Adding an offscreen content area with a toggle to a Genesis Theme
The latest Genesis Infinity Pro theme has a top right toggle icon which allows for some off screen content to come into prominence in the viewport, this can be great for lead capture, ecommerce, contact details etc Here is how you can add this to the Sample Theme, also should work ok in other Genesis themes…
Read MoreAdding a Full Width Background Image Behind Genesis Header with Beaver Builder
You can add a full width image background behind the site header in Genesis with Beaver Builder with a couple of CSS tweaks. By default when creating a Beaver Builder page in Genesis it’s width will be restricted by the theme’s CSS and you will get something similar to… First thing is…
Read MoreRemove Meta Boxes in Genesis Theme Settings
You can remove the metaboxes that appear in the Genesis theme settings in the WordPress dasgboard – this may help when you want an end user not to use or change certain theme settings. In this Gist are the main ones just include the ones that you need to remove – any settings that have…
Read MoreChange the Genesis Theme Copyright Line in Footer for WordPress
Genesis Themes have a footer credit copyright line at the base of the page. This includes the copyright and Genesis framework link with a couple of standard WordPress default links. To change this, you can add a new function and filter into your functions.php of your Genesis child theme… Adding the Function //Changing the Credits function wpb_footer_creds_text () { echo…
Read MoreAdd a Genesis Footer Widget Area to include extra content
In a lot of Genesis Child themes, the footer has the copyright and credit text but no widget area to add or edit content, most themes do have up to three footer widgets but your design may require these areas and then another area beneath those to add in additional elements and content. Here’s how you can remove…
Read MoreChanging the Genesis Archive Page Settings for Custom Post Types
By default all archive pages and types in Genesis share the same archive settings as set in the Genesis > Theme Settings > Content Archives section, but you can change these settings for a specific custom post type archive and leave the defaults intact for the regular archive pages. Looking at the Content Archives in…
Read MoreMake all WooCommerce Pages Full Width in Genesis (including Product Pages)
You can set all of WooCommerce pages including all product pages to be full width content inside of a Genesis Theme by adding a function and filter to your functions.php file. So in the above the WooCommerce shop, cart and checkout pages are targeted in an array plus the custom post type ‘Products’ which is…
Read MoreRemove Archive Title & Description from Blog Page in Genesis
Genesis adds in an archive title and description at the top of each archive page, depending on which type of archive page you use, there is a way to remove these from the mark up on the page. Since Genesis 2.2.1 there is a genesis_do_posts_page_heading function which adds Archive and Description markup just before the articles on…
Read MoreAdding a Widget Area at the bottom of every post in Genesis WordPress Theme
With the release of Genesis 2.1.1 there is an additional ready to go widget that sits just below the end of each single post, this is a great location for an optin form, advertising banner or reader message that needs to be added to the bottom of each single post. This was previously possible but with…
Read MoreAdd Featured Image at top of Single Post/Page in Genesis
One of the latest themes from Genesis has the ability to show the featured image that is set to appear at the top of a post or page, the setting is shown in the Customizer and is enabled by default – here is how you can use this in any Genesis theme. It is best…
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