Change the Search Field Default Text in Genesis WordPress Theme
You can change the default “Search this Website…” text in the Search bar field in a Genesis WordPress theme by using a filter added to your functions.php file. //Change search form text function themeprefix_search_button_text( $text ) { return ( ‘Search text goes here…’); } add_filter( ‘genesis_search_text’, ‘themeprefix_search_button_text’ ); So in the above code a function is…
Read MoreMigrate WordPress Site from Local Development to Live Server and fix serialized data issues
There are a number of ways to migrate a local development WordPress site from a test to a live server, you can to this manually or via a plugin. Migrating WordPress Manually The manual way to migrate a WordPress site to a live server is in a few steps: Copy the all the contents of…
Read MoreDownload and Install Lastest WordPress with wp-cli on OSX
With the new versions of WordPress available to download and test, here’s how to use wp-cli to download and configure it all from the Terminal, you need to have wp-cli and MySQL installed as well as the rest of a working AMP stack. Launch Terminal and [optionally] create and change directory into your desired webroot.…
Read MoreAdding in Google Plus Authorship and Publisher Profile to Genesis WordPress Theme
As of 26th June 2014, Google has announced that they are dropping the profile image and circle count from the search result listings, this is for both cosmetic and leveling the playing field reasons.Further to this Google has abandoned the Author linking project also the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin has removed the author parts from…
Read MoreUse Bootstrap Modals in WordPress Themes
Bootstrap has some nifty Javascript plugins in their library for the Bootstrap framework including Modals, which are pop up window dialog prompts. These modal pop up windows can be generated without writing javascript by using Bootstrap’s API data-attribute values which are inserted into the HTML markup and and can control which HTML element can control the…
Read MoreUsing Navgoco as a Vertical Multi-Level Menu in a WordPress Genesis Theme
Looking for a expandable/contractable Vertical Multi-Level Slide Menu in regular WordPress or Genesis themes, Navgoco has you covered. Create Your Menu Set up your custom menu as normal in WordPress Dashboard with multi levels and place into position via a widget area or simply use HTML mark up on a post or page, this example uses a…
Read MoreAdd a Submit Button to the Search Input Field in Genesis Search Widget
By default the Search widget in a Genesis WordPress theme does not have a submit button, just hitting enter on the keyboard will do the trick but what if you deadset want that clickable submit button back. Using the Genesis Sample Theme, this is how the search widget looks like when added in the Header Right and…
Read MoreAdd a Full Width Responsive Header Image to a Genesis Theme
You can add in a full width responsive image header into a Genesis child theme by using the header element and set a background image to it by setting a CSS rule. Using the Genesis sample theme as an example, in the above illustration the logo or site title will be handled with the .title-area div if…
Read MoreFaux Full Width Page Titles in a Genesis Child WordPress Theme
This layout calls for a full viewport width background color of the page title which is to appear on all pages, there are a defined amount of pages on the site with short titles. To achieve this effect using the sample Genesis child theme you can take advantage of the .site-inner div Change the CSS .site-inner…
Read MoreDisplaying Category Headings on all Category Archive Pages in Genesis
In a Genesis WordPress theme you can add in a headline to display for a Category archive page, but this headline only appears on the initial category archive page, so if pagination exists for subsequent archive pages then other pages do not have the title rendered. To get around this issue if you have pagination on…
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