Eric

It’s because you wrapped all of your code in a hyperlink. You also didn’t properly close out your tags.

Example, this is what you have –


<h4>This title is wrapped inside h4 tags</h4>
<p>This content is wrapped inside the "p" tag. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.</p>

Notice there is no end tag for the hyperlink, and you put it before the h4 title and “p” content. The end tag should look like this – </a> and you should only add the <a href="your-link.com"> before your link and the </a> end tag right after.

No this has to be done with a completely separate template file. It would be even more complicated trying to add something like that inside the functions file. You would definitely need to create an entire template file to do this…..that’s just the way WordPress is setup.

I don’t really know what to do since I haven’t used the plugin before, but I’ll continue and try to help as much as I can. The way the homepage is setup is based on WordPress standards. Adding a home.php file will automatically be recognized as the home page. Maybe you could just create two page templates (or just create 2 pages and use the same template twice) and assign different sidebar content to each of the 2 homepages?

See if that will work, and let me know…..Other than that, I’m not sure what else we could do. You would probably have to contact the plugin developer or use the plugin’s forum to see if they have any suggestions for Genesis child themes.

Have you tried the first plugin? – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-sidebars/ I actually like this one better. I think it would be easier to use.

Give that plugin a try instead and let me know if you can’t figure it out.

Wow, I never knew that. I’ll keep this in mind in case I run across this issue. Thanks for letting me know.

If you ever need to find a workaround just let us know and we’ll see if we can come up with something. At worst, we could probably just manually add the Text with a “Read More” button.

To turn you home.php file into a page template, add this under the first php at the top –

// Template Name: Home

This will allow you to use this as a page template. Remember to copy and rename the file.

Hello Kurdi,

In the future, please create separate topics for each question. We have a “One Question Per Topic/Thread” policy – https://appfinite.com/topic/forum-rules/. This keeps everything organized by topic/questions and makes it easy for us to answer questions…..it also makes it easy for others when using the Search form to find similar topics/questions.

1. I think its possible, but you would probably have to create a completely custom category template file in order to do this….There may be some tutorials out there on how to do it if you do a Google search. If not, then I’m not sure the best route to take for something like this.

2. Yes, you can do this from the responsive section itself by changing the widths shown for the media queries. You’ll also need to make some adjustments to the css in order for everything to do this.

3. yes you can, just simply change all of the affected areas to text-align: left; instead of center.

4. yes you can either remove or comment out the entire responsive section.

The Skope theme is awesome! Wes will be updating this theme and a few others very soon. So it’s going to get even better! Let me know if you have any other questions.

Thanks!

Eric

As mentioned earlier, you’ll need to provide a link so we can actually see what your issue is.

The Legacy demo, and my local install shows no issues and is working properly. If you site is showing something different then we have to see a link in order to know what your issue is.

Yes you can do this. You’ll need to go into your css file and look around line 1245 (unless you’ve made changes) for this –

.welcome-feature-1, .welcome-feature-2 {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 red;
float: left;
margin: 0 2% 0 0;
width: 32%;
}

^ Just change the width to a lower number….then look under that code for the .welcome-feature-3 and adjust the width to a higher percentage. Just play with the numbers until you get the size exactly as you want it to look and that will give you exactly what you’re looking for.

It will only work with the Crystal theme, since it is the only other Genesis theme that has a portfolio built in a similar way as the themes offered here……that’s if you’re talking about portfolios. The code was originally designed for “Posts” so if you are showing posts on certain pages, then you can use the code and customize which posts show or not.

Actually this is the “Standard” way to add a logo in Genesis. This is the way all of the new Genesis themes are built. You may be thinking about the old way of adding logos.

The new way is still very easy to do, it only takes me a minute or less. If you need some assistance just let us know and we can help you get it working exactly how you want it 🙂

All you have to do is add a logo using the WordPress Header uploader feature. Just look under “Appearance” then click “Header”. Then follow the steps to upload your logo. Keep in mind, the default logo size for epik is 1152 x 120…..so if your image is a different size, you’ll need to go into your functions.php file and change the following code to match the size of your image –

// Add support for custom header
add_theme_support( 'genesis-custom-header', array(
'width' => 1152,
'height' => 120
) );

Then once you change this and add your image to the WordPress Header uploader, it should upload just fine (without the need to crop)

I’m looking at your site in the exact same places on multiple browsers on multiple computers and it doesn’t appear that way. You must have a setting on your computer that makes your fonts look weird, because no one else has reported this issue. But again, I’m not sure how to fix this since this isn’t necessarily a theme issue. From what I can see its between Google’s Font Servers and your font settings/preferences – which are both outside of the theme. Not much I can really do unfortunately.

Your site shows up fine for me on all of my Mac computers, including the iPhone….consistently.

@selfpowerment since you’re already here can you take a look to see if everything is showing up correctly? If there is anyone else reading this, if you can chime in as well that would be great!

Wait a sec….I just checked your site and it’s still not working. I see an extra semicolon – “color: #ff7e00; !important;” it should be this instead – “color: #ff7e00 !important;“

LOL This is Eric ……you keep calling me Wes :p

Are you sure you added it to the stylesheet? ….because I don’t see it in your css. Try it again, and make sure it saves to the stylesheet….then clear your cache (just hit your reload button).

I added it to your site with my editor, and it’s working fine for me.

Also, make sure and visit one of the pages in the menu to make sure it’s working. The above code should highlight the current page (from the menu), and it will hover the orange color as well.

You’re Welcome Emma!

You’re Welcome

First I think it needs to be mentioned that the above user @selfpowerment is a customer, he (or she) is not affiliated with appfinite. They are a customer just like you. I just wanted to make that clear so you didn’t think that this site promotes being rude or anything. Although, after carefully re-reading their comment, I don’t think @selfpowerment was necessarily talking about you being rude, but people in general. Please don’t take it personal, and remember that we are here to help you 🙂

I’ve mentioned previously that I wanted to help 🙂 so I hope you’re not taking any of my comments as being “rude”. I only explained why we have the one question policy just in case anyone else who doesn’t know can understand why it exists.

…..Back on topic – Some Google fonts show up the same on different browsers, while others show differently due to the way browsers and operating systems display fonts. I’m actually using a Macbook myself and the fonts look the exact same on my IMac, iPhone, iPad etc. So if your fonts are displaying incorrectly, it could also just be an issue with your computer settings…..I’ve seen someone who had a PC that showed text as Comic Sans font, and it was because of a setting they had on Windows.

This is a known issue, and there isn’t really anything that can be done since it’s all on Google’s servers, and it all gets rendered differently depending on what and how you’re viewing it.

Believe me, if I could fix this, you know I’d tell you exactly what to change….but unfortunately there isn’t much that you can do. Some people “claim” to have a workaround, but I haven’t personally seen much of a solution just yet.

If you click here and do a Google search you’ll see plenty of articles on the topic.

It’s not a theme issue, its just the way different browsers render fonts.

Well to add more space in between the content and sidebar, you could just decrease the content width around line 548 in your css.

.content-sidebar #content,
.sidebar-content #content {
width: 580px;
}

As already mentioned in the link you posted (not sure why you’re reposting the same question) but the answer is still the same. This theme (nor any theme) does not have control over the way Google’s fonts appear. As I said before, they are located on Google’s servers. The theme only links to those fonts on their servers. How these fonts appear on browsers are completely up to those browsers and/or operating systems. They ALL render the fonts in their own way. The only thing you could possibly do is try hosting the font yourself (still not a guarantee it will be the same)…..If you want to try hosting the font yourself to see if that works, then you can do a Google search to see if there are instructions on how to properly do it.

“this 1question/1thread policy is gonna drive you nuts”

The policy is in place to keep everything organized. If questions are organized then it is easy for people to respond, stay on topic and on track with each post. Having 1 topic per post is also good for others who are searching for similar questions. People would much rather prefer searching for an answer and finding it “post by post”…..rather than searching through a bunch of random off topic questions all inside the same post/topic (which is very unorganized…and very, VERY annoying). Most support forums function this way and share this same policy. StudioPress even has this rule as well.

Haha Thanks! I appreciate it…..but you don’t have to do that 🙂 I’m just glad I could help!

Take a look at your code, it looks like you have html errors. If you forget to “open” or “close” your tags it throws other parts of the site off.

Since I’ve already spent a lot of time trying to figure this out, I’ll just get straight to the point (rather than explain in detail what all is happening). Take a look at you header right widget content – “Serving the North Texas Area” ……you didn’t properly close out the ….basically IE sees this and messes everything up. Other browsers won’t know how to display it either.

You’re Welcome Frank!

Hello Renee,

Sorry for the late reply, (Wes has been busy), if you can create a temporary user/password and send it to the Contact Form – https://appfinite.com/forums/ either Wes or myself can take a quick look to see what the issue could be.

Eric

I’m guessing you missed the Genesis SEO Settings. To adjust the SEO settings you can simply follow this tutorial which explains how to set everything up (including the homepage) – http://my.studiopress.com/docs/genesis-seo-settings/

As Wes already mentioned, this Child Theme WILL NOT affect your SEO in a negative way. Wes builds his themes in the same way as StudioPress does, so there is nothing you need to worry about 😉

Here are more StudioPress links/tutorials that should answer common Genesis questions –

Genesis Tutorials – http://my.studiopress.com/tutorials/

Community Tutorials

Video Tutorials