Adding in Google Plus Authorship and Publisher Profile to Genesis WordPress Theme
As of 26th June 2014, Google has announced that they are dropping the profile image and circle count from the search result listings, this is for both cosmetic and leveling the playing field reasons.Further to this Google has abandoned the Author linking project also the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin has removed the author parts from…
Read MoreUsing Navgoco as a Vertical Multi-Level Menu in a WordPress Genesis Theme
Looking for a expandable/contractable Vertical Multi-Level Slide Menu in regular WordPress or Genesis themes, Navgoco has you covered. Create Your Menu Set up your custom menu as normal in WordPress Dashboard with multi levels and place into position via a widget area or simply use HTML mark up on a post or page, this example uses a…
Read MoreAdd a Submit Button to the Search Input Field in Genesis Search Widget
By default the Search widget in a Genesis WordPress theme does not have a submit button, just hitting enter on the keyboard will do the trick but what if you deadset want that clickable submit button back. Using the Genesis Sample Theme, this is how the search widget looks like when added in the Header Right and…
Read MoreAdd a Full Width Responsive Header Image to a Genesis Theme
You can add in a full width responsive image header into a Genesis child theme by using the header element and set a background image to it by setting a CSS rule. Using the Genesis sample theme as an example, in the above illustration the logo or site title will be handled with the .title-area div if…
Read MoreFaux Full Width Page Titles in a Genesis Child WordPress Theme
This layout calls for a full viewport width background color of the page title which is to appear on all pages, there are a defined amount of pages on the site with short titles. To achieve this effect using the sample Genesis child theme you can take advantage of the .site-inner div Change the CSS .site-inner…
Read MoreDisplaying Category Headings on all Category Archive Pages in Genesis
In a Genesis WordPress theme you can add in a headline to display for a Category archive page, but this headline only appears on the initial category archive page, so if pagination exists for subsequent archive pages then other pages do not have the title rendered. To get around this issue if you have pagination on…
Read MoreSet a certain Sidebar to Categories and Tags or Posts with Simple Sidebars installed on Genesis
Simple Sidebars is a great plugin to use different sidebars on posts, pages, categories and tags in a Genesis theme. Easy to set up and set for individual pieces of content. However their is no option to bulk set a specific sidebar to a certain category or tag or bunch of posts or any other set…
Read MoreRemove the HTML Tags and Attributes from Comments Box in Genesis Child Theme
By default in Genesis Child theme and general WordPress themes, html tags and attributes in the Comments field are displayed for users to show what html tags they can use, I find a lot of clients just want to hide those HTML tags as they think it may discourage some users from leaving comments. To hide…
Read MoreCreate a Footer Area with Left and Right Widgets in Genesis Child Theme
In the Sample Genesis Theme or a vanilla Child Theme, there is no actual Footer Widget Area, rather just a credit & copyright line with links. This is how to create a new footer area with a left and right widgets, these code snippets need to be added to the child theme functions.php file…
Read MoreAdd a Full Width Row Above Footer Widgets in Genesis Child Theme
How to add a full width content row in the area directly above the footer widgets in a Genesis Child theme. In the layout above, the three footer widgets are used for 3 products, but a headline needs to straddle across all 3 widgets and needs to be easily changed. To achieve this a new…
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