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I’d love to help, but you should keep in mind, that the purpose of the forums is to lead you in the right direction so that you can write your own code, we can’t always do it for you. Hopefully I can help lead you to “Learn How to Fish” rather than just “giving you the fish”….That’s just something to keep in mind when using any forum……If you were hiring someone, well, then that’s different 🙂

To edit your css file you should be able to access that under Appearance > Editor….then select the style.css file. You can also log in by FTP and access your files directly and you could edit the css that way. The FTP way is the preferred way, for many reasons…..you can do a Google search on what FTP is and how to set it up. There should be plenty of tutorials out there, especially for whatever host you’re using.

For the buttons, you can look here at this tutorial if you haven’t already – http://demo.appfinite.com/optimal/buttons-boxes/ ….as mentioned before, you can just copy one of them in your css and replace the color code with the code that you want. The code that you want is around line 1696 in your css file. If for any reason you can’t access it (assuming you’re using Jetpack or something) here is the optimal css from the demo (which is the same as yours) – http://demo.appfinite.com/optimal/wp-content/themes/optimal/style.css?ver=1.9.1 You can search for the button codes under the “Buttons” section –

/* Buttons
------------------------------------------------------------ */

To find the color that you want, just use a color picker. Here is one for example – http://www.colorpicker.com/ After you select your color look at the top for the 6 digit hex code which should be on top right after the “#”

Here is a site that will allow you to create your own buttons with a button generator – http://www.cssbuttongenerator.com/ there are many more you could search for as well.

This should be more than enough info to get you going. Hope that helps.

You can read some of the tutorials on StudioPress about adding and registering hooks – http://www.studiopress.com/resources and http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/

You could copy one of the widgets on the homepage and rename it since you only want it to show on the homepage. You’ll also need to do the same for the functions.php file since you’ll need to register that newly created widget at the bottom.

When you create your widget for the homepage, you’ll need to wrap it with your class or ID and you can control the css by adding it to your style.css file of the theme.

If this all seems to difficult, I’d recommend hiring a dev to handle it all for you.

Yes just do the same thing but add #header a:hover

If you look in your css file around line 1696 you’ll see the buttons colors and classes. Just copy one of them and rename it to what you want…..then of course you can edit the colors and things.

Since you’re using the dark blue color scheme, you’ll need to add this for the hover –

.epik-darkblue #title-area a:hover {
	color: #aaa;
}

@Eric, I know Wes has been pretty busy lately, but do you know when he’ll have it ready?

From what it looks like, you don’t have a width defined for those two areas….which is why it expands with no limit. You should probably wrap those in a div and add a width to it.

Brian Gardner has a tutorial on how to create landing pages here – http://www.briangardner.com/create-landing-page/

I think the main issue is the fact that your sidebar floats to the left…..which is why it shows up so close to the content. It’s supposed to float to the right. I’m guessing you changed this since the Epik theme has it to the right by default. So if you look around line 618, just change it to float: right like this –

.content-sidebar-sidebar #sidebar-alt,
.footer-widgets-3,
.sidebar,
.sidebar-content #content,
.sidebar-content-sidebar #content-sidebar-wrap,
.sidebar-sidebar-content #content,
.sidebar-sidebar-content #content-sidebar-wrap,
#footer .creds,
#header .widget-area {
	float: right;
}

To change the width you have to use the code I gave above. That is the sidebar, so it will change, just make sure you’re editing the right part.

Since the homepage is designed to show widgets only on the homepage, you’ll have to copy the home.php file and turn it into a page template. You can do so by adding this right under the first <?php

// Template Name: Homepage

This will take some effort on your end if you want the widgets to show different content on separate pages. You could either recreate all of the widgets and have each template show completely separate widgets (hard way)…..or you could try using a plugin called Genesis Simple Sidebars, or the Custom Sidebar plugin to show different content for the widgets on different pages. Other than that, you’d probably have to hire someone to do this all for you if you’re unable to figure it out…..but give the plugins a try first to see if that helps.

That is called the #title-area and can be located and adjusted around line 656 in your style.css file –

#title-area {
	width: 30%;
}

#title-area a {
	color: #fff;
	font-weight: 300;
}

#title-area a:hover {
	color: #aaa;
}

My pleasure!

This isn’t something we can necessarily help you with, but you can search for a plugin that will give you this functionality. Try searching WordPress.org, CodeCanyon, or you can do a Google search for a plugin as well.

Did you make sure that your featured image is actually uploaded to the post/page?

Yeah, it’s working fine for me as well. Did you check to see if you are looking in the right place?

The highlighted links are the links that you’ve visited. For example, since I’ve never been on your site, they all show up as gray for me, and any new user visiting your site.

My pleasure!

Are you talking about the footer widgets section? If so, you can just add a custom menu widget to any of the three available footer widget areas. If you’re talking about the bottom footer, then you would have to manually add menu links. You can learn how to do this from StudioPress here – http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/footer/

Hello @Abigailjane,

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

I also highly recommend Event Espresso.  Can’t go wrong, it works great!