B_David

Hi Wes –

So I think I have the page layout issues addressed on this one. Using the theme author box seems to resolve the problem.

But I’m running into an issue styling the theme author box – I must be trying to make changes in the wrong place. Here’s what I’m doing:

1) I’ve changed the WP settings to enable an author box for one user: Users / User / Author Archive Settings / Enable Author Box on this User’s Posts

2) I’ve been applying the styling changes to the class .author-box in the theme’s css.

So far, none of the changes have shown up on the web page. Is there a different file or class that I need to be styling, or am I overlooking something simple?

Thanks for the great help as always – we’re in the home stretch on this one. : )

Hi Eric –

Thanks so much for the suggestion – I didn’t think of that! Really appreciate you getting back to me with your ideas. : )

I gave the after entry widget a try, but got the same result – i.e. without the author box the ad positions properly and the recent posts stay where they belong at the top of the sidebar.

But as soon as the author box is activated, the recent posts (in sidebar1) is displaced to the bottom of the page – and it actually looks like the webhooks that follow are reformatted to a greater width, if that’s possible. At any rate, the author box seems to be the culprit.

A few images to show what’s happening:

I’m pretty sure it’s not a conflict with the Advanced Ads plugin, because the hooks are reordering as soon as the author box is activated – regardless of whether Advanced Ads is active.

Even with Advanced Ads deactivated, the author box is causing three hooks (g-after-entry, g-after-endwhile, and g-after-loop) to migrate to the top of the sidebar – so it definitely appears to be creating unexpected consequences. Just not sure why.

Ideas? This is a head-scratcher for me. Really appreciate any insights you have.

Thanks again,

Brian

Awesome – Thanks Wes!

I checked out the link, and it looks like that should do it. Will go back to the workshop and tinker a bit.

Thanks for the help as always, and have a great night!

Brian

Hi Wes –

After all we’ve been through on this thread, I really hate to say this – but I think I’m having the same issue as Artist Clara.

After we changed the featured image setting (Genesis / Theme Settings / Content Archives / Featured Image) I discovered a stray image on my home page. I believe it’s posting to the beginning of the content Front Page Content Section Display. (Under Appearance / Customize / Front Page Content Section Display I have it set to “Show content section” – and even though I’m choosing not to display blog post updates here, I needed the section visible so I could build out the rest of the front page).

So it turns out that the image displayed was the very first image that was uploaded to the image library. (It’s also one of the images that displays in the testimonial slider, which is the first section in the Front Page Content Section Display). I thought it might have something to do with an image setting, so I deleted out the image. After that, the old image was immediately replaced by the next image in the library.

And, of course, the stray image disappears as soon as I turn off the featured image setting. I’ve left it displaying on the website now (patschuler.com).

-sigh- Has to be something straightforward that we’re overlooking here, just not sure where to start digging.

If you would be willing to take one more look at this, I would really appreciate it. Thanks as always for the great help!

Brian

Sorry ’bout that, Wes. Did it pretty fast – apologies for wasting your time.

You’ve got admin access now. Thanks for taking a look. 🙂

Thanks so much, Wes – I’ll take you up on your offer!

If you would kindly add it for me, I would be deeply grateful. I’m sure it would save you time (and save me the anxiety 🙂

Just let me know what you need from me. And thanks again!

Thanks so much, Wes! Everything is perfect now. 🙂

Thanks again for all your great help!

Excellent suggestion, Wes – many thanks! And thanks for being patient on this one. : )

Static: orange button, white text (as it appears currently).

Hover: white button, orange text

And if possible, I’d like to ‘bold’ each of the menu items (menu, menu hover, button, button hover) if you could just point me in the right direction.

Many thanks for all your great help!

Thanks Wes – this is awesome! It’s exactly what I had in mind. And thanks for finding that pesky bracket. : )

One last thing: I reset the hover color to white which works well, and when you hover over the button and the text, the text goes to orange – which is perfect. But you have to hold the mouse pointer right over the text in order for it to display in the button (or it ends up looking confusing/unfinished).

I’m assuming the text fade-in is controlled by the .genesis-nav-menu class. Is there a way to disable it for just this button? Or, even better, to trigger the text fade-up when hovering over the button area instead of the text area?

Many thanks for all the great help! (patschuler.com)