I already love Google Fonts, but we I recently learned you can add effects to them through Google’s own API – how great is that?? I don’t recommend using all these effects, but have fun trying a few: See the full list of effects and find out more here: https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/getting_started#Effects To use them with your…
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Genesis: Add Previous / Next Arrows After Single Posts
Add this to your functions.php file to add Prev/Next arrows after your single post. Simply use a different Genesis Hook to add them somewhere else. /** Genesis Previous/Next Post Post Navigation */ add_action( ‘genesis_after_comments’, ‘eo_prev_next_post_nav’ ); function eo_prev_next_post_nav() { if ( is_single() ) { echo ”; previous_post_link( ‘%link’, ‘< Previous’ ); next_post_link( ‘%link’, ‘Next >’…
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Use Icons Instead of Text in Your WordPress Menu with Font Awesome
First Choose to use the Plugin or Just a Little Script First, if you don’t already know about Font Awesome, you should really check it out. It makes it super simple to use great icons on your site that scale to whatever size you need. I did a quick post about using a plugin to…
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NextGEN Gallery (Formerly PhotoCrati) to Start Offering Themes Based on Genesis
Update: NextGen has now become Imagely and is offering Genesis themes with the photographer in mind: https://www.imagely.com/wordpress-photography-themes/ Former post from Dec 3, 2015: NextGEN / PhotoCrati recently reported that they are re-branding themselves as Imagely and will also be offering a full suite of themes based on the Genesis framework. As a big lover of…
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Cropping Featured Images
WordPress includes the ability to crop images or thumbnails right from the media library, which is a very nice feature. But if you’re using a theme that has featured images or custom image sizes, you’re going to need this great plugin I just found. Many of the genesis child themes use these custom image sizes…
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Genesis – Move Comment Box to the Top
I’m not sure why this isn’t the standard, but here is the code. Just add it to your functions.php file. add_action( ‘genesis_before_comments’ , ‘wps_post_type_check’ ); function wps_post_type_check () { if ( is_single() ) { if ( have_comments() ) { remove_action( ‘genesis_comment_form’, ‘genesis_do_comment_form’ ); add_action( ‘genesis_list_comments’, ‘genesis_do_comment_form’ , 5 ); } } } Thanks to wpsmith.netfor…
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Linking Widget Titles in Genesis
Don’t fill out the title in the widget. Instead use <h2 class=”widgettitle”>Widget Title Here</h2> around the tile in the text area. You might have to change the css if the link changes the title color.