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Add Additional Image Sizes to Your Post Content Editor
WordPress automatically resizes images that are uploaded to the Media library using three default sizes – Thumbnail size, Medium size, and Full size. You can see the sizes of images for your theme if you click on Settings > Media. Many WordPress themes also add additional image sizes (or thumbnail images) that are used by…
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Custom WordPress Website Design for Theater
A recently completed WordPress website design and development project was for the Herberger Theater Center, a non-profit that supports performing arts in Phoenix. They just celebrated 25 years contributing to the community as a performing arts venue, an incubator for local arts companies, and as an arts education and outreach center, especially with their youth programs. Their newly updated…
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Crop Thumbnails or Featured Images in WordPress
Most newer WordPress themes have a few sizes for the Thumbnail or Featured image. This allows the image to be displayed in various sizes with a post excerpt in archive lists, recent or featured posts lists, and home page. While WordPress does a great job of automatically cropping images for the additional thumbnail sizes, you…
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Custom Post Type Examples for WordPress
WordPress is wonderful for creating websites because it is so flexible and versatile. Using custom post types for your business website allows for the publishing of specific content in a style or format that is very different from your normal blog posts. Custom content fields can be added to the back end (your editor or Add new screen) to…
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Add Multi-line Captions to WordPress Galleries
You can add multi-line captions to your native WordPress galleries. This is especially useful if you are using the gallery for a staff page. For instance, you may want to have a name, position, and email address below each image, and with each of these on their own line. I’m using the Twenty Twelve theme…
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Add Expanded Primary Navigation Menu to Genesis Footer
If your website has a large drop down navigation menu, you may want to display it in the footer, so that it’s available at both the top and the bottom of your website pages. The footer menu can be left expanded. You could use several widgets with menus in your footer, one for each top…
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Change the Posts Per Page in Your Portfolio Category Template
If you created a category template for your design portfolio using the Genesis Modern Portfolio Theme, like my daughter did, you may want to change the number of posts per page.
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Add Category Template for Portfolio to Genesis Modern Portfolio Pro
This weekend my daughter decided she needed to update her design portfolio website. Her current site was an html website that she did while she was in school. She wanted to move her site to WordPress, and she wanted to do it quickly. I didn’t have a lot of time to help her either, so…
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Add Styles to Read More Link in Your WordPress Theme
The “Read more” link is used in all WordPress website or blog themes. Some themes add some style to the Read more, and some leave them as default links. If you want to change the style of your WordPress Read more links, this tutorial provides some options, using only CSS. Here is an example of styling…
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Use CSS for Equal Height Column Post Grid
Recently I was working on a WordPress theme in which I needed a grid of posts in column boxes of equal height. This is easy to do when a site is fixed width; you would just set a fixed height. When the theme is responsive, the height of the grid column will increase and each…
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Check Boxes, Radio Boxes, and Input Fields in Genesis Themes
Occasionally when using WordPress themes, but especially when using the Genesis Sample theme, you will run into form elements in some plugins not being styled quite the way you would expect. I have seen this before using form plugins, and an events calendar. I recently saw it again with a taxonomy query plugin and an ecommerce plugin.…
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Add Logo on Top of Navigation Menu in a Genesis Child Theme
Website headers are often quite compact with the logo and navigation sharing the header area. Genesis child themes have a Header Right widget area that allows you to add a Custom Menu to the header of your WordPress website. But what if you want the logo to be on top of a full width navigation…
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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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