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@Mealtog - I'm looking at a dedicated VPS from digitalocean.com. Prices are much more reasonable than most WordPress managed hosting site, though you're on your own to create the site and resolve any problems. Considering that I need support for multiple domains, most managed hosting options are priced beyond a reasonable level for me to consider. Even when I find one with reasonable pricing, like LightningBase, then I'm left with insufficient space.
For example, I'm using 30 GB on my current VPS with HostGator. Mostly due to the photography site, as those images can chew up some space. I'm considering moving those to Amazon S3, but that's another beast of a project in itself to ensure my media safely moves to a different server without breaking the blog.
I'm not a fan of shared hosting. You never know what the crazy neighbors are doing.
–William
http://williambeem.comWilliamMemberWilliamMemberIs Managed Hosting a provider name, or the generic term? I tried going to managedhosting.com, which forwarded me to RackSpace.com. Just want to make sure I understand where you're going.
Thanks.
–William
http://williambeem.comWilliamMember@Mealtog - Thanks, I'll take a look.
@braddalton - Have you ever looked at the Gleam theme from Elegant Themes? What I truly want is something like that - full page with no bleed, except my menu bar at the top. Now that's a portfolio page. If only I could hook that kind of photo display into Minimum Pro.One of the 3rd party vendors has a Genesis theme with a somewhat similar screen display for the photo, but they screw it up in other ways that make it unacceptable to me.
–William
http://williambeem.comWilliamMemberI go back and forth on this topic. As Brad says, it's easy to add a portfolio to a theme. The problem is that the portfolios just don't operate the way I want. I have a photography site without a portfolio right now because I don't like the small images that go with the Minimum theme portfolio.
When I want someone to look at a collection of my work, I want it large enough to smack them in the face. Looking at all of the photography/portfolio themes in the Genesis stable, I can't say there's a single one that I would choose. I truly like Minimum for my blog, but it's not great at showing my photos.
–William
http://williambeem.comWilliamMemberOh, yes. It's definitely there for the header. That was easy for me to change. However, the problem is that I now have dark text on a dark background in the Call to Action area, as you can see on http://william.beem.us
I'm not a developer. All I want to do is change some colors. It baffles me why this is so obfuscated. I tried contacting support and, though they were nice, they refused to help with any CSS issues and referred me here.
I know that I need to add something to my CSS to allow me to change the text color. I just don't know exactly how to add it. As far as I can tell, that's the extent of my problem.
–William
http://williambeem.comWilliamMemberThe line of code I need isn't in the CSS file. It's inheriting the color in these sections from a global setting. I've used firebug and the Safari develop settings, but neither shows me anything that isn't already in the code.
–William
http://williambeem.comWilliamMemberI'm surprised, and a bit frustrated. Given that there was an extremely long delay waiting for WordPress 3.6 to ship, I expected that work to update the child themes was proceeding so they would be ready when Genesis 2.0 launched.
Perhaps the most frustrating is the utter lack of communication to customers so that we can schedule our business based upon upgrade and availability of 2.0-ready child themes. That lack of communication is seriously affecting my trust in StudioPress.
–William
http://williambeem.comAugust 18, 2013 at 6:59 pm in reply to: Header Goes Transparent in News Theme after 2.0 upgrade #57247WilliamMemberThe same thing happened to me with my Minimum theme. It turned on some transparent image. Turning it off resolved the issue.
–William
http://williambeem.comWilliamMemberAnother vendor for Genesis child themes is ZigZagPress.com. They have some lovely themes and seem to be working much faster than StudioPress at updating them for Genesis 2.0 (or else the lack of communication from StudioPress makes it seem that way). You can see at a glance which themes are now 2.0 ready on their site.
My only complaint was a lack of follow-up to a question before I bought one of their themes. Since they didn't respond, I didn't purchase from them. I may have to go with a non-Genesis theme to get the full site image look that I want.
–William
http://williambeem.comWilliamMemberAugust 14, 2013 at 9:46 am in reply to: How To Make Landing Pages Like Studiopress & Copyblogger?? #56326WilliamMemberThe Landing Page just gives you the blank canvas for your content without the distraction of sidebars. It's still up to you to create and format the content that goes into those Landing Pages.
If you need to use different fonts, check into Google Fonts for free or Typekit for an annual fee. Both have some great choices. It looks like the StudioPress page uses Google Fonts, so you have access to the same style.
As for the graphics and the layout, that depends upon you. The Landing Page isn't doing that for you, but the tools are there to create columns to help your layouts.
–William
http://williambeem.comWilliamMemberI use Disqus, but there are reasons to keep the comments on your own site. From an SEO perspective, none of those comments live on your system. They belong to Disqus or Facebook, so they aren't being indexed by search engines on your site.
Many of these tools have ways to re-direct people away from your site. For example, Disqus shows an indicator when there are replies to your comment on its system. Those replies may be on another site, which takes viewers away from your site. Good as a user, not so good as a site owner.
Then there's the issue of load time. You put a piece of Javacript on your site, and then you wait to get served. However, both users and search engines measure your load time. You can't optimize the performance of someone else's site, so you take what you get.
Although I like Disqus from a user perspective, I'm seriously thinking about removing it from my sites.
–William
http://williambeem.comWilliamMemberTwo themes were release and the notice is in the blog post announcing Genesis 2.0. One is the new Sixteen Nine theme, and the other is a re-vamped version of Eleven 40 (which I started using).
Not sure of any posted schedule of re-release dates, except to watch the blog when they're announced and released.
–William
http://williambeem.comWilliamMemberOK, now that clarifies it for me. It really sucks, but I understand. Thanks for sticking with me until I got it.
–William
http://williambeem.comWilliamMemberWhat is the point of using a plugin when the feature is supposed to be built into Genesis 2.0?
–William
http://williambeem.comWilliamMemberMaybe I'm being dense, but I don't see how to specify a rating in a post or page.
–William
http://williambeem.comWilliamMemberThanks, I'll look for the guide. I don't want to add a plugin or change code to perform the task, since it's a component of Genesis 2.0. All I want to know is how to use it.
–William
http://williambeem.comWilliamMemberI am staying with WP SEO. My main reason is because I don't want to transport SEO data or settings when I change the face of my web site. Also, the plugin works very well. Moving to another SEO system isn't going to magically improve your rankings.
An argument for moving away from a plugin is that it's one more thing that has to load and use resources. I don't find that WP SEO puts a significant drain on my sites, though. There is some merit to the mantra of "Omit Needless Plugins."
–William
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