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March 14, 2013 at 2:56 pm in reply to: Eliminating Featured Post on Homepage of Education Theme #26552weslindaMember
Baba, soliloquy is a widget you can drop into a slider area. Won't affect the rest of the homepage at all. Apologies that I missed the part of your post about the content. If you want something other than the default list of content, then some editing of the home page template would be required to get the output you'd like.
Not specific to the education theme, but here is a tutorial on custom homepages for Genesis. There are a number of good tutorials out on the subject as well if you search Google.
http://studiopress.tv/custom-home-pages/
Finally, if it's over your head, there are a number of genesis devs out there that can assist with your specific needs.
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March 14, 2013 at 1:05 pm in reply to: Eliminating Featured Post on Homepage of Education Theme #26294weslindaMemberBaba, the easiest way to achieve this is by using a different slider plugin, one that will allow you to show just images that you've chosen. The best I've found for that is Soliloquy. There is a lite version in the WordPress repository (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/soliloquy-lite/), the full fledged versions offers some great additional features (http://www.soliloquywp.com).
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March 14, 2013 at 1:03 pm in reply to: Eliminating Featured Post on Homepage of Education Theme #26290weslindaMemberHey Sumu, apologies. I somehow missed your note. You would need to have someone redo the homepage template. They can swap out the list of articles for your content. Pretty straight forward. Any developer should be able to do it.
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weslindaMemberRob, no problem. It's one of the reasons I like using excerpts. Then I have more control of the layout of the text there. Hopefully it allows you to do what you were trying to do.
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weslindaMemberIf you want to use the native WordPress galleries, and you'd like a lightbox to show things, you can actually use the Lightbox Gallery plugin. It does a great job of simply offering lightbox to native images. Instead of having to head to another page. There are a number of plugins available to make things work. Nothing to really do it without a plugin / js.
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weslindaMemberA legend in my own mind! :0)
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weslindaMemberYou can absolutely move the menu. It may take some tweaking with CSS for it to look the way you'd like, but you can use Genesis Hooks to move the menu.
http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/navigation-menus/
and then read this on hooks http://my.studiopress.com/docs/hooks.
You can move the menu wherever you would like. However, it might be easier to simply not set a menu in the primary or secondary areas and instead add a custom menu to your sidebar.
This is an example of a site where we moved the menu and changed everything in the theme. So with a little work, you can do pretty much anything you want to do with the menus.
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weslindaMemberI did a quick search, and it looks this was solved in the way noted in the last part of the thread.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-read-more-link-without-post-excerpt
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weslindaMemberIt was a fun design to work on. As far as the galleries, it's a bit of a pain, but that's what the client wanted. They were not interested in a lightbox solution for the larger images.
I had seen a plugin that does an ajax reload of part of the page, but I did not test it to see if it might improve the page load time. I may dig into that at some point.
Thanks for the kind words!
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weslindaMemberYes, you will lose the read more button, but I think people understand to click on the title or the image to access the information. I'm not a huge fan of having 5-10 links on a page with the same text going to different content, but that's a personal preference.
You had mentioned the big key was limiting to specific text and using excerpts will do that. That's why I recommended that solution.
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weslindaMemberI think lots of people have initial reservations to a support fee, but really, this is the biggest area for WordPress services growth.
I absolutely charge a monthly support fee. I let my clients know that I have two hourly rates. One for those under contract, and those not under contract. If something breaks and you need me on an emergency basis, you will pay for that urgency.
Ask them to think about the cost if the site goes down for a day, or two or a week. Do they lose business? How much? What could it cost them? Lots of questions and points you can pose to them.
It's frustrating, but once their site stops working, they'll get it.
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weslindaMemberIt won't do that because the plugin isn't set for that. Typically, what people will want shown in a slider versus what they might want shown on a content archive are two different amounts of text.
If you set it to "show excerpt" and put in the exact text you want in the excerpt area, then it will show the exact text you want. I know it's an extra step, but it's designed that way on purpose.
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weslindaMemberThe slider will work with Going Green. No issues between the two. Only need to drop it into the widget area and away it goes. There is something overwriting the CSS for the slider. It's showing up in the code, but something is hiding it in the CSS. If you look at the HTML, the slider and the images are there. Something is hiding it from the page. A dive into CSS would be required to fully diagnose.
That's why I mentioned disabling other plugins to be able to narrow down what could be causing the problem.
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weslindaMemberFor the slider, there is no requirement to use the character count. That's only for limiting post content. The arbitrary number is for post content, not excerpt. See the text below that option. While it shows, it doesn't force you. Limiting content by character count is always when using content, not when using excerpts.
Using this option will limit the text and strip all formatting from the text displayed. To use this option, choose "Display post content" in the select box above.
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weslindaMemberYou should be able to use excerpts. They are not enabled out of the gate for pages, but can be by adding the code below to your functions.php file.
// Enable excerpts for pages.
add_post_type_support(
'page'
,
'excerpt'
);
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weslindaMemberIn the admin go to Genesis > Theme Settings > Content Archives and check the box next to "Include the Featured Image". Each post will need a featured image.
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weslindaMemberAre there any other slider plugins installed? The first step I would take is back out any plugins and activate one by one. Perhaps one is overlapping this. Beyond that, I would say that I'd need access to the site to diagnose.
I've never seen any problems with the Genesis Repsonsive Plugin.
If you'd like to try another responsive slider plugin, Soliloquy is a great plugin. http://soliloquywp.com/
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weslindaMemberI haven't seen a "tutorial" on doing this specifically in Genesis. In your CSS file should be a section for the menu's. Depends on the theme you are using. You'll change the colors there. Most of it is pretty straight forward to figure out.
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weslindaMemberIn your CSS file, there will be various @media resolution calls.
Simply add the CSS below at the point you want it to go away.
.home-slider {display: none;}
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weslindaMemberSo, what happens when you add the responsive slider? It's tough to diagnose when you have a different slider in place. Can you put the responsive slider in place?
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