How to make social media menus from icon fonts using the awesome FontAwesome. Fontawesome is supported in all modern browsers and IE support is version 8+ <link href=”//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-awesome.css” rel=”stylesheet”> You can link to the Fontawesome CSS file via a CDN or just copy the download it to your site. If using WordPress you can register …
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Create Custom Post Types in Genesis Child Theme in WordPress
Custom Post Types are a great way to structure your data and also to provide an interface for an end user to easily populate data as in any content management system. There are WP plugins available for download that can create and manage custom post types but you can also follow WordPress functions and do …
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Creating Full Width Fluid Divs in Genesis Theme for Sales/Landing Page
Its colorful and long and goes on and on and on – sales landing pages. To create these types of pages in a Genesis child theme you need to edit the CSS for the inner part of the page and then create some new CSS which you can add in multiple sections that expand …
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Adding a Vertical Image Background Full Depth in Genesis Theme WordPress
A web design normally has a horizontal full width image but what about a vertical full depth that spans the page. In a Genesis theme you can accomplish this by setting a background image to the .site-container div that contains all page elements If the image has to be a certain width with no text or images …
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Adding Full Width Top and Bottom Wrap Content into Genesis Child Theme
You can add in full width content that is contained in a wrap in Genesis theme in the top and bottom of the page. This design calls for a full width area below the logo/menu to hold the hero image and also below that to hold the opt-in heading and button and a third …
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Adding a Logo to the header of a Genesis Child Theme
When you create a Genesis Child Theme you have the option of Dynamic Text or an Image Logo for the Header as choices in the Genesis settings. Dynamic Text The dynamic text pulls in the site title and description as set in the WordPress Dashboard > Settings > General area Genesis places the Site Title and Site Description in a …
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Create CSS Conditional Stylesheets for Internet Explorer in WordPress
How to Create CSS conditional style sheets for Internet Explorer in WordPress using a child theme or parent theme. Either manually in the header.php file or the preferred WordPress way registered and enqueued as a style via the functions.php way. The Manual Header Way 1) Open the header.php to your parent or child theme 2) …
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Create an extra Widget Areas in WordPress Twenty Twelve
WordPress themes come with a certain number of widgets in parts of the web page, for example the 2012 theme has a sidebar and 2 home page widget areas, you can make many more areas of the layout widgetised by creating extra widget functions and placing the PHP code for those functions in the theme …
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