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Alternate Colors in Post and Widget Titles with CSS :nth-of-type
You can alternate colors for your post and widget titles in your WordPress theme or website. It’s easy with a bit of CSS and the :nth-of-type() pseudo selector. While this may sound a bit difficult, it’s really quite easy. Use a Four Color Palette for Every Fourth Post and Widget Title This tutorial starts by…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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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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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Add Dashicons to Your WordPress Post
You can add a font icon and a border to your WordPress website pages or posts or widgets. This tutorial shows you how use dashicons in a border on your posts. Many themes now have dashicons enqueued in the theme functions.php, but if yours doesn’t, you can read more about how to add dashicons to…
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Add An Image to WordPress Category Archive Description
Most WordPress themes now add category descriptions to the category archive pages, if you fill in the Category Name and Description fields. This tutorial shows you how to add images and other HTML to category archive descriptions for the Twenty Fourteen theme and for Genesis child themes, because it’s a bit different.
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Add HTML – Images and Links – to Text Widgets Without a Plugin
WordPress posts and pages use the TinyMCE editor, so you don’t have to write HTML in your posts and pages, unless, of course, you want to. But the Text Widget is still, well, text. This tutorial will show you how to use the WordPress WYSIWYG editor from a Page to add HTML to a Text…
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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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