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MichaelMember
Tony, THANK YOU for your time and help. I took your latter suggestion and used the link to re-set the header as an inline image. Worked great. Now I have to go back and use this on some other sites. Thank you for the great learning experience. I will take this one with me everywhere I go!
MichaelMemberTony, Thank you so much! That got me 90% where I need to be. A couple of questions if you please-
I did implement both changes you suggested which took care of most of the issue. However, the header is still not centered properly. Would you advise re-sizing it? I believe it's set at 1200 px wide, which as far as I know, should work. I tried moving everything in the header to the left using "margin-right: 100px;" under .site-header - see code below
.site-header {
background-color: #060401;
color: #eaeaea;
min-height: 267px;
width: 1200;
margin-right: 100px;
}This is probably a mediocre fix, as when I resized the window to see how everything acted in responsive mode, the header is not acting responsive like it ought.
Do you think I need to re-size the header or can you recommend a css fix?
Thank you again Tony!
MichaelMemberAwesome! Thank you asterbird, worked like a charm.
MichaelMemberHi asterbird-
Thank you for your suggested fixes!
From what I understand about the Genesis child themes, you're supposed to leave the Setting/Reading to "Your Latests Posts" and as soon as you start adding content to the widget areas, it removes the blog page area from the home page. If I select "Static Page", I can change that but only to one of the pages, not the Home page I am trying to achieve. From what I understand, this is how the home page is configured if you don't want it to look like a blog.
I tried the code you suggested at the end of the style sheet css file, but didn't notice any changes.
Of note, I was able to change the background color in firebug for #content from #ffffff to #000000 and that got rid of the white space. However, it also changed the background on all the pages to black too. Perhaps this is a clue that can help identify the problem but I have been unable to decipher it.
Thanks again!
MichaelMemberHi Carrie-
Yes, I did get this resolved but I apologize I can't remember exactly what I did. Thank you for your offer to help, I appreciate it and apologies for my tardiness in getting back to you!
Michael
November 19, 2013 at 2:39 pm in reply to: I Need a Bit of Help Formatting the CSS Style Sheet #74253MichaelMemberThanks so much nutsandbolts, amazing, thank you!
Working on getting the footer back in which may be easier now that I have that pesky div closed!
November 19, 2013 at 2:05 pm in reply to: I Need a Bit of Help Formatting the CSS Style Sheet #74238MichaelMemberI added the 'after' => '</div>', section and no effect. I'm a bit perplexed. Thanks again for your suggestions though!
November 19, 2013 at 1:48 pm in reply to: I Need a Bit of Help Formatting the CSS Style Sheet #74234MichaelMemberThanks nutsandbolts! If I install the SlideDeck widget into the Home Slider widget area, it's still not centered and it also puts the slider in the main content area, so to answer your curiosity, no, it doesn't help and it also takes the slider into the content area which I don't want.
Also, I tried the genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap hook and it didn't get me what I want either. If I remember right, that hook kept me in the main content area too.
I did find what appears to be a missing closing </div> which might help solve most of this. It was also a part of my code so yes, very prone to error!
However, I cannot find the proper place to put the closing div tag- Here is what I currently have-
/** Add the SlideDeck Slider section */
add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'slide_deck_slider' );
function slide_deck_slider() {if ( ! is_home() )
return;genesis_widget_area( 'slidedeck-slider', array(
'before' => '<div class="slidedeck-slider widget-area">',
) );
}I tried putting the </div> in and it broke things pretty bad but it appears there is the missing code. Do you know exactly where I should close the div?
October 29, 2013 at 3:48 pm in reply to: Outreach Theme Sidebar on Blog Page Pushed to Bottom #69747MichaelMemberUPDATE- Problems Solved-
Talked to the client and he had added a blog post with video code that was throwing everything off. Removed that and everything is back to normal!
Thank you again Andrea!
October 29, 2013 at 1:26 pm in reply to: Outreach Theme Sidebar on Blog Page Pushed to Bottom #69718MichaelMemberThank you Andrea!
Yea, I am not sure how things broke because there have only been blog posts added and no changes to any css or any other code that I am aware and the template just appeared to break.
I cannot find any< div> tags that are unclosed but I might not be looking in the right spot.
I looked at the width values you suggested in the CSS and here is what I found-
#content-sidebar-wrap {
float: left;
width: 860px;
}#content {
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
background-color: #fff;
border-radius: 5px;
float: left;
padding: 30px 40px;
width: 450px;
}.sidebar {
color: #ccc;
display: inline;
float: right;
font-size: 14px;
width: 300px;
}First, is this the area of code you were directing me to check? By my math, even with padding things should fit but perhaps I am not looking at the right code. Thank you again for taking a look!
MichaelMemberThank you Sridhar!
MichaelMemberThank you Sridhar for your help. Here is where I am-
The header fix worked! Thank you.
As far as the blank white home page, no luck yet.
I opened the wp-config.php and there was no line at all for define('WP_DEBUG', false); I added the line define('WP_DEBUG', true); and noticed nothing obvious. Nothing at the home page.
I deactivated all plugins but no change with the home page.
I tried replacing the .htaccess file with the standard one and got the following error-
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Thank you again for anyone who can assist!
MichaelMemberGreetings-
I am working on a website located at-
http://www.holybibleprophecy.org
I am having the same problem as goldkey had but have not been able to find the solution. I am using the Outreach theme, which in the demo has a latest tweet area below home area 1-4 and in the widget area called Sub Footer Left. I installed the Genesis - Latest Tweets in the widget and configured it how I wanted. Pretty easy stuff but I was surprised to see that I cannot get it to bring in the latest tweet from the twitter account. It merely says "about 15871 days ago" with a link to the twitter account with an added "/status" (see linked text).
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Michael
MichaelMemberHello Zach and All-
I am having the same issue as did gwhite but as far as I can tell, the above solution is not going to work for my situation. I believe all values for the header widget area are fixed widths.
Any assistance will be appreciated!
I am working in the Scribble Child theme on a site located at http://www.happyrealwomen.com.
For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to link the logo to the home page. I used the Appearance/Header uploader in the WordPress back end, but I do not see an option to tick "link the logo image to home page". I am sure there has to be a way to alter the code in the css but I have yet to find it.
Thanks in advance!
MichaelMemberAfter much trial and error, I found the solution for this problem. I replaced the code for the #header css rule to-
#header {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
margin: 0 auto 10px;
min-height: 214px;
overflow: hidden;
width: 960px;
}Everything works fine now but I still need to link the logo image to the home page.
MichaelMemberThanks a bunch Marc and David!
MichaelMemberUPDATE-
I was able to find a work around of the images by setting the sizes to 280 wide instead of thumbnails. However, I would still like to know how to edit the html and would still like to get the footer to display on the home page.MichaelMemberDavid-
Thank you! This definitely gives me a starting point.
I have worked with slider plugins using StudioPress and the Genesis framework so I am familiar with them. I have not used the other type but am investigating.
Found one called Slide Deck, which seems good but is a bit expensive. Found another at CodeCanyon called Slider Pro which looks fairly impressive and a pretty good price.
I'm curious in regards to your comments on Vimeo - are you talking about "embedding" the video similar to what you can do with Youtube videos? I know how to do that but I want some of the styling associated with the hellbound video display and wondered does Vimeo have such feature options for their display?
Also- If any StudioPress folks are reading, do you guys have anything in your themes or Genesis plugins that would accomplish the task I have at hand???
Thanks again David!
Cheers-
MichaelMemberThank you John! Worked like a charm.
MichaelMemberThank you again SoZo! I don't know how to use it real good yet, but the FireBug add-on worked great.
First thing I had to do was remove all the bad code I had put in that got me where I was. Then, using this site from the Education Theme gallery,
http://www.faithchristianacademy.net/
I examined their code using FireBug because they had used the same theme and essentially done what I needed to do with their header. Looking over their code, I discovered that they called the image in a #wrap just as you suggested, so I did exactly what they did and substituted my specific info-
#wrap {
background: url("http://www.visibility911.org/wp-content/themes/education/images/black/header-bg.png") repeat-x scroll center top transparent;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;}
Bada bing....worked like a charm. Thank you for guiding me, I definitely couldn't have done it without your help! Have a great day!
Michael
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