Automatically Update Your WordPress Plugins and Themes and Translations

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WordPress allows you to automatically update your WordPress plugins and themes and translations by adding some PHP constants and filters to your WordPress installation. Constants are best off added in /wp-config.php and filters are preferred to be used in a wp-content/mu-plugins/ plugin, to create a mu-plugin is easy for example just create a updates.php file with the…

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Add Icons in Genesis Header and Footer Post Meta Info

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You can easily add icons just before the labels in Genesis Entry and Footer Meta content, including… .entry-time .entry-author .entry-comments-link .entry-categories .entry-tags   The five metas can be targetted with some CSS pseudo selectors by adding the below CSS to your style.css So in the above the 5 regular metas are targetted, swap in your desired icon…

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Change the Genesis Meta Output, Post-Info, Post-Meta and Post-Terms

This tutorial takes you through changing the Genesis Meta Output, the Post-Info, Post-Meta and Post-Terms, post-info is typically at the top of a single post above or below the heading with dates, author and comments info, post-meta is at the foot of the post and includes category and tag info and post-terms applies to custom taxonomy…

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Changing the Genesis Header HTML Structure and MarkUp Code

In Genesis Themes you can completely change the header structure HTML  by overriding the default code from the parent Genesis theme and use your own header mark up in your Child Theme. Two types of markup can be overridden the structure and the markup. Overriding Genesis Header Structure The header structure content in Genesis is controlled by the code…

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Remove Genesis Header and Footer Content

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Removing the Genesis Header and Footer areas can be accomplished with the following code which removes not only the Genesis header and footer areas but also removes the menu and breadcrumb and footer widgets content… //* Remove site header elements remove_action( ‘genesis_header’, ‘genesis_header_markup_open’, 5 ); remove_action( ‘genesis_header’, ‘genesis_do_header’ ); remove_action( ‘genesis_header’, ‘genesis_header_markup_close’, 15 ); //* Remove navigation remove_theme_support( ‘genesis-menus’…

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Using ‘Local by FlyWheel’ as a Local Development Workflow for WordPress

Local by FlyWheel (previously known as Pressmatic) is a new WordPress local development solution which uses Docker container technology and VirtualMachines, the app takes care of all the installation and configuration of everything you need and can effortlessly spin up multiple WordPress sites with different configurations for PHP and web server as well as include SSL certs…

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