By default in Genesis Child theme and general WordPress themes, html tags and attributes in the Comments field are displayed for users to show what html tags they can use, I find a lot of clients just want to hide those HTML tags as they think it may discourage some users from leaving comments. To hide …
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Create a Footer Area with Left and Right Widgets in Genesis Child Theme
In the Sample Genesis Theme or a vanilla Child Theme, there is no actual Footer Widget Area, rather just a credit & copyright line with links. This is how to create a new footer area with a left and right widgets, these code snippets need to be added to the child theme functions.php file …
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Make a Read More Link with Dashicons for Posts in Genesis Child Theme
By default in a Genesis Child and any WordPress theme the ‘read more‘ link in a post is not a link and is an ellipse surrounded by square brackets[…] There is a WordPress filter that allows this to be changed called excerpt_more, a function needs to be created and then passed into that filter. This …
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Add a Full Width Row Above Footer Widgets in Genesis Child Theme
How to add a full width content row in the area directly above the footer widgets in a Genesis Child theme. In the layout above, the three footer widgets are used for 3 products, but a headline needs to straddle across all 3 widgets and needs to be easily changed. To achieve this a new …
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Add a ‘Continue Shopping’ Button to Woo Commerce Checkout and Cart Page
By default WooCommerce Cart page does not have a ‘Continue Shopping’ or ‘Return to Store’ button. However if you go to the cart page when the cart is empty, there is a ‘Return to Store’ button. We just need to add this button code to the cart page when the cart has items. Copy WooCommerce Templates into …
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Create a PreHeader Full Width Wrap Bar in Genesis Theme
If you have a layout that requires a pre-header full content wrap that needs to have elements such as an optin form and member or social media menu, you can add a widget area in a Genesis child theme just above the main header area that contains any content you need with the ability to …
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Create the Genesis Footer Widget Area for Genesis Child Theme
In a vanilla Genesis Child theme, the footer has the copyright and credit text but no widget area to add or edit stuff, it does have the three footer widgets but your design may require these areas and another area beneath those to add in additional elements. Here’s how you can remove that existing footer …
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Add a Facebook Like Box HTML5 style to Genesis Child Theme (Responsively)
How to add a HTML5 version Facebook Like Box to a Genesis Child Theme and make it responsive… Facebook Code Get you facebook code and choose the HTML5 version. The bottom HTML code goes in your sidebar widget or where ever you want the Facebook like box to go, the top javascript code needs to go …
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