[Posh John]

The plugin you mention is fine and can be made to work with Genesis, but the plugin doesn't include any way to output the content, which I'm guessing is the issue you are facing.
You would need to create your own template files to output the content created by the plugin.

An alternative might be https://wordpress.org/plugins/sermon-manager-for-wordpress/ which is quite popular, and includes shortcodes so it is easy to output your content without needing to know how to code.

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[Posh John]

Figured it out!

For anyone that's interested, the "require_once" line should have been >

require_once( plugin_dir_path(__FILE__) . 'lib/metabox/init.php' );

Cool - i just built my first plugin 🙂

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[Posh John]

I figured it out so i thought i'd add it here just in case anyone else needs to know.

I just needed to add global $post;

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Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. Genesis 2

[Posh John]

Hi,
Yes i am using HTML5. The problem is not with the hook, it's just the fact that it's picking up the page title and not the parent page title.
I checked the codex and my code should work....?

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[Posh John]

Hi Gary,

Thanks for that Gary. Even though i got it to work, it's fantastic to see how it is done "properly", so i really appreciate the time you took to show me this.

I will now study your code and go off and research the terms you used to try and learn why you did it the way you did...this is invaluable to me learning to code better.

Thanks again for taking the time to provide this.

Kind regards
John.

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[Posh John]

Hi again Gary,

Don't worry i've figured it out (although there may probably be a better way!!). Anyway, i added a get_term_by to fetch the details i needed. I know that makes a lot of queries, but it's the best i could figure out with my limited php ability.

See what you think:

<?php /*
Template Name: All Artists
*/ ?> 

<?php

function namesplitter($a, $b) {
    $aLast = end(explode(' ', $a));
    $bLast = end(explode(' ', $b));

    return strcasecmp($aLast, $bLast);
}

add_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'display_sorted_tax', 10, 2 );
function display_sorted_tax() {

$args = array(
	'taxonomy' => 'artist',
	'fields' => 'names'
	);

$terms = get_terms('artist', $args);
uasort($terms, 'namesplitter');

$count = count($terms); $i=0;
if ($count > 0) {
    $term_list = '<p class="my_term-archive">';
    foreach ($terms as $termname) {
		$term = get_term_by('name', $termname, 'artist');
        $i++;
    	$term_list .= '<a href="' . get_term_link( $term ) . '" title="' . sprintf(__('View all post filed under %s', 'my_localization_domain'), $term->name) . '">' . $term->name . '</a>';
    	if ($count != $i) $term_list .= ' &middot; '; else $term_list .= '</p>';
	}
    echo $term_list;
}

}

genesis();

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[Posh John]

Hi Gary,

Firstly, thanks for your help so far.

I've been at this all day now and i have finally reached a eureka moment...and i'm as happy as a pig in sh*t, but, there's one more piece to the puzzle.

i now have my taxonomy listing in surname order but i can't figure out how to make the names link to the correct pages. When i query WP i am only asking for the taxonomy name (otherwise my name-splitter function throws an error). do you have any ideas how i can query the taxonomy and have the results link to their pages?

Here is what i have so far...

<?php /*
Template Name: All Artists
*/ ?> 

<?php

function namesplitter($a, $b) {
    $aLast = end(explode(' ', $a));
    $bLast = end(explode(' ', $b));

    return strcasecmp($aLast, $bLast);
}

add_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'display_sorted_tax', 10, 2 );
function display_sorted_tax() {

$args = array(
	'taxonomy' => 'artist',
	'fields' => 'names'
	);

$terms = get_terms('artist', $args);
uasort($terms, 'namesplitter');

$count = count($terms); $i=0;
if ($count > 0) {
    $term_list = '<p class="my_term-archive">';
    foreach ($terms as $term) {
        $i++;
    	$term_list .= $term;
    	if ($count != $i) $term_list .= ' &middot; '; else $term_list .= '</p>';
    }
    echo $term_list;
}

}

genesis();

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[Posh John]

Hi Gary,

Thanks for stopping by. I am still getting the error though. Its says:
Warning: Missing argument 2 for lastNameSort() in /home/editions/public_html/wp-content/themes/mytheme-genesis/single-artists.php on line 8
Line 8 is:

function lastNameSort($a, $b ) {

Any more ideas are welcome 🙂

Thanks

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[Posh John]

Looks great but you should look at the portfolio images on the homepage - they look blurred (they are being stretched from 330px to about 353px)....otherwise i like it 🙂

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[Posh John]

Part of my explanation got turned into hyperlinks (maybe a mod could fix please - i can't edit it)

If you are going to add the button inside an area with an id of "your-div" you would add the code i posted in your slylesheet.

Then you just add class="quote" to your link.

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Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. Genesis 2

[Posh John]

You would add a class to the element, which would look something like:

Request A Quote

Then your new quote class would need styling with css to get the background colour and padding etc. An example would look something like this:

#your-div a.quote {
background-color: #333;
padding: 20px;
}

#your-div a.quote:hover {
background-color: #ff0000;
}

The nice fading effect is the transition time which should already exist in your genesis sample theme.

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[Posh John]

First you'll need to get rid of the text shadow on line 1343 in style.css (delete the line that says "text-shadow:1px 1px #FFFFFF;")

To change the footer link colours find this on line 1360 of your style.css

#footer a, #footer a:visited {
color: #333333;
}

...and change the #333333 to #fff

To change the non-hyperlinked paragraph text, change line 1356 in style.css to..

#footer p {
color: #FFFFFF;
font-size: 14px;
}

Ps: The link you gave pointed to the https version of your url and you don't have a security certificate, which is throwing up warning messages

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[Posh John]

Is your website getting indexed by the other search engines? If not you may have inadvertantly set it to be hidden so you could check that first.

If you post a link to your website it may help diagnose what is happening. Also you could try adding the plugin they mention - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pushpress/

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Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. Genesis 2

[Posh John]

A slideshow could be added to any Genesis child theme. If you're coding skills are not so good, it would be easier to pick a theme which already has a widgetized area where you want it on the homepage - but adding it to a theme which doesn't have one is not too in-depth.

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Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. Genesis 2

[Posh John]

Brad's answer just about covered everything you need to know, but i just thought i would add that you can still create your own template files too if you like.

There is a really good series explaining Genesis on Nick The Geek's website:

http://designsbynickthegeek.com/category/tutorials

There are also some great articles on wpsmith:

http://wpsmith.net/category/genesis/

... and of course not forgetting Bill's site:

http://www.billerickson.net/?s=genesis

Happy reading 🙂

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[Posh John]

Which slider are you using? Looking at your page source i can see the slides, but they are picking up the display:none; from the css. I would image this setting is for the slides that should not be visible (the ones that are coming next) which leads me to think it may be a settings problem - is there a setting in your slideshow plugin for the number of slides to show?

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Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. Genesis 2

[Posh John]

Thanks Susan - i tried several combinations thinking that the links may be a problem (i even put the link inside <code> tags but to no avail)

Thanks for resurrecting one of them anyway, hopefully it will help the op!

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Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. Genesis 2

[Posh John]

I am so frustrated now!

Have been trying to help with an answer but nothing happens - perhaps my advice is being filtered 🙁

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Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. Genesis 2

[Posh John]

You could try wpmudev.org

Seeing this thread actually inspired me to finally add the videos to my own site (something i've been meaning to do for months!!)

If you want to see what the wpmudev videos look like, take a look at the ones i've added to my site - http://poshweb.co.uk/wordpress-video-tutorials/adding-deleting-restoring-wordpress-posts/

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Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. Genesis 2

[Posh John]

I've heard that wp101.com is supposed to be quite good but it seems pricey if you want to put the videos on your own site.
There are also comprehensive videos available as part of a wpmu membership http://premium.wpmudev.org/wordpress-video-tutorials/

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