Why be a square when you can be round… okay, I may need to rethink that. Sometimes having round images for your avatar gives your site some sort of an appeal. Here’s a simple and very easy way to do that. Search in your css file for .avatar and add border-radius: 50%; .avatar { border-radius: 50%; } To… [Keep Reading]
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Adding Borders to Images Using CSS
Adding a border to your images can give your site that little something extra to your design. Example: img { border: 3px solid #ddd; } So let’s get into what this actually means Width: 3px – the size of the border in pixels Style: solid, dashed, dotted, double Color: #ddd (#dddddd) HEX code Using the… [Keep Reading]
Install A SSL Certificate on WordPress
View this post on Instagram What does it matter if you have https instead of http in your URL? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ✔ HTTPS protects the privacy and security of your users⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ✔ HTTPS protects the integrity of your website⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ✔ Search engines like Google prioritize HTTPS via SEO⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Without HTTPS the data… [Keep Reading]
Introducing the Social Good Theme
This theme was created in a collaboration with RoseRedd Etc (designer) and Kishshana & Co (inspiration). When you purchase the Social Good theme, a donation will be made to Socal Gas + United Way Los Angeles Gas Assistance Fund. A family in will continue to have gas throughout the winter season because of you. The… [Keep Reading]
The Difference Between Page and Post
What is a “Post”? When using your site as just a blog post are content entries listed in reverse chronological order (as the homepage). Older posts are archived based on month and year and can be organized based on categories and tags. Post often encourages a conversation which can easily be done using the comments… [Keep Reading]
Creating New Widget Areas
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… [Keep Reading]
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()… [Keep Reading]
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… [Keep Reading]
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… [Keep Reading]
