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You're likely not going to find a completely honest and unbiased "review" site. The issue is that there is massive money in web hosting, and much like politics, it's corrupted. People pay tens of thousands for false reviews, others are invested via referral links and game their entire site's reviews. The best way to get accurate information, is to ask like you have here, and analyze what actual people have used for years.
I'm not sure how they handle, but NameCheap now does hosting, and has solid support (at least the systems in place, not sure how they actually respond / handle), so consider giving them a try.
I personally left HostGator after 5 years when Endurance International Group bought them out - that's when performance dropped, and I generally saw a lot of hate towards them around the net (I used to praise them and hand out referrals all the time). Worth noting, is EIG bought out a TON of web companies, which can be seen here.
PorterParticipantI've definitely seen spam pop up before (who hasn't on any forum), but in the last 5 days or so I've gotten 4-5 emails with posts like "who let the dogs out" and "nice info!", from 1 post, new accounts. It just seemed like either someone targeted this site, or a new method of creating accounts / spamming was being introduced, causing an influx. That being said, I know that Susan (among other mods) do a great job of cleaning up, I'm just more concerned it might be an issue that doesn't need cleaning, but to be cut off at the source (whatever caused / is causing the influx).
PorterParticipantNot my day haha. Here it is, 100% sure:
add_action('genesis_after_comments', 'ts_show_pings', 1);
There was a missing ' on the left side of ts_show_pings, but only because of my copy / paste.
PorterParticipantI completely spaced it, it should be:
add_action('genesis_after_comments', ts_show_pings', 1);
add_action, not add_hook - mornings are hard haha
PorterParticipantIf you change the following:
add_filter('comments_template', 'ts_show_pings', 1);
To this below, it should work:
add_hook('genesis_after_comments', ts_show_pings', 1);
Rather than filter the comments template, we're just using a hook to display after the comments section. Alternatively, if you change the 1 to a 20, it may put the results AFTER your comments, so try changing 1 to 20 before my solution. Keep in mind these changes will need to be applied each time the plugin is updated.
PorterParticipant@Susan, thanks, hopefully they take a peak, as it's definitely been a bit much lately. Not a big deal, but we all get enough emails as it is, so avoiding pure spam emails from a trusted source would be ideal 😀
PorterParticipant@Susan - oh damn, sources makes finding code a whole lot easier. I've been using the "Elements" tab all this time, which is occasionally tricky to find what I need - thanks for the screen shot!
PorterParticipantSusan, may I ask how you're grabbing the site CSS in that format? Are you using an addon, or do you simply have access to that theme, and that's the default code? I just use the Chrome inspector, so I get the format I have above, but what you have would be ideal.
PorterParticipantThe CSS changing the background stems from style.css, as follows:
.nav-secondary, .nav-secondary a { background-color: #222; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-top: none; color: #fff; }
As well as:
.nav-secondary { background-color: #222; }
That second bit is redundant, and can be removed, as long as you're defining the color in the first section.
PorterParticipantI personally began using HostGator (5+ years ago), and while they started great, they went downhill, much like what you're describing. I did some research before switching, and in the end, went with Digital Ocean (affiliate link).
Digital Ocean is a VPS (virtual private server), which was way over my head when I began, but the tutorials in their community (among other communities) were great, and I learned everything I needed pretty quickly. For $5 a month (I paid $10 with Host Gator), I now have a VPS on an SSD, and my site loads as fast as 0.5 seconds (without chaching), and I'm completely in control of what happens on my server (PHP version, caching solutions, stack type, etc). Again, I knew nothing about this going in, but learned it all within the last year, and I'm glad I did.
If you are looking for shared hosting, I've heard good things about WPSites, especially for WordPress sites. Bluehost might be alright, but I recall reading that they were in the same boat as DreamHost, HostGator, etc.
PorterParticipantThere's just that one line:
//* Add Accessibility support add_theme_support( 'genesis-accessibility', array( 'headings', 'drop-down-menu', 'search-form', 'skip-links', 'rems' ) );
As for style.css, the top of the file has a table of contents that shows you where each section is, and everything is labeled quite nicely. Adding the new code should only take a few minutes. As for the minor changes (adding rm units everywhere), those aren't essential, and you can manually add them if you want.
I get what you mean that it's not ideal, but you can't (to the best of my knowledge) make a child theme of a child theme, so there's no clean way to update effortlessly. You could keep the style.css sheet as is, and externally load your own custom style sheet, but that seems messier than what's it worth, as I've only seen one update to the sample theme in well over a year.
December 4, 2015 at 10:17 am in reply to: Community Pro Featured Page widget expanding with black border #172752PorterParticipantTwo things:
The issue is caused when your image titles word-wrap, as they create a second line, which pushes out the bottom, creating that background area. The entire setup for that section is quite odd (no idea what the 25% padding does, or why removing it does what it does), but that's the cause. If you want, you can add media queries to reduce the text size of your titles as your get smaller screens, and that'll prevent the word-wrap.
Secondly, I have a dirty fix that does the job. Simply change the background color of that section to match your main background, like so. Find this in style.css and add the backgorund-color:
.home-middle .featured-content .widget-wrap { clear: both; display: block; overflow: hidden; padding: 25% 40px; background-color: #ffffff; }
I added the background-color #ffffff; to make it white, like the background, so you don't see the bars underneath at all anymore. Again, if you change the background color, you'll have to fix this little hack job to match, but it works.
PorterParticipantTo the best of my knowledge, the only changes were made in style.css, as I see nothing new in functions.php, and there are no additional files. I personally manually went through style.css and added what was missing (that I wanted), which didn't take too long. The structure is identical, so you'll see when something is new or changed. There were a few new sections (easy to just copy and paste), and a lot of areas added rm to sizes in addition to px.
December 4, 2015 at 9:20 am in reply to: Menu Highlighted Background Color on Mobile – How to change? #172744PorterParticipantI for the life of me can't figure out where the background is being set, and I've looked quite a bit. I could change it, but without knowing where it's set, that's a tad messy. A quick fix is to change the following:
.epik-darkblue .nav-primary .sub-menu a:hover, .epik-darkblue .nav-secondary .sub-menu a:hover, .epik-darkblue .site-header .sub-menu a:hover, .epik-darkblue .site-header .genesis-nav-menu .sub-menu .current-menu-item > a, .epik-darkblue .genesis-nav-menu .sub-menu .current-menu-item > a, .epik-darkblue .genesis-nav-menu .sub-menu .current-menu-item > a:hover { color: #687C96; }
That's where the text color is being set, and that blue is very close to the background used. Change that to #ffffff and you'll have the white that the rest uses. You should be able to find that code in style.css, but if not, simply add it, and if the changes don't show up, add !important after, like so:
.epik-darkblue .nav-primary .sub-menu a:hover, .epik-darkblue .nav-secondary .sub-menu a:hover, .epik-darkblue .site-header .sub-menu a:hover, .epik-darkblue .site-header .genesis-nav-menu .sub-menu .current-menu-item > a, .epik-darkblue .genesis-nav-menu .sub-menu .current-menu-item > a, .epik-darkblue .genesis-nav-menu .sub-menu .current-menu-item > a:hover { color: #ffffff !important; }
PorterParticipantDo you mean the grey area between the navigation and the images? That's set from:
.flexible-widgets { padding-bottom: 60px; padding-top: 100px; }
You should be able to override those values (they're probably set from a plugin) by adding !important, or you could add another selector to make it more specific, like .front-page-1 .flexible-widgets. I played with it a bit, and setting the value as 77px seems to be your best bet. There's one issue though, since your vertical navigation size is variable (it alters as you scroll down a bit), you can't have a one size fits all solution, so you lose 50~ pixels at the top of your image when the menu does become smaller. or if you match that size, you have a bit of grey when it's small, and none when its big.
Alternatively, you could change the grey gradient background (grey above image, black below image) to just be the same black as your header, which looks pretty nice:
.image-section { background-color: #000; }
Again, add !important, or another selector, like .front-page-1 if need be.
As for making the slider your entire page (I assume navigation and footer included, but nothing else), that's certainly possible too, but would require slightly more work.
PorterParticipantThis does the trick, add it to style.css:
section#caldera_forms_widget-2 { background-color: #ff00ee; padding: 8px; }
Change the color to whatever you want, and I added the 8px padding so that the text wasn't right on the edge of the colored background, as it looked bad. Increase it, remove it, up to you, but I like it with 8px personally. If the white background needs to be changed, or the text color in the forms, you can use this:
.form-group .form-control { background-color: #202020; color: #ff00ee; }
background-color for the background, color for the text color.
PorterParticipantTrying grabbing a clean wp-config file, and simply copy / paste the crucial info over from your current wp-config file to the fresh one (it'll be a quick section, database name, user, password, etc, the stuff you configure when you first set it up). I'm not sure what would have caused it, but wp-config is where you COULD put code that would mess this up. For instance, my VPS requires that I specify a port, username, etc, which is all additional code, and my WordPress can't update without that information. Given you don't need that, I suspect there's something else lingering in your wp-config that doesn't belong, so a fresh copy (with your crucial information copied over to it) may do the trick.
PorterParticipantWhat exactly do you mean by full width, 100% of the browser, or 100% of the site container? Viewing the demo, it seems like you could already specify a nearly full width image, as the title-area is 1080px wide by default, with just the padding on the left and right which isn't much. That being said, what exactly do you want, and do you have a link to your site?
PorterParticipantWhat exactly is your end goal? Given the resolution of the photos you're using, your width is larger than your height (standard), so you can't have 100% width AND 100% height, as your images don't scale to the 1920x1080 resolution (or varying aspect ratios for that matter). You can do 100% width no matter what, and set a min-height (700px for example), which will give you consistent results, but you'll lose a decent portion of each photo on the slider (it'll get cut off).
Another thing I found is this, which you can try out - https://soliloquywp.com/docs/preserve-full-image-width-height/
I'm not sure what the end result is there, but it may be of help, so give it a try.
PorterParticipantI'm unfamiliar with your specific theme, but I would try looking in the Genesis / Theme settings, as there may be something there.
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