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WordPress Tutorials

WordPress Menu Order Sort for Adjacent Previous – Next Single Post Navigation

It’s easy to use adjacent or previous – next single post navigation when you want WordPress posts sorted by publish date. But often you need to sort posts or custom post types by title alphabetically or by menu order (using page attributes). I’ve always found this difficult, and while there are plugins that should help…
Genesis Tutorials

Style Dropdown Select Menus in Chrome – Square Corners and Height

Have you noticed lately that when you view dropdown select menus with Chrome or Safari browsers that they are very narrow in height and also have rounded corners? This happens, if you’re using a forms plugin or the WordPress Archives or Categories widgets with the dropdown option. They all look like the image below –…
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Position or Move the Captions in Soliloquy Lite Slider

Although there is much debate over whether sliders are a good choice for a website, this tutorial is not meant to argue the merits, but just to help you position the captions in Soliloquy slider to best suit your image. The Soliloquy Lite WordPress plugin is a good choice for a basic, light, easy-to-use slider, and can…
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Display and Style WordPress Tag Cloud Widget with Categories Too

WordPress comes with two widgets for displaying your tags and categories. Depending on the number of blog post tags and categories, you can use these widgets as they are. But you can also style your list of tags or categories, so they are more useable by your readers. This tutorial shows you how to display and…
WordPress Tutorials

New Site Icons for WordPress and Genesis to Download

WordPress 4.3 now has a feature to make it easy for you to add a site icon or favicon to your website, and this feature is supported in Genesis 2.2 and up. The favicon is the little image that identifies your website in the browser bar and bookmarks. It’s also a site icon because the…
Website Design

Hide Sidebar Widgets on WordPress Pages and Posts

WordPress widgets are used to add extra features or functionality to your theme. They are added to your theme sidebars or widget areas, including footer and after post areas. Some of the widgets are included with the theme, such as Recent Posts or Search widgets, and others you or your website developer will add using plugins.…
Website Design

Fix MailChimp Form Connection Untrusted Browser Error

If you’ve recently changed your website to use HTTPS with an SSL certificate, you know that you have to do a bit of tweaking to make sure all “assets” also load securely. While this tutorial details how to fix HTTPS/SSL errors for MailChimp signup forms giving connection untrusted or connection not private warnings in the browser, the information may…
Genesis Tutorials

Add Full Quotes and Links for Post Formats with Excerpts

When you use a Genesis theme that has post formats, you may want to use excerpts for some of the longer post formats on your blog and archive pages. But you may also want to display the full content for other formats, like quotes or links. This tutorial shows you how to add full quotes and links for…
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Add Retina Logo to Genesis or WordPress Themes

Many Genesis and WordPress themes have a custom header area that you can use to add your logo or header. The size for the logo or header is set by the theme. You can add your own logo size, and you can also edit the custom header settings, so that your logo can be uploaded at twice…
Genesis Tutorials

Add Images to Book Author Pages for Genesis Author Pro Theme

The Genesis Author Pro theme and plugin have the option to add books for multiple authors. The book author is a taxonomy, like a category. And so the book author pages are archive pages, just as category archives are. You can easily add custom content to the book author archive pages, like the author’s image,…
Genesis Tutorials

Limit Contact Form Widths in Genesis Themes

A number of Genesis child themes set the default styles for form fields (your contact form) to a width of 100%. This makes a nice mobile-friendly form on phones or tablets. On larger screens, it may not be the look you want for your contact form, especially if your child theme is full-width. You can…
Genesis Tutorials

Using the Featured Custom Post Type Widget for Genesis

Genesis themes come with the Genesis – Featured Posts widget which you can use to add a grid of posts to your home page or add some recent posts to your sidebar. This works great for normal posts, but what if your theme has custom post types, like events, portfolio items, or testimonials? Nick_theGeek has…