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Style Genesis Menus with Gradients and Images

April 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Using Dynamik's CSS builder to build and preview changes live

Mention the Genesis theme framework to the web developers I know and you will always hear good reviews. The idea behind WordPress theme frameworks is that they make theme design simple. A parent theme loaded with easy to access features provides a canvass that can be molded into different designs. Those designs are built as child themes. Genesis is feature rich and very well written. There are hundreds of child themes for Genesis. StudioPress - the team behind Genesis - has 43 plus child themes of its own and a new one is released every month. Used with Dynamik - an overlay that opens … [Read more...]

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WordPress PHP Shell and File Browser Plugins

April 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
PHP Shell 2.4 for WordPress

We've all suffered it. At some point in a developer's career there will be a day when everything goes tits-up, a site comes crashing down and the site owner isn't around to give FTP access or full server access. Sometimes, all we need is command line access 99 times out of a hundred, I won't even work on a site if the site owner doesn't provide server access but, occasionally, better judgement, years of experience and wisdom hoist their wares and take a family road-trip to some unreachable place. Take today, for example, I was troubleshooting a website for a friend. Nice easy job that I … [Read more...]

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HTACCESS: Like for Like URL Redirect

April 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Redirect all URLs to new URLs. This works when a site is moved to a new location and visitors need to be redirected from old URLs to new URLs and the new URLs are only changed by domain, subdomain or subdirectory. For example,  this would work when you need to redirect from example.com/post-1 to new.example.com/post-1 or when you need to redirect from example.com/a-post to example.com/directory/a-post. Redirect from old domain to new domain Create an .htaccess file in the root directory of the site's old location Add this snippet to the top of the .htaccess file # Set the domain the … [Read more...]

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Had a Play with BuddyPress 1.7…

March 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
BuddyPress 1.7

BuddyPress 1.7 is at beta 2 RC1 stage and it looks good. The main changes are behind the scenes and work to enhance speed, performance, security and theme & bbPress integration. The biggest change is that BuddyPress has out-of-the-box theme integration so there's no requirement to install or buy a BP specific theme. Guess this means BuddyPress theme vendors will need to work a little bit harder for their money given all stylish themes will work with BP 1.7 without any template editing. BuddyPress 1.7 is backwards compatible with existing themes so currently customized themes will work … [Read more...]

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Get Rid of BuddyPress Nested Commenting

March 27, 2013 by 1 Comment
BuddyPress 1.7

BuddyPress nests replies to updates the same way WordPress nests comments. This forces comments to get narrower and narrower as more and more replies are replied to. It's bugging as hell. Why BuddyPress uses nested replies is beyond me. It can be fixed. Remove nested replies and reply-to-reply buttons with CSS: Login to your server. Browse to your theme directory. You should use a child theme when editing theme files. If a child theme isn't used these CSS edits will be lost when the theme is updated. Open the file style.css for editing. Add this CSS to the bottom of style.css: /* … [Read more...]

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15 Essential BuddyPress Plugins

March 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
BuddyPress 1.7

There are hundreds of plugins for BuddyPress. The plugins shown here are the essential enhancements to make BP fly like a proper social network should. RS BuddyPress Activity Refresh plugin for live activity stream updates. BuddyPress Block Activity Stream Updates to get rid of those activity updates that don't really belong in the activity stream such. BuddyPress Live Notification for Facebook like notification popups. This plugin works on some sites but not others, depends on you not having plugin conflicts. BP Labs is coded by the BuddyPress developers. It adds features to BP sites … [Read more...]

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