Eric

I am confirming that the code is valid and working fine for me as well. Please double check your code, ID, and your settings. Here is the StudioPress tutorial (just in case) – http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/breadcrumbs/

In your style.css file, take a look around line 1209 for – “#welcome .widgettitle“. This is where you can add a color, adjust font size, etc…

#welcome .widgettitle {
color: #aaa;
font-size: 36px;
font-weight: 300;
line-height: 46px;
}

“Sorry for all the questions, but I’m bewildered.”

….and I’ve noticed you’ve had quite a few questions recently, which is why I’m here to help out (as much as I can) since Wes is usually busy throughout the day. Remember, most questions can be found by searching this forum here – https://appfinite.com/forums/ or here – http://studiopress.com/forums/ at StudioPress’ forum.

You can also take a look at the Tutorials that we have, and all of the Tutorials on StudioPress which should definitely answer most of your questions. The reason I’m posting this is because most of your questions are “common” and have already been asked and responded to by others. It would be much easier and (much faster) to search for these common questions instead of waiting on anyone else to answer these for you. There is a lot of documentation on StudioPress.com already, which is where most people come from.

I’m posting because I’ve been in your shoes before. I know how it is as a beginner, and I just want to help 🙂

You just need to add a custom menu widget to the “Header Right” Widget area.

Deactivate the primary menu….

I think you may have made a mistake, because the validation that you used was an error in and of itself. There definitely aren’t “dozens of errors” anywhere….please double check and make you’ve entered the url in correctly.

I only see around 6 small errors. These aren’t really “errors” and they aren’t that big of a deal since they are just referencing multiple ID’s that are being used as backgrounds (they still work just fine). Wes actually has an update that will make them all unique ID’s, coming out soon. It’s still not really an issue regardless. The update will change – “home-feature-bg-alt” and “home-feature-bg” to different ID’s or classes.

Again, not really an issue, but Wes already has an update for this, should be out soon.

Just change it to float: left; instead of right on line 374 in your style.css. It will show up in reverse (as you’ve seen), but all you have to do is change the order in your menu 🙂

.menu li {
float: right;
list-style-type: none;
}

Are you saying, if you don’t use the Simple Hooks, then the menu shows up?

If so, and you just need to upload a header image, first you’ll need to figure out the exact size of your image, then look in your functions.php file and change the sizes to match the size of your image……then upload your image using the WP uploader and it should upload fine without having to crop or scale anything.

Let me know if that fixes the issue.

BTW Yes we usually ask everyone to create separate topics for each question. This helps us keep everything organized.

You can send it to the contact form, addressed to Eric.

No problem. Glad you got it fixed.

Yeah that’s the correct way to do it. It should work if you’re adding it to the wrap or inner (whichever one you want), it works fine for me.

No matter where you place the code, the shadow should at least show up around the ID or Class you assign it to.

If you’re trying to place a shadow around the wrap, you’ll first need to add a width (if you haven’t already). Then you can apply the css to it. Here is how the other site you linked to is doing it – box-shadow: 0 0 20px #333333;

You can also Google how to add box-shadows. I came across this – http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/css-box-shadow/ and there are plenty more.

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If you have any other questions just let us know

It looks like you have a css error somewhere in your file. I can’t seem to find exactly where its located. However, when I add text-align: left; to it…..it seems to disappear. That’s not really the solution, but it will definitely hide it in this case.

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Yes you’ll need to first look for the “genesis-custom-header” in your functions.php file and edit the sizes.  Then you can upload your image to the WP header uploader…..make sure it’s the exact size you specify in your functions file before you upload.

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With most Genesis themes, you actually don’t have to set the homepage as a static page, you would leave it at the default “Latest Posts” in Settings > Reading. The home.php file in your theme will automatically be detected and used as the homepage.

For the blog, you would simply create a new Page and name it Blog (or whatever you want) and then select the blog template……then add that link to the menu. That’s how the demo is setup, right along with all other Genesis themes.

If you take a look around line 624 in your css file…..or if you do a “search” in your css you’ll see this –

.home-bottom {
border-top: 1px solid #eee;
margin: 0 auto;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 40px 0;
width: 960px;
}

You can change the padding to this – 40px 0 10px; the “10px” represent the bottom padding. Adjust that number up or down until you get the spacing you want.

There’s no way to really tell whats going on from just looking at the site itself…..But I would recommend just reverting back to the original code and trying the tutorial again. I don’t see an image or the code for the image either, so you probably just left out some code, or removed the wrong thing. Give it another try and it should work fine.

If you have more questions about different topics you’ll need to create a separate thread for each topic since there is a “One question per thread” rule for the forums here (it helps keep everything organized).

Let me know if you get the original issue working

….BTW your site looks like its coming along nicely. Nice and clean! Can’t wait to see the final product.

Wes will be creating more tutorials for all themes here pretty soon.  For this particular theme you can take a look at this thread – https://appfinite.com/topic/getting-ally-to-look-like-demo/ …..the homepage shows up like the demo as you add content/widgets into the “Home” widgets. If you leave all of the home widgets empty then it will automatically show your blog posts on your homepage.

Also, there are a couple tutorials located here – https://appfinite.com/tutorials/ and there will be many more to come soon.

Yes all Genesis themes work with WP 3.5.1, as you can see the demo is working fine – http://demo.appfinite.com/ally/ and the editor is working fine as well.

I’m not sure why your editor isn’t working, but the Ally theme itself won’t affect this part of WordPress.  There isn’t anything within the child theme that would prevent it from working.

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Give this plugin a try and see if it works for you – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/genesis-title-toggle/

Great, that’s good to know just in case I run across a similar issue in the future.