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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,…

Add 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…

Moving 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…

Using 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’); }…

How to Make Images Scale for Responsive Web Design

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So you have got your web layout flexing and changing layout in a fluid or responsive web layout – but the images are not quite working they are being stubborn and not scaling and moving around like the text! The…

Create Another Header-Right Widget Area in Genesis Theme to Display on Certain Posts and Categories

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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…

Changing 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…

Removing 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…

Create 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…

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