[palpatine]

Hey Janet,

I just registered an additional widget area on the home page and added in a featured page widget inside. It works.

Honestly, I don't remember exactly how I did it... but do a couple of google searches, and searches in this forum, and you should be able to figure it out too.

Good Luck

[palpatine]

Oh... actually, does that code only do something if there was an actual event that was scheduled and now it's past that date? Right now, there are no events scheduled at all.

[palpatine]

Hey Eamon,

Thanks for the suggestion. I implemented the above code for past events but it doesn't seem to work. Just fyi.

[palpatine]

Brilliant idea Eamon. Thanks for the help!!!

-Aaron

[palpatine]

Tada!!!!

Thanks Man. I really appreciate the help.

[palpatine]

No, I haven't tried too much as I'm not a coder, but I see where that .sidebar .widget code is in the style sheet.

What exactly should I place underneath it?

Thanks,
Aaron

[palpatine]

Yup, pretty much.

You see how the primary sidebar Recent Posts is white but the sub footer and footer titles are a different color? I just need to change the Primary sidebar titles to white.

Thanks for the help.

[palpatine]

Hey Juiceman,

Thanks for your assistance. I'm pretty sure that I already did that and had to revert it back. Reason being, it changed the titles of ALL of the widgets, which doesn't work for me.

I just need to change the title of the Primary Sidebar widgets.

Thanks,
Aaron

[palpatine]

Hey People,

I'm in a real bind here... anyone have any suggestions on how to get this site to work on 1024x768? I know that's a standard display but I hired a coder, from this forum, to make some tweaks to the header and it's all outta whack now. She doesn't know how to fix it and neither do I.

Any help would be REALLY appreciated. I will gladly pay for it as I have a client who is not happy with me right now.

Thanks,
Aaron

[palpatine]

Yo stinkykong,

Thanks man. I was thinking about it a bit more myself and realized that it was probably a silly question. I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't overlooking something.

I really appreciate you taking the time to address it for me.

Your new site is BADASS btw.

Have a good one,
Aaron

[palpatine]

Setting the page to “no-follow” for meta robots tells Google not to index that page.

Right... I get that, but what about the excerpt of that page, that is showing up on the Home page via the Featured Page Widget? Is that content "nofollowed" as well?

Thanks,
Aaron

[palpatine]

Hey stinkykong and Erica,

Thanks for your suggestions. I'm sure I can figure it out now.

@stinkykong: I'm still curious though, if I redirect the "fake" page to the destination page, will the content that is pulled into the featured page widget on the Home page still be crawlable by the search engines?

Seems weird that there has to be all these workarounds. It would be nice if this was just a standard feature, like on a post page. Or, even if there were a plugin or something that would allow you to fill in a custom field for custom excerpts or something.

Anyhoo, thanks again you guys for your creative solutions.

-Aaron

[palpatine]

Hey stinkykong (Ha, I feel funny typing that),

Thanks for your reply.

Your method of faking it with duplicate pages with the excerpt I want to use is pretty creative. So, basically you perform the redirect using a canonical link? Would you mind giving me an example of how to do that (unless I cover it below)?

Also, are you sure you need the Yoast SEO plugin to accomplish this? I'm pretty sure that there are redirect and canonicalization options right on the Genesis Pages, correct? I see a field that is titled "Custom Canonical URL", so could I just use that instead? And what exactly would I put there, just the link to the actual full (not faked) page of content?

Lastly... if I nofollow the faked page, is the excerpted content on the home page still crawlable by the search engines?

Thanks again,
Aaron

[palpatine]

Hey thorn,

In general it's pretty nice, but a couple of items jumped out at me right off the bat:

1. I'm not crazy about that Filed Under and Tagged With box you have under each post. Probably just my personal opinion... but you asked.

2. Upload a custom favicon.

3. Your phone number is an image instead of actual text - a big no no, in my opinion. The phone number should be text, and clickable text at that, so that when someone views on a mobile device it's really easy to call you.

4. And probably most important - When viewing on a mobile device, you can't see the phone number until you scrool waaaay down to the bottom. Most people who want to call someone will probably click the back button before they get to your phone number.

5. Your opt-in box is a bit simple. You really aren't providing anyone with a good enough reason to give you their email. Maybe a free report or something would increase your opt-ins.

Like I said, other than those few issues, very nice, I wish you great success with your new blog.

Good luck,
Aaron

[palpatine]

Makes sense to me 😉

Thanks again Anita. Who needs Soliloquy support, who wasn't very helpful btw, when you've got pros here that are so willing to help a newbie out.

Give your doggie a kiss for me and have a good one.

[palpatine]

Ahhh, interesting. Originally I didn't think that the dotted line was there by default, but I guess it is... on every other slide? Sometimes the line is solid and sometimes its dotted. Weird?!?

In any case, it's just much more prominent now that I've removed that padding.

With regards to the Fallbacks...

Am I going to run into some cross-browser compatibility issues now that I just zeroed the padding out and didn't specify px and/or rem?

Thanks again for your assistance!!!

[palpatine]

Thanks Anita,

I did that, but I have a couple of questions:

1. Why is it that the child themes have both px and rem? Is this something I should be concerned about? I mean not addressing both?

2. Your fix worked pretty well, but there's a funky white line (sometimes dotted) that now appears right at the bottom of the text overlay shadow... Do you know how to fix that?

Thanks again for your time. I really appreciate it.

-Aaron

[palpatine]

Hi Anitac,

Here's what is there by default:

.home-top .widget {
margin: 0;
padding: 0 40px 40px;
padding: 0 4rem 4rem;
}

.home-top .widget:first-child {
padding-top: 40px;
padding-top: 4rem;
}

Would this work?:

.home-top .widget {
margin: 0;
padding: 0 0px 0px;
padding: 0 0rem 0rem;
}

.home-top .widget:first-child {
padding-top: 0px;
padding-top: 0rem;
}

Thanks,
Aaron

[palpatine]

Hi Anitac,

I was thinking something like that... but taking the styling of Genesis Responsive Slider and using it for Soliloquy... I just don't know how to do that 🙁

Also, when you looked at the site, I had tweaked the css of home-top a little bit to try and remove the frame that I was referring to in my original post. Unfortunately that didn't work either. I just reverted it back to normal and it doesn't look good.

Have a tip on how to just remove that big ugly white border around the slider?

Thanks,
Aaron

[palpatine]

Very Nice!!! Thanks for that.

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