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HowTo: Add New Widgets to Genesis Child Themes

Lee hodson — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:08:57 +0000

Easier to do than adding a new custom menu to a Genesis child theme. Just a few lines of code in the child theme’s functions.php file is all you need to add a new widget area anywhere within your WordPress site. Genesis uses ‘hooks’ to make it easy to latch code into the theme. A [...]

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HowTo: Browser and OS Detection with PHP

Lee hodson — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:52:21 +0000

A very quick PHP script for detecting browser/device and OS agent strings from the HTTP User Agent variable. This is not 100% reliable because surfers and bots sometimes hide or falsify the user agent string so please use with caution. Browser and OS Detection Script This script detects whether the OS/Device is Linux, MacOS, iPad, [...]

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HowTo: Add New Menus to Genesis Themes

Lee hodson — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:19:22 +0000

Adding additional navigation menus to Genesis themes is easy. This method creates custom navigation menus that you can customize as you would any other WordPress custom menu by visiting Appearance > Menus. We use a two-step method: Create a custom nav file Register the custom nav file in your child theme’s functions.php file By repeating [...]

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How To Make Free Mobile Web Apps

Lee hodson — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:06:00 +0000

There are 1.2 BILLION mobile web users in the world. A staggering 25 out of every 100 potential US visitors to your website will never see it with a desktop computer, at least. Statistics collected in 2010 suggest that 25% of US people DO NOT access or infrequently access the desktop web. That figure was higher in China [...]

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WordPress Won’t Update!!! What Do I Do?

Lee hodson — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:01:57 +0000

Being a WordPress developer, I often meet WordPress sites that do not auto update. There are four main reasons WordPress will not update:

The upgrade folder has the wrong permissions set
Its server's PHP is below version 5
WordPress was installed using Fantastico or something similar
A plugin is preventing upgrades
The server has a very low PHP memory limit

Other, less common reasons include:

You're doing it all wrong
WordPress doesn't like you
WordPress is in a bad mood, or
It's just not your day

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