating the effect. (I just really wasn't understanding why these other modifications would be needed, and apparently they're not!)

I guess I need to start listening to my logical self more and be more careful when looking/listening to others who seem to position themselves to be more of an expert than I.

Thanks again!

[ItsJustMe]

Call me silly and lesson learned ... As I was reading, I thought "But I already tried that," position and all. I'm guessing my problem is that I tried it in Simple Hooks and not directly through the child theme function. Thanks, Brad. You rock!

[ItsJustMe]

Well, after being sidetracked by the holidays, I am now back. 🙂 I've installed the Soliloquy slider, based on your recommendations, and tried hooking it at various points using Simple Hooks, using both the short code and php function, but none that I've tried seem to get the job done.

At one point, when I had the slider hooked in before the content-sidebar-wrap (which is where I thought it needed to go), it did show up on the home page, but unfortunately was layered over the hfeed content. When I moved it to other hook locations, it simply disappeared.

I didn't try every possibility, and I'm sure there's some element I simply overlooked. Hopefully the morning and/or a bit more of your insight will provide me the clarity I need. 🙂 Thanks again.

[ItsJustMe]

Thanks, Brad, for pointing me in that direction. I have learned that, while I've picked up a lot about WP in recent weeks, there's still much, much, much to read and learn. Thankfully, I'm loving the journey.... 🙂

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