GeoTravel forum? Documentation?

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  • March 22, 2017 at 5:39 pm #369164

    Kym Costanzo
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    Hi – new to GeoDirectory.
    Using GeoTravel theme – I am very experienced with Genesis, but I’m trying to set up this site to look like the demo and not having any luck.

    I have the home page set as “latest posts” and nothing shows up, even though the GD Home widgets are pre-populated with stuff. I imported dummy demo content – still nothing.

    So I added the default Genesis widgets (home featured left, home middle) and they work fine – but my end goal here is to set this site up just like the demo.

    I can’t find any documentation specific to setting up this theme, nor do I see a GeoTravel theme forum – though I did see that “each theme has its own support forum” in your support disclaimer – do I not have access to all forums maybe?

    I’m sure I can limp through this but it would be super helpful if there’s documentation somewhere I can refer to. I see that the actual GeoDirectory documenation seems very extensive – but step 1 in getting started is “set up your theme.” 🙂

    Thanks in advance.

    March 22, 2017 at 6:39 pm #369186

    Stiofan O’Connor
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    Hi Kym,

    This is just more general setup info, you can find details here: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/basic-installation/#home

    Thanks,

    Stiofan

    March 27, 2017 at 5:17 am #369994

    Kym Costanzo
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    Thanks Stiofan,

    Ok, that helped to at least get the home page to show up, but I’m still really just not clicking with how to set this up like the GeoTravel demo. Is there any documentation for the *theme* itself?

    I’ve set the home page as you instructed. I’ve imported demo content. I’ve put my own dummy text into text widgets for just about all of the home page widgets, trying to figure out what displays where.

    I cannot figure out how to have a custom image display where the map is, like shown in the demo. I removed the map widget. I tried using the Customizer under Customize > Home Background. I tried adding a Featured Image to the GD Home Page (which the home page is set to). I tried adding an image to the body of the GD Home Page. THat at least showed up, but not at the top of the page under the navigation, nor is it full width.

    Short of hard-coding in the image using CSS, I can’t figure out how to get an image to display like the demo.

    Furthermore, even though I have added text widgets with temporary text for Home Featured Left and Home Featured Right, those widgets are not appearing anywhere on my home page. I want to use those as overlays over the custom image… again, just like the demo.

    In examining the code for the demo, it appears that Genesis’s Home Featured Left and Home Featured Right widgets are used for the two widget areas appearing over top of the custom image in the Demo. Yet I can’t get them to display (or the custom image, for that matter). At least I know now that your demo does use both the GD widget areas and Genesis widget areas interchangeably, which was another question.

    Appreciate any help you can give to get the lightbulb to click for me.

    March 27, 2017 at 4:27 pm #370163

    Kym Costanzo
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    While I’m awaiting a reply, I’m still trying to work this out myself. In searching, I found the following forum post and reply regarding the same issue: https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/geo-travel-create-similar-homepage-like-demop/

    So I tried using Customize > Home Background – but no avail. Nothing shows up. So then I thought maybe the GD Home Top widget needed to have some content in it for the background to show. I added a text widget with content. The content showed up, but still no background image.

    Then I tried the Genesis Home Top widget. Nothing at all showed up on this one?? What IS the difference between GD Home Top widget and Genesis Home Top widget?

    For that matter – should I be using the GD widgets, or the Genesis widgets, for setting up the home page? Some are duplicated, some are not…

    The forum post I linked to above mentions a test account to try out GeoTravel – but that link no longer works. Any chance a copy of the demo could be placed somewhere to log into? That would be just as effective as documentation.

    March 27, 2017 at 4:30 pm #370164

    Stiofan O’Connor
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    Hi Kym,

    Please post wp-admin details in a private reply (only staff can see) and i will try and get it looking similar to the demo for you. There is no specific documentation for this theme.

    Thanks,

    Stiofan

    March 27, 2017 at 4:46 pm #370167

    Kym Costanzo
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    March 27, 2017 at 6:06 pm #370197

    Stiofan O’Connor
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    OK, that theme works a little different, it takes over the homepage if reading settings are set to defaults.

    The homepage is basically now just widget areas, you can add text and widgets that way under Appearance>Widgets.

    The theme is basically the styling of the site, plugins are what do the functionality (mostly) 🙂

    Stiofan

    March 27, 2017 at 7:38 pm #370236

    Kym Costanzo
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    Hi Stiofan,

    Thanks for your help! So basically – the instructions provided in the first link you gave me do NOT apply to GeoTravel, is that correct? And Genesis Home Top IS used, but it appears that GD Home Top does nothing – also correct?

    I appreciate your help – should be good now on the home page… just need to tackle learning Geodirectory now. I may be back for more help… 🙂

    Thank you!

    Kym

    March 28, 2017 at 9:47 am #370311

    Stiofan O’Connor
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    Hi Kym,

    Yes that seems to be the case, that theme was developed when we did things a bit differently with regards tot he homepage, it still seems to do it the old way.

    You are right about the widget areas but the GD Home X ones are also used for the locations page, so thats where you will change widgets for the location page. /location/

    Thanks,

    Stiofan

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