Using ACF Repeater Field to create Testimonial Archive in Genesis

How to create a testimonial page in Genesis using Advanced Custom Fields. ACF Pro comes with a great inclusion called the Repeater field which allows a user to continually add a row of data of certain custom fields, similar to single/archive…

Hide WooCommerce for Unregistered Users in WordPress

You can hide the core pages of WooCommerce from unregistered users using a simple WordPress redirect function called template_redirect. This may come in handy if the woocommerce component is still in development or has a delayed release or is for…

Install and set up wp-cli WordPress on shared and local hosting

WordPress has a command line tool called wp-cli which operates similar to what Drush does for Drupal, it runs on OSX/Linux operating systems with a minimum of PHP 5.3.2 or later and WordPress 3.5.2. This guide will go through getting and installing wp-cli and…

Make videos responsive in WordPress with Fitvids

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You can make videos responsive in WordPress with a script called Fitvids , it is a great solution for responsive video and it out of the box supports YouTube, Vimeo, Viddler and others, here’s how to get it going in WordPress for…

Setting up a MultiLingual WordPress Site with Polylang

You can set up a Multilingual WordPress site with a great plugin called Polylang, there are a few ways to make multilingual sites and people can get quite opinionated about this, for larger sites with complete duplication you may want…

Outputting Genesis Simple Share with Actions and in Widgets

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Genesis Simple Share is a great plugin for social sharing your content, looks good aesthetically and loads optimally when it is just needed. As well as some default positions provided by the plugin you can also position the social share icons…

Adding a Fly Out Search Field Box for Genesis based on TwentyFourteen

How to set up a flyout search box on a Genesis Theme based on the TwentyFourteen theme where clicking on the search icon drops down a search field. This will be based on the Sample theme and will use the…

Changing the Microdata Schema in Genesis WordPress

Genesis Themes come preloaded with Microdata schema marked up on various HTML elements on the page, this is a good thing in terms of meaningful and semantic markup and better structure for search engines to understand the page and extract…

Google Structured Data Testing Tool WordPress Error Warnings

Googles Structured data testing tool is giving warning errors on certain HTML mark up elements on web pages. Such as the errors in the image below, these are related to microdata schema mark up which is shipped on modern Genesis…

Force a Read More Link on all Post Excerpts in WordPress

Can’t see a read more link on a WordPress post on the blog page?  The read more link can be forced on all excerpts for posts on an archive page by adding the following code to your theme. Sometimes the read more…