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Adding a Logo to the header of a Genesis Child Theme

When you create a Genesis Child Theme you have the option of Dynamic Text or an Image Logo for the Header as choices in the Genesis settings.   Dynamic Text The dynamic text pulls in the site title and description as set in the WordPress…

Enqueue and Register Internet Explorer CSS Style Sheets in WordPress

To  enqueue and register IE stylesheets in WordPress as appose to manually hardcoding them into a header.php file you need to add a function with the style sheet registered and enqueued and then add an action to load the stylesheet, the function…

Create CSS Conditional Stylesheets for Internet Explorer in WordPress

How to Create  CSS conditional style sheets  for Internet Explorer in WordPress using a child theme or parent theme. Either manually in the header.php file or the preferred WordPress way registered and enqueued as a style via the functions.php way.…

Create a Widgetized Custom Home Page in Genesis Child Theme WordPress

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…

Get PHP and Shortcode to Work in WordPress Widgets

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…

Remove HTML Tags and Attributes in WordPress Comments

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…

Remove Featured Image from Post in Twenty Twelve WordPress Theme

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…

Making Custom Social Media Images for Share Links in WordPress

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…

Upgrade MySQL Database from 5.5 to 5.6 on macOS 10.8 Mountain Lion

Remove Mysql Databse Macos

MySQL version 5.6.14 is available for download for OSX, a double click and install is available named Mac OS X ver. 10.7 (x86, 64-bit), DMG Archive. (Don’t worry about the 10.7 naming, Works fine in OSX 10.9 and OSX 10.8)Stop the…

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