David Chu

Hi,
You want to reduce the height of that black bar on top? There’s tons of padding on the header nav. Appearance… Edit, and look for the code like this. I changed the padding setting. This looks pretty good to me.

.header-image .site-header .widget-area {
    padding: 1.9rem 0;
}

Dave

Hi,
I agree that Eric’s code should work, as long as it’s in the Epik style.css.

I see interference from a bunch of inline styles, I don’t know if that’s coming from Jetpack or something else, you’ll have to hunt that down. This code is in there, and the 2nd line is adding an extra dollop of background color. If that can be deleted or at least set to “background-color: inherit;”, then the bar revealed by Eric’s code will look nice, with the background color and the image.

.site-header .wrap {
  background-color: #293F5E !important;
  padding: 1rem 0;
}

Dave

Hi,
These super-tricked out homepages that every theme has nowadays can be somewhat confusing, even to a theme hacker like me. The most common problem I see on the Studiopress forum is that people are used to having a static page as “Home”, so they wonder why no home widgets work (95% of modern tricked-out theme home pages require that you choose “Latest Posts” for what’s on home, even if their home page layout contains no Blog posts at all! Otherwise, no Home widgets work).

But I think there’s an easy answer to your question. You can just make a new page, call it Blog, and here’s the key difference: before saving the page, go down to the right, and find “Template”. In the dropdown, choose “Blog”. Save. (no content needed on the page). Then put the page into one of your menus, and you’re all set. This will work great unless you want some kind of custom changes to the blog display.

Dave

Hi Wes,
Yup, I’ve been following these changes closely, and the README has been pulled out for 2.0. More on that stuff here.

Why this would happen is beyond me. I answer questions on the SP forum, and some questions would have been avoided altogether if people would have read that. Now that’s out. Gary’s not even a Studiopress employee, but thanks to him, some details emerge. The SP team are pretty silent about release details, changelogs, prices, etc. I don’t know if they’re understaffed or what. So I’m left to do my own code compares, or catch something on Twitter.

On a happier note, when I get some time between tasks, I will be sporting Epik on my own homepage, so I’m looking forward to that!

Dave