Use FontAwesome Icons in WordPress Visual Editor without Disappearing
If you use FontAwesome icons in your work and use them inside WordPress visual editor and swap between text and visual mode – the icons get stripped out. Not good. Disable Visual Editor Couple of solutions to deal with this, one is to use a plugin called Disable Visual Editor which you can simply disable…
Read MoreAdd a Favicon Icon to Genesis Child Theme in WordPress
There are a couple of ways to add in a Favicon Icon into a Genesis Child Theme, either filed in a folder or declared as a function. You can also set different favicons for certain pages. File in Images Folder You can add it the favicon in your WordPress themes folder inside your child theme images…
Read MoreMoving Custom Post Types Higher Up the Admin Menu in WordPress Dashboard
You can move any custom post type icon higher up in the Admin Dashboard of the WordPress backend, by doing this you make the positioning more user friendly and intuitive to an end user. By default any new custom post types appear below the ‘Comments’ link, in the above example ‘Tax Liens’ is a new…
Read MoreUsing FontAwesome Icons to replace WordPress Dashicons in Admin Menus
WordPress admin area comes with the DashIcons in use in its administrative Menus, you can also add in the awesome Font Awesome icons to use in place of the WordPress dashicons. function fontawesome_dashboard() { wp_enqueue_style(‘fontawesome’, ‘http:////netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.5.0/css/font-awesome.css’, ”, ‘4.5.0’, ‘all’); } add_action(‘admin_init’, ‘fontawesome_dashboard’); In your functions.php add in the above in which a new function is…
Read MoreCreate Another Header-Right Widget Area in Genesis Theme to Display on Certain Posts and Categories
I had to create a separate Genesis Header-Right Widget Area for a client that needed to display different elements in the widget for posts in a certain category. This can be achieved with conditional widget logic plugins but can also be done in the code.
Read MoreChanging the Thumbnail Size for Genesis Featured Posts Widget
Genesis has a great Featured Posts widget with a lot of options to configure including whether or not to include a thumbnail image, the thumbnail will be the Featured Image if set, and if not set is the last image used inside the post. The thumbnail image size will list available sizes that you can…
Read MoreRemoving the Authors Name from the Post Info in Genesis Child Theme
By default in a Genesis child theme the post-info info on a blog single post contains the article date, authors name and comment link. To change these details such as remove the authors name from the blog post, you can adjust what is output by adding a filter and function to the functions.php file of the child theme.…
Read MoreCreate Custom Post Types in Genesis Child Theme in WordPress
Custom Post Types are a great way to structure your data and also to provide an interface for an end user to easily populate data as in any content management system. There are WP plugins available for download that can create and manage custom post types but you can also follow WordPress functions and do…
Read MoreCreating Full Width Fluid Divs in Genesis Theme for Sales/Landing Page
Getting full width pages in Genesis – Its colorful and long and goes on and on and on – sales landing pages. To create these types of full width pages in a Genesis child theme you need to edit the CSS for the inner part of the page and then create some new CSS…
Read MoreAdding a Vertical Image Background Full Depth in Genesis Theme WordPress
A web design normally has a horizontal full width image but what about a vertical full depth that spans the page. In a Genesis theme you can accomplish this by setting a background image to the .site-container div that contains all page elements If the image has to be a certain width with no text or images…
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