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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Adobe Typekit and Choosing a Great Font
I had heard about Adobe Edge a while ago, but many of the fonts I found there were the same as Google Fonts, my “go to” place to find fonts. However, I’m not always happy with how Google Fonts renders. The letters aren’t always as smooth as I would like them to be on the…
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Google Fonts
I was just looking over my site and realized I had never done a post on Google Fonts, one of my main website design tools. Although this should probably be included with the 101 tutorials because it’s one of the first things most of my students ask is to how to change the fonts, it’s…
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Responsive Design-Should I Use It?
These days, I get a lot of questions about responsive web design. The main two are “Should I use it?” and “What exactly is it?”. The first answer is easy – YES, YES, YES! The second takes a little longer to explain, but here’s some things to consider. Responsive web design means that the layout…
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How to Add Social Share Icons Easily to your MailChimp Newsletter Email
To make the most of your MailChimp newsletter, you really need a way for your readers to share what you’ve written. By adding social media sharing icons, you make it easier for your information to go viral. MailChimp makes it very easy to do this. While editing your email, add this code where you want…
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MailPoet (Wysija): The Easiest Newsletter Option
Update: Wysija newsletters are now called MailPoet. I’m a busy person like I’m sure you are. I don’t have time to spend all day designing a newsletter and keeping up with Constant Contact or MailChimp accounts for myself. I’m not trying to sell anything here, I’m just trying to spread my message about the easiest…
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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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