[jbculp]

I'm not sure where this stands so for now I'm closing the call and will holler if I come back around on this. Thanks for the followup.

jc

[jbculp]

I think I gave up but am happy with where I ended up. I admit to not managing my questions well and time goes by so I forget. Thanks for following up. Let's close this one.

jc

[jbculp]

Susan,

Thanks for the followup. I mentioned this as a ps in a tech. support email recently. Even a systematic syntax in the theme descriptions listing the themes features, # of widgets etc. would be enough. Picture would be keen as well but if there were a commitment to crafting a template for the theme descriptions that would suffice.

Example items could be:
# of and location of widgets
dedicated home page

Special Features.... e.g. Going Green automatically makes a featured image from a post image if there isn't one.

Other standard stuff of course:
# of colors
Responsive (which eventually all themes will be)
HTML 5 (which eventually all themes will be)
Fixed Width (or not)
etc.

At the end of the day, without crawling thru the browser source using Firebug, one is hard pressed to figure some of this out and for non-dev folks, that's not going to be useful. That leaves one to buying the theme before they know if it's going to meet their needs.

Thanks again for replying. I'm flagging this as "Not a Support Question".

[jbculp]

Disreagrd. Taking another path to this.

[jbculp]

Thanks all... I had been holding off on anitac's solution, waiting for a moment when I could look at the code and think about it. manapress' solution was naturally more simple even they both addressed the same block of code. I made the change = post to none and left myself comments in the functions.php file so I could know what I did later. It worked wonderfully on a simple test of creating a new post, inserting an image and NOT making a featured image. When published the post did not auto-convert the image to featured. That's good. I'm going to call this resolved and thank both of you for your help.

jc

[jbculp]

OK, All good now. I had a pre-HTML5 version of my style.css so I restored that and removed HTML5 support form the functions.php. Here is the Blog again.

That said, this site has some of what I called "dead spaces" where the responsive header disappears. It's in the 800px range but I can't give an exact number without more investigation. It self-corrects around 1024px or so. Since the responsive header plugin is working I was asking my question about the general design framework so I could learn how to tweak my CSS to accommodate any areas that are not quite up to snuff. Any pointers to articles on responsive design for css would be helpful.

Thanks

jc

[jbculp]

Well, here is my wife's blog . I just realized however that yesterdays work of converting it to HTML5 blew away the header responsiveness so I'll have to try to roll that back before I can make my point. Let me update this when I've accomplished that task. sorry.

[jbculp]

This isn't entirely the answer but I was modifying a theme (Education) yesterday and in the process of working through the responsive header (using this Blog Post) I noted that the developer has solved this issue. You can see his solution by following the links of his clients provided at the end of the post. Follow the link to Grace Church, using the Education theme.

When the churches URL is put into the Studio Press Mobile Responsive tool, you don't see the typical Education Stacked Menu but a menu icon at the top with a dropdown.

I asked the developer (John Sundberg) about it and he said he was about to publish a blog post discussing this very solution. After writing the above: I see John has published the post. Here is a link to his Studio Press posting and his Blog Post.

[jbculp]

SOLVED:

I decided NOT to switch the sidebars but simply to disable the primary-sidebar on the homepage. Worked like a charm. Full description on this post:

Remove Primary Sidebar from Edcuation Home Page only

[jbculp]

SOLVED:

I decided NOT to switch the sidebars but simply to disable the primary-sidebar on the homepage. Worked like a charm. Full description on this post:

Remove Primary Sidebar from Edcuation Home Page only

[jbculp]

Hi all. I have two other unanwsered posts on this topic but now with your help and the help of info on a blog, I've got it.

Summary:
Remove primary sidebar from Education Theme Home page only and then widen the content frame to fill the open space.

Since I was able to make other pages full-width, I didn't need to do this elsewhere and I needed to retain the primary sidebar on the blog page. Had I needed the secondary-sidebar I would have followed the tutorials listed below to do a custom body class for other pages thereby allowing me to eliminate the primary sidebar where I needed.

Full Solution in Education Theme:

Add this to home.php
/** Remove default sidebar */
remove_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'genesis_do_sidebar' );

With the help of Kraft in this thread and comments on this blog ( http://www.carriedils.com/genesis-theme-tutorial-primary-sidebar/ ) it all came together.

Once sidebar is gone from home page, the content frame is too narrow. I wanted it to fill the full frame so I added this to the CSS:

#home-featured ~ #content {width: 90%;}

According to Chris Coyier's website on CSS-Tricks, this selector allows for styling the content frame if it is preceded by the home-featured element. See full article at: http://css-tricks.com/child-and-sibling-selectors/.

Yahoo!

[jbculp]

Thanks Dorian. I tested Bill's code quickly and it worked but... since Education Theme has an inner widget on the home page (gosh I wish I could make it go away and keep the outer) the wrapping isn't so good. I think I need the most recent post or two to display normally and only begin the grid after those. I think I'm going to have to use the Genesis code with all its complication but now I know it works. I appreciate our help.

[jbculp]

I want to do this too. The irony for the education theme is the alt. sidebar is the preferred sidebar (in my mind). Using a tip from this post I went at the problem using CSS and a display: none; logic. Problem is when you hide the main sidebar, the alt sidebar disappears as well.

This perhaps is either my failure to do the proper css selector or perhaps it's hard coded that the alt sidebar builds on the presence of the main sidebar (finds the right margin of the main sidebar and positions relative to it????).

My desire is to either switch the two or to simply make the main sidebar widget area to go away but keep the alternate sidebar.

Any ideas?

[jbculp]

Cool, thanks.  Good reference.

[jbculp]

Don't give me too much credit, I'm not sure it will work but if others here said I was on the right track that's hopeful.  I too recommend slogging away at learning CSS. Best thing one can do.  W3 schools is great.  Essentially the stylesheet defines how every element in your theme looks, what it's position is (if you need to define that), margins, padding etc.  The firefox addon called firebug is a life saver as it will allow you to click on any element and see what its name is in the stylesheet.  I began this by buying a cheap css how-to book and have learned css slowly over the past couple of years.  If indeed you can use placement to move this widget beside the slider you'd use CSS to make the slider smaller and to move the widget up and to the right (or left). Since I abandoned this project and moved that site to a different theme due to other limitations I can't say for sure. Sorry.  Would give you the css info if I had completed the task.

jc

[jbculp]

I gave up on this when I determined that the theme had other limitations however I concluded that this may be a function fixed with CSS.  In theory if you can get the widget to show up, you may be able to use css to position it to the right of the slider, also making adjustments with css to size the slider.  That's a theory... I never got conformation on this from anyone who knows for sure.

[jbculp]

I uploaded a 1040 x 400 image to a page as a featured image, linked it to the slider and something resized it to 920 x 400.  The result is a white space on the right.  What is the fix for this?

 

OK that was voodoo. I uploaded the image to a different page and it used the 1040 size.  Still have too big a white space but will try the 98% fix discussed.

[jbculp]

Disregard. The second column had an image in it and the pushing around of the heading tag below had to do with the image, not the columns. Sorry to bother everyone.

[jbculp]

May I add a rookie question to this discussion on Columns? I'm using a two column layout on a page and after the two columns, I go to a one column wide gravity form. Everything is working except the H4 tag above the form is floating to the right. I tried putting that section of the page in a Div but it didn't help.  How do you control that heading to stay left? If it's a float, how do you do that inline?

Thanks

jc

[jbculp]

Dude, you are a life saver.  I don't have much luck trying to style using more tags. Having an excerpt that can be customized is my idea of the way to go.

THANKS

jc

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