What are widgets? WordPress Widgets add content and features to your Sidebars. Examples are the default widgets that come with WordPress; for Categories, Tag cloud, Search, etc. Plugins will often add their own widgets. Widgets were originally designed to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress Theme […]
Genesis Settings Explained
Once Genesis is installed you’ll notice it has its own settings. Genesis > Theme Settings. Watch Me: Where to add Google Analytics
Place Slider Above Blog Archive
What is the first step? First we’ll need to add a new hook for the slider area into our funtions.php file. This will add the widget area into the blog archive template which is page_blog.php. This is built into Genesis, unless your Genesis theme says otherwise. //* Hooks slider above blog content add_action( ‘genesis_before_loop’, ‘riot_above_blog_slider’ ); function riot_above_blog_slider() […]
Create a Custom Default Avatar
What is a default Gravatar? Gravatar stands for Globally Recognized Avatar. It is globally recognized because millions of websites use them. It’s the most popular application and platforms like WordPress have built-in support for Gravatar. When a user leaves a comment (with their email address) on a site that supports Gravatar, it pulls their Globally Recognized […]
How To Create A Quiz Using Interact
Buzzfeed really started something with those awesome personality quizzes. There’s nothing like taking a quiz to determine what house you belong to at Hogwarts. I’m Gryffindor in case you were wondering. Taking a quiz is also fun and who says business always has to be about business? So what’s the tea? Well, first you’ll need […]
How to Upload Files Using FTP
What is FTP? The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client using the Client-server model on a computer network. How do we use it? Anytime you want to upload a file, fonts or image to your WordPress you’ll use this process to […]