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Are you going to actually need the header area for something in addition to your site name/title (for instance, were you thinking of having a signup widget like the one at Empowered Soul)?
Just thinking out loud here and trying a few things with Firebug, it occurred to me that you could set the header height to 0px (would probably also need to set .header-image #title-area to 0px in height in Genesis --> Custom Code --> Custom CSS), place your site name and tagline into the background image itself, and eliminate the need to align a header bg with the page bg.
If you did that, you could use one of the Genesis Hooks (genesis_before or genesis_before_header -- see the Visual Hook Guide and the Genesis Hook Reference; you can add HTML and PHP to any of these hooks with the Genesis Simple Hooks plugin) if you needed to replace the header-right widget area.
But please ignore these ideas if they don't work for you. There's always more than one way to do something, especially in Genesis/Prose/WordPress, and I'm just brainstorming for fun, to see if I could figure out a way to avoid the aligning-two-backgrounds issue.
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wendycholbiMemberGlad it worked for you, Michael! I'm looking forward to seeing what it looks like when you're done -- seeing someone trick out Prose into a unique creation is one of my favoritest things.
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wendycholbiMemberPersonally, I think Prose is the unsung hero of all Genesis themes. The Design Settings in combination with the Custom Code fields make it super-powerful...and much easier for beginners to customize their sites (no need to make a child theme, or modify core theme files).
But you're right that those very features make it different from all other Genesis themes (great power --> great responsibility, blessing/curse, yada yada...).
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wendycholbiMemberIn Genesis --> Design Settings --> Wrap --> Top Margin, change the 15px to 150px and see how that looks. You will probably also need to change both the padding and the border (in the same Design Setting) to 0 (zero) to avoid a white background strip interrupting your image.
If you're going to add any code snippets like the above, paste them into Genesis --> Custom Code --> Custom CSS, instead of making any changes to style.css.
Code that's added to Genesis --> Custom Code --> Custom CSS will override the Design Settings, so it's always best to look for a Design Setting that does what you want, and only add code to Custom CSS if you want to do something that isn't covered by the Design Settings.
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wendycholbiMemberHi Rick,
I believe you can achieve the effect you're looking for by adding your text to one of the Genesis hooks. The easiest way to do this is with the Genesis Simple Hooks plugin. After you install the plugin, you'll see a new menu item called Simple Hooks in your WordPress dashboard when you hover over the Genesis menu item.
Looking at the Genesis Visual Hook Guide and the Genesis Hook Reference, I'd say you want to use the genesis_before_sidebar_widget_area hook. Find that hook in Genesis --> Simple Hooks, and add the text (actually HTML) you want to appear above the sidebar(s), and save changes. You may need to experiment with HTML and CSS to get the look you want (I don't think you'll need to use PHP if you just want the equivalent of a text widget).
Another StudioPress forum member asked a similar question here (she wanted to create three sidebars, so she needed a third widgetized area -- you could add a widgetized area to the hook if you ever want anything more than text in your above-the-sidebars area).
I hope this helps!
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wendycholbiMemberGlad to hear it worked for you too!
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wendycholbiMemberOne idea might be to use Nick the Geek's Genesis Responsive Header plugin to specify smaller header images (maybe without the social media flower widget) for smaller screens.
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February 16, 2013 at 1:30 pm in reply to: How to Disable Mobile Responsive on Prose Child Theme #20703wendycholbiMemberI agree that having to re-do a site design from scratch is not an acceptable consequence of a theme update.
I'm not sure why your sites are breaking, though. I haven't had any problems updating to Genesis 1.9.1 and Prose 1.5.2, and I've updated at least 25 sites.
It's true that Prose sites will look broken between updating to Genesis 1.9.1 and updating to Prose 1.5.2 (since you can't do the updates simultaneously, because the Prose update will not appear as available until Genesis is updated). Updating to Prose 1.5.2 (from Prose 1.5.0 or Prose 1.5.1) immediately after updating to Genesis 1.9.1 has always fixed the problem for me.
Have you tried the following?
Checking/unchecking the Minify CSS checkbox on the Design Settings page
Forcing a re-save of the Design Settings (e.g. by changing a setting, changing it back, and saving changes)
Double-checking the contents of your Custom Code fields
Deactivating all plugins to test for plugin conflictsIf you're updating from Prose 1.0, that comes with its own unique set of challenges -- if you update without manually copying and saving any customizations you previously made to custom.css and/or functions.php, that will indeed break your design.
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wendycholbiMemberThis tutorial isn't specific to Prose (or Genesis), but it may point you in the right direction:
http://codebabble.com/wordpress-tips/reverse-post-order
Looks like the solution in that post was working as of WordPress 3.3.2, and there is some good information in the comments as well (people asking about categories etc.).
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wendycholbiMemberTake a look at this thread that includes some code snippets to widen the content area; tweak the numbers to suit your site. Insert your code in Genesis –> Custom Code –> Custom CSS to apply it to your site.
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wendycholbiMemberNick the Geek has been working on a plugin called Genesis Responsive Header, which solves this problem by allowing you to upload several different sizes of header for display on various smaller screens. Try it out and see if it works for you.
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wendycholbiMemberYes, a fixed-width header will eventually get chopped off on a smaller screen. A footer is usually easier to handle since it's made up of separate elements (the 3 footer widgets, which will eventually stack on a smaller screen, and the main footer is made up of two divs that will do the same thing).
Nick the Geek has been working on a plugin called Genesis Responsive Header, which lets you upload several different sizes of header for display on various smaller screens.
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wendycholbiMemberYou can copy the relevant portions of your style.css file into Genesis --> Custom Code --> Custom CSS and then modify the widths to suit your site. Generally, if a tutorial tells you to change the style.css file, you can mentally translate that to something like "paste this code into Prose's custom code screen."
That particular tutorial looks like it was for Genesis 1.6. You may want to check with its author to see if it's still valid for Genesis 1.9.x.
Looking at the Genesis Visual Markup Guide may help you figure out which sections of the site you need to modify.
Are you looking for something like this:Â http://style3.sitesetupkit.com/ ?
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wendycholbiMemberHooray! Glad to hear you got it working.
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wendycholbiMemberI would try pasting your code into Genesis --> Simple Hooks --> genesis_after_post_content hook (it's in the section of the page titled "Post/Page Hooks".
Check the "Execute PHP on this hook?" checkbox, since your code contains PHP. Save your changes and see if the navigation links show up correctly on a single post.
I tested this on a test site of mine, and this code worked (note the two closing div tags that were missing from your original code above):
<div class="navigation">
<div class="alignleft">
<?php previous_post('« « %',
'Toward The Past: ', 'yes'); ?>
</div>
<div class="alignright">
<?php next_post('% » » ',
'Toward The Future: ', 'yes'); ?>
</div>
</div>
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wendycholbiMemberYou're very welcome, I'm glad this worked for you!
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wendycholbiMemberOkay, I don't know what you mean by "it's not a child theme," because Prose is a child theme of the Genesis Framework. Prose 1.5 has some significant improvements over version 1.0 (not the least being the Custom Code screen, but also more and better Design Settings), so my default recommendation is to update, but it's your call as to whether that's more trouble than it's worth (for instance if you've made extensive modifications to the functions.php file).
So, looking at your original question another way, you could probably insert your original code into one of the Genesis hooks, using the Genesis Simple Hooks plugin. Check out the Hook Reference and this Visual Hook Guide to find the hook you need.
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wendycholbiMemberIf your footer widgets no longer fit (the Footer 3 widgetized area appears to be “bumped down” and not aligned with Footer 1 and Footer 2), adjust the widths of the three widgetized footer areas by adding this snippet to Genesis > Custom Code > Custom CSS:
/*adjust the width of the widgetized footer areas*/
.footer-widgets-1 {
width: 275px;
}
.footer-widgets-2 {
margin: 0 20px 0 0;
width: 270px;
}
.footer-widgets-3 {
width: 275px;
}If your text footer no longer fits (this looks like the “return to top” link on the bottom left of the page is not on the same horizontal line as the footer information on the bottom right), adjust the widths of the two text footer sections by adding this snippet to Genesis > Custom Code > Custom CSS:
/*adjust the width of the text footer*/
#footer .gototop {
width: 190px;
}
#footer .creds {
width: 715px;
}Adjust the widths to suit your site.
Did you recently update from Prose 1.0 to Prose 1.5? These footer issues are common after such an update (in fact, my instructions here are from my tutorial on updating Prose).
Hope this helps!
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wendycholbiMemberAre you using Prose version 1.0? The Custom Code screen was added in version 1.5.
You won't see a dashboard nag to update from 1.0 to 1.5 because it requires manual updating (I wrote a tutorial about the 1.0 --> 1.5 update process).
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wendycholbiMemberExcellent news, you're very welcome!
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