Brad Dalton

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Create A Custom Meta Box For A Custom Field

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Once you understand and know how to create a custom field, you might want to make it easy to use for yourself or your client. Otherwise, your custom field is included in the list of default custom fields WordPress includes in the … [Read more...]

Beginners Guide To Adding Custom Fields In WordPress

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Need to quickly add content to a specific area of your post or page? You could add your content using the WordPress editor but what if you want to display the content outside the content area of a post or page? What if you want to … [Read more...]

3 Ways To Add Text Before Content On Your Home Page

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There's at least 3 ways you can add text before content on your home page. You can use a hooks plugin like Genesis Simple Hooks and paste the text with a conditional tag for the home page in any of the before content hook … [Read more...]

How To Enable HTML 5 In Genesis 2.0 Child Themes

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Genesis 2.0 Beta is now available for download for existing owners or purchase for new customers. It's not recommended existing users update just yet, however new users building new sites on Studio Press child themes shouldn't … [Read more...]

Free Child Theme for Twenty Thirteen (2013 Custom)

2013 Custom Child Theme for WordPress

2013 Custom is a free child theme for Twenty Thirteen, the latest default theme for WordPress. Its mobile responsive and highly regarded as the best coded default theme WordPress have released. This 2013 Custom child theme … [Read more...]

How To Make Images Rotate

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Rotating images in WordPress is easy. All you need to do is add some code to the image class you want to rotate and you're done. You can make your avatar rotate on hover, make all images in a single gallery rotate or simply make a … [Read more...]

How To Make An Image Round

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One of the great things about owning all the StudioPress themes which have already been released and all future releases is the different code you get access to. You can easily take code from one child theme and use it in … [Read more...]

Add Slide Deck Slider In Any Themes Header

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Slide deck is one of the best plugins for creating slide shows in WordPress. It offers both a free 'Lite' version and premium version. If you want to display custom content or videos in a slider, Slide Deck is the best plugin for … [Read more...]

Add Header Left Widget In Genesis

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Most StudioPress themes include the header right widget by default. But what if you also want another header widget on the left side of your themes header? In this tutorial, i'll show you how easy it is to add a new widget to … [Read more...]

Add Multiple Widgets Using The Same Hook Position

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For some reason, you may want to add more than one custom widget area in the same genesis_hook position. To do this you can use the same div class in the function so the styling is exactly the same for each or you can use a unique … [Read more...]

Change Layout On Posts, Pages & Archives in Genesis

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There's many ways to change the layout options on posts, pages and archives. The only problem is, you either have to change them manually, one by one using the Layout Settings on all edit post/page screens, or change them site … [Read more...]

4 Ways To Remove, Hide or Customize Post Info Links in Genesis

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Brian Gardner has already provided PHP code you can use to remove the post info links from single posts. The code snippets also include code for customizing the post info links. But what if you don't want to remove the post … [Read more...]

New VaultPress Lite Backup & Restore Comparison

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If you didn't already know, VaultPress is owned & managed by the company behind WordPress, Automattic. They specialize in protecting and securing WordPress sites. Today they offer a new package which is significantly … [Read more...]

How To Duplicate Home Featured Widgets Site Wide

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Recently i showed you how to duplicate home page widgets for use in other areas of your site. Well there's any easier way to do this as long as you want to keep the widgets styling exactly the same as what you have on your … [Read more...]

Customize The Sorry No Posts Matched Your Criteria Text In Genesis

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In this tutorial, we'll look at different ways to modify the 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria' text. This text is displayed when using the search built into WordPress or when no posts are assigned to categories or … [Read more...]

25% Returning Customer Discount on StudioPress Pro Plus Themes Package

Returning custom discount StudioPress themes

One thing you may or may not be aware of is the returning customer discount StudioPress themes offer. Several readers have asked me about coupons & discounts for StudioPress so i thought i'd show you the discount which … [Read more...]

How To Use Home Page Widgets On Other Pages

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Most child themes include a widgetized home page which, when populated with widgets, displays the content of your widgets on the home page only. Widgets are a very popular feature of WordPress themes and can also be used on … [Read more...]

Customize Read More Tag, Link & Excerpt

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Need to customize your read more link, maybe add a button instead of a text link or modify your post excerpts? Regardless of which theme you're using, you'll find the solution here. We'll take a look at modifying the read more … [Read more...]

Adding New Widgets To Your Home.php File

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There's 2 ways to add new widget area's in Genesis. 1. One method is to simply register the new widget and add the custom function with hook in your child themes functions.php file. 2. The other way is to add the widget … [Read more...]

Adding A Title To A Custom Post Type Archive Page

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Generally, custom post type archive pages like portfolio archives, don't include a title. The reason for this is there's no page template created when the custom post type is generated from the functions.php file. So you can't … [Read more...]

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