[pcgs51]

That is exactly what is not working. I keep trying to reset the default layout and then selecting the full width with no luck. Also seen this in other Genesis child themes lately. Since I see it early on I rule out any edits or plugins. But this should be super simple.

Thanks.

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[pcgs51]

Okay so I see that in the front-page.php of the Outlook child theme that there is a remove action to remove the Genesis loop found on line 29. So if I comment it out the home page content appears. But it appears above the Home Top and Home Bottom Widget areas

So my question is now a bit different: How do I move that loop to appear below the Home-Top area? I think the slider should at least appear above the content.

Wondering if I can add the slider to this page via a short code and avoid all the other fancy footwork? If this is possible how and where would I do this?

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[pcgs51]

Well, I Googled a little more and while I do think that the Genesis settings should have worked, I did find a way to remove this category here: http://nataliegraham.me/how-to-exclude-a-category-from-your-main-blog-feed/

I opted for door #2 which was adding this to my functions.php. The "2" indicating my category that I wanted to remove.

function excludeCat($query) {
  if ( $query->is_home ) {
    $query->set('cat', '-2');
  }
  return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'excludeCat');
?>

I do wish the Genesis settings would have worked. They should have. Thanks for being there. Sometimes it really helps when you know others are out there pulling for you. Thanks nerdworker!

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[pcgs51]

Thanks nerdworker,

Too funny, that is exactly the video I'm watching. Wondering why my settings aren't working. My category ID is 2. Like so:
http://fitnesshalloffame.com/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?action=edit&taxonomy=category&tag_ID=2&post_type=post

So I just type the number 2 into the box yes?
I also tried selecting only one category for the blog page but all of the categories show up.

I was wondering if this only works for non static pages but the video sure looks like her site is a static page scenario. What could be preventing this from excluding what I want?

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[pcgs51]

I asked a very similar question yesterday and believe you will find the solution in here:

http://www.studiopress.community/topic/parallax-pro-add-images-to-all-backgrounds-of-home-sections/

It works great.

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[pcgs51]

Awesome, thanks!

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[pcgs51]

Thanks Tom!

For the sake of anyone reading here I believe you meant to say for the second document that gets edited on line 52 that the file name is

“themes\parallax-pro\lib\customize.php”

But as for everything else— this is not only spot on and WORKS, I will be able to learn quite a bit from reviewing the code in these edits. My biggest problem was I'm working with a multisite and accidentally was looking in the wrong child theme for the files to edit and the lib directory and the js/parallax.js simply weren't there. DOH! But this helps me so very much. THANK YOU so very much!

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[pcgs51]

Hi timryan, Looks like you managed to add a sixth section. How did you do it?

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[pcgs51]

Where in the code?

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[pcgs51]

That worked! Thanks for hanging in there and helping out Summer! I actually was asking this on behalf of a friend in a different forum.

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[pcgs51]

Note to moderator: There is a person attempting to post to this thread but her replies keeps getting deleted. Her name is Summer.

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[pcgs51]

Very strange that your post doesn't show up but I did see your message, Summer.

Your coding suggestion also causes the white screen of death.

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[pcgs51]

Thanks Davinder, I've tried them all and can officially tell you that none of them work. Checking on the add paragraphs box does nothing. Also, I added that last script above to my functions.php and it broke my site entirely.

My question stands but let me rephrase this: Does anyone know of a way to do this? Have you done it before? I'm using a current version of Genesis and the Epik theme.

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[pcgs51]

Many thanks to you both Andrea and sdbroker! They both work. I'm currently using sdbroker's solution but both are helpful for the sake of learning.

Thanks so much for the generosity of your time and talents!

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[pcgs51]

Hi Andrea!

That works almost 100%. The only flaw is that the image doesn't scale for devices like the rest of the site does when you view in a less than 480px width device. It pushes off to the right by about 40-60px when viewing on a 320px wide iPhone. Looks fine at the 480px width and up.

But this is way better than it was.
Thanks again!

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[pcgs51]

Thanks Colson,

Added those three which did not work but you got me started with more testing.
I removed the slider and added a text widget. And thought I found a fix but it didn't pan out.
I added Carrie's plugin Genesis Style Trump but still no go with or without the !important.
I found a clue. My CSS wasn't seeing the values for this rule so I changed this rule:

From:
.home .content {
background-color: none; }

To:
.home .content {
background-color: transparent; }

And it worked for the text widget but NOT the slider.

However the final discovery is here for anyone including me for future reference. Yes, I had to use all three.

	.home .content {
	background-color: transparent;
	}
	
	.content .flexslider {
	background-color: transparent;
	}
	
	.content #genesis-responsive-slider {
	background-color: transparent;
	}

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[pcgs51]

Hey, where's the LIKE button when you need it?

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