How to create a Genesis child theme from scratch from the Genesis Framework that looks like the parent theme, using HTML5 , footer widgets, custom backgrounds and enable the viewport setting that allows for responsive design on tablet/mobile devices. Install Genesis Framework First grab the Genesis framework and upload the theme into WordPress via the …
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Making Custom Social Media Images for Share Links in WordPress
There are many Social Media Share link plugins for WordPress that do a great job, but not many that allow you to use a custom image that you may have designed for Facebook, Twitter or Google to use with the sharing link of the post or page, instead you are stuck with the default ones. …
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Show Hidden Library and User Library files and folder in OSX Mavericks 10.9
From OSX 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8 Mountain Lion and 10.7 Lion, the /Library and ~/Library are hidden from the Finder – to show these directories in the GUI, launch Terminal from Applications/Utilities and run the command below with sudo and enter your admin password when requested: sudo chflags nohidden /Library/ ~/Library/ to hide again: sudo chflags …
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WordPress Woo Slider Stopped Working | Cloudflare Rocket Loader Conflict
If you have recently added your site to the Cloudflare service and set the caching to aggressive you may lose some javascript functionality on your site. One such example is in WordPress if you are using a Woo Theme one of the casualties of aggressive caching may be the slider images simply stop sliding or …
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Remove the WordPress Reset Lost Password Link on Login Page
To remove the reset ‘Lost Your Password‘ link and function on the WordPress login page you need to add a function to your themes functions.php file and add in some CSS. The reason why both are needed as the forgot ‘Lost Your Password‘ link appears in 2 areas as a link in the bottom of the dialog box …
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How to Install mcrypt for php on Mac OSX 10.9 Mavericks for a Development Server
The mcrypt extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration. The above error appears after you successfully get phpMyAdmin up and running on OS X, generally you don’t have to worry about it, you only need to address the error if you are going to use a web application that requires it, for example Magento, the shopping …
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Making A Boot USB Disk of OSX 10.9 Mavericks via Terminal and GUI
This guide deals with 3 ways of making a boot disk from OSX 10.9 Mavericks the first one is the fastest and is done via the Terminal from a new command already in OSX Mavericks called createinstallmedia , the other 2 are older ways when Mavericks was in development and are done with a mixture of finder …
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An Introductory Guide for starting out with SASS for CSS
SASS and LESS are two similar tools for writing out CSS code that is sort of pre-CSS code with variables – that is then converted to good ole regular CSS code. Why you would want to use them really depends on your workflow, for smaller scale work and minor CSS updates it probably isn’t necessary …
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