Add a Slider to the Home Page in Genesis Theme WordPress using Cyclone Slider

Sliders have been slammed a lot recently, notably for their effectiveness and usability, however within certain contexts they are still relevant and more importantly still popular with clients, their use may be more relevant to certain industries, their usage may…

Using wp_localize_script with jQuery variables including strings, booleans and integers

set a jquery value via wp-localize-script

The use of wp_localize_script is an API in WordPress is to retrieve PHP values from the database to use in javascript/jquery scripts, it can also be utilized to make string values language translatable if required, but also used to pass user defined variables/settings say…

Using Slidebars to Slide In and Out Content in A Genesis Theme

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Having some content slide out from the side of a page is a great solution for off canvas content, it can solve crowded page issues especially at smaller sizes as it can slide in content that takes prominence, do what it needs…

Moving JetPacks Related Posts to a new position in Genesis

JetPack has a great Related Posts module, here’s how to move it further down the page below posts meta info or anywhere else you like by using a shortcode provided by JetPack. In Genesis Themes for instance, it positions itself…

Remove Default Mobile Menu from Underscores

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WordPress Underscores theme comes with a default primary menu that toggles to a mobile menu button at 600px wide. If your project requires using another mobile menu solution it is best to remove the existing one and here’s how.  …

Up and running with Sidr Off Canvas Menu for WordPress

Sidr is a very popular jQuery off canvas menu that can slide content from the left or right into the viewport which is a great solution for mobile or tablet display. Here’s how to get it up and running in…

WordPress VVV Vagrant Running Slow on Virtual Box

Is your VVV Vagrant running slow on Virtual Box, lot’s of MySQL restarts, takes ages to SSH into the box – that might be because the initial memory settings was left at 512MB which is not pretty and as your working…

Remove Default Sort in WooCommerce and ‘Showing All Results’ Notice

In an e-commerce environment using WooCommerce when there is only a few products to sell, it is cleaner and more intuitive to rid the space of some clutter – such as the ‘Default Sorting’ options dropdown and the display notice…

Switching Primary Menu in Genesis Theme to Header Right on a Permanent Basis

I find that I always, well most of the time, use the header right widget area in Genesis for the Primary Menu of a site and create this menu by adding a Custom Menu to the Header Widget Area, whilst there is nothing…

Add Custom Taxonomy Post Meta Terms to Custom Post Type in Genesis WordPress

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To add in the post meta of  custom taxonomy terms into custom post types in Genesis WordPress theme you need to create a function with a conditional that equals the custom post type then set the post meta using shortcode which includes the taxonomy terms, then apply a…