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Didn't see there was a second page to this post, but anyway...
http://my.studiopress.com/tutorials/content-column-classes/
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WebmasterMemberGet this theme and you can easily add widget areas where ever you like.
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WebmasterMemberHey guys, thanks for the help, but there is nothing wrong with my site - or the snippet for that matter. The problem is that Ambiance Pro comes with a custom page_blog page that displays posts with hover images (just like the ones on the homepage for Ambiance Pro) so the snippet(s) that work for a normal Genesis theme don't work. Instead you get a box with the page title in it.
Here's the code that comes stock in the Ambiance Pro page_blog page:
//* Reposition the entry meta in the entry header
remove_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'genesis_do_post_title' );
add_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'genesis_do_post_title', 13 );//* Add Ambiance grid body class
add_filter( 'body_class', 'ambiance_grid_body_class' );
function ambiance_grid_body_class( $classes ) {$classes[] = 'ambiance-grid';
return $classes;}
//* Customize the entry meta in the entry header
remove_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'genesis_post_info', 12 );
add_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'ambiance_post_info', 12 );
function ambiance_post_info() {echo '<p class="entry-meta">' . do_shortcode( '[post_date]' ) . '</p>';
}
//* Remove entry content
remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_content' );//* Remove entry meta in entry footer
remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_entry_footer_markup_open', 5 );
remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_entry_footer_markup_close', 15 );
remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_post_meta' );//* Remove page navigation
remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_content_nav', 12 );//* Run the Genesis loop
genesis();That results in a page that looks like this:
So when you add the snippet you get this:
As you can see, the text in the blog page still does not show, although we now have the page title inside a grey box, along with the date the blog page was created. Now if you rip out all the code that comes stock with page_blog in this theme and then add the snippet, well then everything works as expected. Of course, you lose the formatted post squares that match the home page.
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August 30, 2014 at 11:34 pm in reply to: Changing Content Area background colour to a transparency #121994WebmasterMemberSure, go to line 461 in your css file and look for the .content section. There add this line:
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3);
the "255, 255, 255" part is just the rgb code for your color (white in this example) and the "0.3" part on the end is your opacity, so you can increase the number (to say, 0.6) if it is too transparent
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August 30, 2014 at 11:07 pm in reply to: Changing Content Area background colour to a transparency #121986WebmasterMemberNot sure are you maybe looking for opacity?
.content {
background-color: #eee;
color: transparent;
max-width: 1200px;
opacity: 0.6;
}
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WebmasterMemberSure, I just went ahead and added this to the functions.php file:
function mywp_include_cat( $query ) {
if ( is_home() && is_main_query() ) {
set_query_var( 'cat', '4' );
}
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'mywp_include_cat' );That works, but I was thinking it was simpler than that where one didn't need access to edit functions.php file (so an end user could change the category IDs). Maybe I did it with the simple hooks plugin or something I can't remember. Oh well, thanks again
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WebmasterMemberThanks Brad. The Genesis, Theme Settings are for blog pages - not the home page. Also I was hoping to avoid editing the theme directly, but maybe that's the only way. Seems like there was another way.
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WebmasterMemberYou'll also want to write some media queries for mobiles - or use this plugin:
https://github.com/NicktheGeek/genesis-responsive-header/archive/customizer.zip
Learn more about the plugin here:
http://designsbynickthegeek.com/plugins/genesis-responsive-header
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WebmasterMemberRE: @mkatty: "I’m a bit disappointed with the difference in support."
This isn't support (as your keenly observed).
Note that each theme's setup page also includes a statement that's something like this:
"If you have any trouble, please fill out the contact form for assistance."
That's where you get support.
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WebmasterMemberHello Kitty.
The short answer is, not really. In fact, there's a rather lengthy page describing the step-by-step process for setting the theme up so that it will look like the demo.
Good luck!
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WebmasterMemberThe Crystal Theme uses custom menu in a widget in the header. Can you post a link to the website?
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WebmasterMemberhello there...
Is it possible to see the website to get a better idea of what you are talking about?
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WebmasterMemberIf I use the code as provided above (thanks SoZo), the entire page goes to a dark grey background and the posts come out super small (see http://easycaptures.com/fs/uploaded/556/8442074598.jpg). If I remove the priority setting (or change it to the default 10) the home page looks better, but the picture and text are gone (see http://easycaptures.com/fs/uploaded/556/7599545503.jpg). In both instances the "other" posts / pages look as expected (no header and no distortions).
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WebmasterMemberOkay, okay... I've thought about it and StudioPress doesn't owe the community anything.
If there is actually a community out there, it will reemerge in another format. It would be nice to have gotten the database with the years-worth of posts that were in the old forums to start out with... but so long as you can still go search the posts, they will eventually become worthless as the framework and child themes continue to improve.
And hey, if StudioPress would rather have me writing to them directly instead of searching recent quiries on my own, then so be it. Like I said, the support I received from “Get Help” was excellent the one time I used it – I'll just be using it a lot more than I usually would.
Case closed... right? I mean, annual support contracts wouldn't be right around the corner, would they? Dog gone that cynic in me!
Anywho...
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WebmasterMemberThis new process
almostseems like it was designed as a way to destroy community interaction – if not the community itself – and to make users more dependent on StudioPress.
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WebmasterMemberWow - a focus group!
Cool!
Doh. I missed it!
Maybe the survey URL should have been emailed out to the community members' registered email...
So, what came of this anyway?
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WebmasterMemberBill M: No offense, but on this particular issue I'd like to hear from some actual StudioPress people. If you have a link (to where they said whatever they said) that might be helpful, too.
I mean what is the point? I assume the community concept hasn't been completely abandoned? We have been using individual forums for the various themes for years, so there should be some pretty strong logic involved for deleting them. It's a major change in work flow for the community and I don't think "overlap" comes anywhere close to justification.
Susan: I do understand how you are saying things work; I really do. But the fact is, after I loaded the Pretty Pictures theme it didn't take long to see that my galleries did not look as cool as the demo. So I double checked the tutorials and the download (I assume you mean README.txt) to no avail. And, since there wasn't an individual forum for the Pretty Pictures theme, I had two choices: (1) read every single post in every single forum, or; (2) try search.
The search term I used was "Pretty Pictures". After paging back three pages I finally found a post that was unanswered. Fortunately for me, the post contained the name of the plugin used on the galleries (jQuery Lightbox for Native Galleries). So I downloaded it, installed it, and then came back to answer the post.
In conclusion, the theme specific information wasn't contained in the download file or the tutorial, so putting those in the forum would not be redundant - and even if it were, it's a one-time copy-paste.
So again, I understand what you are saying, I simply do not agree.
I cannot see one advantage to this new dissected approach to support. Even if there were a single forum for official support requests (to make it easier to process them in order received), once the issue was resolved, the post could be moved to the appropriate theme forum for all to review and reference in the future. The way it is now, 20 people could have the same question and each of them would have to "Get Help" to get the answer in their email, where of course the next 20 people still would not see it.
This new process almost seems like it was designed as a way to destroy community interaction - if not the community itself - and to make users more dependent on StudioPress. I mean, StudioPress is great, but they are not the community they created, and should have more consideration for the community in this case.
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WebmasterMemberHey Mike,
Do you have a custom menu selected for Primary Navigation? Check it out under Dashboard | Appearance | Menus
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WebmasterMemberRight, this is a forum for feedback on the forums (plural) - which is what I'm submitting. I guess you can keep moving them, but if you pages through each of the forums, I am sure you will find they have not all been moved. And as was highlighted by one of your earlier posts, there is a reasonable question as to whether there is any difference in the few forums that are here.
The underlying problem is that it is not immediately clear to users where to appropriately place a post - which I would imagine is the reason that the "How to find your theme's instructions" post is a sticky in ALL of the forums.
So unless you get charged for each forum you create or something weird like that, I would defer to my original suggestion that a forum should be created for each theme. You can place a sticky post in each forum with whatever links you would like for that theme (a tutorials link, plugins used in the theme's demo, psd files, a Get Help link or whatever.
Additionally, it would have no affect on the display of posts in the overall order in which they were submitted, since, as you mentioned in another post, "most members who are on the forum looking to assist someone generally look for the “posts with no replies“.
Regards -
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WebmasterMemberWhat's the URL so people can see what you are talking about? Without that, a wild guess would be something wrong with a Custom Menu setting. (See Dashboard | Appearance | Menus)
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