Remove Post Meta from Category Archive Pages in a Genesis Theme in WordPress

Archive pages in a Genesis theme by default, include the post info which displays  the post author, post date and comments info and the post meta which displays the category and tag values.   You may want to have these values removed or edited for your Archive pages but leave them intact for regular posts. This is possible by adding an…

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Migrating WordPress MultiSite to a New URL

Migrating WordPress MultiSite to a New URL can be done with a combo of 2 excellent free plugins; WP Migrate DB and BackWPup  the former deals with the database and the latter deals with the files. The key thing when updating the WordPress database to reflect a new hosting URL is making sure any data serialization stays intact,…

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Add a Custom Header Image in Genesis Sample Theme

The Genesis Sample theme does not have a custom Header option in the Appearance sub-menu in WordPress Dashboard unlike all the other Genesis themes. Custom Headers are a native WordPress function that can be added to any theme including the Sample theme. This option can be easily added via a code snippet into your functions.php file. //*…

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Remove all Inner HTML Mark Up Content on Genesis Home Page

To remove the inner HTML mark up content from a customised Front Page in Genesis, you can use a conditional statement to remove the ‘loop‘ just on the front page like so: //Remove Loop from Home Page function thmeprefix_remove_homepage_content() { if ( is_front_page() ) { remove_action( ‘genesis_loop’, ‘genesis_do_loop’ ); } } add_action( ‘genesis_before’,’thmeprefix_remove_homepage_content’ ); The…

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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…

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