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correction: should have said "explain that to me"... brain and fingers are apparently incommunicado today.

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Victor Font - You are a BEAUTIFUL MAN with a BEAUTIFUL MIND!!!!! I cannot thank you enough for taking the time to explain that to you.

You are the BEST!

I hope you have a wonderful Holiday and a very Happy New Year!

:: doing a snoopy dance ::

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Thank you so much Victor!

I appreciate you taking the time to give me some feedback. While that house plan theme looks amazing I don't want to go through all the work of swapping out themes just yet. 🙂

I was hoping I would be able to plop some php code into a file and call it a day but I should have figured that it wouldn't be that easy lol

Anywhooooo - thanks again for your help and your kindness. I wish you a Merry Christmas or a Happy Holiday depending on how you celebrate.

Tanya

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Christoph you are a BEAUTIFUL man!!! Thank you so much for that link. I would have never in a BILLION years thought to do THAT! lol

I would also like to thank Robneu for coming up with the fix. GENIUS!!!

My sanity is now restored - that was driving me NUTS! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

Tanya

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That was it - thank you again for your help. I think now I need to make an appointment with my optometrist!

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GEEZE! i am sorry - i just spotted it. lol will try that

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I think my eyes must be dying because the before and after you posted look identical to me. lol

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awe heck. I was hoping you would know why it wasn't working lol

There is really no rhyme or reason as to why it doesn't work except for maybe it's because the wordpress gods hate me.

oh well - back to the drawing board. - Thanks again!

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Thank you so very much Brad! I tried going that route but failed miserably. I just tried again using your code and still failed. lol

So I must be doing something wrong.

At first I thought the problem was with FREELANCE because it is set up to display widgets depending on your page/post selection in the READING settings on WP but I can't get it to display the widget on ANY page 🙁

Here is the code I have used. It gives me the welcome text box in the widgets area but nothing I put in the box is displaying.

// CODE FOR ADDING NEW WIDGET
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id'          => 'weclome-text',
	'name'        => __( 'Welcome Text', 'domain' ),
	'description' => __( 'Add Welcome Text Here', 'domain' ),
) );

add_action( 'genesis_before_loop', 'your_widget' );

function your_widget() {

if ( is_page('about') && is_active_sidebar('welcome-text') ) {

genesis_widget_area( 'welcome-text', array(

'before' => '<div class="welcome-text widget-area">',

'after'	 => '</div>',
		
) ); 

  }

}

I have tried displaying it on the about me page just to make sure it isn't the "home" page that is an issue since I am using a shopp page for the home page. But no matter what I do - it doesn't work.

I wasn't sure what the 'domain' meant so I left it as it was - I also wasn't sure about the 'your_widget' either so I left it be. Do I need to change either of those?

Any and all help would be SOOOOOO appreciated!

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pretty please 🙂 There has to be a way to make this work. I just want to add some welcome text to the top of the page.

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Thank you Summer! You just might have hit the nail (or ME) on the head!

I have been out of the "code loop" for a few years as I became a full time caregiver for my Auntie M until she passed last November. Since then I have had the pain joy of reacclimating myself to world of code and all of its MANY changes.

:: fun :: /eyeroll/

The only way any HTML5 support would have been added is if Genesis or WordPress added it during the normal upgrades. I will go and bury my head in google and see what it has to say.

Thank you so much for this new direction - It should keep me busy for a few hours days months LOL

If I don't come back before Christmas I hope you have a great Holiday!

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Hello Summer,

Thank you so much for the additional information - I am all about the work around when something doesn't work so I appreciate the heads up on the excerpt route.

Unfortunately I am like a dog with a bone when it comes to failed code. It will gnaw at me until I figure out why it failed. It is a serious flaw in my character and one that I am very much aware of. Sadly there is no cure for my stuborness. lol

I guess I will just keep plugging away at it until I sort it out or the internet implodes.

Thanks again!
Tanya

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Hello Summer and thank you so much for taking the time to reply. I really appreciate it. I upgraded pretty much everything so not really sure what broke it.

I am using the embed in each post and I have my settings set to show post content in genesis theme options with a 400 character count limit. I really don't want to have a HUGE video on that page so I set it up to show a tiny video through the magic of custom fields.

I think that either wordpress or genesis tinkered with the way the custom fields function - I guess I just have to figure out what part they tinkered with - Or I could just ask someone to hit me over the head with a wooden mallet until I am unconscious. I think both will achieve the same results. lol

Thanks again! I really do appreciate you taking a peek!

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Thank you Summer and Anitac. I appreciate your feedback - I will try both outreach and magazine pro. 🙂

Fingers crossed. lol

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