Creating a customised all widgets / widgetized home page of a Genesis Child Theme. Analysing the Layout The layout above does not lend itself to the default layouts in Genesis, it really needs to be set up with widgetised areas…

Getting PHP Working in Widgets By default any PHP code won’t execute in WordPress widgets or sidebars, you can probably get by with a plugin but you can also add a function in your themes function.php file to allow PHP to…

Bu default WordPress comments have instructions for users on how to use HTML tags and attributes in the actual comments, many users are turned off by this, here is how to remove HTML Tags and Attributes section in the post comments…

Twenty Twelve WordPress Theme sets a big old ‘Featured  Image’ on top of the post content  if the featured image is set in a post. To remove the Featured Image from this area but keep it intact for excerpts where…

There are many Social Media Share link plugins for WordPress that do a great job, but not many that allow you to use a custom image that you may have designed for Facebook, Twitter or Google to use with the…

To remove the reset ‘Lost Your Password’ link and function on the WordPress login page you need to add a function to your themes functions.php file and add in some CSS. The reason why both are needed as the forgot ‘Lost Your…

To protect your WordPress wp-admin folder from everyone else apart from you, you can add a htaccess file in the /wp-admin folder to allow only access from your IP address and everyone else will be denied and receive a ‘Page…

By default you can’t add HTML to a Widget Title in WordPress, such as a break tag <br>, you can get around this by adding a filter to allow shortcode to the title area…. In functions.php file in your child…

How to create new Wordpress templates for your theme including posts, pages, headers, footers and sidebars. To change the WordPress home page edit the index.php in the main theme  if using a child theme, just copy and then edit the file in…

How to create a full width header and footer in WordPress’s responsive Twenty Twelve theme. Example Site. Create a Child Theme First up  you should really create and work from a Child Theme Make Header and Footer Copies to Child…