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Changing Archive Sorting
Got another quick tip for you. FYI, these quick tips are things I use on my personal sites. Simple and handy tricks. With my Genesis Explained series, and all the sub-series sections, I wanted to...
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Add Twitter Button to Menu
Got another Quick Tip for you. Did you notice the Twitter Button in my menu? I have a few custom buttons up by my logo, but the twitter button is special. It using the twitter API instead of just...
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Skip Terms
Back when I first started my personal blog, I was using a theme with a custom home page and no blog page template. This posed a problem as I didn’t have a good archive for all of my posts, so I setup a...
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Control Post Order With Genesis Featured Widget Amplified plugin
I have a confession, a lot of the features in my Genesis Featured Widget Amplified plugin are purely selfish. I needed hooks in the Genesis Featured Post widget for a client or else I was going to need...
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Show Related Posts with Thumbnails in Genesis
I looked into a lot of related posts plugins for my personal blog, then remembered, I’m a theme developer, I bet I could write a very simple related posts script myself. The code I ended up using only...
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Custom Post Types Made Easy
Post types aren’t really that hard to start with. You start with some template code, then make a few changes and bam! Now you have a custom post type. However, teh code can get clunky if you register...
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Social Menu Icons Using Sprites
Have you ever used yslow, or some other method of evaluating your site load speed? If you have you probably got a warning that using sprites will speed up your site by reducing server calls for...
View ArticleFormat text widgets for valid urls
Typically when you copy HTML from other sites with complex URIs in the src or href values, the text widgets won’t validate. It is possible to manually update your html, but this can be very tedious,...
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Creating Page Templates in Genesis
A question I field on a regular basis is “how do I make a page template in Genesis?” It’s actually very easy to do, and I have a template I want to share for my Production theme. Two users in a day...
View ArticleConditional Loop Actions
Some time ago I wrote an article on making content conditional. In this I explained the basic of adding code via actions, either manually or through the Genesis Simple Hooks plugin, that will only...
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