[nutsandbolts]

Okay, your functions file has the primary nav moved to the secondary spot above the header. So try setting the theme location for the menu to Primary Navigation and see if it shows up. If it does, we'll know that it's at least working. From there if you need it to be below the header, we'll need to add a function to reposition the secondary nav since the primary is set to take its place. Hopefully that makes sense.

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[nutsandbolts]

Hi David,

This tutorial might help: http://ahjira.com/create-a-conditional-secondary-menu-for-genesis-child-themes/

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[nutsandbolts]

To clarify, you've already checked the box under Appearance > Menus for theme locations. Is that correct? If so, you might check functions.php to make sure there are no functions preventing the secondary nav from showing up. I see that your stylesheet isn't hiding it, but it doesn't show up in the page source at all. So strange!

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[nutsandbolts]

I've been using jQuery Colorbox - it's easy to set up and it looks good.

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[nutsandbolts]

This tutorial might help: http://sridharkatakam.com/how-to-set-up-sticky-header-or-navigation-in-genesis/

If you scroll to the middle section on primary navigation, the instructions are really easy to follow - I just used this on a client site and it worked beautifully!

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[nutsandbolts]

Unfortunately there's no easy way to upgrade - Going Green 3.0 is technically like a whole new child theme. If you want to switch over, you would probably need to install 3.0 on a test domain and get all your changes in place, then copy them over to the live site. There's no need to upgrade unless you just want to; keeping the framework up to date will keep your site running smoothly.

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[nutsandbolts]

Oops, hit "submit" too soon. This link may help as well: http://genesistutorials.com/genesis-structural-wraps-creating-a-full-width-genesis-child-theme/

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[nutsandbolts]

I would suggest downloading the Fluid child theme and looking through its structure, paying special attention to what is removed from the wrap in functions.php - that might help give you an idea of where to start.

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[nutsandbolts]

It looks like the title text for the author link is set as "Visit Angel Thompson's Website." I don't typically use Prose, but I don't think there are any settings related to post meta that should be affecting that link.... Did you use a plugin (maybe Simple Edits) to change the link to go to your About page instead of your author page?

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[nutsandbolts]

Hi Tom,

I'm a little confused - am I understanding correctly that you want the content section of the site to be full width, where the sidebar is flush against the right of the screen and the content area takes up all the remaining space?

If so, are you customizing an existing child theme, or are you creating a new one from scratch? That will affect the way you need to structure your CSS rules.

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[nutsandbolts]

Woohoo!!!! I love those rare moments when my hours of suffering can help someone else. 🙂

I did the same - it was just a mockup, and the client hated it and wanted to use a different child theme. Kind of infuriating but I guess that's the way it goes sometimes.

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[nutsandbolts]

If you look for the following in your stylesheet, you can lower the numbers for padding to make the footer smaller. Just remember to change the numbers for both px and rem:

.site-footer {
background-color: #333;
letter-spacing: 1px;
letter-spacing: 0.1rem;
padding: 60px 0;
padding: 6rem 0;
text-align: center;
}

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[nutsandbolts]

I just remembered what I had to do to make it stop doing that... In your stylesheet, add a clear: both; to home-bottom if it isn't there already. Once I did that, the overlap went away.

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[nutsandbolts]

It looks like this was resolved - please let us know if you still need help!

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[nutsandbolts]

I fought with this same thing last week - I ended up changing to a full width at the top, two sections in the middle, and one at the bottom. You could always try that and leave the top one empty... This also required a BUNCH of CSS and functions changes since I changed the name of the widget areas.

function lifestyle_homepage_widgets() {

		genesis_widget_area( 'home-top', array(
		'before' => '<div class="home-top widget-area">',
		'after'  => '</div>',
	) );
	
	if ( is_active_sidebar( 'home-middle-left' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-middle-right' ) ) {

		echo '<div class="home-middle">';

		genesis_widget_area( 'home-middle-left', array(
			'before' => '<div class="home-middle-left widget-area">',
			'after'  => '</div>',
		) );

		genesis_widget_area( 'home-middle-right', array(
			'before' => '<div class="home-middle-right widget-area">',
			'after'  => '</div>',
		) );

		echo '</div>';
	
	}

	        genesis_widget_area( 'home-bottom', array(
		'before' => '<div class="home-bottom widget-area">',
		'after'  => '</div>',
	) );

}

I don't know if that helps at all but I did finally manage to keep the full width section out of the split section that way.

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[nutsandbolts]

Those boxes were created with CSS and use a set of icons - if you use Firebug or Inspector in your browser, you can get an idea of the CSS rules that were used to display them. Alternately, you could create images and link them to your modules when someone clicks on them. Hope that helps!

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Andrea Whitmer, Owner/Developer, Nuts and Bolts Media
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[nutsandbolts]

How is the site set up under Settings > Reading? Is the front page set to show posts or set as a static page?

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Andrea Whitmer, Owner/Developer, Nuts and Bolts Media
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[nutsandbolts]

Can you provide a link to the site? It would be helpful to see what you've got in place so we can give you more detailed feedback.

If you add a widget area after the content sidebar wrap and use the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified plugin, you can drop in the widget and tell it not to show the post meta. You would have full control over how the post or excerpt displays, whether to show the post image, etc. and it should still use the sidebar. Hope that helps!

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[nutsandbolts]

Hi!

I think that's an interesting idea and one that could be helpful to people who want to use the Webcomic plugin with Genesis. I would suggest reaching out to the creators of the other Connect plugins to see if they could quote a rate to create that kind of functionality.

Another option would be to add CSS rules for the comics to your stylesheet - it's not a universal fix, but it would fix the issue for your site at least. Do you have the plugin live on the site where we could see what's happening to the layout?

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Andrea Whitmer, Owner/Developer, Nuts and Bolts Media
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[nutsandbolts]

One more try - replace that same section with this:

#title-area {
width: 360px;
float: left;
margin: 0;
padding: 20px 0 0 0;
overflow: hidden;
background: url(http://changinglanesministries.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/cropped-CL-Slide2-logopng.png) no-repeat !important;
height: 120px;
}

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