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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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Hide Sidebar Widgets on WordPress Pages and Posts
WordPress widgets are used to add extra features or functionality to your theme. They are added to your theme sidebars or widget areas, including footer and after post areas. Some of the widgets are included with the theme, such as Recent Posts or Search widgets, and others you or your website developer will add using plugins.…
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Fix MailChimp Form Connection Untrusted Browser Error
If you’ve recently changed your website to use HTTPS with an SSL certificate, you know that you have to do a bit of tweaking to make sure all “assets” also load securely. While this tutorial details how to fix HTTPS/SSL errors for MailChimp signup forms giving connection untrusted or connection not private warnings in the browser, the information may…
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Using the Featured Custom Post Type Widget for Genesis
Genesis themes come with the Genesis – Featured Posts widget which you can use to add a grid of posts to your home page or add some recent posts to your sidebar. This works great for normal posts, but what if your theme has custom post types, like events, portfolio items, or testimonials? Nick_theGeek has…
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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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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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Remove Category Base from WordPress Permalinks
WordPress adds a base of /category/ to the all the category archive permalinks. This means that your category links look like this:http://example.org/category/uncategorized/ For the most part, that’s a good thing. If a category and post or page have the same slug, they won’t interfere with each other. But sometimes you need something else, so this…
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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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How to Add a Popup Form to Your WordPress Site with Ninja Forms
Ninja Forms is an easy-to-use, lightweight form builder plugin for your WordPress website. It can be used for simple contact forms or for more complex forms. You can see an example on my Contact page. The form has minimalist styling that blends in well with most WordPress themes. The basic plugin is available from the WordPress…
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