[Jonathan]

No problem. I agree, I'm not a fan of the new Yoast settings. I've had many clients confused by the changes. So far my sites running Yoast have outperformed the Genesis settings. Maybe I'm just over-optimizing with Yoast 🙂

New Site is looking great though!

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[Jonathan]

I don't think the SEO settings have been deprecated from Genesis in 2.2.5.

There are two things I would check:

1. Screen Options in the upper right hand corner of the dashboard when on the post editor page. See if the SEO settings box is checked.

2. If you installed an SEO plugin, such as Yoast, it will hide the Genesis SEO setting box. Note: I recommend using Yoast SEO plugin instead of the Genesis settings.

Hope this helps.

Thanks!

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[Jonathan]

Yes, to some extent it will take time to be indexed in Google. If you submitted a sitemap to Google Search Console, you should be able to login and see which pages of your site have been indexed. But there are many other factors that weigh into ranking.

I recommend installing the Yoast SEO plugin if you haven't already. Then follow the plugin based on your keyword string to optimize your page/post.

The following post from Rand at Moz.com, beginners guide to SEO, is perhaps one of the best resource for getting started with SEO.

Hope this helps, good luck with your new site!!

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[Jonathan]

I currently use the redirect manager in the Yoast SEO premium plugin. After experimenting with a couple 301 redirect plugins and the free version of Yoast SEO, it was just easier and less of a security risk to upgrade to the paid plugin.

The free version of Yoast SEO previously included a 301 redirect function, but due to a conflict within the plugin this has been moved to the premium version only.

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[Jonathan]

Hi! It looks like this has been resolved. Are you still having an issue with the portrait view?

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[Jonathan]

It looks like the image is the HomePageTop.gif that is 1700x1247. Are you uploading a new image with the different size or using the WP image editor function?

If you're uploading a new image with the different size, try changing the file name before uploading.

Let me know if that helps, if not please provide additional info and I'll try to help resolve.

Thanks!

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[Jonathan]

Not sure if this will solve your issue (depending on how you have your taxonomy setup), but check out this tutorial by Davinder Singh Kainth.

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[Jonathan]

The Altitude theme demo is setup using site header text instead of a header image. If you logo font is a web based font, you can use the site header text and change the font family, or I've used the following to left-align the header image and center on mobile:
Create a header image at 360 x 76 and center the logo in the image file.
For desktops use a negative left margin to left align the logo:

.header-image .site-title > a {
    margin: 0px 0px 0px -50px;
}

For mobile devices, remove the negative margin in the media query
Add the following to the header image css class:

@media only screen and (max-width: 1023px)
	.header-image .site-title > a {
		background-position: center !important;
		margin: 0;
	}

This is one way to achieve the left-align and centered header image look. Another option is to change the header image size in the theme function file and then align the image as needed using media queries.

Altitude changes the header size when scrolling by appending the css class with .dark. You can modify the .header-image .site-title > a height to 56px to match the scrolling height. You'll need to add padding to the .site-title class as needed to fix the image placement.

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[Jonathan]

Here's one way to setup the button grid like you've shown:

Add these CSS classes to your stylesheet:

.button.service {
background-color: #fff;
border: 4px solid #0073ba;
color: #000;
border-radius: 4px;
-moz-border-radius: 4px;
-webkit-border-radius:4px;
width: 100%;
padding: 15px 25px;
margin: 10px;
}

.button:hover.service {
background-color: #000;
border: 4px solid #0073ba;
color: #fff;
}


Use column and button classes on the page to setup the grid:

<div class="one-half first">
Button 1
Button 2
Button 3
</div>
<div class="one-half">
Button 4
Button 5
Button 6
</div>


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[Jonathan]

Edit the following CSS classes in your stylesheet

from:

.site-header {
    background-color: #000;

to:

.site-header {
    background-color: #0073BA;
}

And for the scroll effect, change the stylesheet from:

.site-header.dark {
    background-color: #000;
}

to:

.site-header.dark {
    background-color: #0073BA;
}

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[Jonathan]

The Yoast SEO plugin is designed to override the Genesis SEO settings. Joost de Valk runs his sites on Genesis, so I wouldn't say this is a quirk, more of a protection against having both fields available and future depreciation of the Genesis SEO function 🙂
But all of your hard work and data in Genesis SEO settings is not lost. You can use the SEO Data Transporter plugin by Nathan Rice to export the Genesis SEO settings into the Yoast SEO plugin.

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