When it comes to email marketing opt-in forms in WordPress, my preferred plugin is Genesis eNews Extended. But there could be times when you need to use Gravity Forms for the same. In this article I show how a horizontal responsive Gravity Forms form showing First name, Last name and Email fields can be set […]
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Full Content for Features in Grid Loop
When using Bill Erickson’s Genesis Grid plugin if you would like to display the full content for Features (wide posts), add the following in your child theme’s functions.php: Before: After: Related: http://sridharkatakam.com/show-full-post-followed-excerpts-genesis/
Custom ‘Read more’ below entry content in Genesis Featured Posts Combo widget
In my current PSD > WP project, Posts displayed in a Genesis Featured Posts Combo’s (commerical plugin) widget should have the ‘Read more’ link below the content (limit). By default the Read more appears at the end of content text like this: What we are aiming for: Here’s one method in which this can be […]
How to prepend text to titles in Genesis Featured Posts Combo widget
In a PSD to WP project am working on, the requirement is to automatically add a pre-set text, “Case Study: ” to the left of linked title of a CPT entry displayed in a widget area via the Genesis Featured Posts Combo’s (commercial plugin) widget. This can be done using gfpc_do_post_title_(widget_id) filter of the plugin. […]
Speech bubble style Testimonials Archive page in Genesis
Want to display quotations or testimonials by your customers/clients in a grid of speech bubbles like this? In this tutorial I show how testimonial CPT entries via Testimonials by WooThemes plugin can be displayed in a grid of 3 entries on the archive page. For each entry, testimonial excerpt, name, byline and photo will be […]
Splitting Gravity Forms fields into 2 columns
In my current PSD > WP project one of the requirements is to display a group of Gravity Forms fields on the left and another group of fields on the right like this: Cameron Rahman provided the code for this here. Here’s how I implemented the same: In the form added two Section Breaks one […]
How to display Posts from a Category in columns using Display Posts Shortcode
Display Posts Shortcode is a fantastic plugin by Bill Erickson using which we can fetch and display entries from the WP database easily w/o writing manual queries. In this article I show how Display Posts Shortcode can be used to show Featured images and linked titles of 12 Posts from a particular “Featured” category in […]
Custom Page Titles in Genesis Featured Posts Combo Plugin’s Widget
Genesis Featured Posts Combo is a newish plugin (starts from $15) by Chinmoy Paul for Genesis that fills the gaps in standard Genesis Featured Posts, Genesis Featured Page widgets and other abandoned plugins like Genesis Featured Widget Amplified (totally dead) and Genesis Sandbox Featured Content Widget (barely alive). These are the major selling points of […]
How to create a custom widget that displays value of a custom field in WordPress
In a recent task that I worked on, the requirement was to set up a custom field called “Related Services” for Posts and display this field’s value in a sidebar widget. The widget should appear on the front-end i.e., on the single Post page only if the field has been populated for that particular Post. […]
Collapsible Horizontal Opt-in form in Genesis
In the comments section of my tutorial titled Adding a horizontal opt-in form in Genesis, a reader asked: Got this form to work perfectly! Only question is finding a way for people to collapse it if they’re already subscribed or just want to hide it on the screen. I want it to show up by […]
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