Sridhar Katakam

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Custom Carousel in WordPress using bxSlider with a backend UI using CPT

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In this article I show how we can set up a carousel (with 3 images scrolling at a time) using bxSlider in WordPress. We shall use Types (free plugin) to create a ‘Carousel Images’ CPT (Custom Post Type) and a ‘Video URL’ custom field, then use Views (commercial plugin) to loop through the CPT entries, […]

Full width Soliloquy slider in Genesis

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Soliloquy is perhaps the best WordPress slider plugin out there. It is simple, light-weight, very well optimized for speed and comes with excellent support. Note: Soliloquy does not have the bells and whistles like layers that are present in LayerSlider and Revolution. If you need layers and a variety of animations, go with one of […]

How to replace, reorder and add new icons in Simple Social Icons

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Update on January 12, 2017 The tutorial no longer works with the latest version of the plugin. Follow the pages in the wiki here: https://github.com/copyblogger/simple-social-icons/wiki Simple Social Icons is a free WordPress plugin that adds a widget for displaying social networks (Twitter, Facebook etc.) icons. Widget includes useful options for setting icon size, border radius, […]

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