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Add 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…

Faux 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…

Displaying 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…

Set 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…

Swap WordPress TwentyTwelve Mobile Menu to Slick Navigation Menu

slick-nav-menu-twentytwelve

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…

De-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…

Creating Audio MP3 Playlists in WordPress with inbuilt MediaElement

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With the release of WordPress 3.9 comes the in-built functionality to use Audio Playlists which is pretty cool. These Audio files have to be local to the WordPress installation unfortunately you can’t file remote at this stage such as in…

MySQL ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file

ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file ERROR! MySQL server PID file could not be found! Getting these MySQL errors on your database server on macOS, there seems to be lots of solutions about how to fix this, Google…

Restarting Apache Web Server from the command line macOS or Linux

Apache Homebrew Macos

To restart, start or stop Apache web server from the command line interface using either Linux or macOS, use the commands below, these commands should be executed as the root user otherwise prefix them with ‘sudo’

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