Eric

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Do you have a link that I can take a look at? I’ll be able to point directly to the part of the CSS that you can adjust to do this.

Can you post a link to your site so we can see the issue?

Also, not sure where you got the 1600 by 1050 size from, but the recommended size is `1800px width and 1200px height….That’s the size in the Demo. Your image doesn’t necessarily have to be this size exactly, you can use whatever size you want just make sure it fits and looks right.

If you haven’t made customizations to your theme files directly, then you can simply delete and re-install the new version of the theme. Backup everything first!

If you’ve made customizations to your theme files and you want to keep them, then just manually update the code if needed. You probably won’t need to do this as most of their updates were minor.

“How do I remove a featured image from my pages but not my posts? My images are displaying twice on my pages and I have no ability to edit the placement of the one showing up as ‘featured’.”

It sounds like you’re using the Featured Image and a Post image at the same time. You would need to either remove the Featured Image, or remove the Post image (from inside your content) and it will appear just like the demo.

Just so you know, there was a small update made to the Featured Image code/section in the functions.php file in your theme. You may or may not already have this update (not sure since I can’t see your functions file.)

Just in case you don’t have the udpate, here’s the code that needs to be changed (old version) –

//* Add featured image above the entry content
add_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'ambition_featured_photo', 5 );
function ambition_featured_photo() {

	if ( is_attachment() || ! genesis_get_option( 'content_archive_thumbnail' ) )
		return;

	if ( is_singular() && $image = genesis_get_image( array( 'format' => 'url', 'size' => genesis_get_option( 'image_size' ) ) ) ) {
		printf( '<div class="featured-image"><img src="%s" alt="%s" class="entry-image"/></div>', $image, the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) );
	}

}

Replace that code with the new updated version –

// Add featured image above the entry content
add_action( 'genesis_before_entry', 'ambition_featured_photo' );
function ambition_featured_photo() {

    if ( ! ( is_singular() && has_post_thumbnail() ) ) {
        return;
    }

    $image = genesis_get_image( 'format=url&size=single-posts' );

    $thumb_id = get_post_thumbnail_id( get_the_ID() );
    $alt = get_post_meta( $thumb_id, '_wp_attachment_image_alt', true );

    if ( '' == $alt ) {
        $alt = the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' );
    }

    printf( '<div class="featured-image"><img src="%s" alt="%s" class="entry-image"/></div>', esc_url( $image ), $alt );
}

That fixes issues for some users having trouble deleting Featured Images that wouldn’t go away. This should already be included in the latest version as I’ve used it myself.

“Also, still am unclear about how to patch the front-page.php file above. I know how to access this file, but is there a new line of code to stick in there? How exactly do I replace the old with the new? “

What @Jessy is saying is to replace the entire file itself with the new version. There was much more than one line changed so it would be easier to just replace the whole file with the new version since it would be much faster rather than going through making adjustments to each and every line. This is assuming you haven’t edited this file of course. You can swap it out using FTP (Recommended Method), or Copy/Paste the new file into the old one if you’re using the WP admin.

“I’ve got one category (blog) that has posts which I want to show on the portfolio page but I don’t want to exclude those posts from the blog page.”

By default they won’t be excluded from your Main Blog page. The only way they’ll be excluded from your Blog page is if you manually add your Category ID’s under Exclude Categories in the Blog Page Template section from your Genesis Theme Settings page. If you don’t do that then those same posts in your Portfolio will show up on your Blog page since they are all considered Posts.

“I was wondering if I could use something apart from categories to filter the posts that will go to the portfolio page.”

Only Category ID’s will work for this type of Portfolio. WordPress (in addition to Genesis) allows you to show specific Categories only, there’s no code/option to show regular Tags.

@B_David if your layout shows up distorted it could be an HTML error. If you’re missing open/close divs or any other containers in HTML, it will cause the rest of your site to show up improperly (in reference to your reply earlier about the sidebar, etc).

I can see tables in a gray box right under the Author Box with inline custom code added. Is that the part you’re trying to edit? Because I don’t see any code added to the CSS for that. If you make edits to the Author Box in the CSS it should show up.

Check this out – http://baltimoredrew.com/integrating-woocommerce-genesis/

It’s located here – https://appfinite.com/theme-setup/optimal-theme-setup/ You can access it through the Tutorials and Resources link in the menu.

Have a link to your site?

The Aspire Portfolio template can only display Posts. Think of it as your blog redesigned in a portfolio format. You can assign certain categories to only show on the Portfolio page and exclude them from showing up on your regular Blog page. See here – https://appfinite.com/tutorials/

It’s designed to be simple to avoid overloading too much code which would make the theme too slow. For what you’re needing to do, it would be better to search for a dedicated portfolio plugin to use with the theme. I haven’t used any myself, but you can search for a free plugin through the WordPress repository – http://wordpress.org

I saw a few posts where other users asked about this here in the forum. Check out your functions.php file and look for some code that looks like this –

//* Add featured image above the entry content
add_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'aspire_featured_photo', 5 );
function aspire_featured_photo() {

	if ( is_attachment() || ! genesis_get_option( 'content_archive_thumbnail' ) )
		return;

	if ( is_singular() && $image = genesis_get_image( array( 'format' => 'url', 'size' => genesis_get_option( 'image_size' ) ) ) ) {
		printf( '<div class="featured-image"><img src="%s" alt="%s" class="entry-image"/></div>', $image, the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) );
	}

}

That’s the code they used to have Featured Images show on single posts. If you want to remove it, then remove that code above…..you can also comment it out as well.

Hey, just wanted to see if you came up with anything? Did you get the image size right? Or are you still experiencing the same issues?

Huh? That’s weird, it should download to your computer as a zip file first. Then you should be able to take that zip file and install it in WordPress through your Plugins page. What type of computer are you using, Mac or PC?

That’s one way to do it, you can still upload/install this plugin by using the WordPress Plugin area by going to Plugins > Add New and then search for the plugin from your Plugins page instead. Just type in Genesis eNews Extended and it will show up. Click install, and then activate.

Hi, I would need a link to your site in order to see what’s going on.

@eddieb Huh? Their support is perfectly fine. Matter fact, it’s AWESOME! I’ve never had a complaint, every question has been answered with no issue.

I’m not the only one responding to posts. Wes provides the majority of the Support here on the entire forum. I and a few others agreed to help out as well. So saying the support is “non existent” is not true whatsoever, a simple search would show you that.

Keep in mind, you’re asking how to download something in the Community Forum.

If you needed to download a specific version the right thing to do is contact them directly on the Contact Page, not here.

Yep, @eddieb is right, you can now make those color changes through the Customizer, without code! Much easier now.

Sorry, I’m not sure what you mean.

Are you downloading the plugin to your computer or through the WordPress Admin itself? It’s much easier to just add/install the plugin through the WordPress Plugin installer.

Once you have all the plugins that the demo uses FIRST (mentioned in the Documentation/Tutorial) then you should be able to upload the Import file from the Docs and it should load everything perfectly.

That’s IF you want to upload all of the content from the Demo. If not, then you can manually add in the widgets you want from the demo once the required plugins are installed.

If you adjust this code on line 1646 in your Style.css file, it will change the color –

.genesis-nav-menu a {
	color: #000;
	display: block;
	font-size: 13px;
	font-weight: 300;
	letter-spacing: 2px;
	padding: 26px 12px;
	text-transform: uppercase;
}

That should change it, if not let us know and we can tell you what needs to be changed 🙂

You should have it downloaded on your computer right? You would have needed to download it in order to upload it to your site. If not, you can download the version you’re using on your site currently by using FTP, that’s how I’d do it.

Keep in mind, as you may have seen already mentioned, there were lots of updates made to the code structure entirely. It’s practically a brand new theme. However, the widget areas are labeled the same, so if you upgraded to the new theme, then your old widgets should transfer just fine since they are labeled the same. The rest of the CSS and other areas of the theme will look different design wise (only slightly though).

It may be possible to do, but the only way to know is if I have a link so I can inspect the Source Code. Just let me know when you have your site ready and available (with the image installed) and I can see if it will be a simple Customization. If not, then it could require hiring a Developer to Customize it for you. But before you hire anyone let me take a look first just in case it’s something easy to do.

Do you have a link to your site with the exact location it’s supposed to show in?

The link you posted takes us back here to this page 🙂 Do you have a link to your site so I can see what needs to be changed?

Gotta link we can check out?

Here’s a tutorial link on how to change the Read More text – http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/post-excerpts/#content-more-link

Hi, do you have a link to your site so I can take a look?