Updated on June 26, 2017 A user recently wrote me: Hi Sridhar, I find your tutorials very helpful. I was hesitant to signup and pay the $47/month, but it’s money well spent every month. Thank you! I have a request. Can you help me or put out a tutorial to accomplish what I’m seeing here?: […]
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How to auto play videos as they come into view in Genesis
This tutorial provides the steps to: add custom fields to upload/select mp4, webm and ogv video files for Posts using Advanced Custom Fields. replace content archive images with muted looping videos (if set) for each post appearing on the archives on the front end using shortcode built in WordPress. use jQuery Visible to a) play […]
How to exclude specific tags from Entry Meta in Genesis
In the members-only forum a user asked: There are a number of guides for doing this with categories in Genesis with functions.php code, but I’ve yet to come across one that works with specific tags instead of categories. The usage scenario is this: I have some specific tags I use for administrative purposes (eg. featured) […]
How to Filter Posts by Categories using FacetWP in Genesis
Updated on July 05, 2017 FacetWP is a premium plugin for setting up fast and easy facets (filters) of various kinds like select menus, checkboxes and radio buttons. This tutorial covers the steps to display categories’ checkboxes in a text widget on Posts page, archives and search results pages using FacetWP. Posts can be filtered […]
How to dynamically generate Front page widget areas via Customizer in Genesis
In the members-only forum, a user asked: Last year I bought a third party childtheme – Summation by EngageWP. summation It has a pretty unique feature: In Genesis Theme settings, it adds a setting where you can define the number of widget areas you’d like to have dynamically created for your frontpage. Fill in – […]
Genesis featured post widget link to title
Sometimes while using the Genesis featured post widget I need to link to the category title, but not an archive of the category. How would I add a link to the category title? For example, in the sidebar I’d like to link to the News screen from ‘our latest news…’ http://www.mcwhinneydesigns.com/ Thank you Sridhar.
Unobtrusive page transitions in Genesis with smoothState.js
smoothState.js is a jQuery plugin that progressively enhances page loads to give us control over page transitions. In this tutorial I discuss implementing smoothState.js in Genesis. Since the HTML content of initial page (ex.: front page) will be replaced with that of the later page (ex: an inner page) using Ajax, going back to the […]
Gradients animation in Genesis using Granim.js
Granim is a lightweight Javascript library for animating gradients. In this tutorial, we are going to set it up as a background of a custom Home Hero widget area below the header on the front page in Genesis. Note: The actual animation will be smoother unlike what got captured in the below screencast. See the […]
Fixed Background Footer in Genesis
In my tutorial requests Trello board, a user asked: How to create a footer like this https://briangardner.com/ or http://siddharth.is? This tutorial provides the steps to combine footer widgets and footer into a single div, relocate it outside the .site-container, and set it to be fixed so it comes into view with a “revealing” effect. We […]
Typing Animation in Genesis using iTyped
In the comments section of Typed.js in Genesis, a user asked: Hi Sridhar. I would like to use typed.js in the Header 1 section of the Centric Pro theme. I’ve added typed.js to Centric’s js directory. Should I follow the instructions above or do I need to make adjustments? I’ve imported the theme’s demo content […]
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