How to Add Extra Settings to Default Customizer Sections in WordPress
WordPress has a number of default Customizer panels that are in core and applied to all themes – these include Menu and Widgets as well as Site Identity and Static Front Page. Once you add_theme_supports in your themes function.php file for custom-header and custom-background you get three more panels; Colors, Header Image and Background Image.…
Read MoreHow to Change the MySQL root Password in Linux or macOS via Command Line
If you have forgot the MySQL root password, can’t remember or want to force it….. you can reset the mysql database password from the command line in either Linux or macOS as long as you know the root user password of the computer you are on, this is for MySQL 5.7 onwards: Stop MySQL sudo…
Read MoreUsing the new WordPress custom-logo theme support with Genesis
WordPress 4.5 added a new theme support feature for using a custom logo which allows a logo to be uploaded and used via the Customizer, this guide take you through using it with Genesis using the Sample Theme for an example. The terminology of custom_logo will make more sense to end users than custom_header To add…
Read MoreAdding a Text Block via the Customizer in WordPress
This guide takes you through adding an editable text block via the Customizer in WordPress, this tutorial uses the Genesis Sample theme and will set the footer text which is normally changed via a filter in the functions.php file in a number of StudioPress themes, using the Customizer will easily allow a non-technical user to change it.…
Read MoreUsing Customizer to add a CSS background image to widget in WordPress
Here is a guide to add a single background image to a widget using the Customizer in WordPress, I have written up on this topic before utilising some Genesis code used in the Altitude Pro theme to be able to use on other Genesis themes but here I just want to break it down to one single image for…
Read MoreAdd background images to widget areas using Customizer in Genesis
How to use the customiser to upload and set images as CSS backgrounds to widgetised areas in Genesis. Taking the Altitude Pro theme as an example as it uses a number of front page widget areas in which you can set the background image via the Customizer, this is great if you need to have…
Read MoreHow to update VVV for WordPress | Varying Vagrant Vagrants
I noticed that my version of VVV or Varying Vagrant Vagrants was older than the current release and started to look into how to update VVV safely as I have done some customisations to it and added some additional files to the VVV main directory. Move into your local VVV directory, halt vagrant and run git pull vagrant halt…
Read MoreRemove Related Products on Product Page in WooCommerce
To remove related products on a WooCommerce product page…
Read MoreUsing Slick Responsive Navigation Mobile Menus on Genesis Child Theme
This guide uses a jQuery mobile responsive menu from Josh Cope and shows how you can use it for a mobile menu in a Genesis Child theme in WordPress. There is also a guide for regular WordPress themes here. Also I have made a plugin which will work on Genesis and regular WordPress themes. SlickNav mobile menu is supports all modern…
Read MoreAdding Product Content Description Above the Product in WooCommerce
By default in WooCommerce the product description of a product sits inside the ‘Description’ tab, with the Short Description displayed more prominent alongside the product. Here is how to swap that order and display the product content at the head of the page and remove the tab description (…as it will display twice). So in…
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