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Hi Jeff,

I must concur with Wes that Epik works fine with gutenberg, the problem IMHO is that gutenberg is not ready to be consumed…

Being a big fan of epik with a number of my sites running it with complicated code and webbadassery I became worried on seeing your post… SO i went to the web site of my FAVORITE client and immediately upgraded everything, plugins and all, to their latest versions (after i made a backup of course).

It was immediately confusing and distressing like any new development environment is but I noticed that a lot of things I have come to depend on in the editor not only were not there but were inaccessable. Yuk. C’mon wordpress? I mean one of the MAIN reasons for wordpress’s continued success is the ease at which coders and designers can apply fancy schmancy details to an otherwise boring CMS based blog application… If i cant do that, i may as well go back to coding my own php or shtml (remember shtml?)…

So my solution, since I figured I had mirrored your situation close enough for my comfort was to just disable the thing using a plugin made by the wordpress contributors…

https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/

Push that gutenberg stuff out of the way and get back to work. They are gonna support the classic editor till 2022 so I think I will wait till 2020 before I try Gutenberg again. Once the bugs are worked out…

Clay

You can turn this feature off by going to Appearance > Customize > Front Page Content Settings and then you’ll see the option to turn it off.

In a future update I’ll have the blog turned off by default.

Let me know if that works.

In the past, I’ve always just created a png image and used a site to convert it to an ico file. Then I would upload that to my images folder (replacing the default image). I did this through FTP, but that was years ago. They’ve added new ways to do it now.

It looks like you can upload it through WordPress – Appearance > Site Identity > Site Icon

That should work and might be a much easier way to do it.

There’s some other ways to do it too. Here are some tutorials that showed up on Google –

https://www.wpstuffs.com/custom-favicon-genesis/

https://www.magnet4blogging.net/adding-custom-favicon-genesis-child-theme/

http://dreamwhisperdesigns.com/genesis-tutorials/change-default-genesis-favicon/

Let me know if that helps.

My apologies sometimes there’s an issue with WordPress/bbPress sending the notification emails when someone replies.

It looks like a part of the CSS was changed that is affecting the sidebar on the homepage.

Did you add this code to your style.css on line 2783? –

.front-page .site-inner {
    padding: 0;
}

Adding that code removes the spacing on the left and right of the Blog posts as well as the sidebar on the main page.

Once you remove that code or change it back to normal then the spacing on the sides will show up again.

Let me know if that helps. I can create a screenshot of what it will look like once you fix that part if you want.

In your WP Admin, head over to Appearance > Customize then click the Front Page Content Settings. This is where you can remove the Latest Blog posts from showing on the homepage.

Let me know if that helps.

Hi,

As mentioned in the Forum Rules (#5) it’s recommended to create each topic/issue into their own separate Threads due to the “One question per thread policy“. This helps keep everything organized and makes it easier for us to find similar issues through the Search Results when searching the forum.

Do you have a link to your website? That will help so I can see which lines will need to be adjusted.

For Question #3, the featured images aren’t supposed to show up on the Single pages, they are designed to only show on the Blog pages. That’s how most StudioPress and other Genesis Child themes are designed when dealing with Featured Images. However, I do believe they already have this feature included within the theme, you just need to “un-comment” it out in the functions file. Look for the code under this – // Add featured image above the entry content and uncomment it.

Is that link your regular blog page or is that a custom page? If it’s the regular blog page, then I’m not sure why it’s not working. I just did another test with that same code and it seems to work.

Let me know if you want me to login and try it.

To remove the author name, add this to your functions.php –

//* Customize the post info function
add_filter( 'genesis_post_info', 'sp_post_info_filter' );
function sp_post_info_filter($post_info) {
if ( !is_page() ) {
	$post_info = '[post_date] by [post_comments] [post_edit]';
	return $post_info;
}}

If you ever want to add it back or rearrange the order, add this shortcode –

[post_author_posts_link]

To show excerpts (on the blog), take a look in your Genesis Theme Settings page in the Content Archives section. You can select a content limit or excerpt in the Display option.

One more thing, I thought I added this yesterday. If you look around line 1555 you’ll see this code –

.front-page-1 {
    height: 100vh;
}

Once you remove that then the height should return back to normal.

Also, I would remove the Parallax effect since your images aren’t large enough for the content you have. If you have a background image that moves with the Parallax style, then that means the image needs to be large enough to cover the height of the text/content. If you have too much text/content and the background image isn’t large enough, then the image will stop at a certain point while the content keeps going. If you remove the Parallax effect, then this will allow the background image to resize and cover the entire area of the content without looking “cut off”.

The parallax effect can be disabled on the front-page.php file. Looks like this –

		//* Enqueue parallax script
		add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'aspire_enqueue_parallax_script' );
		function aspire_enqueue_parallax_script() {

			if ( ! wp_is_mobile() ) {

				wp_enqueue_script( 'parallax-script', get_bloginfo( 'stylesheet_directory' ) . '/js/parallax.js', array( 'jquery' ), '1.0.0' );

			}

		}

********************************************************************************

For front-page-6 add .solid-section right after like this –

.front-page-6 .solid-section {
    background-image: url(http://toedeloe.codebase.space/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/geschenken.jpg);
}

The .solid-section class is a div that displays a white background that shows up on line 1508 for every widget area you see with a white background. If you add a background image to front-page-6 then the solid section div shows up on top of it. So we would need to override that with the code above.

Let me know if you need help making any of these adjustments.

This is showing up like this because you have a lot of text inside some of the widget areas. Most sites that use Parallax backgrounds don’t have too much text, maybe a little to explain what’s going on, but not so much where it would extend beyond the length of the image. If you look at the demo you can see the difference…..But no worries, if you do plan to have that much text, we can still make adjustments to get it working.

Here’s a couple ways to work around it –

1. Easiest way is to remove the Parallax effect from your front-page.php file (I can help you remove this if you don’t want to touch the PHP code) –

		//* Enqueue parallax script
		add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'aspire_enqueue_parallax_script' );
		function aspire_enqueue_parallax_script() {

			if ( ! wp_is_mobile() ) {

				wp_enqueue_script( 'parallax-script', get_bloginfo( 'stylesheet_directory' ) . '/js/parallax.js', array( 'jquery' ), '1.0.0' );

			}

		}

Removing that effect should fix that instantly. Parallax works great and looks cool, but not everyone needs it or should use it depending on the type of site and widgets they’ll be using. Especially if you have odd shaped background images and a lot of text on top of them (I’ll explain this below).

2. One of the other things you can do if you do want to keep the Parallax effect is to simply add a 2nd image (taller) designed specifically for Mobile devices.

On desktop and laptop browsers, the background images will show up in full and the text will most likely show up fine on top of the images/widget sections. On smaller browsers, most developers and other professional sites usually have a 2nd image that is designed for mobile browsers to activate when the site is being viewed from a smaller device. This would usually be a taller/more vertical image that is used. So if you have a lot of text, the background image will be long enough to cover it without the text extending beyond the image exposing the body/background.

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This happens on pretty much any site that uses background images with Parallax. If you do a Google search you’ll see similar issues from other Developers, Theme designers and anyone that uses Parallax in general (not just Genesis Themes). What is happening is the Background images are presented to show up the best way they can without being too stretched or shrunk too small. So if you have a widget area with a lot of text/content and a background image behind it that is more wide than it is vertical, you’ll see this type of behavior when you shrink your browser.

The Background image height can only extend so far without losing quality or shrinking the width too much. So when you have a lot of text, the background image will stop at some point, and the text will still show on top of whatever image or color is in the background (most likely body background).

Like I said, if you plan to have a lot of text, then I would recommend turning off Parallax, as Parallax isn’t designed for a lot of content on top…..unless you have some large Background Images that you can use. If you have large enough images, then you could get it to work.

Let me know if that helps.

Do you have a link to your site? I can check from my end to see if the favicon is showing up. Usually when you upload a new favicon it may take a while for your Browser to display it since it’s using a cached version of your site. You can try clearing your cache or resetting your browser….or even loading your site on a different browser to check and make sure it’s working. I can check for you if you have a link.

I’m not sure what’s going on with the 404 page you’re seeing, as the 2nd page shows up normally for me on the demo – http://demo.appfinite.net/aspire/templates/blog/page/2/ It’s possible it could be a plugin issue but I’m honestly not sure.

Front Page 6 is the section with the iPad and iPhone on the side.

Front Page 7 is the Blueish “What we do” section right under that.

Front Page 8 is the column on the left labeled – “Enhance your Results with a Better Design.”

Front Page 9 is the widget area on the right of FP8. We’re using the Genesis Featured Posts Plugin to show 3 of the latest Blog Posts.

Front Page 10 and 11 are the 2 full width sections right under that.

The Blog Posts that you see after those widgets on the demo show up automatically. You can turn those Posts on or off from the Customizer in the Front Page Content Settings tab.

The Widget file from the Doc page is supposed to upload all of these sections automatically.

I’m not sure what you mean by “blind” effect? Are you referring to how it opens up when you hover? If so, I think that has something to do with the superfish/javascript that is used in the Genesis Framework. It shows up that way by default. Example – https://demo.studiopress.com/genesis-sample/

Try adding this code in your functions file –

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'sp_disable_superfish' );
function sp_disable_superfish() {
    wp_deregister_script( 'superfish' );
    wp_deregister_script( 'superfish-args' );
}

To remove the Parallax effects, take a look in your front-page.php file and Comment Out or Remove this code –

//* Enqueue parallax script
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'guru_enqueue_parallax_script' );
function guru_enqueue_parallax_script() {

  if ( ! wp_is_mobile() ) {

    wp_enqueue_script( 'parallax-script', get_bloginfo( 'stylesheet_directory' ) . '/js/parallax.js', array( 'jquery' ), '1.0.0' );

  }

}

The background images will still be in a fixed position, but the Parallax effect will be disabled. If you want to ALSO remove the fixed background images then you’ll need to look at line 1456 or search for this –

.front-page-1,
.front-page-3,
.front-page-5,
.front-page-7,
.front-page-9,
.front-page-11 {
	background-attachment: fixed;
	background-position: 50% 0;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	-webkit-background-size: cover;
	-moz-background-size:    cover;
	background-size:         cover;
}

…then comment out or remove this part – background-attachment: fixed;

I don’t think it’s a Vintage Theme issue since the Demo and the other sites I have it running on seems to be working fine. Here is an example of Vintage running on the latest version of WordPress and Genesis – http://demo.appfinite.net/vintage/templates/blog/

I would check to see if you have any outdated Plugins, or Custom code that was added that may be causing the conflict.

Also check to make sure the Genesis and WordPress updates are installed properly. Try and let them both reinstall if possible.

I don’t see the .footer-widget-4 CSS anywhere. Did you add it in somewhere?

In the CSS you’ll need to make footer-widgets-1, 2, 3 all float to the left and share the same size, while footer-widget-4 is supposed to float to the right.

Footer 4 should also be added with the same width as footer 1, 2, and 3, but no margin-right would be needed since it’s floating to the right/end of the content area.

Let me know if that makes sense.

“Also, something strange is now happening. Under the footer widget titled “Travel Tips,” there is a space between the links “Travel Blog” & “Travel Insurance.” It wasn’t there before and i don’t see what could be causing that to happen.”

^ That will be fixed automatically once you add the footer-widget-4 code from the suggestion above. It’s just a floating issue since you added the 4th widget but don’t have the CSS added in to guide it in position. That’s why they are all showing up weird.

Go to your Genesis > Theme Settings page, and then scroll down until you see Content Archives. Select either Content Limit or Entry Excerpts and you can choose the rest of the options in that section.

Content Limit allows you to set exactly how many characters you want to show for each Blog Post throughout the site. The Excerpt option will display wherever you set the Read More mark in each of your Posts individually.