Sridhar Katakam

Genesis and WordPress Tutorials

Features and Teasers in Genesis

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This post is more of a notes for self rather than a tutorial with details. Requirement: Scope: Blog Home i.e., Posts page (example.com or example.com/blog/ depending on Settings > Reading) 2 features (wide posts) showing full content, no Post thumbnails. 6 teasers showing excerpts, Post thumbnails. Paginated pages to show all excerpts. Settings > Reading: […]

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, […]

Scroll animations in WordPress using WOW.js

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In the past I wrote about using ‘Jack In The Box’ and ScrollReveal here and here for on scroll (more like, ‘when-it-comes-in-the-view’) animations. I have updated the post on ScrollReveal today. But find that animations no longer work during my tests. Therefore I gave WOW, the newer incarnation of Jack In The Box a try […]

Single and Archive templates for Custom Post Type in Genesis

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Using Custom Post Types (CPTs) in WordPress we can create our own custom content types besides the built-in Posts and Pages. Similarly custom taxonomies can be created similar to the built-in categories and tags. And then there are custom fields which can be attached to a CPT to set that content-type specific features/attributes. In this […]

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