Make a Read More Link with Dashicons for Posts in Genesis Child Theme
By default in a Genesis Child and any WordPress theme the ‘read more‘ link in a post is not a link and is an ellipse surrounded by square brackets[…] There is a WordPress filter that allows this to be changed called excerpt_more, a function needs to be created and then passed into that filter. This…
Read MoreAdd a Full Width Row Above Footer Widgets in Genesis Child Theme
How to add a full width content row in the area directly above the footer widgets in a Genesis Child theme. In the layout above, the three footer widgets are used for 3 products, but a headline needs to straddle across all 3 widgets and needs to be easily changed. To achieve this a new…
Read MoreCreate a PreHeader Full Width Wrap Bar in Genesis Theme
If you have a layout that requires a pre-header full content wrap that needs to have elements such as an optin form and member or social media menu, you can add a widget area in a Genesis child theme just above the main header area that contains any content you need with the ability to…
Read MoreAdd a Facebook Like Box HTML5 style to Genesis Child Theme (Responsively)
How to add a HTML5 version Facebook Like Box to a Genesis Child Theme and make it responsive… Facebook Code Get you facebook code and choose the HTML5 version. The bottom HTML code goes in your sidebar widget or where ever you want the Facebook like box to go, the top javascript code needs to go…
Read MoreUse FontAwesome Icons in WordPress Visual Editor without Disappearing
If you use FontAwesome icons in your work and use them inside WordPress visual editor and swap between text and visual mode – the icons get stripped out. Not good. Disable Visual Editor Couple of solutions to deal with this, one is to use a plugin called Disable Visual Editor which you can simply disable…
Read MoreAdd a Favicon Icon to Genesis Child Theme in WordPress
There are a couple of ways to add in a Favicon Icon into a Genesis Child Theme, either filed in a folder or declared as a function. You can also set different favicons for certain pages. File in Images Folder You can add it the favicon in your WordPress themes folder inside your child theme images…
Read MoreMoving Custom Post Types Higher Up the Admin Menu in WordPress Dashboard
You can move any custom post type icon higher up in the Admin Dashboard of the WordPress backend, by doing this you make the positioning more user friendly and intuitive to an end user. By default any new custom post types appear below the ‘Comments’ link, in the above example ‘Tax Liens’ is a new…
Read MoreUsing FontAwesome Icons to replace WordPress Dashicons in Admin Menus
WordPress admin area comes with the DashIcons in use in its administrative Menus, you can also add in the awesome Font Awesome icons to use in place of the WordPress dashicons. function fontawesome_dashboard() { wp_enqueue_style(‘fontawesome’, ‘http:////netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.5.0/css/font-awesome.css’, ”, ‘4.5.0’, ‘all’); } add_action(‘admin_init’, ‘fontawesome_dashboard’); In your functions.php add in the above in which a new function is…
Read MoreHow to Make Images Scale for Responsive Web Design
So you have got your web layout flexing and changing layout in a fluid or responsive web layout – but the images are not quite working they are being stubborn and not scaling and moving around like the text! The reason is because the images most probably have a fixed width which the web layout…
Read MoreCreate Another Header-Right Widget Area in Genesis Theme to Display on Certain Posts and Categories
I had to create a separate Genesis Header-Right Widget Area for a client that needed to display different elements in the widget for posts in a certain category. This can be achieved with conditional widget logic plugins but can also be done in the code.
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