Designs By Nick the Geek

Genesis Based WordPress Development and Tutorials for Everyone

SOPA Blackout

SOPA and PIPA are not good. I really hope that isn't news to you. Today I am supporting efforts to bring these bills to an end and I want to encourage all my readers to do so as well. We are talking about some rather non-impressive numbers, but the power of compound interest demonstrates how small growth can effect big change. If I can convince … [Read more...]

Social Menu Icons Using Sprites

Social Menu Icons Using Sprites

Have you ever used yslow, or some other method of evaluating your site load speed? If you have you probably got a warning that using sprites will speed up your site by reducing server calls for individual images. If you are like me, the first time you saw that you were thinking about how you might go about trapping woodland faeries, and once you … [Read more...]

Custom Post Types Made Easy

Custom Post Types Made Easy

Post types aren't really that hard to start with. You start with some template code, then make a few changes and bam! Now you have a custom post type. However, teh code can get clunky if you register several CPTs. On this blog I have a single CPT, for the child themes used by my Child Theme Matrix. I use some template code I picked up when I … [Read more...]

Show Related Posts with Thumbnails in Genesis

Show Related Posts with Thumbnails in Genesis

I looked into a lot of related posts plugins for my personal blog, then remembered, I'm a theme developer, I bet I could write a very simple related posts script myself. The code I ended up using only takes 2 things into account, what tag is the post using and what category is it in. I try to take time to use tags that my posts can share to group … [Read more...]

Control Post Order With Genesis Featured Widget Amplified plugin
Skip Terms

Skip Terms

Back when I first started my personal blog, I was using a theme with a custom home page and no blog page template. This posed a problem as I didn't have a good archive for all of my posts, so I setup a default category "All" that every post was added to. This worked pretty good for that theme, but presented problems for me in … [Read more...]

Add Twitter Button to Menu

Add Twitter Button to Menu

Got another Quick Tip for you. Did you notice the Twitter Button in my menu? I have a few custom buttons up by my logo, but the twitter button is special. It using the twitter API instead of just linking you to my Twitter profile. The code for this is in a couple parts. The first part is a html file that handles everything. It is loaded in … [Read more...]

Changing Archive Sorting

Changing Archive Sorting

Got another quick tip for you. FYI, these quick tips are things I use on my personal sites. Simple and handy tricks. With my Genesis Explained series, and all the sub-series sections, I wanted to change the order of the posts in the archives because it is helpful to read them in the order they were written. First, I chose to use tags instead … [Read more...]

Versioning Your Stylesheet

Versioning Your Stylesheet

Hi folks, I haven't written any tutorials for a while, I'm waiting on Genesis 1.8 to finish my Genesis Explained series because there are some changes coming to the admin system that would render most of what I said moot. In the interim, I wanted to get some quick tips out there. Little tricks I use on my site or when developing for … [Read more...]

Helping Make Christmas Merry

I have a difficult time with this kind of self promotion. I'm much better at writing other kinds of articles. Right now I'm trying to make a difference and I need help. If you click through you will be taken to my personal blog where I will be sharing about the life of one family I can help, and if you partner with my in this we can really do … [Read more...]