[Susan]

Glad that helped - definitely easier than adjusting the CSS!

For future reference:

If you find that you can't adjust something within the sidebar, and you want to physically adjust the width of the sidebar, you would look for this in your CSS:
/* Primary / Secondary Sidebars
------------------------------------------------------------ */

.sidebar {
background: #f5f5f5;
display: inline;
float: right;
margin: 0 0 20px;
padding: 15px 15px 5px;
width: 250px;
}

Replace the 250px with the new width.

Then, you would need to look for this:

/* Content
------------------------------------------------------------ */

#content {
float: left;
padding: 10px;
width: 450px;
}

.content-sidebar #content,
.sidebar-content #content {
width: 620px;
}

and adjust the 620px down by the amount your adjusted the 250 up (a sidebar of 300 px would mean a width of 570 px for the center area.

[Susan]

Years ago, I was working at a company, and wanted to relocate to another city (my family had moved away from where I was living). I was granted a relocation to the new city, and I loved the new city, but I hated the work. It was with the same company, it was just a different department, and didn't feel right. I expressed my concerns to my family on the first day on the new job, and was told to "give it a month."

I read this thread when it was first published, and didn't respond, because I wanted to "give it (the new forum) a month". I am going to reserve judgement until the forum has been around a month, so if this thread is still around on the 19th, I will come back and provide my opinion.

In the meantime, I will say that all those years ago, when I didn't like the job - I gave it a month, like it was suggested. At the end of the month,I disliked the job as much as I did on the first day, and found a new job (at a start up company, where I thrived!).

I'll be back 😉

[Susan]

AutoHail - I'm not a programmer, either, but I've done it on my own site with a little experimentation. Let me look at your site's stylesheet and see if I can come up with some specific lines to change 🙂

 

[Susan]

You would need to adjust a number of the pieces inside your CSS.

This guide should help you determine what you need to adjust:

http://my.studiopress.com/docs/visual-markup-guide/

[Susan]

Greg:  Your header (page title, image of the before/after) is called: Banner-clean2.jpg, and it's located in your media library.

http://www.getfitwithgreg.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Banner-clean2.jpg

 

[Susan]

Welcome to Genesis, David.

I've been playing around with creating my own child theme, but mostly, I've just customized some existing themes, but I found these articles great for helping me get started:

http://www.billerickson.net/building-a-genesis-child-theme/

http://www.billerickson.net/genesis-base-child-theme/

 

[Susan]

Momista - sorry, I didn't see you had asked another question!

Just to be clear, so that we are on the same page...

In the top section "latest ramblings", you want to show more posts (in other words, show some of your older posts), but it's not giving the option. You've checked the box that says "show page navigation"?

In doing some research, I read a suggestion that you add this to your functions.php file:

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'child_change_home_query' );
/** Changes the query on the home page*/
function child_change_home_query( $query ) {

if( $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_home() ) {
$query->set( 'posts_per_page', '1' );
}

}

[Susan]

Go to pages > edit > page attributes > change parent category to "none".

If that doesn't work, please provide a link to your site.

[Susan]

I don't own it, but it is my understanding that the "Prose" theme is editable in a different manner than all the other child themes - you might want to take a look at that.

 

[Susan]

Do you have a link to your site?

By default, Minimum doesn't have a sidebar on the home page, but if yours has a sidebar, go to edit page, scroll down to the bottom, and in "layout settings", check the full width content layout. That will only impact the one page you are editing.

[Susan]

I'm looking at your site now, and I see that you have two rows with the vertical line separating the rows, and the horizontal line separating each of the menu items (looking as it should). I'm viewing it on a Mac, using safari. What are you using?

 

[Susan]

Momista:

In the Adorable demo, there are two menus show - the primary menu, and the secondary menu. It looks like you have all your pages set up on the primary menu.
If you go ahead and create a secondary menu, remove some of the pages from the primary menu, and add them to the secondary menu, there will be the dividing line between the two rows, and the second row will be a different color than the first row.

I hope that helps!

[Susan]

Ryan - I can guarantee we have all done that at one time or another, so don't stress!

To access your site, you will want to log into your host site, delete the child theme folder, and upload a clean copy.

It's recommended that php changes be done through FTP and a code editor, so that you can revert changes without breaking your site.
Good luck!

[Susan]

@colemanweb - once you buy the Genesis framework, there are free child themes available; you can also go ahead and create your own child themes.

 

If you wish to purchase additional child themes, you would just pay the cost of the child theme (not the genesis framework again). The regular cost of each theme is under $25. There are discounts available for existing users, and sometimes special discounts (for example, Black Friday sales). You can also go the "ProPlus" route, where you pay one lump sum and have access to all the StudioPress themes (NOT the community themes), and as each new one is made available, you will also receive that free of charge.

 

[Susan]

Very nice job!

[Susan]

Here's a StudioPress tutorial on setting up your menu:

Navigation Menu

 

To display your tagline, you would need to replace this in your CSS:

#title-area {

	float: left;
	height: 123px;
	overflow: hidden;
	padding: 17px 0 0;
	width: 422px;
	text-shadow: -1px -1px 1px #fff;
}

With this:

#title-area {
	float: left;
	height: auto;
	padding: 17px 0 0;
	width: 422px;
	text-shadow: -1px -1px 1px #fff;
}

[Susan]

You never want to edit the genesis framework; any edits there will be overwritten with a genesis upgrade.

 

Any editing should be done in your child theme's files, and according to the link that Nick provided, it looks like it should be done in your functions.php file.

[Susan]

@sankum24 - I would recommend you submit a ticket:

StudioPress - Account Assistance

[Susan]

Nice job, Monica!
As an aside, I got my introduction to Genesis framework through Designer Blogs - I bought one of their blogger templates, and then decided to take the plunge and switch to WordPress. I love the work you ladies produce!

[Susan]

I'm not an SEO expert, so can't provide any feedback there, but I like your layout - it's fairly clean and easy to read. Nice work!

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