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Q: What do you get when you cross a lazy web designer with Google search? A: A Genesis child theme overflowing with options for near drag’n’drop visual theme styling. I’m guessing you’re lazy too or you wouldn’t have made the same search I did. I build a lot of Genesis child themes. Some I design … Read more
Sometimes we need to add references to scripts, metatags or conditional styles to the WordPress <head></head> section in header.php. WordPress has an action hook for this purpose. It’s very easy to use. To add scripts, conditional styles or links to header.php, use the wp_head() action hook, like this: add_action(‘wp_head’, ‘function_name’); function function_name() { echo “\n”; … Read more
MarketPress from WPMU is a wonderful shopping cart with lots of display options and payment gateways. It’s excellent for selling shippable and downloadable goods. I rate it above WooCommerce and other expensive shopping carts. But MarketPress lacks one huge (often essential) component: it has no gridview. Without gridview you can’t display goods side-by-side as clickable … Read more
The Genesis theme usually places the header image to the left side of the page. You can center it with a quick snippet of CSS. Center your theme logo header image by putting this CSS in your child theme’s style.css file: /** Center the header image */ #header { background-position: top center; } If you … Read more
The Genesis theme framework for WordPress has a BuddyPress compatibility plugin called Genesis Connect for BuddyPress. It is a free plugin, has been for a couple of months. Don’t use it. It’s not fully compatible with BP 1.6.3. Use the officially recommended BP Templates Pack plugin instead. If you do use Genesis Connect you might … Read more
WordPress multisite is great but sometimes we need to redirect visitors from the root domain to one of the subdomains. There isn’t a plugin for this and until now, accomplishing the redirection would see you jump through hundreds of hard to follow guides that would get you beating your computer like its your worst enemy. … Read more