Genesis Tutorials

The Agent Focused Genesis child theme uses Backstretch, a jQuery script, to add the large image on the theme front page. A frequently asked question is how to get more control over the position of the background image. It’s fairly easy to convert the theme to use a CSS background image, which makes positioning more straightforward.

The steps in this tutorial to add a CSS background image can generally be applied to other themes that have a backstretch image, although a few changes may be needed.
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It’s straightforward to add an additional new image background section to Genesis Workstation Pro child theme. You’ll need to edit a few files, so follow the steps in this Genesis theme customization tutorial carefully.

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Save copies of the original files before you start editing, and be sure you have FTP access, in case something goes wrong.
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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 post formats that use excerpts for longer content.

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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 the normal size. Then your logo will look sharp and not blurry on retina screens.

This tutorial will show you how to resize the header customizer to match your logo size, so that you can add retina logo to Genesis or WordPress themes, and then to adjust the theme styles, so that it looks great.
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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, some about the author text, and links to their social media or book buying sites without editing your template files, even though there is only a text area field for content. It can look like this.

Of course, if your website does have a lot of authors, and you need more control over the information you add to each author archive page, you will want a designer or developer to create a custom template for your Genesis website.
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