Genesis installation Stuck
Hipster - June 30, 2009 - 01:15
Hi I was wondering if someone has installed Genesis Subtheme.
I"m having trouble with the modification of the site, applying column layout.
I created genesis_mytheme folder and followed all the instructions, renamed .info, template file file and changed body id selector to add columns but nothing happened.
The site is not picking anything up. http://alturl.com/57fr
I even try to follow videos but they're for older versions and so far I"m stuck.
Has anyone installed Genesis 2.4 and if so is there a good information, installation page you used?
Help. I'm fallen and I can't get up.
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Looking at the home page for your site just now, it looks like the body tag does not have an ID selector. Your body tag should look something like this:
<body id="genesis-1a">Substitute whichever ID selector you want to get different layouts. See http://drupal.org/node/439670.
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For some reason it's not picking up my css. I put body id="genesis-2c" inside page.tpl.php and added border to every elemen in my css just to see blocks but when I look at the code, it still shows genesis-1b why is it not changing?
Use Theme Developer
Hm. That's odd. I'd suggest that you download the Developer module and use its Theme Developer functionality to see what's going on. It might provide some insight.
Hola
Yeah, you not even supposed to have Development module activated. I think that what screwed me up. I even followed the video that showed installation but I think it's for earlier version so it didn't help unfortunately. I hope others will read it and see that they need to uninstall Development module. I think it will save them few hours.
Good luck.
Hmm
I actually changed it to: body id="genesis-2c"
I don't know why it's not picking up anything, but even if there was genesis-1c there still should be columns on the page.
This sucks.
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2 things to check
ensure css aggregation is disabled in administer -> performance
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ensure that after altering tpl.php files you clear your database cache, browser cache and it couldn't hurt to visit administer -> themes for good measure. Especially if the info file is changed or new tpl.php are dropped in.
Thank you for your help
I think the first site I build I will have to use Zen and then move on to bigger and better things. If I got stuck installing it, even before I even got a chance to get to changing style I think it's a sign for me to turn around and head into a different directions. So now I'm trying to work with Zen.
Doe anyone know how to move columns. I need the middle content column to be shift to the left. Why can't I just float them like normally you would do in css.
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use firefix to inspect the elements of the already existing theme. It is sometimes difficult to get into a theme developers head and totally understand what they were envisioning when implementing the theme. First you must understand how the theme is contructed in order to know what to tweak, how and why.
Another help is to open the sytle.css file and read it. There is a lot of documentation in there.
Zen theme is also well documented in the documentation area.
While zen is a good theme, it wouldn't hurt to follow up and figure out on why Genesis wouldn't install properly.
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Yea, I'm thinking you already have the Theme Developer module enabled - if so it will break this theme, not only this theme, but ANY theme that uses a body ID, so its not the theme that sux, but the Theme Developer module...
Its documented in the Known Issues for this theme and I have posted a workaround which is linked to from that page.
If its not that then you really want to check you are indeed over writing the page.tpl.php file when you upload it, some FTP programs won't tell blatantly that the the upload failed, and silently drop the connection (say for a permissions issue).
Most of all though, I would need to see the installation to really say what is going on, never had any issue myself so its hard to say. Believe me when I say that it will be a lot easier to build your complex layout in Genesis than Zen.
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I (obviously) didn't know that about Theme Developer. Thanks for the pointer.
I agree that the OP is better off sticking with Genesis than Zen.
The problems that th OP described don't sound like they have to do with the Genesis theme in particular, but rather with some other aspect of his or her current setup (caches, FTP settings, etc.).
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I followed installation of Genesis maybe 10 times, made sure I did everything according the manual, step by step, but still had problems. Of course the next day I find out I couldn't have Theme Developer installed at the same time. I wish there was something about that before I spent 4 hours trying to figure out what I was doing wrong.
I kind of gave up anyways. Oh well. Using already developed theme.Thank you anyways.
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Hey dude, its in the documentation, linked to right off the Project page, what else can I do? Its not my problem if you choose not to read the documentation!
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Yeah, you not even supposed to have Development module activated. I think that what screwed me up. I even followed the video that showed installation but I think it's for earlier version so it didn't help unfortunately. I hope others will read it and see that they need to uninstall Development module. I think it will save them few hours.
Good luck.