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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, one is to use a plugin called Disable Visual Editor which you can simply disable…

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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 You can add it the favicon in your WordPress themes folder inside your child theme images…

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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 types appear below the ‘Comments’ link, in the above example ‘Tax Liens’ is a new…

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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’); } add_action(‘admin_init’, ‘fontawesome_dashboard’); In your functions.php add in the above in which a new function is…

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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 reason is because the images most probably have a fixed width which the web layout…

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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 be done in the code.

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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 used inside the post. The thumbnail image size will list available sizes that you can…

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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 what is output by adding a filter and function to the functions.php file of the child theme….

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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 create and manage custom post types but you can also follow WordPress functions and do…

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