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Genesis Tutorials

How to Use Sugar Event Calendar with Genesis Themes

Sometimes you need to have a simple calendar of events on your WordPress website. This tutorial will show you how to use Sugar Event Calendar by Pippin Williams with Genesis 3.4.0 Sample theme. I’ve used this calendar plugin on several websites, and because Pippin uses minimal styling in his plugins, the calendar just picked up…
WordPress Tutorials

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.…
Genesis Tutorials

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.
Genesis Tutorials

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…
WordPress Tutorials

How to Safely Edit Your WordPress Theme Files

Sooner or later you might want to make a change to your WordPress website or blog that will require editing your child theme files. You may want to change the color of a link or a button, or you need to add a landing page template file, or you just want to change some text…
Genesis Tutorials

Genesis Full Height Sidebar with Header above Content

A recent project required duplicating an old website built using tables, but using WordPress. Since I use the Genesis framework for WordPress websites as often as possible, I thought my experience would make a great Genesis theme tutorial. The old website was flush left in the browser window. It had a full height sidebar with…