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@VGMike: For any changes on the site. Don’t change in the core theme file. You can change the design through the Theme Options panel and Custom CSS. Further, if you want to customize the functions then you can build child theme and do the customization. If you do this way then you cahnges will remain even while you perform upgrade.

Upgrades are recommended but not compulsory. As upgrade fixes the patches and addes new features and language additions.

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@mangogear: Yes then you can change the image social-profile.png in your theme image folder.

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@yayomay: Are you still haveing problem with the installation. I see that you have successfully installed Simple Catch Pro theme in yayornay.us

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@mangogear: Are you talking about Social Icons like Facebook and Twitter. Then you can edit the image social-profile.png in your theme image folder.

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@Abbtt: All content and settings will be same and many added settings that you might feel comfortable working with. If you have worked with Custom CSS then that will not be valid for pro version much. You need to add different custom css. But I am here to help you out if you need any custom css.

So, in general most of the things will be carry over but few will not as Simple Catch Pro theme structure is different. It is build in HTML5, CSS3 and Responsive Design.

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@mangogear: Your site URL please?

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@mwjohnston1:

About your Photo Gallery slideshow yes you need to try in Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ . May be you can try in NextGEN Gallery or any other plugin.

Also, can the Featured Slider be used just for photos? If so, how so, as its edit page takes one to the list of posts…And can it be moved from directly under the header? Thank you for your patience…!
— You are using Catch Box free theme where you have option to add Featured Post Slider. You need to add in the post and then the featured image in the post. See this for instruction http://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/catch-box/ . But if you want only image then you need Featured Image slider which is there only in Catch Box Pro version.

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Hello Abbott,

About your questions:
1.) Can you use an image different from the one used as an article’s thumbnail (Featured Image that shows up with the article in the homepage archives) as the image in the Featured Slider simultaneously? Here’s what I’m working with now (http://14thstreetoats.com/) and I’d like to have more variety as far as imagery goes on the homepage.
— Sorry this theme has Featured Post Slider which take the Featured Image posted in the posts. You might want to upgrade to Simple Catch Pro theme where you have option to use Featured Image Slider independent of posts. Where you can upload image of any choice, add title, description and links all optional.

2.) Is there anyway to get rid of the grid overlay that seems to be apparent on all of the images in the Slider or is that always there?
— For this you can disable it from “Theme Options -> Featured Post Slider -> Slider Effect Options” There check the box “Disable Slider Background Effect”.

3.) I know the preferred width of the image is ~978px, but is there a preferred height that I should keep in mind to make sure the image aligns correctly? I have vertically oriented images up in the featured slider now the work well with the thumbnails, but not well with the featured slider.
— It’s mentioned in theme instruction http://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/simple-catch . For featured post slider it’s Width: 976px and Height: 313px

Regards,
Sakin

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@kpalmer29852: Free Simple Catch Version only have Featured Slider in Home. If you want easy option of just a click in Theme Options panel then you need to upgrade to Simple Catch Pro Theme.

But if you know php then you can build child there of Simple Catch Theme and the just customize the function simplecatch_sliderbreadcrumb()

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@kpalmer29852: Please add in your Site URL so that I can see what you mean. If you are talking about removing the post that is already in the Slider not to show in homepage. Then you can you can check Exclude Slider post from Home page posts in your Slider Options.

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@paigeohliger:

/* For Background Color */
input[type="text"], input[type="password"], textarea {
background: none #fffcef;
}
/* For Hover Color */
input[type="text"]:hover,
input[type="email"]:hover,
input[type="search"]:hover,
input[type="password"]:hover,
textarea:hover {
background-color: #fff;
}
/* For Focus Color */
input[type="text"]:focus,
input[type="email"]:focus,
input[type="search"]:focus,
input[type="password"]:focus,
textarea:focus {
background-color: #eee;
}


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@paigeohliger: You can just delete the starting div that is <div class="copyright"> and ending div that is </div> in your footer editor.

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@onlinko: Send me your site URL and then I will send your custom css that you can add it in our custom css box in your theme options panel in your WordPress dashboard.

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@onlinko: Can you send me your site URL?

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@mstaudt131: for search box in the header border, you can just add the following CSS in “Custom CSS” box in your Theme Option panel.
#branding .searchform .search-box { border: 1px solid #000; line-height: 33px; }

But for adding blogspot icon in the social icon list. This is bit complicated. First you need to add icon in this image social-profile.png and then build child theme. Where you need to remove the current social icon function
remove_action( 'simplecatch_sidebartop', 'simplecatch_headersocialnetworks', 10 );
and then add your action for the function and edit the css. If you are not a developer then I recommend to hire developer for this or use tweaky services.

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@rebekahvolinsky: What is your site URL? And are you using the latest version of the Theme. If not then update your theme and check it.

If this doesn’t fix it then I need to look at your WordPress admin panel. Let me know it.

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@jmyss: If you want to use the Featured Post Slider without the title and description then you can upgrade to Catch Box Pro theme where there is Featured Image Slider which gives you control to upload your own image, title, description and links all optional.

For content layout: Catch Box theme has 2 content layout. 1) Show excerpt: which will show the featured image of the post and excerpt text and 2) Show full content: which will show the full content exactly like in the post. You can select the option through Appearance -> Theme Options -> Content layout.

For more on Theme instruction check this out catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/catch-box/

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@kalemw: It looks like there is conflict with the plugins you used. Can you deactivate the plugins one by one and check in.

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@arichardc: Is very simple Take the large size image first and make it all image with the same size. Here I don’t mean stretching image. But keep your small image in the large area making it center with the background. Then it will look centered image.

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@mwjohnston1: If you want the links in the Sidebar widget then you can try in Menu widgets or Links widget.

About removing the comment box what you did. As mention in this page http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/ . You need to uncheck Allow Comment in the Discussion Box in your pages.

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