So, you have a nice new theme with tons of features, but you want to make changes so it will be uniquely yours. You are at a crossroad. Do you hire a developer or do you become a developer? There are risks and benefits for both. A skilled developer will know how to accomplish things you never thought possible, they will transform your site into … [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
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
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
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
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...]
StudioPress Black Friday Sale
Most of my writing is related to Genesis, if you haven't picked it up yet then now is a great opportunity for you to get it. They are running a BlackFriday sale so there isn't a better time to buy in. Using the code THANKS at checkout (don’t forget that), you can save 25% off of anything you’d like at WordPress design shop, StudioPress. 1. … [Read more...]
StudioPress Is
The folks at CopyBlogger just released a new video showing the future of StudioPress. It features some important details from the new Agency theme. Check it out and if you haven't already picked it up, go buy Genesis. … [Read more...]
Fluid Genesis Child Theme Update
Important update for the Fluid Child Theme. If your version is 1.8, please download this important update. Live Demo [download id="1" format="1"] Sidebar Cutoff Fix This update addresses several minor fixes and this important fix. Previously, if the sidebars were longer than the content, the sidebars would be cut off at the end of the … [Read more...]