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I am not at all good at php. But this was just the example. I had used the code
<?php genesis_widget_area( 'widget-name', array( 'before' => '<div class="div-class-name widget-area">', 'after' => '</div>', ?>The code was directly copied from the Genesis tutorials in the register widget area tutorial inside my Studiopress account. So, not sure how I am missing code.
@WhiteleyDesigns
The
<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'home-slider' ); ?>
is working. Thank you for the code. But is it possible to place it within div so that styling can be done through css?
Thanks for the help. I saw the two tutorials by Nick. Nick's genesis posts series are still one of the best ones from what I have seen over the years. He was also one of the most helpful guys here in the forums over the years. But those two articles explain the hooks etc. I know a bit of the hooks and use them (especially with simple hooks) for inserting codes at different places. I also use functions.php for inserting codes on many occasions.
Thanks for the facebook and slack links. I would perhaps need to dig deeper into the Genesis framework. It seems creating custom child themes for individual websites might not be that hard. And as you mentioned, I also dig a bit into the different themes for comparison and would need to dig more and research perhaps. Genesis child themes only use the basic layout and rest all are managed by the framework it seems. This makes basic customizing quite easy though advanced customizations are not always possible due to restrictions of the framework it seems. Thanks once again and this thread might be regarded as solved. 🙂
I cannot edit the post. Kindly disregard it as I just found that the feature to include the featured image was there in the genesis theme settings in each and every theme. That is definitely cool. Never noticed it in all these years.
But I would still appreciate if somebody could inform me where the customizations of individual child themes are present (not the css part). For example, if I need to change the layout of a page in a child theme, where are those customizations made/present. Most of the genesis themes only contain front_page, functions and landing.
Is there a complete customization guide for genesis anywhere? The tutorials here are good but does not go into in-depth customizations. It seems like all the child themes automatically carry a lot of features from the genesis framework. So, an overall exhaustive tutorial of the genesis framework would be awesome.
I am also trying to add featured image and read more option in my category/archive page. I have read all the tutorials and have also tried to compare the code of all the theme files of lifestyle theme with themes which have the featured images and read more feature. But none of the tutorials and code snippets explain where the featured images and excerpt features are included in a child theme. I have understood that I need to add the image size for the featured images in functions.php which is fine. But which other file do I need to edit in order to include those images in the category or blog pages. There are no category or blog pages in genesis child themes such as lifestyle. Could you please explain in which file did you include the featured images code etc. I need the pointer at least. I will try to do the rest. Hardly 3-4 genesis themes use featured images in blog pages.
My experience with HostGator has been fairly ok for all these years and I have been a customer with them for nearly 5-6 years now with different types and packages of hosting at different times. I have my own dedicated server for a few year now (not at HostGator) but still host a few sites at HG. They are fairly reliable host and with better quality support than most of the web hosts out there. I can say that from my experience with various web hosts over the years.
At times, you outgrow a shared hosting scenario when you need to upgrade to other options such a VPS or a dedicated server. Often you also need to upgrade the dedicated servers with larger ones as you grow with time. I am not sure of your case but you can ask them the reason for which they restricted your account. And they were very unprofessional in case they did not inform you at all before doing so. But as I said earlier, they are still out of the better web hosting out there.
If you want to change hosts and want reliable reviews I would advise you to check webhostingtalk forum where you would also see a lot of offers along with some genuine reviews. There are some low quality hosts and reviews out there too. So, use your mind and try to filter out the good ones as per reputation out there on the forum. Many of them run offers from time to time. But try to stick to somewhat reputed hosts only. Smaller hosts with good reviews and reputation are fairly fine if you have a proper backup system as you are not in case the host faces problem or ceases to exist.