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Remove Left Alignment from Featured Images in Genesis 14 Aug 2013 | 03:52 am
Genesis 2.0 was officially released about a week ago, and there’s already great tutorials covering new features. Here’s some you might want to check out: Schema.org and Genesis 2.0 by Yoast Genesis ...
Displaying Popular Posts using BE-Stats 23 Feb 2013 | 02:50 am
Jetpack is a great plugin for collecting stats on your posts. But the only frontend display of that data they provide is the Top Pages and Posts widget. What if you want to filter that down to a more ...
Any Business Questions? 29 Jan 2013 | 02:52 am
At WordCamps and WordPress meetups, I come prepared to talk code but other developers seem more interested in my thoughts on business. It helps that I went to school as a finance major and have a few ...
In Defense of Consulting Businesses 20 Dec 2012 | 02:55 am
At conferences and meetings with other freelancers, a common desire I hear is to shift more of their revenue from “trade-time-for-money” services to “mailbox-money / scalable” products. As a successf...
Building my Portfolio 19 Dec 2012 | 02:20 am
I received the following email from a developer yesterday. As a newcomer to the web world and genesis included, I’m attempting to learn from others and looking at great designs that inspire me. This ...
Multiple Authors for a Post 12 Nov 2012 | 03:38 pm
This article was originally published in January 2011. I rewrote the article in November 2012 to take advantage of new features developed since then. If you have a magazine-like website, you might ne...
Overriding Options and Meta 27 Jul 2012 | 02:56 am
Photo by 900hp One of my favorite “under-the-hood” features of WordPress and Genesis is the ability to override almost any kind of option/meta: site options, post meta, user meta, term meta…. Make s...
Custom Secondary Menu 19 Jun 2012 | 10:59 pm
Custom Menus are great for sitewide menus, but what if you only want to list a section’s subpages? In the screenshot above, you’ll see the Plays dropdown lists three subpages. And on the right side, ...
Migrating WordPress Websites 24 May 2012 | 08:29 am
I wrote an article two years ago on how to move your WordPress website, which has been one of my most popular posts. Over the past two years I’ve found some improvements to my process, most notably a...
A better, and easier, grid loop 16 Mar 2012 | 06:26 am
Note: This technique can be used by all WordPress themes. I’m proposing it as a replacement for the Genesis-specific grid loop, so aspects of this post might be Genesis-specific. A popular request is...
