Most Genesis themes including the framework/sample theme come with a ‘header right‘ widget area which solves most header layouts, however there are times when an additional header middle widget area may come in handy, in particular for a client handover for them to manage. In the layout above you can use the header right widget area …
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Installing node.js on OSX 10.9 Mavericks
node.js allows you to run javascript in the Terminal as appose to a regular browser which makes for a modern workflow in web development, with node.js installed an associated package called npm (Node Package Manager) is also installed which can manage other applications that utilize node.js, one of the main ones being grunt.js. OSX Yosemite …
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Switching Primary Menu in Genesis Theme to Header Right on a Permanent Basis
I find that I always, well most of the time, use the header right widget area in Genesis for the Primary Menu of a site and create this menu by adding a Custom Menu to the Header Widget Area, whilst there is nothing wrong by doing it this way, there is a better way. Here is a guide how …
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Displaying Category Headings on all Category Archive Pages in Genesis
In a Genesis WordPress theme you can add in a headline to display for a Category archive page, but this headline only appears on the initial category archive page, so if pagination exists for subsequent archive pages then other pages do not have the title rendered. To get around this issue if you have pagination on …
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Force a Read More Link on all Post Excerpts in WordPress
Can’t see a read more link on a WordPress post excerpt – the read more link can be forced on all excerpts for posts on an archive page by adding the following code to your theme. Sometimes the read more wont show due to a shortfall of characters or an element like an iframe sitting at …
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Set a certain Sidebar to Categories and Tags or Posts with Simple Sidebars installed on Genesis
Simple Sidebars is a great plugin to use different sidebars on posts, pages, categories and tags in a Genesis theme. Easy to set up and set for individual pieces of content. However their is no option to bulk set a specific sidebar to a certain category or tag or bunch of posts or any other set …
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Swap WordPress Twenty Twelve Mobile Menu to Slick Navigation Menu
How to use Slick Navigation menus in a WordPress theme, you can use the jquery responsive menus in any theme, this guide will use a clean default WordPress Twenty Twelve child theme, remove the existing responsive mobile menu used and use the slick navigation menus instead. There is a Genesis version of the guide here. …
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De-register De-queue WordPress Loaded Scripts & Styles
You can de-register and de-queue WordPress loaded javascripts and CSS styles by passing them into the wp_print_scripts function. This can help with fewer server requests if the scripts are no longer required or if a conflict is occurring. So for example if I wanted to remove the WordPress Twenty Twelve default mobile menu javascript you would use: //Remove …
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