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Ahh, thank you!
– George (MediaServices)
MediaServicesParticipantUPDATE: If anyone takes a look at this I've temporarily gone disabled "Enable sticky header" in theme settings so I'm not leaving my client with that empty space. Feedback to get it working with "Enable sticky header" turned back on would be appreciated.
– George (MediaServices)
MediaServicesParticipantHmm, the HTML tags have broken down into HTML entities. Here is the HTML I entered into the newly created widget
<div> Read our COVID-19 statement <a href="http://carolinaexterminating.com/covid19/"><strong>here</strong></a> to see how we are protecting the communities where we work. </div>
And this is some outputted HTML from the live website
<div class="ce-utility-bar"><div class="wrap"><div class="ce-top-utility-bar"><section id="custom_html-5" class="widget_text widget widget_custom_html"><div class="widget_text widget-wrap"><div class="textwidget custom-html-widget"><div> Read our COVID-19 statement <a href="http://carolinaexterminating.com/covid19/"><strong>here</strong></a> to see how we are protecting the communities where we work. </div></div></div></section> </div></div></div>
– George (MediaServices)
MediaServicesParticipantScore, booyah! Brad that sounds great! We have another StudioPress site running Genesis Featured Posts widgets and Genesis Featured Pages widgets on the home page. Great idea!
Now I just need to find a tutorial to add Widgets to a page. Looks like your tutorial here is what I need. Thanks!
– George (MediaServices)
MediaServicesParticipantBrad, thanks for the reply. From your response I gather you think that the way I chose to handle the requirement to have 3 of the articles from any given category n a separate 'page' with a link to read all of the rest of them is the best way to go?
With that assumption in mind I previously read your tutorial when googling, but for me it fell apart right here:
Simply copy either the archive.php or category.php file from your parent theme and paste it into your child themes folder then change the file name if needed.
As I mentioned above I was unable to find a category.php or archive.php in either /wp-content/themes/genesis/ or /wp-content/themes/beautiful-pro/.
So, I can't open an existing category.php or archive.php file and save it as category-23.php then find a place to add:
echo '<a href="http://chswomeninbusiness.com/category/business/"><strong>Read About More Women in Business</strong></a>';
So, I went down your page and looked at your archive.php Gist and I see code that probably does some really cool stuff, but I have no idea what. I can see that you're example essentially changes 'genesis_post_info' value from 12 to 8 and 'genesis_do_post_image' value from 8 to 2, but I have no idea what that does or how it would help me add a link. Maybe I need a more basic tutorial?
– George (MediaServices)
MediaServicesParticipantI just re-read your reply, Andrea, as I was about to set up my Child Theme. Its Magazine Pro v3.1 and the latest is v3.2.3 and I thought I had to download v3.2.3 and set up a separate Child Theme for it. Glad to know I don't need to do that.
Its been so long since we originally did the setup I'd completely forgotten that all themes besides Genesis are child themes. Thanks, you just saved me a bunch of work!
– George (MediaServices)
MediaServicesParticipantThanks so much for the help.
Hey guys so what are your thoughts on this?
the best way to make the custom headers (top-left & top-right), sidebars and footers work in different "sections". For us a section is a collection of 1 or more Pages, 1 or more Posts, or a combination of both.
We've got special sections like our Golden Spoon Awards section (http://mountpleasantmagazine.com/golden-spoon-awards/) which has its own header (upper-left logo & link, upper-right logo & link) and some will also have their own sidebars and footers also. These sections can a collection of 1 or more Pages, 1 or more Posts, or a combination of both. It would also be nice -but optional- for each section to be able to have its own menus, or at least secondary menu.
At this point I create a page template (WordPress PHP file) which can be selected in the Page Edit window's Page Attributes metabox. Any custom sidebar or footer would be selected using Custom Sidebars plugin by WPMU DEV in the Page Edit window's Sidebar metabox. This does not allow us to add custom menus, and at this point I cannot use this for a Category of posts.
So considering I should be upgraded to the latest version of Genesis, the Magazine Pro theme, the Simple Hooks plugin and WordPress 4.7.1 - 4.7.3 what are the best practices for creating sections in StudioPress/Wordpress?
– George (MediaServices)
MediaServicesParticipantThanks, Andrea. Another great reminder.
– George (MediaServices)
MediaServicesParticipantVictor, thanks for the info and your time. You are right I should be using a dev or staging site - great reminder.
EDIT: I just noticed in shortening my original question to make my question shorter I left out that I've figured we should upgrade to Genesis 2.4.2 and Magazine Pro 2.3.2, as well as Genesis Simple Hooks 2.20 (Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins-wp/genesis-simple-hooks/). I think that's all of the StudioPress software I need, and I'm fairly sure these versions would allow me to upgrade t WP 4.7.x.
– George (MediaServices)
April 18, 2016 at 12:51 pm in reply to: Magazine Pro: Custom Header Logo + Link for Special 'Sections' #183851MediaServicesParticipantThis worked out very good for a new Section using WordPress pages. Thanks.
– George (MediaServices)
April 15, 2016 at 7:31 am in reply to: Magazine Pro: Custom Header Logo + Link for Special 'Sections' #183671MediaServicesParticipantThanks, Christoph, I'll take a look at this.
Also, I realized this AM that not only could I make these sections using Pages, but also Posts (which gives me Categories to use).
– George (MediaServices)
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