Firefox has a fantastic featured baked in called Responsive Design View for quickly resizing your active tab to different Preset dimensions. To bring it up, go to Tools > Web Developer > Responsive Design View or press Cmd + Alt + M on a Mac or Ctrl + Shift + M on a PC. If […]
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All the Nav – Logo – Nav tutorials for Genesis
A quick post to list the links to all tutorials that show how to center a logo with navigation items on either side of it in Genesis. How To Use A Center Logo With The Genesis Navigation Menu Using Only CSS – by Tony Eppright How to split Navigation Menu in Genesis using WP Nav […]
A slightly improved ‘Add Nav Extras’ code for adding Search in Navigation
The code snippet for appending a search box in Primary or Secondary Navigation menu currently uses output buffering to display the output of get_search_form() like this: We can simply use the false parameter in get_search_form() to return the search form as a string instead of echoing thus avoiding storing it in buffer.
How to add a new website in Google Analytics
If you are like me who keeps adding websites in Google Analytics now and then, you must have felt frustrated trying to figure out how and where in Google Analytics you can add a new website for tracking. The fact that GA interface keeps changing every time you log in (well, almost) does not help […]
The BDN test
I have probably troubleshooted some 30,000 websites in the last 4 years. Irrespective of what WordPress theme is currently active, one of the most common mistakes folks make is writing erroneous code in their stylesheet that causes the browsers to not render any CSS code below the error point. Ex.: Missing closing brace. When you […]
Using Font Awesome in WordPress
Version 4.1.0 of Font Awesome has been released recently and it’s time for a refresher on how we can use icon fonts in WordPress. To load Font Awesome, add the following in child theme’s functions.php: Below are a few examples of using Font Awesome icons in various places. Within content In Page/Post editor when in […]
How to use a full-width background image in Home Top widget area of Enterprise Pro
In Enterprise Pro, a ‘Genesis – Featured Page’ widget is meant to be used in the ‘Home – Top’ widget area to get the look like in the demo site. In the widget’s settings you would select ‘home-top (750×600)’ image size and left for alignment. In this article I show how we can use an […]
Antispam Bee – a good Akismet alternative
A few months ago Akismet, the de facto anti-spam plugin for WordPress showed a message that my blog has grown too big for it to do its job free of cost. I looked and tried several popular free Akismet alternatives and finally settled on Antispam Bee. I have been using it for a couple of […]
How to replace Site Title text with custom HTML in Genesis
Scenario: In the Header section of Genesis Theme Settings, Dynamic text is set to be shown for site title. This will pull the Site Title text entered in Settings > General and display it in .site-header. There could be times when you want to use different text instead of the site title or use HTML […]
Downloadable and Searchable Genesis Code Snippets
Update: The snippets are now here: https://genesis.community/wiki/. It has been a little over 8 months since I stepped into the wonderful world of Genesis. The websites that I create now are leaner and visually better. During this period I have stored and constantly refer to a lot of code snippets, primarily from StudioPress website into […]
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