[Riavon]

I quickly glanced at your site with Firebug and it appears that the styles for the menu may be missing. I did not see the .genesis-nav-menu.menu-primary around line 870 in your stylesheet, or the .genesis-nav-menu li around line 879 in your stylesheet, which would need to be in your stylesheet to enable the menu to display like it does on the Metro theme demo.

Did you perhaps accidentally delete these from your stylesheet? If so, try placing the following into your stylesheet and see if that helps you resolve this issue.

.genesis-nav-menu.menu-primary {
background-color: #333333;
}

.genesis-nav-menu li {
display: inline-block;
float: left;
list-style-type: none;
text-align: left;
}

.genesis-nav-menu a {
display: block;
padding: 1rem 1.25rem 0.875rem;
position: relative;
}

(Or, reloading the theme - good idea!) Let us know how it works out!

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[Riavon]

Thanks, Ipstenu, this is a much more elegant - and properly done - solution!

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[Riavon]

All together it looks something like this (replace page id#'s and paths to images with your own). I upload the images to the media library and use the full path to it, i.e. "http://mywebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/image-name-1.jpg " .

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-backstretch/2.0.3/jquery.backstretch.min.js "></script>
<script>
  // To attach Backstretch as the body's background
  $.backstretch("path-to-the/image1.jpg");
</script>
<script>
 $(".page-id-635").backstretch("path-to-the/image2.jpg");
 $(".page-id-725").backstretch("path-to-the/image3.jpg");
</script>

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[Riavon]

Thanks, Bill. I get frustrated when I don't pay close enough attention. I do feel I owe an apology, since the advice I offered (though copied) wasn't what he was asking for. Perhaps I can redeem myself. Will this help?

From 3200 Creative. They say:

"Add this block of code to your functions.php file:

add_action( 'genesis_before', 'child_conditional_actions' );
function child_conditional_actions() {
if( is_home() )
remove_action( 'genesis_before_footer', 'genesis_footer_widget_areas' );
} 

I've customized the appearance of home pages via home.php several times... adding/deleting widgets, etc. and I learned how to do it only by Googling tutorials, and of course, lots of trial and error. Sometimes we need to become amateur php coders (or at least copy/pasters) to get the results we want.

Hopefully the tutorial link above puts harooki2 on the right path. Although, on an additional read-through of the thread, it appears that you (Bill) had already suggested the if(is_home() ) bit. I will gracefully bow out of this one, LOL! My strength is CSS, so probably will focus on helping with CSS issues.

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[Riavon]

Whoopsie. In my zealous desire to help, I overlooked that he says home page. My very deepest apologies to you Bill as well as to you harooki2. I am sure with all the expertise and highly knowledgeable participants on this forum, you will most assuredly find the answer you need. Good day, and good bye.

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[Riavon]

The Genesis gurus advise making changes to the functions.php file, rather than the home.php

From the old forums, andrea_r suggests: "You can remove that widget area entirely by removing the declaration for it from the functions.php file. Look for the code that says footer-widgets and remove it."

SoZo instructs: "Delete this from functions.php:

// Add widgeted footer section
add_action('genesis_before_footer', 'metric_include_footer_widgets'); 
function metric_include_footer_widgets() {
    require(CHILD_DIR.'/footer-widgeted.php');
}  

And Nick suggests:

"Open the functions.php file and find where it has the action to add the footer widgets, and put a // in front of the add_action() line.

Find this:

// Add widgeted footer section
add_action('genesis_before_footer', 'metric_include_footer_widgets');
function metric_include_footer_widgets() {
require(CHILD_DIR.'/footer-widgeted.php');
}

Change it to this:

// Add widgeted footer section
//add_action('genesis_before_footer', 'metric_include_footer_widgets');
function metric_include_footer_widgets() {
require(CHILD_DIR.'/footer-widgeted.php');
} 

Hope this helps you.

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[Riavon]

Or, you could use the handy Genesis Social Profiles Menu plugin.

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[Riavon]

Are you using a plugin to generate those styles? I looked at your site with Firebug and your style code isn't there. The icons are being generated as a regular sidebar list and images using the child theme's defaults.

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[Riavon]

Try looking at your user profile to see if the option "Disable the visual editor when writing" is ticked.

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[Riavon]

Can you provide us with a link to your site, please?

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[Riavon]

Do you have the latest installs of WordPress and Genesis and Lifestyle installed? And are all updates updated for everything? (Click on "Updates" at the top of your Dashboard left menu)

You may also want to see if you have a plugin conflict that could be causing this problem. Deactivate all plugins and try to add media again, see if the issue is resolved. If so, then it may be a plugin conflict. You can then reactivate you plugins one by one, trying to do the media placement each time, until it doesn't work, then you'll know which plugin is causing the issue.

Just a couple of ideas I'm throwing out there to try. I hope it helps!

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[Riavon]

At around line 1060 in your style.css change the .sidebar width: 250px to width:300px; (see below)

.sidebar {
    display: inline;
    float: right;
    font-size: 14px;
    padding: 25px 0 0;
    width: 300px;
} 

To answer your 2nd question, perhaps this excellent step by step tutorial from Nick will help you achieve the results you're looking for.

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[Riavon]

You don't need to remove or move anything as far as I can tell. You have support for wraps, and you can style this the way you describe (and as I can best understand from your descriptions) with CSS. It looks like your theme already supports structural wraps, it's just a matter of configuring the widths so that you can achieve the results you're looking for. My best guesstimate based on looking at your site with Firebug is to advise you to change the width of your #wrap to 100%, then you can manage the widths of any/all of the divs contained in there. See my code below for reference. I'm not sure this is the answer that you're looking for, but figured I'd give it a shot. Let me know if this works for you.

#wrap {
	width:100%;
}

#header {
	width:100%;
}

/* To get a full width carousel try adding this to your style.css with an !important to override the plugin style */
.carousel {
	width:100%!important
}

/* And/or you can try adding this to your style.css - combined with the 
above width 100% for .carousel or instead. Whichever combination works! */
#slider .home-slider-wrap {
	width:100%;
}

/* You already have this set */
#home-featured {
	width:100%;
}

/* To contain your content width for home-featured div, you can add this to your style.css */
#home-featured .wrap {
	width:1140px;
}

/* You already have this set */
#footer {
	width:100%;
}

/* You already have this set */
#footer .wrap {
	width:1140px;
}

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[Riavon]

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[Riavon]

Under Genesis / Theme settings scroll down to where you see "Comments and Trackbacks" and untick Enable Comments for Pages.

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[Riavon]

Add this to your theme's functions.php file:

add_filter('genesis_comment_form_args', 'custom_comment_form_args');
function custom_comment_form_args($args) {
    $args['title_reply'] = 'Add your comment';
    return $args;
}

You can change the words Add your comment to whatever you wish it to say.

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[Riavon]

Yep, I never used the previous slider, but that is what I learned in my research is that it was possible in the regular slider, which was what really threw a lot of folks who had used the non-responsive slider plugin for a loop. I don't get why they didn't do that for the Responsive Slider either. I had to do the publication date thing on 35 posts. So much fun! (not) ...

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[Riavon]

On line 2024 of style.css add min-height:352px;

.elle-white #content .post, 
.elle-white #content .page, 
.elle-white .navigation {
    min-height: 352px;
    padding: 15px 10px;
}

Of course, you could always just add some posts, too. 😉

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[Riavon]

In style.css around line 1190

.wp-caption {
    background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #EBEBEB;
   border: none;
    text-align: left;
}

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[Riavon]

oops sorry I see you did mention the theme. Thanks for the link!

Why do you want to remove everything? If you just want full-width, simply change your fixed widths to 100% and margin: 0 auto to center things, in your style.css

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