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August 11, 2013 at 3:03 pm in reply to: Genesis Slider: Post Content Not Aligning Flush to Edges #6446
Eric there is no official support for the plugin in those forums (I had wandered around in there a bit before sending them my help request — via their support form). They literally told me “the support forums are gone”, and sent me a link to this forum. Is what it is I guess. Really shocking to me given the reputation StudioPress has WRT to customer support and paying attention to details. Seems this is one detail they don’t care about enough to have a dedicated wiki and support forum for their plugins that is easy to find.
The search of that General forum reveals several Slider threads, most of which have no answers in them. I’ll dig around the CSS I guess.
THanks Eric. I’ll give that a shot tomorrow and report back.
August 11, 2013 at 12:39 am in reply to: Genesis Slider: Post Content Not Aligning Flush to Edges #6425Eric. Those StudioPress forums no longer exist… according to StudioPress itself. They took them down. Basically, StudioPress is providing zero support for its own plugin, which is really disappointing.
Short version: cannot figure out of it’s possible to get the text options to truly sit flush with top or bottom (I don’t think so from what I’ve seen), or get images that do not match the size of the slider to sit flush with all borders and combine with flush text box to cover 100% of the boundaries with no overlaps (also don’t think so). Guessing my best bet with text stuff is a CSS edit but not sure where to find the CSS for a plugin in Genesis’ ecosystem.
AFA the theme being 1140 px… the default size of the slider is substantially less than that right? AFAICT.
August 10, 2013 at 4:15 pm in reply to: Genesis Slider: Post Content Not Aligning Flush to Edges #6392Update 2: Noticing a brand new test post with a 960×320 image centered at the top (that’s what I set the slider to for now), works, except for the text alignment stuff… but if I open an existing post and pop that same image at the top to add that into the testing mix, then update the post and load the slider page, that second post doesn’t even show up. The slider “shrinks” and displays no content on that item. Made sure All Taxonomies and Categories was selected… so wonder if something is left over from my old theme still. Even tried inputting the post number as an “include” but did not help.
The widget categories I see are below Let me know if they are the right ones or if something is added / missing. I notice your description says move the slider to the “Slideshow” area but mine actually says “Slider”.
Header Right
Primary Sidebar
Secondary Sidebar
Slider
Welcome
Home Bottom 1
…2
…3
Home Bottom Message
Footer 1
…2
…3
…4August 10, 2013 at 3:17 pm in reply to: Genesis Slider: Post Content Not Aligning Flush to Edges #6390Update: Tried a full re-install of the Framework, theme, and plugin. Now, if I do not include Content or Excerpts (only titles), I can at least get everything flush on the left and right sides, and the image flush on the bottom. However I cannot get the text box to be flush to the top or bottom. There’s always about a 30px gap.
Is there an easy means of controlling the appearance of the text box and text — can it all be done via the stylesheet editor? Not sure if the gap is intended or a bug. Thinking maybe that a specified image size is required for use with the slider, and that a gap was intended because it was never considered that the text and image together would “auto-fill” the full width and height of the slider, with everything flush / no overlaps.
As a theme developer if StudioPress ever takes your feedback on their plugins I would really like to see more design control for alignments, image size / scaling options, and text options inside the “Slider Settings area” for version 1.0 — if that’s even planned. 馃檪
August 10, 2013 at 2:20 pm in reply to: Genesis Slider: Post Content Not Aligning Flush to Edges #6387One other thing to mention: Using Safari 6.0.5 in all of this. Assuming there is no incompatibility rendering-wise between the slider and Safari since the demos all work fine. Although I’ve never seen a demo with text in it so maybe that’s a difference maker.
Just purchased Legacy and trying to set things up. First thing I notice is, when I set the slider to the default settings, the posts that I chose to include have images which bleed down beyond the bottom boundary of the “raised section” (drop shadow area), and the text region even at 30%, overflows the right side of the image, the bottom boundary, and is pulled off the right edge.
In the Demo, everything sits flush with all the borders, no overlapping. I realize there is no text on those, but I assume that even with text, this is the intended behavior (everything flush aligned). I recall having similar trouble with Optimal without any final resolution at the time (had to put the efforts on hold). But since is a different theme, I’m wondering: do I have to set my posts up so that the images used fit the “Slider Criteria” defined by Studio press, and likewise have to use certain settings to get the text box area to fit perfectly?
Any advice or links appreciated. I tried the “Getting Started” links that StudioPress shows you in the download areas and here in the forum but something isn’t right. Raising and lowering the max width and height do not help… the images and text still flow over the boundaries / don’t sit flush to the right edge in the case of the text.
This looks like the Slider has not been updated in a while either… is it possible it’s not compatible with Genesis 2 and Gen 2 child themes yet?
Thanks Wes! I had only checked your blog and scanned the top level of a couple forums to looking for the words “Genesis 2.0” but it’s great to hear all of those themes will be updated shortly. Was thinking about buying Legacy… basically Legacy is just Optimal without the “cut background” behind the slider, and without the featured product grid in the middle of the home page, right? Would it be a relatively trivial matter to make Optimal look just like Legacy or would I have to do a lot of digging around in the style sheet and PHP to make it work?
[Edit – skip that last bit. I see the menus are shifted and somewhat different. At $18 on SP site, and all the work you put into these I’ll be buying Legacy regardless. 馃檪 Although I should learn how to do stuff like the above. Customizing themes is still not my strongsuit.]
Any update on the status now that Genesis 2.0 is available?
In general it would be cool if he could make a blog post briefly letting users know which themes have been updated / are in line to be updated, as other than the brand new one some folks might be interested in buying a couple more themes besides optimal. 馃檪
Got it. Figured couldn’t hurt to ask. It’s great that you guys are so responsive to questions. I’ll give the off-page search a whirl.
OK I see that one, but when I go here
https://appfinite.com/forum/optimal-theme-support/
(the place I go to read other threads and post them because it’s the only theme I own)
…there is no search AFAICT. What I see is “Home Themes Blog Tutorials Support Contact Us”
Possible to get it on theme pages? 馃檪
Gracias!
January 11, 2013 at 2:02 pm in reply to: Noob Alert: Need Help Replicating "Demo Site Home Page" Look #2405Unfortunately not. Site isn’t live / public. Looking at it again, I think yesterday I must’ve mess up the padding for one of the menu containers because now that I’ve replaced the css sheet (see other thread) the menu sits in the right place now when I place it in Header Right. I have like 4 problems I’m trying to fix at once and didn’t test this behavior again since I swapped the style sheet out late last night. Sorry about that.
January 11, 2013 at 1:09 pm in reply to: Noob Alert: Need Help Replicating "Demo Site Home Page" Look #2402OK. When I do this, the menu floats way above the slider (unlike if I just add a custom menu to the Appearances > Primary Menu area). I thought maybe I had goofed something up in the style sheet, so I replaced the style sheet with a fresh download but that didn’t change it. Is this the intended behavior(s)?
Thanks again for all your help with these questions. 馃檪
January 11, 2013 at 1:07 pm in reply to: Theme Settings > Navigation > Enable Extras > RSS Issue #2401OK thanks. I’ll go without RSS for now.
OK. I’ll check what it looks like in Firefox or Chrome.
If i want to change the look of the menu fonts the one used just above the slider, not the one at the top, which classes should I be looking at in STYLE.CSS? I tried tinkering (both with the font look and padding) with .menu a and #nav but not sure I’m using the right ones because sometimes nothing happened to the preview after I changed the font size, for example. Are there multiple places I need to make a change for a single menu?
Or do I have to install that font on my server maybe?
January 10, 2013 at 4:37 pm in reply to: Noob Alert: Need Help Replicating "Demo Site Home Page" Look #2385Figured I’d resurrect this thread for a related question (now that I figured out the slider stuff).
Right now I have a menu structure that is based strictly on top level categories, as I build out the templates and test pages. When I put three categories into a basic menu (I don’t have the fancy option turned on), those categories show up on the left side, just beneath the header graphic and above the slider. How do I get them to “flush right” or right justify above the slider?
Right now the Top-most menu (where links to blog etc go), the header, and the category menus are all aligned and fairly close together. Thinking it might be better to try the menu out the to right side and see what that looks like.
January 10, 2013 at 3:39 pm in reply to: How Do I Change the Size of the Optimal Header Image? #2384Scratch that last request… didn’t notice the header section was separate from the Widgets.
January 10, 2013 at 3:28 pm in reply to: How Do I Change the Size of the Optimal Header Image? #2383Related to this… current I am only using the main nav menu (just above the slider on the left side — not sure if that’s where it’s supposed to be given the demo menu is on the right side), and it is only populated during this test stage by posts that match a category.
Directly above this area the Demo shows what looks ot be text based logo / brand item “Optimal Theme”
The only widget I see in Appearance is “header right”. To make this work as a header graphic, do I need to create a graphic such that the logo or site name is left justified, then 900 px of empty pattern (or whatever I make the graphic look like), upload it, then place the URL in a text widget and place that widget in “Header Right”?
How do I fill up the header logo area and make sure it justifies correctly (Left Center or Right?)
January 10, 2013 at 3:08 pm in reply to: Another Slider Question: Auto-Resizing Images (like demo) #2382Thanks Eric. I figured out the problem. I wasn’t using the Featured Image but instead having the Slider pull the first inline image from the post (like a lot of social media do), which totally screws up the sizing and scaling trick. Apparently the slider doesn’t know what to do with inline images, which makes sense. I guess most people will purpose-render the slider images so that’s the fix there.
January 9, 2013 at 5:40 pm in reply to: Slider Problem: Only Displays "Imported Size" for Images #2367Yah those are a different set of forums from the detailed ones they used to run, where you could get a guaranteed response. I did put in a ticket though so we’ll see what happens.
January 9, 2013 at 2:38 pm in reply to: Slider Problem: Only Displays "Imported Size" for Images #2359OK I figured out what the problem was. If others ever see this (where the slider disappears) and you have the W3 Total Cache plugin installed, try turning off Minify. When I did this, the Responsive slider appeared. No amount of clearing the caches, activating or deactivating made it come back until I turned Minify off. Hopefully this won’t cause a performance hit on my site later on?
Regarding the Responsive Slider, it has the same problem: it references only the original size of the imported image, not the size of the image as displayed in a page or post. Not sure what to do next as it seems StudioPress has permanently closed all of its forums so there’s no means of getting support for their plugin. Ideas?
January 9, 2013 at 2:16 pm in reply to: Slider Problem: Only Displays "Imported Size" for Images #2357Hi Wes.
Placeholder right now (site hasn’t launched so can’t post anything in a public forum), but I can preview via admin. I’ll try clearing the caches and re-installing the plugin and if it doesn’t show up, would a code snippet help from one of the PHP files?
January 8, 2013 at 1:08 pm in reply to: Slider Problem: Only Displays "Imported Size" for Images #2342OK good. So that’s the one I now have installed… what would cause the theme to then not display the slider? I made sure [the responsive widget is placed in the “Sliders” section of the Widgets page], and basically have the default slider settings set to display posts in all categories… but the preview comes up with no slider.
January 8, 2013 at 10:27 am in reply to: Slider Problem: Only Displays "Imported Size" for Images #2337(Just attempted to uninstall the Genesis Slider and install Responsive Slider to see if it could work and now the theme is slider-less… guess I have to change one of the theme references for this to work but I’ll wait to see your recommendation on which slider.)
January 8, 2013 at 10:20 am in reply to: Slider Problem: Only Displays "Imported Size" for Images #2335Hi Eric.
OK but another point of confusion: you say “Genesis Responsive Slider” inititally then “Genesis Slider” at the end. They’re not the same plugin AFAICT. In my Genesis control panel area it says “Genesis Slider”. Is it possible both are installed and conflicting? I see after upgrading to 1.9 that there is “ghost text” showing up in the content area. If I installed just Genesis and just the theme, should I expect to see a separate slider control panel area in the Genesis Admin area?
In general do you recommend one of the sliders over the other and if so which one and why?
January 4, 2013 at 8:53 pm in reply to: Noob Alert: Need Help Replicating "Demo Site Home Page" Look #2302I feel like a fool. Those widgets are exactly what I needed. For some reason, I was thinking you had to create a new PHP type document and put it into the PHP flow for WP to not do the “list of posts” thing. 馃檪 DOH! Anyway thank you for pointing that out. So related to this, to match the demo at the bottom we’d need “Genesis User Profile” inside of “Footer 1”, is that right? And the User Profile would feature a page that has all the social widgets (like those seen in the demo). Or, is that group of features “already built” inside a different genesis widget I have to download?
January 4, 2013 at 8:46 pm in reply to: Slider Problem: Only Displays "Imported Size" for Images #2301Hi Eric,
Thanks for your comments. I may be misunderstanding something. The slider I am talking about is the one that comes with the Optimal theme (the big “wide screen” window at the top of the page). Do you mean that’s not actually coded by the Appfinite company?January 4, 2013 at 3:08 pm in reply to: Noob Alert: Need Help Replicating "Demo Site Home Page" Look #2292(Also feel free to chop out the second two questions if you can edit. 馃檪 )
January 4, 2013 at 3:01 pm in reply to: Noob Alert: Need Help Replicating "Demo Site Home Page" Look #2290Thanks Eric, and sorry about the multi-topic rule infringement. So if you want to go ahead an re-title this thread “PHP Required to Generate Static Home Page Elements”?
Then I’ll create separate ones for the other topics. I did look through about 6 pages of topics to make sure these weren’t covered but its possible I missed something.
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