It has been over 5 and a half years since I started planning the Genesis Explained book. That is a crazy amount of time. So much has happened since then. I started working for Copyblogger/Rainmaker and became a full-time and eventually senior developer for them. I can't tell you how much work I did because it is just difficult to imagine just how … [Read more...]
Genesis Plugins: Building a WordPress Admin Page
Start with a plan He who fails to plan is planning to fail ~Winston Churchill Interesting fact, Google said that Benjamin Franklin may have been the originator on that quote, but don't quote me on that. I also learned recently that Hemingway may have never said, "Write drunk. Edit Sober." For sure he didn't follow that advice. I feel a bit out of … [Read more...]
How I Make Custom Fields Easier in Genesis
I work with custom fields a good amount. Clients want all kinds of easy to fill in data so I work with the Custom Meta Box class from Bill, Jared, and others. I've talked about that a fair bit. I think it is great and getting better. Not sure how something becomes better than great but it does with each new version. Working with custom fields in … [Read more...]
How I Added Custom Fields to the Genesis Responsive Slider
I have been asked how to add custom fields to the Genesis Responsive Slider and the Genesis Slider several times in the past. Every time I had believed it would require a new widget to be created that called for the custom fields. It is a bit ungainly and beyond the skills of many novice developers. Recently, however, I had need of this myself. … [Read more...]
Madlib style contact form and example text
A while back one of my clients wanted a form that would stand out from the every day form fare. I did lots of searching and saw a ton of forms. They needed something that would pop in the sidebar and I found some really good inspiration, especially from this article on Useful Ideas and Guidelines for Web Forms at Smashing Magazine. In my searching … [Read more...]
A Better Home Page
One of the great things about WordPress is the template hierarchy. Basically WordPress looks for certain templates by name under specific page loads. Confused? OK, I'll give an example. When the first page on your site is loaded (the front page) WordPress goes through some checks to see what page is being requested then which page should be … [Read more...]
Conditional Loop Actions
Some time ago I wrote an article on making content conditional. In this I explained the basic of adding code via actions, either manually or through the Genesis Simple Hooks plugin, that will only appear in specific parts of the site. If you are looking for the basics on getting something to only show on your home page, category archives, single … [Read more...]
Creating Page Templates in Genesis
A question I field on a regular basis is "how do I make a page template in Genesis?" It's actually very easy to do, and I have a template I want to share for my Production theme. Two users in a day asked how to combine videos and posts into a single blog view. Merging post types is pretty simple, you just need a custom loop. However, for people … [Read more...]
How to Create Dynamic Body Classes
One of the most often asked and most easily accomplished tasks is styling elements differently on different pages. Before proceeding I would encourage you to review the general CSS tutorials found at W3 Schools. A basic understanding of how CSS works is required. The great thing about Body Class is that you don't need to use any php to make … [Read more...]
How to Load a New Section on Specific Pages
Often it is desirable to put a new section into a site, but only in certain places or under certain circumstances. This is a relatively simple process and may be done via a theme function, following the tutorial on How to Add a Section to Your Site Using Hooks or from Genesis Simple Hooks. For both of these examples I will just display "hello … [Read more...]
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