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Thanks for the info @Bill Murray. I'll give it a shot.
Wow back you @anitac...that was meant as a true compliment, indeed. During my travels around the forums here I've noticed a few people who seem to come up with answers all the time...day and night...weekends...all the time...and answers that (at least to me) seem to make a lot of sense...and you are one of those who definitely stand out. Definitely.
I've contributed a few followups that I thought would be helpful, but as someone who is still relatively clueless (totally clueless?) I'm hesitant to lead anyone astray...won't answer something unless I am absolutely sure I know what I'm talking about...which means I don't say much.
If we were talking Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXPress, InDesign, or OS X, I could be very helpful, and often contribute to various forums related to those issues...but feel too lame to get very involved here.
But I know I'll eventually get better at this, and so I read the forums on a regular basis, hoping to find a question I can pounce on.
P.S. And yes...I also had to laugh (out loud) when I saw #anitac saying that she had "limited technical skill"...what a joke...she should start her own comedy show...she seems to know *every*thing.
Tony, when you say:
"Another idea is to put the phone number and price in a header widget, and when it gets below a certain size, use css to position the widget below the text part of the logo. With this method you’d still have to make some changes to your images for it to work right."
I had no idea that was possible. Is there a tutorial somewhere that shows how to do that?
Aside from all the comments about ease of use and ease of customization...from the viewpoint of a designer (not a coder)...I *would* like it if StudioPress would come up with some more interesting designs. Are they all designed by the same designer? Maybe that's part of the problem.
Thanks for that info link, anitac...looks very interesting, but I'll probably have to watch the explanation video ten times before I begin to understand what all those capabilities actually mean...ha ha ha.
I'm not any kind of expert at all on this stuff...barely feeling my way around, but I'm running the Agency theme, I see that there's a place to replace the header text with a graphical file in the Dashboard settings. I haven't tried it yet...but maybe that will work for you.
Dashboard > Appearance > Header
Does that help?
I see that susanlangenes answered this question on this forum earlier today...not sure it's for the Agency theme...here's the link to the question and her reply:
Thanks for this additional information, dtdolphin. I'm making notes of all these things for my future use.
It's interesting that you mention using the More tag, because when I used the More tag (based on what a guy said in a tutorial I found somewhere), it caused the problems I was having to get even worse.
And so I eventually set up my posts with *no* More tags, and now have a slider that seems to be working reasonably well. At least for now.
Crazy stuff.
Thanks, Anitec, for responding to my question. I had never heard of YooThemes before...I wonder if they are trying to ride on the reputation of WooThemes with that name...or am I just being overly suspicious.
As someone without much knowledge of this stuff I really need support, and I also need documentation. Even though StudioPress isn't perfect, it seems they are ahead of the rest.
Wow, dgregly, that's very helpful. While I was driving myself crazy with this thing yesterday, I did notice that it seemed to make a difference what kind of text was in my post...(which seemed to make no sense to me, but couldn't figure out what was making the difference)...and now I see what you're saying that the script seems to count *words*.
That's great to know. Guess it's time to start writing at a first-grade reading level...ha ha ha.
And thank you rolphkropp for the further information.
I think that in the next week or so, I'll do a video tutorial on this slider...the setup, and some helpful hints about it. Maybe it will help a few people.
As with so many other things in life, it's very difficult to have *everything* in one package. There are always compromises...with cars...with cameras...with computers...everything. You start checking it out, and everything seems to be just the way you want it...but then you find out there's a problem with this or with that. Nothing is perfect.
I think that with WordPress growing so fast, and seeming to be on the brink of totally taking over the Internet, we will soon see more sophisticated theme developers who will give us "everything"...exciting designs along with ease of customization and first-class support...but we're not there yet.
I'm no expert, but so far I like Genesis, which came highly recommended to me by a guy who really knows what he's doing. That's why I bought into it.
P.S. Just wondering, anitac...for those situtations when we might want to use a theme from sone developer other than StudioPress...if you have any suggestions for which theme designers *do* offer support that doesn't suck.
First, thanks to all who have offered help. I really appreciate it.
To Vajrasar, thanks for the suggestion: Yesterday, while being stuck on tis all day, I tried probably 50 or 60 various combinations of settings, including what you suggested. Today, with the settings at default, I tried your suggestion, and the slider suddenly got much closer to the look I wanted. I played with a few more settings, and finally got it working the way I wanted...pretty much...at least for now. Thanks so much.
To Rolphkropp, thanks for your contribution. I hope that if the helpdesk comes up with some answers that maybe you will let us know somehow what they said. As you said, many people seem to have trouble with this slider, so it would be great if there were some fixes, and a real tutorial.
To anyone who's interested, here are some notes on what I did, including the settings that finally made the slider work reasonably well:
A. I noticed that if my post title was too long, it would cause a problem, so I shortened up my page titles so they would be sure to not go more than one line.
B. Genesis-Responsive Slider settings I used...only listing the ones I think are relevant to this discussion:
Type of Content: Post
Taxonomy and Terms: -slider
I set up the posts I wanted to use with the slider in a category of slider.Do not link Slider image to Post/Page? Unchecked.
Display Post/Page Title in Slider? Checked.
Display Content in Slider? Checked.
Hide Title & Content on Mobile Devices? Checked.
Select one of the following: Display post excerpts.
More Text (if applicable): Continue Reading
Limit content to characters. I left this blank. When I tried using settings such as 100 or 150 or 200 etc., it caused more problems.
Slider Excerpt Width (in percentage): 29 Some other settings I tried resulting in the white text box where the excerpt would appear to be too short.
Excerpt Location (vertical): Top
Excerpt Location (horizontal): Right
Not sure any of these settings matter much, but maybe will help someone.
