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Add and Style Post Formats in Your Genesis Child Theme
This tutorial will show you how to add and style post formats in your Genesis child theme. So what are post formats? A Post Format is a piece of meta information that can be used by a theme to customize its presentation of a post. WordPress Codex But really, adding post formats to your WordPress…
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Add Dashicons to Show File Type for Download Links
You may have different kinds of files or file types for your website visitors to download, such as Microsoft Word or Excel documents, or Google Docs or Sheets, PDFs or e-books, or even audio or video files. This WordPress tutorial shows how you can use dashicons to provide your visitors with a visual indication of the file type of the download…
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Add Third or Footer Navigation Menu to Genesis Child Theme
Most Genesis child themes come with two menu locations – Primary Navigation Menu and Secondary Navigation Menu. They also have a Header Right widget area for a custom menu widget. In some child themes, the Secondary Navigation Menu has been moved to the footer area. If you would like a new third menu location, it’s easy to…
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Genesis WordPress HTML5 Gallery Styles
Genesis and WordPress HTML5 galleries are mobile friendly, and the galleries will resize to fit the device screen. But the default styling has the images get smaller for smaller screens. This tutorial shows you how to keep larger images on smaller screens using inline-block. Note that while I’ll be using the Genesis Sample theme, this…
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Move Genesis After Entry Widget to Inside Post Entry
The Genesis After Entry widget area is normally added after a single post entry and before the comments section. But you may want to have an after entry widget area inside the post entry content area. This tutorial shows you how to move the after entry widget area. You can move the after entry widget…
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Add Genesis After Entry Widget to Pages and Custom Post Types
Most Genesis child themes now add the After Entry widget area to the bottom of single blog posts. It’s added after the blog post and before the comments section. The most common use for this widget area is to add a call-to-action, such as a newsletter signup box. But often business website owners need an after entry area on pages or…
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Remove or Override Plugin CSS with !Important
Often when you install a plugin, you want to give it a style that matches or coordinates with your WordPress theme. Sometimes this is easy to do. But sometimes a plugin will use !important in it’s stylesheet. Then editing the CSS can become more difficult. I was recently working with Simple Social Icons, and I…
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Add Unique Custom Styles to One WordPress Page or Post
One of the nice things about using WordPress is that all the pages and posts can be styled consistently. But sometimes I’m asked to make a particular page or post have custom or unique styles. So let’s suppose you’re creating a sales page, and you want the headings and the buttons to be a green…
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Your U.S. Small Business and Tax Information Forms
Super Bowl XLIX on Sunday had some excitement early in the game, and so I watched the last three quarters. (Katy Perry’s half-time show was spectacular!) Regardless of who you wanted to win, the 4th quarter pass strategy by the Seahawks was sad. Because they were so close, passing was just a bad decision at that point in…
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Add Responsive Menu Icon Only to Genesis Primary Navigation Menu
Most Genesis themes now include responsive navigation menus for smaller screen sizes, and some add a responsive menu icon to several menu locations – header, primary, and secondary. Perhaps you need to use two menus, but you have only a few menu items in the header navigation, like your membership area login and account, or…
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How to Use WordPress Conditional Tags
WordPress has conditional tags which can be used to change the content shown under certain conditions or on certain pages or posts. This tutorial will walk you through some examples, so that the next time you encounter a conditional statement, you will understand it. Conditional tags are usually found in theme template files or functions.php.…
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Happy New Year 2015!
Thank you for reading all the tips for your small business WordPress website and blog this year. I appreciate each of you and all your questions and comments. I wish you all the best in 2015 and look forward to a wonderful new year. ~ Marcy
Meet Marcy
Amethyst Website Design is a small business owned by Marcy Díaz. I help people, like you, with your website by creating an affordable WordPress website using Genesis themes to fit your business and budget. I especially love working with new and small business owners, and can help you with the online part of your business.
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