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]
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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 say’s business always has to be about business? So what’s the tea? Well, first you’ll need… [Keep Reading]
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… [Keep Reading]
How to Install Plugins
What are plugins? Plugins are ways to extend and add to the functionality that already exists in WordPress. For an example, you want to control the spam that is received on your site. So you’ll need to add that functionality by using the Akismet plugin. How do I install a plugin? From your dashboard Plugins > Add New then… [Keep Reading]
JPEG vs PNG The Showdown
Let’s answer that tedious question, do I use jpg or png for my site? Well first let’s define words (that’s always important). JPEG (jpg) stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group who created the standard. Often used in digital cameras and photographic equipment. PNG Portable Network Graphics is a raster graphics file format that supports lossless data compression. PNG… [Keep Reading]
Installing Genesis Framework & Child Theme
What is the Genesis Framework? Frameworks are intended to be used as a parent theme template where all the functionality resides. Developers can then create a child theme to add custom styling while leaving the functionality aspects of it to the framework. This allows for a centralized location where all the functions are hosted. The… [Keep Reading]