Here, I’ll show you how to create widgetized areas for your front page in GeneratePress. Using Elements and hooks, you simply create the widget areas in the functions.php file, set up your Hook, create your styles in CSS, and voila, you are good to go. For this example, I am going to create three widget […]
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Creating a Gallery and Albums Without a Gallery Plugin
A few months ago, I wrote about our experience in porting a site from CMS Made Simple to WordPress and the difficulty in finding similar plugins to replace the CMSMS modules the site was using. Turns out that the popular WordPress plugin Next Generation Gallery conflicted with the one plugin we found that worked well […]
Adding Document Icons to Links
I’m a firm believer in knowing where that link is going to take me before I click on it. That’s why I like to use document icons to indicate what kind of document is behind a download link. For client sites, it’s a matter of creating a paragraph style that inserts an icon when that […]
Listing Excerpts From Child Pages
Now you wouldn’t normally need to display an excerpt from a page’s description, would you? I didn’t think so either. But apparently there is a need. And when there’s a need, we aim to please. We had a client who wants to display custom excerpts from a page’s child pages on the parent page with […]
10 Tricks For Your WordPress Functions.php File
Using your theme’s functions.php file, you can make WordPress sit up and beg and do lots of other cool tricks. We are going to show you ten things you can do today to add functionality to your WordPress site. JoniJoni Mueller has been designing web sites for hire since 2003, when she first blew up […]