Dave

ok tried this

.home #slider { background: url(images/your-image.jpg); }

seems to work, except had to change this also

#head-wrap {

margin: 0 0 0px;

}

to stop a big grey line appearing below the header… now the slider content is too far up.. could do with it being 20px lower

Any ideas?

The Grandchild Theme concept sounds great. I understand what it’s doing but I’m lost at the point where he mentions  ‘action being fired’ and the rest about functions isn’t in my understanding… messing with CSS and basic html is about my limit at present,

Thanks for the diff checker, that could definitely be useful at somepoint…

Adding to the bottom of the CSS file in a custom section sounds easiest option..

I can change the background of the slider widget area by uploading a background image via the theme option, however this becomes a site wide background.

Any idea what CSS I need to use to just place a background image on the home page?

Cheers!

Thanks for the links Wes…

Interesting discussion on the blog post. I don’t entirely agree with the stance about ‘lock-in’ as most theme designers add the shortcodes to give their customers the design features and layout in the easiest way possible. ie without needing HTML knowledge… If someone decides to swap themes, then they will have to deal with the consequence… (I’m having to deal with this as part of the changeover to your theme and I was fully aware of what I  was gonna be faced with)

As  I say I’m new to Genesis so knowing there is active development going on for extra plugins such as these is  a great help and I can get around to this way of working…

Also found this plugin from reading the discussion on the ‘Shortcode Madness’ post

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shortcodes-pro/

Looks like the ideal solution for now…

Thanks for the reply

Dave