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mickmelMember
Exactly, yes. For example...
Our blog: http://www.greenmellenmedia.com/blog/
Our blog feed: http://www.greenmellenmedia.com/blog/feed/Our SEO category: http://www.greenmellenmedia.com/category/seo-blog/
Our SEO category feed: http://www.greenmellenmedia.com/category/seo-blog/feed/etc...
WordPress allows you to toss /feed/ at the end of a lot of URLs and get some interesting stuff from them. 🙂
mickmelMemberAwesome!
mickmelMemberHolly -- Under "settings" --> "reading", is the "discourage search engines" box checked?
mickmelMemberCarol -- Yep, WordPress does this very well. Every category, tag and author automatically have their own feeds.
Get your permalinks configured correctly, and then just put /feed/ at the end of any category to see the feed for it.
mickmelMemberJust change that one snippet into two:
h1 {
font-family: ‘Lora’, Georgia, “Times New Roman”, Times;
font-size: 50px;
line-height: 1.25;
margin: 10px 0 25px;
}h2,
h2 a,
h2 a:visited,
.page-template-page_portfolio-php h4 {
font-family: ‘Lora’, Georgia, “Times New Roman”, Times;
font-size: 42px;
line-height: 1.25;
margin: 10px 0 25px;
}mickmelMemberCost can vary a ton for a site. For that, figure maybe $500-$2000?
You should allow more time on the next project, if possible. When we build sites, it's typically around 12 weeks. Like costs, though, time can vary wildly depending on the site and goals.
We typically outsource locally. Find good WP folks at local Meetups/WordCamp and use them. It's not as cheap as outsourcing overseas, but the local contact can make for a much smoother process.
mickmelMemberLook in the "headlines" section. Right now your H1 and H2 appears to be set to the same size, with the other broken out below.
h1,
h2,
h2 a,
h2 a:visited,
.page-template-page_portfolio-php h4 {
font-family: ‘Lora’, Georgia, “Times New Roman”, Times;
font-size: 42px; <-- ## HERE ##
line-height: 1.25;
margin: 10px 0 25px;
}March 23, 2015 at 3:27 am in reply to: Can anyone identify the problem with my full-width image/text widget in Metro? #145291mickmelMemberThe "scaled to" is the number you want to shoot for. If you can upload your image at 888x162, it should look just about perfect at that size.
mickmelMemberTwo weeks is certainly a very fast turnaround for what you need to do. At a high level, moving to WordPress and a mobile responsive theme will certainly help.
You said you need to "bring customers to my client", which is what we all strive to do. There are two parts to that, though:
1 -- Bringing visitors to the site (SEO, outreach, blogging, etc).
2 -- Getting visitors on the site to contact your client.They're related, certainly, but the approach to optimizing each is a little different. They have Google Analytics on the current site, which hopefully you have access to. I'd spend a bit of time in there finding out more about the current site:
- How many visitors come to the site each day?
- How do they get there (referring sites, search engines, etc)?
- What pages are viewed the most?Stuff like that. Those insights should help you to shape the new site.
mickmelMemberYou're welcome.
Offhand I think something like News Pro or Metro might be a good place to start looking.
Migrating could be a bigger challenge. Ideally you'd copy your site to staging server to load the new theme and start playing with it, then move it over to the live site when it's ready to go.
mickmelMemberYeah, Google messes with people like that sometimes. 🙂
Glad it's working for you!
mickmelMemberYou are correct that it is not used in the "Genesis Sample Theme Demo", but it is indeed used in the Magazine Pro theme. Enable the theme, assign the menu to the secondary location, and it should look similar to the demo.
mickmelMemberJim -- Are you comfortable editing CSS documents? The main style.css for your child theme has those pretty well defined. For example, in Executive Pro you'll see the following starting around line 260:
h1 {
font-size: 42px;
}h2 {
font-size: 36px;
}h3 {
font-size: 30px;
}h4 {
font-size: 24px;
}mickmelMemberViv -- I assume you're referring to the "Genesis Responsive Slider" plugin? If so, that one should be fine. I agree they need to update to reflect it, but it worked on 4.0.1 and nothing in that area has changed that should break it with 4.1.1.
Always back up your site first, of course, but I feel fairly confident that it'll work without a problem.
mickmelMemberYes, the code seems to be in there. If you go to Google Analytics and change it to show traffic from today (it defaults to the previous 30 days leading to yesterday), you may have a few visits in there already to verify that it's working properly.
March 22, 2015 at 6:28 pm in reply to: Can anyone identify the problem with my full-width image/text widget in Metro? #145247mickmelMemberYou'll want to check to see what the px size of the image is; cm really doesn't mean much.
If you're using Google Chrome, you can right-click on the image, "inspect element" and it should tell you how large of an image you're looking for.
mickmelMemberTwo thoughts:
1 -- Pretty much any StudioPress theme will be mobile responsive and well optimized, so that's not a concern.
2 -- Beyond that, it's a matter of what is important for the site. If you're wanting to keep it the same, then something like Balance or Daily Dish might be a good direction.mickmelMemberThat is a pretty old theme that isn't mobile-friendly, so you'd likely be much better off selecting a new one instead.
mickmelMemberLoad the "Genesis Simple Edits" plugin, then you can go "Genesis --> Simple Edits" in your admin panel and make the change in there.
mickmelMemberGreat!
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