Adding 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…
Read MoreSet a certain Sidebar to Categories and Tags or Posts with Simple Sidebars installed on Genesis
Simple Sidebars is a great plugin to use different sidebars on posts, pages, categories and tags in a Genesis theme. Easy to set up and set for individual pieces of content. However their is no option to bulk set a specific sidebar to a certain category or tag or bunch of posts or any other set…
Read MoreSwap WordPress TwentyTwelve Mobile Menu to Slick Navigation Menu
How to use Slick Navigation menus in a WordPress theme, you can use the jquery responsive menus in any theme, this guide will use a clean default WordPress TwentyTwelve child theme, remove the existing responsive mobile menu used and use the slick navigation menus instead. There is a Genesis version of the guide here. Also…
Read MoreDe-register De-queue WordPress Loaded Scripts & Styles
You can de-register and de-queue WordPress loaded javascripts and CSS styles by passing them into the wp_print_scripts function. This can help with fewer server requests if the scripts are no longer required or if a conflict is occurring. So for example if I wanted to remove the WordPress TwentyTwelve default mobile menu javascript you would use: //Remove twentywelve…
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