If your home page is a listing of your most recent blog posts, sometimes you have a category that you don’t want to show on the home page. That’s no problem! Just change this line in your functions.php file of your theme: wp_list_categories(‘orderby=name&exclude=276&title_li=’); Be sure you have a backup of the functions.php file before you…
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Automatically Display Featured Image at the Top of Page
Add this code to your functions.php file: /* Code to Display Featured Image on top of the post */ add_action( ‘genesis_entry_content’, ‘featured_post_image’, 8 ); function featured_post_image() { if ( !is_singular( array( ‘post’, ‘page’ ) )) return; the_post_thumbnail(‘featured’); }
Open YouTube Video in Lightbox from Image or Text Link
I love using Easy Fancybox to create popups in lightboxes, and it’s especially nice when you use it to play a video from clicking an image or text link. Here’s how you do it: 1) Install the free plugin from the WordPress depository. 2) Add this code where you want an image to link to…
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WooCommerce: Add Product Categories to Your Menu
Do you want to add WooCommerce Product Categories to your menu? It’s easy! Just go to Appearance > Menus and be sure to select the menu you want to edit at the top. Then, find the Product Categories you want and check them off and click the Add to Menu button. If you don’t see…
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How To Automatically Update Your Copyright Notice
Copyright notices are a common feature on many website footers. As we crawl into 2016, you will need to remember to update your own copyright notice so that it isn’t out of date. John Chow reminded me how easy it is to make sure your copyright notice is updated automatically every year. To display the current year…
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Category Blog Pages in Genesis
The other day I was working on a site where the client wanted a page where the posts of just one category would show. I wanted a pretty url (not with /category/ in front of it) so I was getting ready to create a custom page template for it when I discovered this super easy…
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Fun Looks for Google Fonts
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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