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Do you have a link to your site as an example so I can take a look at what’s going on?

The slider images shouldn’t affect the Featured Widget Thumbnails.

Are you using a plugin to do this? If so, you’d need to contact the plugin developer to figure out how to do it as this goes beyond the Epik theme itself. Genesis themes won’t prevent plugin functionality like that from functioning properly. You would need to make sure the plugin or whatever you’re using offers that as feature/option.

I’m not exactly sure how to do it with PHP/filters, but if you have a link I can look at your blog and see if its possible to have the date removed visually using CSS.

That’s not going to be an easy solution with the Genesis Framework. It’s a little difficult when trying to do something like that with Genesis, as there will be a lot of code that needs to be created in order for something like that to happen with your site.

The Portfolio file is a template, so if you’re able to create or select a template you can choose that one, or you can copy and paste this template and rename it if you wanted to as well.

Unfortunately it’s kind of difficult to figure out how to get it to pass a test on those type of sites unless they have a guide that lets you know exactly what it takes to pass. It’s sort of like Mobile Browsers. Most mobile browsers don’t have that much documentation/guidelines on what it takes to build a site that works perfectly in their particular browser and phone/device.

Every device that I’ve used and tested the theme on has always worked with no issues. My point was, if a tester/site says a site is broken, but there are no signs of a broken site (by scanning the code, and viewing on nearly every type of mobile device) then I know not to put 100% trust into a site like that, regardless who it is. Like I said, if they had a guide that shows exactly what it takes to validate a site, or what the standards are, then that would help developers get going in the right direction. There just aren’t that many out there. Most Mobile Device standards are usually found by accident, or in a developer forum somewhere…….It’s not really laid out and simple to read.

I checked the theme that you’re using and the theme itself seemed to pass with no issues – https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?url=http://demo.appfinite.net/epik …….The fact that you’re using that same theme, and your site isn’t passing lets me know that either you added an error/typo somewhere in your code, or the plugins that you’ve added aren’t working properly and may be causing some errors…..or the test itself is not 100% accurate. Who knows? lol

Anyways, if you don’t figure it out, I wouldn’t worry, your site/design looks good on every device I’ve checked. Keep up the good work 🙂

Yes you can use all of these images. He mentioned previously that he took these pictures himself, except for the 2nd picture with the laptop. You can still use that picture as well if you want, it comes from a site that offers free images that you can do whatever you want with.

Assuming you’re referring to this forum…….that can happen sometimes. They (Appfinite) are using a plugin called BBPress to run their forum, so if there are any issues, it’s coming from bbPress rather than Appfinite’s site. bbPress is always making updates, so if this is a real issue, they’ll most likely get it fixed in the next update. I’d let bbPress know if you have had this happen to you…….Personally, it hasn’t happened to me yet, or at least that I know of. I always get an email notification anytime someone replies to me. Especially when I check the “Notify” box.

One of the files is the theme that you can upload through the theme uploader.

The other file (Layer Slider) is supposed to be uploaded through the Plugins page. They are separate files, so head over to your plugins page and upload the Layer Slider separately.

You’ll need to unzip these files from your computer since they are two separate files.

Did you get this working? I couldn’t tell if you did or not after reading your reply.

If not, just add a link that will directly override your default logo. You can add the smaller logo in the responsive section on line 3344 –

.header-image .site-header,
.header-image .site-header .wrap {
    background: url(http://mobilewetten.org/wp-content/uploads/logo.png) center top no-repeat !important;
}

Add/Replace whatever link you want in the link area I posted above.

Ok for some reason my response didn’t show up, and I think it’s because I didn’t hit the Submit button, or the browser that I’m using (Opera) had an error. I typed a reply a few days ago, and when I clicked this forum link to see how everything was going, everything that I typed was still inside the Message/Reply box waiting to be submitted. Thank goodness my browser saved that info!

Anyways, here’s what I typed –

I just checked that out and I can see your Menu disappears in responsive mode. The theme/demo itself is working fine (check out the demo). The only way it wouldn’t is if you added or removed something from the theme on your own site. Did you make any adjustments to the responsive Nav CSS code/section? By default it’s supposed to work. If you look at the demo, you can see how everything is setup – http://demo.appfinite.net/epik

Do you remember what all you added to your CSS that may have altered how this section of the theme works?

Take a look at this code in your css to see what I’m referring to (line 4220) –

	.genesis-nav-menu.responsive-menu {
		display: none;
	}

Hello @Nobbers the link or image that you added didn’t show up properly in the form. Can you add the link again so we can take a look?

It depends, have you customized your current version and any of it’s files? If you haven’t then you can install the latest version with no issue.

If you have made customizations, then you will have to try a different approach since an updated version installed on your site will overwrite the theme that is currently present. This means you would have to manually add/save in your customizations.

Add this to your css

.site-header .site-title a{
	background-position: center !important;
}

That should do it.

Also, if you want to add more height to your logo (since it appears to be cutoff), then you can look at line 2057 and adjust the min-height from 164px to around 240px –

.header-image .site-title a {
	float: none;
	min-height: 240px;
	width: 100%;
}

It’s not possible for the homepage or any file inside the theme to suddenly change on its own. So maybe they removed or altered something somewhere on your site, or a setting was changed. Either way, something was definitely changed, just gotta figure out where exactly.

It’s difficult to guess what happened, so we’d have to go through the basics first. Take a look at Appfinite’s Homepage tutorial to make sure you have it setup properly – https://appfinite.com/tutorials/how-to-setup-the-home-and-blog-page/

I can assure you the CSS didn’t change on its own, it can only change if something has been modified. Here is what’s going on –

The posts and pages in Genesis are located inside of a div/container called article. Anytime the article container (post/page) is displayed it shows a white background, with a small dropshadow and a little bit of padding on certain areas of the content. This happens on every page/post EXCEPT for the Homepage. The reason they didn’t add this for posts/pages on the homepage is because most users wanted to add Genesis Featured Posts and Pages inside of the Widget areas, and doing so wouldn’t look right since it would have a white background/box inside of a widget area that already has a gray, black, or white background. So having something with a gray background, and then having a post show up inside of that widget with a different background color wouldn’t look right in most cases. If you look at every other page on your site you’ll see the white background behind your content, so you probably didn’t notice that it doesn’t show up like that on the homepage.

Since you’re not using the homepage widgets like other users, you would need to remove the CSS that prevents the white background/spacing from showing specifically on the homepage. To do so, look in your css around line 2305 and you’ll see the code I’m talking about –

.home .entry {
	box-shadow: none;
	-moz-box-shadow: none;
	-webkit-box-shadow: none;
	background: none;
}

You can either remove or comment out that entire code above.

Next for the spacing. If you scroll a few lines under that code you’ll see this –

.home .entry-content {
	padding: 0 0 20px;
}

You can remove or comment that out as well. Once you do that, then your Homepage content will show up the same way as all the other pages.

I see no issue with your sidebar it looks the exact same width as the Epik demo – http://demo.appfinite.net/epik/sample/

Yes you should be able to. Are you familiar with copying templates? If so you could just copy the portfolio file in your Child theme, and rename the file to something different. Then open the file and change the template name (should be near the top of the file). After that you should be able to remove the code that deals with “Read More” links.

You can adjust the padding for that widget area on line 1977 (it’s in your style.css file)

.header-image .site-header .widget-area {
	padding: 1.9px 0;
	padding: 2.5rem 0;
}

Just remove the padding: 2.5rem 0; line entirely, and adjust the line above it. At the moment you have it as 1.9px and it should be something different. I would change it to around 25px and start with that and adjust if you need. Here is an example –

.header-image .site-header .widget-area {
    padding: 25px 0;
}

Can you ad your adsense into your site so I can take a look? Once I see it there then I can look at the source code and figure out the best way to get it centered.

This would require some basic CSS knowledge in order to to do this. You can add custom css to your style.css file. Look around line 2202 and you can start adding your code there, it should look like this –

/* Site Header Navigation
--------------------------------------------- */

.site-header .genesis-nav-menu a {
	color: #fff;
}

Try changing the padding on line 2064 in your css to this –

.header-image .site-header .widget-area {
	padding: 54px 0 40px;
}

It’s the widget area that has padding on the top and bottom (which is what is creating the space), so if you increase it, it will push it down some.

There should be a setting that allows you to set the slider as an unlimited/responsive width….which means it will adjust regardless of the size you set.

If you can setup a separate temporary account I can check it out and see how ti get it set up.

Yes it’s possible but you would have to make customizations to your home.php file since it’s basically a template. I’m not sure exactly how to do it as it would take some time coming up with some code to create this, but I would do a Google search to see if anything out there pops up. There are usually some tutorials out there that already have the work done.

If you don’t find anything, you could try and experiment combining your blog template file with the home.php (copy the blog template into your child theme folder). If you’re not familiar with php, then I wouldn’t do this, as it will require some basic knowledge/understanding of how it works.

The easiest way I can think of is to use the Genesis Featured Posts widget, which you can add into one of the widget areas. That widget adds the posts to your homepage (or any page) without any code.

Yes the homepage widgets only show up on the homepage. They work just like widgets that show up on the sidebar (just like any other theme) except these particular widgets show up on the homepage only.

Each home widget has a specific place that it shows up on the homepage. They all show up in order, with their own specific colors. Here is a guide that Wes made to show exactly where each which widget is located – https://appfinite.com/topic/epik-widgets-guide/

So once you add a widget into any of the widget areas, then that widget and that widget section will show up on the homepage. Keep in mind, ONLY that widget and the section it is located in will show up if you add something inside of it. So if you don’t add anything in the other widget areas, then they won’t show up….only the widget areas that you are using will show up. So that means you have full control over which widget section gets added on your homepage. The entire homepage is “Plug and Play“.

Example, if you only want the Slider widget area, and the Welcome widget area to show up then you should only add widget/content inside of those widget areas and only they will show up on your homepage.

You probably already figured this out, but I thought I’d post this just in case anyone else was curious.

Hope this helps.

It looks like you posted in the General forum. Since you’re using the Epik theme I’d recommend posting in the Epik Forum page here – https://appfinite.com/forum/epik-theme-support/

On the Epik Forum link you’ll find the Tutorials and Code Snippets for how to set everything up. It’s located at the top in the yellow sticky posts – https://appfinite.com/forum/epik-theme-support/

In the future, once you click the Forum link in the menu, make sure and select the forum you want to post in so that your thread will be more visible.

Go to your Genesis Theme Settings page and add it to the big box under “header and footer scripts”. If you do a Google search for “how to add Google Analytics to Genesis” you’ll also see a lot of tutorials that show how to do it –

http://amylynnandrews.com/how-to-install-google-analytics/
http://dave-lucas.com/add-google-analytics-code.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feAELG8eQmI

and there are many more out there that can help you if you need.