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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]