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Dear Anitac,
Thanks for your help.
I looked in the functions.php file, as you suggested, but didn't see anything remotely resembling the code you showed...so I looked in the home.php file, and found some code that was "similar" to the code you showed.
I replaced that code with the code you suggested as a replacement, but that crashed the site...got a syntax error message...so I replaced the modified home.php file with the original.
Now the site is up again, but still can't see anything in the Home Top 2 widget area.
Any more suggestions? Did I do something wrong? Thanks for any additional help.
Not sure it matters by now, but I've just looked at your page, and it all looks good to me...slider is sliding new photos...looks good.
Susan,
Thanks for the info. I understand that you don't actually work for StudioPress, but I feel that you know what you're talking about. Your answer makes sense to me...thank you.
I guess I'll go the "safe route," and try to find a theme I really like that seems to have all the latest gizmos in hopes of it staying "usable" for awhile.
Thanks again.
I came on the forum today looking for information about "retired themes," and pleasantly surprised to find an answer so quickly.
One more question though...prolonging this discussion a bit...sorry...
I understand that some themes have been retired for various reasons. I also see that #Susan and #nickthegreek both say that the retired themes are OK to use, and (most important to me) StudioPress will "also support it ongoing."
I'm curious what that means.
If I create a new site using the Nitrous or Platinum theme (both are themes I really like)...and after a year or two goes by, does this mean I can safely assume the retired themes will continue to work correctly as long as I keep up to date with WordPress updates and with the Genesis updates?
Thanks for any help on this...
@anitac, thank so much. I never would have found those hidden down there. I wonder why they hid them like that. I'll download them and have a look...thanks again.
I've never understood the concept – I mean why some people think a web site should fill the entire "page" – for lots of reasons it doesn't make sense.
So then, Dragonfly, I'd be interested to hear the reasons why you prefer that look.
I hate it when I feel stupid like this, but: Where *are* these bonus themes? I bought all the themes about a year ago, and I've followed the link provided by gene999, but I see no mention of "bonus themes" on that page, and I also have no idea where to find these bonus themes that you are talking about.
Give you give me some directions, please?
Maybe you've fixed this by now. I just took a look (Macintosh Chrome browser) and it looks good from here. Nothing looks "cut off."
Just curious: Where does it say something about "bonus themes"? Sounds interesting to me, but I don't see it anywhere.
If I understand your problem correctly, you should choose "None" for the alignment setting. "Left" and "Right" cause the text to wrap around the images.
Rob...just wanted to let you know that I did a test using your instructions and settings, and was eventually able to get the "button" to appear. The entire process of using the Genesis Responsive-Slider seems whacked though. Judging by the many people having problems, the slider is in need of some major fixes.
Rob,
Thanks so much for the link to your instructional video. I'm going to try that out over the weekend, and I'll let you know how it works in my situation. It's so frustrating that the slider seems to work in some situations, and not in others.
When I saw your name here the other day, I knew I had "seen you" somewhere before, and when I followed your link this morning, I immediately remembered that I had been to your web site before, and also had seen your videos on YouTube. I even made some favorable comments on your YouTube video. (Small world.)
Thanks again for your great help.
Rob...yes I did get a continued link...which you can see right here. It's not the same as the blue button continued link, but it does work:
Also, it's great to see that you got the blue buttons to work on the site you linked to, and I would really like to get mine working that way...but when you say you did that using the "settings [you] described above" I don't understand what those settings are.
Any chance you could post the settings here in a way that a non-technical person could understand? Thanks.
Not sure if my comments are relevant – since I'm not technical at all about this stuff – but using the Genesis Responsive-Slider in the Agency theme, after trying many permutations of settings – and using posts rather than pages – I got the slider to work reasonably well by:
Using posts rather than pages.
Setting up my posts with the category of "slider"
Choosing the "-slider" category in the "Choose a term to determine what slides to include" area.
For "Select one of the following" I chose "Display post excerpts"
More Text (if applicacable) I entered: Continue Reading
Left the "Limit content to ___ characters blank.
Slider excerpt width I set to 28 (although I had to play with this value to get things to look right.
Also, I did not include any "More" tags in my posts.
You'll see that the slider does not display the "blue buttons" as the StudioPress demo shows, but at least it does work – at least in the browsers I've tested it with.
You can see it on this test site:
I've noticed similar problems while using the Macintosh version of the Chrome web browser. On some sites, type looks like gibberish and unreadable – doesn't even look like type characters.
The other day I did some investigation, and found that the problem is most likely caused by either corrupted fonts or font conflicts, usually seeming to involve Helvetica and Arial – but no one seems to be able to totally pin it down.
The forum threads I found date back a few years, right up to present day – and so it seems that Google has still not figured out the problem.
If you go to Google and search for:
chrome weird characters
you will find lots of information.I'm not any kind of expert on any of this, but I've set up the Responsive Slider on one of my sites, and got it to work, after a lot of trouble.
The first thing I remember that caused trouble for me was that I didn't realize that the slider only seemed to work if I used the "Featured Image" feature on each page that I wanted included in the slider. And you have to make sure your image that you are using as the Featured Image is exactly the right size, as specified in the instructions – in my case it was 950 x 295 pixels.
I had to experiment with the other settings to get it to work, and in my case it worked best if I used posts instead of pages.
Here's a link to some instructions that I thought were helpful. Maybe this will help you:
http://rankingedge.com/responsive-slider-studio-press-does-not-tell/
These instructions from the WordPress codex will help you find the page ID:
Sometimes it is necessary to know the ID of a particular Post, Page, Category, Tag, Link, Link Category, or User. To determine that ID, use one of these method:Look in your browser status bar for the ID:
Visit the related 'Edit' screen in your Administration Panel. For instance in the case of Posts visit Posts->Edit, for Pages visit Pages->Edit, and for Categories visit Posts->Categories.
Now hover your mouse over the 'item' you need the ID. In the case of Pages, hover over that particular Page's title in the Title column and for Categories hover over the Categories Name in the Name column.
Look at the status bar (at the bottom of your browser) and the you will find at the end of the line something like "post=123" or "cat_ID=67". In these cases, 123 is the Page ID, and 67 is the Category ID.
