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Add Multiple Site Background Images To Genesis Agency Pro Theme
You can add a multiple images as alternating site background images in the Genesis Agency Pro theme by tweaking the backstretch jQuery plugin that comes with the theme. Out of the box Agency Pro uses one master site background image as set in the Customizer, preferably at 1600 x 1000px. Prepare your images Get your images ready at 1600 x 1000px and…
Yoast WordPress SEO Tutorial, Set up SEO in an Optimal Way
Yoast WordPress SEO Tutorial v3 Getting the best WordPress SEO settings in WordPress can be handled by a number of different plugins, one of the more popular ones is WordPress SEO from Yoast (1 million active WordPress installs). Recently it has been upgraded to version 3 which is a major rewrite of the codebase on how the…
Create a Loop of Featured Images in a Slider from Posts in Genesis
You can create a slider of Featured Images from the posts in Genesis by creating a custom loop and using Slick Slider. Setting Up Slick Slider First download and set up the Slick files needed, you’ll need to file these in your theme’s js and css directories: slick.min.js ~> js slick-theme.css ~>css ajax-loader.gif ~>css fonts/ ~>css…
Yoast SEO Error – Your homepage cannot be indexed by search engines.
The new WordPress SEO plugin from Yoast version 3 may leave an error on your WordPress dashboard saying “Your homepage cannot be indexed by search engines. This is very bad for SEO and should be fixed.” This is an error in itself and your page should be fine, to remove the error find on the WP…
Show Custom Post Types in Category Archive Page
By default WordPress custom post types do not appear in a category or tag archive page, to change this behaviour and display the custom post type you can add this filter/function to your themes functions.php file. function themeprefix_show_cpt_archives( $query ) { if( is_category() || is_tag() && empty( $query->query_vars[‘suppress_filters’] ) ) { $query->set( ‘post_type’, array( ‘post’, ‘nav_menu_item’, ‘custom-post-type-name’…
Position Genesis Simple Share Icons in WooCommerce Products and Shop Page
By default when using Genesis Simple Share icons in WooCommerce products, the placement of these icons are not great. If you where to position the icons above or below the content in the Settings of Genesis Simple Share for WooCommerce Products, this is where they would end up… In a regular WordPress post the placement is fine…
Add a WooCommerce Sidebar with Genesis Simple Sidebars
Here is how to add a separate sidebar for WooCommerce pages using Genesis Simple Sidebars. One of the ways to make WooCommerce and Genesis play nicely is using a plugin called Genesis Connect for WooCommerce , but users are having issues with its code and from my own experience it is troublesome if also using Genesis Simple Sidebars,…
Setting up SVG Fallback Images in WordPress
SVG images are almost 96% supported in browsers but need a bit of backward compatibility for the 4% of stragglers, out of the box WordPress does not support the upload of SVG images via the media loader but you can circumnavigate that by adding the image format to the list of allowed types. There is a…
Upload SVG Images to WordPress Media Library
By default you cannot upload SVG images to the media library in WordPress as this format is not allowed by default. SVG which stands for Scalable Vector Graphics is not a new format but been around since 1999, but has taken time to be adopted by web standards and various browsers. Now it can be…