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Deborah, you are able to join the forum from the Jessica theme developers. You just have to email them and provide a screenshot of your purchase order from Studiopress. They may need something else, I can't remember. But I'm there as someone who purchased Jessica theme, even as a "forever developer" here at Studiopress.
https://www.web-savvy-marketing.com/forum/

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The only issue I see with Altitude Pro theme and the inside pages is that in edit mode, the top "tabbed area" of the rows is hidden just behind the header/menu bar. It makes it impossible to click on the row to edit it. This looks like a problem with Dambuster not putting enough extra margin at the top of Altitude Pro's pages. But you can fix this by temporarily installing a plugin that will allow you to edit the CSS. Then, you add the code below while you're creating your pages and if you don't like the look of the extra margin/space at the top of the inside pages, delete the style when you're done. But you could also just leave it if you like the extra space.

The harder way is to not use the Dambuster plugin and create your own page template for your Beaver Builder Pages. But that would be much harder to produce than this "hack" I'm about to show you. If you're a member of Sridhar Katakam's website, he explains how to create your own page template to use with Beaver Builder if you don't want to use Dambuster. But barring that, try the fix below...

Install the Simple Custom CSS plugin and activate it - https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-css/
Go to the dashboard and choose Appearance > Custom CSS
Add this code to the file and click save.

.gd-full-width .site-inner { 
  margin-top: 100px!important;
}

Unfortunately, it is necessary to include the oft-dreaded !important aspect to this code because Dambuster places its site-inner style as an inline style. The !important forces an override and changes Dambuster's code from 75px margin-top, to 100px.

This makes the "tabbed" area of the top row editable.

Hope that helps.

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Not the original poster but the most recent - probably

SPAM

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Susan can probably be more helpful as I don't work for StudioPress so only deal with my own "support issues" and not everyone else's. The main framework issues I would imagine might have to do with finding out what plugins are and are not compatible with Genesis in general. As you would imagine, you aren't supposed to touch the framework files at all. That's the reason for the child themes. So issues of compatibility with Genesis would probably be the biggest support questions that I can think of..

Happy holidays to you as well.

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Josh, you'll get support for the framework, but not the theme. So yes...I guess you're right. You are taking a slightly bigger risk purchasing a 3rd party theme over one developed by StudioPress. The good news is that should the day ever come that the theme is abandoned, you are a lifetime owner of the framework and all subsequent child themes can be purchased without that added cost.

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I don't use WPBakery but have used Beaver Builder on many different sites. I only work with Genesis theme and have never had a problem with Beaver Builder loading and being able to use it. It won't work on the default homepage of altitude Pro (or any default homepage that is widgetized). You'll have to make your own home page and use the dambuster plugin to make it work properly with Beaver builder.

Just create your own static homepage like you did "old school" before Genesis, go into setting and choose the page as your default static homepage. After you've installed dambuster, go into the page edit and turn that on for the page. Then you can use Beaver Builder to edit and build the page.

I hope I've explained that clearly enough. If not, you can Skype me and I can show you how I do it. It's really easy once you get the hang of it.

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Josh, I own "all the themes" because I purchased the developer's license. Consequently, I'm able to download and use both StudioPress themes and 3rd party themes. The biggest difference between a 3rd party theme and SP theme are the setup instructions. Since each 3rd party theme may be developed by a different person, their setup instructions will vary and be different. And all will typically be different from what you find in the Studiopress instructions.

I find some theme developer's instructions to be superior to that of Studiopress' because they also offer support forums for people who purchased their theme, and some to be worse.

You'll get the Genesis Framework with either theme purchase, which will allow you to purchase just a child theme in the future.

ShowCase Pro has a built-in custom post type for "testimonials" and "team members." Centric does not but you could add those yourself using plugins or a custom post type plugin yourself if you wanted that feature.

ShowCase Pro has additional built-in styles that Centric Pro does not. However, if you're familiar with CSS you could easily reproduce those in Centric pro. You can see ShowCase's custom built-in styles here. http://demo.jtgrauke.com/showcase/typography/

Showcase pro's theme instructions don't seem to be hidden behind a firewall or require you to login, so you can check them out here to get a sense of how the theme is setup.
http://jtgrauke.com/documentation/showcase-pro/

I hope that helps.

[Kary]

I did it on this page. You have to Create a new template page with its own widget areas. Then style those widget areas with CSS. Don't mean to be vague, but not sure how much more info you need on how I did this.
http://techiemuse.com/services/

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Kamakura,
Go into Appearance > Menus and make certain you have no menu assigned in both the "primary" and "secondary" menus. I can't remember which one, but you are showing either the primary or secondary menu on your inside pages. The menu in the header is placed there in the Widget area under the "Right Header" widget.

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Great! I'm glad it was helpful. I love the Custom Sidebar plugin and would love to see the Pro version in action. I just can't get my head around the cost. It seems ridiculously expensive.

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The Agency Pro theme uses Javascript to control the parallax scrolling / backstretch image. However, if you look at many of the other themes that use parallax scrolling / backstretch image in the showcase or even the Studiopress default themes, the background image is not stationary/fixed on an iOS device; the image scrolls ups with the rest of the content. I'm fairly certain this actually considered "normal" on mobile devices, and can only be forced to work using Javascript.

When I look at my demo site on my iPad, the backstretch image doesn't stay fixed, but it looks fine. If you want to continue using this method and forego the fixed backstretch image (going back to the default way the theme does it), you can try a few things to at least get the image looking its best on various mobile devices.

You can use different images for the smaller screens. Perhaps resize / crop your backstretch image in different ways for mobile viewing, or you can change the position of the image in the various mobile sizes. Look at the bottom of your CSS, and change these under the @media CSS styles. I have no idea what would work best for your image so play around with it. You might have to change it for the various mobile device sizes.

[Kary]

Okay....soooooo....you don't need me to dig through my notes. Correct?

[Kary]

She doesn't have an ad or optin box in the right-header, she will eventually. The link below shows what I did for a client. I need to go back over my notes and see what I did as it required a completely different way of adding a custom header. Give me an hour or so and I'll post the solution here.

http://gwens-nest.com/

[Kary]

More experienced developers may cringe with this method. But if it works, it works. And it works for me. I did it without having to code. Upload the SM icon images to your media folder, and copy the URL to each image.

Go to Appearance > Menus and add a LINKS item to menu. Once the item is the menu, change the name of the link (Like FACEBOOK) to the actual image file path. It has to be written in HTML. For example,

<img src="/path/to/your/FACEBOOK/icon.jpg" />

You may have to tweak the CSS of the icons but it does work.

[Kary]

Do you want the logo in the center? Or on the left? I figured out how to do it with the logo on the left and an ad or widget on the right. When the page is viewed in a smaller browser like on a mobile device, everything will automatically pop in the center.

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I know how to do it using CSS, but not using the functions file with a conditional statement. It works using CSS but it doesn't produce that nice "fade in" effect that you get when using it the way its setup in the theme.

To make it work, you don't need to touch the functions file.
(1) You'll need to go to the Customize > Backstretch image in your admin area and remove any backstretch image you've already placed there.
(2) Open the pages you want to add different backstretch images to and get the page ID numbers.
(3) Include this script in your CSS file.

/*--------------BACKGROUND STRETCH IMAGES-----------------*/
body {
	background-image: url('/your/image/url/bg1.jpg');
	background-position: center top;
	background-attachment: fixed;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-size: cover;
	-webkit-background-size: cover;
	-moz-background-size: cover;
	-o-background-size: cover;
}
body.page-id-200, body.page-id-222  {
	background-image: url('/your/image/url/bg2.jpg');
}
body.page-id-300 {
	background-image: url('/your/image/url/bg3.jpg');
}

(4) Change the URLs to your image filepath
(5) Change the page numbers to the page numbers of your pages.

The way this works, by default, if a page isn't assigned a specific image, the default "body" image will display. Any page you've assigned an image to in the CSS will load the specific image instead of the default. Just make certain the "body" tag is at the top of your CSS list and the "body.page-id-##" tags are underneath.

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Viviwat,

(1) Make certain you enqueue your fonts inside your functions.php file. The script is already there just change it to the fonts you want to use.

(2) I don't even see where you've called "Blackjack". I'm fairly certain it is no longer a Google font so if you've tried to enqueue it, Google can't serve it to your site because it longer has the font in their collection. You'll have to use a different google font or a different web font system that uses Blackjack.

(3) The reason why the post title color is different on the homepage or index page as opposed to the single post page, is because on the home/index page you need to change the CSS associated with the anchor tag. Bother your a tag is set to the dark gray color and unless you've changed it, the FoodiePro theme doesn't specifically change the a:hover tag, so it will be the same as the a tag.

The CSS for both .entry-title a and .entry-title a:hover can be changed to something like this.:

.entry-title a {
color: #f05123;
}
.entry-title a:hover {
color: #333;
}

[Kary]

Unless you want to dig into the functions file, probably preferable but daunting, then you can use plugins. It depends on your needs and how much you need to whip your widgets into submission.

The Custom Sidebars widgets has a free and pro version. I've never ponied up the money for the pro because it just doesn't seem worth it...although the free version is a truly awesome thing. I would only use this if you need a lot of control over your sidebars and widgets. A professional blogger I worked with to customize her site used it and I was amazed what the free version did. https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-sidebars/. Basically you can create new sidebars for specific pages, categories, etc. and then assign those sidebars accordingly. It won't "hide" or "show" sidebars though. THat is only in the pro version

If all you want to do is hide/show a few sidebars then you can probably use the JP Widget Visibility. This is what Jetpack has without having to activate the entire JetPack plugin. So if you're already using Jetpack, just activate "VIsibility" and you're done. You won't need this. https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack-widget-visibility/

To use it, add a widget to a sidebar or footer and then click the "visibility" button at the bottom. SHOW or HIDE the widget for specific pages, posts, categories, etc. You can click the little + symbol to add multiple pages/posts/categories, etc to show or hide.

[Kary]

Custom Post Type as Portfolio: http://www.billerickson.net/genesis-portfolio/ This page also has links to the plugin a referred to

BTW, the page you've linked to (SurroundLandscaping)...that looks like a photo gallery. I realize they are calling it a portfolio, and it is. But it looks like they are using a WP plugin called "Royal slider." I've never used it. But it wouldn't take blog posts or CPT to recreate that. You would just need to setup a photo gallery of images using some sort of gallery or slider plugin. http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/royal-slider/gallery/

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There are three ways. Quickie Quick way (LOL) use a great lightbox plugin like FooBox and you're plugin will just be popup links/boxes. Good for it you don't have or need a long description.

Sort of quick way: Just incorporate it into your blog and then create a page from your portfolio category. You'll get bonus point with this one if you want some of your portfolio pieces on your home page.

Not so quick way: This is probably "the best" if you want to completely separate out your portfolio posts from your blog posts. You can create a Custom Post Type (CPT) as your portfolio section. There are a few articles on the web about how to do this and a plugin. I'll have to go see if I can find links.

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