Creating a customised all widgets / widgetized home page of a Genesis Child Theme. Analysing the Layout The layout above does not lend itself to the default layouts in Genesis, it really needs to be set up with widgetised areas in the WordPress dashboard so a non-technical user can update content. The layout is a …
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Creating a Genesis Child Theme from Scratch of the Genesis Framework in WordPress
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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How to Create Custom WordPress Template Posts, Pages, Headers, Footers and Sidebars
How to create new WordPress templates for your theme including posts, pages, headers, footers and sidebars. To change the WordPress home page edit the index.php in the main theme if using a child theme, just copy and then edit the file in your child theme folder alternatively you can create/edit front-page.php – this will take priority over the index.php To make a …
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Making Full Width Headers and Footers in WordPress Twenty Twelve Theme
How to create a full width header and footer in WordPress’s responsive Twenty Twelve theme. Example Site. Create a Child Theme First up you should really create and work from a Child Theme Make Header and Footer Copies to Child Theme Copy your header.php and footer.php files from twentytwelve to your twentytwelvechild theme folder. Your …
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How to create a Child Theme in WordPress 3
A Child Theme in WordPress is a theme that takes all the juice out of its parent without doing much itself, pretty much like regular kids. This guide explains what a Child Theme is and how to create one for the latest version of WordPress 3.6. The core benefit of a child theme is that …
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How to find out which WordPress template is being used in a Theme
How do you quickly find out which template in your WordPress theme is being used without systematically going through each template? WordPress uses a structure of templates formed in a hierarchy of importance, when one isn’t there it falls back to the next in the chain. Click for a closer look If you want to …
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Responsively Removing Width and Height Attributes on Images and wp-caption on WordPress
If you are looking to go responsive for images on your site and want a theme that responds to various devices such as tablets and mobiles there are a couple of issues to sort out with existing hard coded images that have hard coded inline style width and height attributes. In WordPress not only do you …
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