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jbculpParticipant
I hope I don't confuse the issue. It seems to me that "Following" is a matter of the visitor going to your social media site and choosing to follow you there. Are you wanting them to initiate the "follow" from within the wordpress site?
I've use Simple Social for that purpose and while it doesn't have an exhaustive list of social icons, it's pretty solid and works with Genesis out of the box.
In terms of Sharing, I'm looking in to ShareThis I've tested it in a non-Genesis environment. From the share button a popup asks the visitor to login using a variety of connection methods (Google, Facebook etc.) and it initiates the share. It requires java added to the header and someone more familiar with this stuff would have to comment on anything "custom" that would need to be done in a Genesis environment.
Hope this helps.
April 30, 2014 at 3:05 pm in reply to: Line Breaks & formatting in Featured Pages/Posts widget #103118jbculpParticipantjbculpParticipantI know this is a rather old post but I've had this same problem and just discovered that Eric Decker created a plugin that is the Genesis Featured Page widget with tons of extra's including the ability to add custom text blocks that DO NOT loose their formatting. Seems a perfectly simple solution if you don't want to customize your PHP.
Here is the link to Genesis Featured Page Extras
February 1, 2014 at 1:59 pm in reply to: Line Breaks & formatting in Featured Pages/Posts widget #88032jbculpParticipantI should have added that I'm using Agency Pro theme.
February 1, 2014 at 11:45 am in reply to: Line Breaks & formatting in Featured Pages/Posts widget #88022jbculpParticipantI'm having similar issues with the featured page widget. On a new dev site (not live) the paragraphs are running together and the opening <h2> is bleeding into the following <p> text. This happens even when the page content is less than the content character limit.
I'm happy to provide a link via private message to anyone who knows how to troubleshoot this.
jbculpParticipantThis reply has been marked as private.jbculpParticipantThanks Brad, At the end of the day I want to make something that lives beyond my involvement, is highly flexible and not a nightmare to style. I'll check out the link. As I stated earlier, this forum is great. I've learned a bunch form you and Sridhar and really appreciate all of your efforts to add value to the community.
jc
jbculpParticipantBrad,
Read your post on css-tricks. Since I'm a big picture guy, I'm going to summarize my understanding of the different approaches and perhaps you and others can correct, comment and refine.
The Tutorial:
The css-tricks tutorial sets up a custom post type and template system that creates a user interface for adding team members that populate on a dedicated page.
-advantages: Users will easily be able to add new members and delete former members without technical training.
-disadvantages: The use of custom code at the function.php and page_team.php level make adding new elements (e.g. a social media link) a technical project. Also, the info cannot be easily replicated in whole or part on another page within the site if needed.Brad Dalton Approach:
(Please correct if I incorrectly summarize the approach)
Create a widgetized page template where you pull team members into the page via widgets such as the Genesis User-Profile widget.
-advantages: Adding and removing team members is easy via the widget and does not create duplicate entities in the database (presuming that some team members are also authors or users).
-disadvantages: The use of a widgetized page still relies on a technical person to make modifications to the core. Also, one is reliant on the widget itself for the data (e.g. if using Genesis User-Profile, one needs to create a user for that individual). The User-Profile widget allows custom html but if one needed to rely on that, they could simply lay out the page without all the custom code.Other approaches not listed here:
Woo recently released a plugin for Meet the Team. It works out of the box BUT they provided NO CSS and it's weary work to identify all the elements and create the css from scratch. Furthermore, if one deploys it on a page, and in sidebar widgets, the css needs to handle different styling. I'm not sure if making those styles would be easily accomplished. Also, the plugin has very little by way of social media links and adding them to a vendors plugin would be difficult.Connections
Another good approach would be the plugin Connections. It has a robust database structure which is good but it relies on theme templates which limit layout without a lot of custom css.All of these approaches seem to have up's and down's. I'd appreciate any insights you have to my summary and invite alternate approaches.
john
jbculpParticipantSridhar,
GOT IT. If I paste the css into my style.css I get what I need so my "call" to the css in the functions.php is what's not working. I have a bad path.
jbculpParticipantBrad,
Perhaps that's true however I looked around for an example and didn't find one. In fact I think I actually asked on this forum but don't quote me on that. Then Woo put out a plugin for this purpose with no CSS so it was a dog fight to identify all the elements and still there were no social media links. Then in my regular visits to css-tricks I found this tutorial. It fell into my immediate need as a solution. Knowing that you are an active blogger and solution author, it might be great for the community to see an alternate approach. We can never have too many solid examples and in my case, I learn more each time I do a project like this.
Regards,
john
jbculpParticipantThis reply has been marked as private.jbculpParticipantSridhar and Gary,
This is great guys, thank you. I get more help and learn more from this forum than virtually anywhere else. This alone makes Genesis a premium value. That said, I'm still settling into my 1st cup of coffee so I'm not sure I'm running on all cylinders so my initial pass was mostly successful. I now have all my team showing up on a page within the WordPress container (big improvement) but css isn't working.
My initial question for Sridhar is this: Why did you choose to call the php page "page_team.php" instead of the tutorial's "template_team.php"? Was it because page is more reflective of what's going on or because it distinguishes this as a fork of the original and could then be put onto github?
Will test and report back. THANKS AGAIN
john c
"and all this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week..." Rocket Man - Elton JohnDoing this project has made me want to add some rock lyrics to my signature title
November 23, 2013 at 2:13 pm in reply to: Minimum Theme: Adding a Section Title to Blog Post Area on Home Page #75271jbculpParticipantThanks Brad, worked perfectly for me in Minimum-Pro. Here was my code:
function add_text_genesis() { if(is_home()) echo '<div class="home-text"><h1 align="center">My Blog Title</h1><br /><br /></div>'; }; add_action('genesis_before_loop', 'add_text_genesis');
jbculpParticipantBrad,
If I wanted to build a page that listed our class teachers this sounds like the solution. I'm thinking of something like the Team page in AgentPress (a theme I don't own). I could certainly code it in HTML but it looks like AgentPress is using some form of database structure. Is this similar to what you were suggesting to Craig?
Said another way, while I can do it in HTML, I'd rather give it some structure so individuals can be added and removed easily and then imbed it on a page.
jbculpParticipantOK Tony, your work did the trick.
As I suspected, working too high up the tree is a problem. When I applied css to content-sidebar-wrap I got a nasty white frame on my home page where I didn't want it. However, following your notes, this worked perfectly for everything so far:
.post-type-archive-product .content-sidebar-wrap, .tax-product_cat .content-sidebar-wrap { background-color: #FFFFFF; border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px; display: block; margin-bottom: 4rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 4rem 4rem 2.4rem; }
Thanks very much.
jbculpParticipantet toi, Thanks
jbculpParticipantWell, not as bad as I make is sound. Fact is I'm updating a mailing list for a volunteer group (with a martini at my side) but the serious thinking work will have to wait. I'll let you know as soon as I can test this (tomorrow or Saturday). Thanks for your advise.
Cheers
jbculpParticipantSounds like an excellent set of things to test tomorrow.... when I'm not 2 martini's into Genesis! I'll give it a try and let you know. I appreciate it.
jc
jbculpParticipantThanks. I didn't pursue this line of reasoning because when I was trying to workout replacing home-middle posts with home-middle pages (a problem solved in another forum posting) the moving of background up higher in the heirarchy caused trouble on the home page where the content frame has a trans background and a backstretch image. Thus, the non-home pages have the white background and therefore the css is somewhat lower down the hierarchy.
That's not to say I'm not complicating things... its a lifestyle but still, I'm thinking I need to figure out how to tell Woo Pages to behave like other pages.
jbculpParticipanttamjl
yes... well it wasn't me, Sridhar revisited the topic and replicated it for pages using Featured Pages. As suspected it was some CSS and it works wonderfully. I replaced his example of home-bottom with home-middle. Also, his CSS is one block. You'll need to copy the upper portion into the style css and the bits that are media queries should probably go into their respective areas at the end of the style sheet, being careful to keep the sections nested. If you break things up like this, you won't need the media query itself e.g. @media only screen and (max-width: 480px) { and its closing } .
Other than that, no issues. I am now able to mothball my rather painful but beautiful text widget.
John
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