Ninja Forms a fast rising star among contact forms. NB! Ninja Forms 3 has been released and has had a total makeover. Go to my article: Ninja Forms 3 walk through -step by step- guide to see some of the ... [Read more]
Google Analytics Dashboard plugin
Viewing Google Analytics stats An easy way to view Google Analytics stats is with using a Google Analytics Dashboard plugin. For instance The plugin Google Analytics Dashboard by Team Yoast & Carson ... [Read more]
Google Analytics Dashboard for WP plugin
Viewing Google Analytics stats An easy way to view Google Analytics stats is with using a Google Analytics Dashboard plugin. For instance The plugin Google Analytics Dashboard for WP by Alin Marcu After having ... [Read more]
Google Analytics by Yoast plugin
Viewing Google Analytics stats An easy way to view Google Analytics stats is with using a Google Analytics Dashboard plugin. For instance The plugin Google Analytics by Yoast After having installed the plugin and ... [Read more]
How to create a Google Analytics account
Getting started using Google Analytics This is part of a series on using Google Analytics. Part 1 - How to create a Google Analytics account. The following is a screen for screen showing how to signup for a new ... [Read more]
WordPress SEO plugin
How to use WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast The WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast is one of the most popular SEO plugins for WordPress along with the All in One SEO pack plugin by Michael Torbert. I have added screenshots of ... [Read more]
Using the Advanced Custom Fields plugin
How to use and display Advanced Custom Fields in a Genesis theme. This is a somewhat technical tutorial on how to use Advanced custom fields. I keep text to a minimum. Creating custom fields for your custom post ... [Read more]
Custom Post Types used in Genesis Child Themes
Code used in Minimum Pro and Executive Pro StudioPress have two Child Themes that contain custom post types: Minimum Pro and Executive Pro. Minimum Pro Demo Minimum Portfolio Post type The first code contains the ... [Read more]
The future of WordPress Multisite
WordPress Multisite options I am working on improving the user interface for multisite as part of the WordPress core group. https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/multisite/ Every Tuesday there is a chat in the slack ... [Read more]
Install of MAMP and WordPress
Use MAMP to create a local (offline) site. I use MAMP to create a local development site and when I am ready to place it online I install the plugin Duplicator to back it up and through ftp move it ... [Read more]
Code Snippets sites
Code Snippets Is the name used for smaller pieces of code inserted into the child theme functions file, or even better into its own custom functions plugin independent of the theme. A good article to check ... [Read more]
How to use the excerpt
How to use and style the excerpt I want to show good stylized previews of the posts on the home page without using featured images. One way is use excerpts with a Visual Editor (TinyMCE editor) to stylize the ... [Read more]
Helpful CSS resources
There are a lot of great resources to help you create better CSS code. I will add on to this article when I find additional resources that I find useful. cssreference.io learnlayout.com w3schools.com: ... [Read more]
Manage you avatar in WordPress
Managing your avatar in WordPress The default for managing your avatar in WordPress is using a gravatar. This means you need to sign up at gravatar.com and add some avatar images to your new account. The e-mail address ... [Read more]
Exporting and importing WordPress posts, pages, media and more
Exporting and then importing WordPress content The official WordPress Importer found through the tools section does not correctly add media. It gives an error message and adds links to media that are located in the ... [Read more]
Creating and adding a gist to a WordPress post
Creating and adding a Github gist into your WordPress post or page I usually use the pre or code tag from the Visual Editor TinyMCE bar to show code. But sometimes it just comes out looking wrong when I am trying to ... [Read more]
Drag and drop page ordering in a tree page view
Sort or order of posts, pages or custom posts within a branch view. Having a lot of pages or posts it would be nice to have a way to order / sort these in a natural way by drag and drop as well as sorting these into an ... [Read more]
An easy way to duplicate posts or pages
Duplicating a post or page One can duplicate a post or page or custom posts using a plugin or inserting code (snippet) into the functions file. Duplicate plugins: Duplicate Post plugin and Post Duplicator OR use a ... [Read more]
Changing a menu link to become a text item
Removing the link from a menu item Go to Appearance -> Menus. Top right: Click the Screen Options tab beside the Help tab. Inside the Screen Options: Click to checkmark the Links and CSS Classes box. Below ... [Read more]
Tips on adding code to wp-config
A few tips on code to add to the wp-config.php file. Empty Trash Automatically Set the number of days and reduce the size of your database. define('EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS', 15 ); Right before That's all, stop editing! ... [Read more]
Plugins for the Genesis Framework
A few Plugins for the Genesis Framework I began this article when I noticed missing screenshots from a few plugins for the Genesis Framework. An oldie Genesis Simple Comments Plugin by Nick the Geek. This is what ... [Read more]
Automatic update of WordPress, plugins and themes
Automatically update major and minor versions of WordPress along with plugins and themes. I have been looking for easy ways to update my plugins and themes without having to login to a site. I am looking forward to the ... [Read more]
Adding breadcrumbs to a Genesis child theme
How I added breadcrumbs to this site There are a lot of really good resources to find when creating a web site with using a Genesis WordPress theme. The following is the code and sites I followed to create the ... [Read more]
What I did when my site was hacked.
My site was hacked. My site Easy Web Design Tutorials was hacked through one of my other sites at Bluehost and the infection spread. In June Bluehost e-mailed me that one of my sites had ... [Read more]
Back to top link
A Back to top link Having a back to top link is useful for longer pages. I did a search and came across this code at https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-back-to-top-button-1?replies=14 One can just place the ... [Read more]
Modifying the search box in Genesis
Customizing the search box in a Genesis theme. I did some searching and found a few really nice tutorials on customizing the search box in a Genesis theme. First of all we have the WordPress ... [Read more]
Security
Here are some security tips I picked up along the way. This article will on occasion be updated with additional information. Update WordPress, and your themes and plugins. Change username from Admin to something ... [Read more]
Adding social icons to a widget or a menu
Adding social icons to a widget or a menu Upload the icons you want to use to your Media Library (or have a link to where they are located online). Find the link of each icon by going to media library -> click the ... [Read more]
Creating a social media menu
Creating a social media menu The following Social menu article is based on this tutorial by The Web Princess It has been coded for Genesis themes but can also be readjusted for other themes. It uses icons ... [Read more]
Creating a home page layout in a Genesis Theme
Creating a home page layout in a Genesis Theme The result showing the Plugin Articles section. Adding widgets code to the child theme functions file. One can just add one home widget area and ... [Read more]
Customizing the comments section
Some customizations I made for the comments section in my custom Genesis Child theme. These are specific for the Genesis Framework - StudioPress Themes for WordPress (affiliate link). I will post general customizations ... [Read more]
Adding a lightbox to WordPress without using a plugin
Adding a lightbox to WordPress without using a plugin There are a lot of lightbox projects one can download and figure out the needed code to get it working in WordPress. In general the code will look similar to this ... [Read more]
Customizing a Genesis Child theme
rickrduncan.com: rename genesis child theme coolestguidesontheplanet: creating WordPress child theme genesis framework artofblog.com: building a genesis child ... [Read more]
Genesis Child Themes Overview
I looked at the various Genesis Child Themes and was curious about the features of each. The following is an overview. I have listed the latest updates as is mentioned in the Downloads page at the time of this writing ... [Read more]
Genesis Framework Changelog – version history
The Genesis Framework Changelog - version history The Genesis Changelog web site Another Changelog for Genesis A short overview: 15 July 2014 Genesis Framework ... [Read more]
Starting out with Genesis Themes
I decided to try out Genesis Themes as I have seen so many positive comments at various web sites. Purchasing the Genesis Framework (affiliate link meaning if you purchase a theme through it I get a percentage) one ... [Read more]
WordPress media structure ideas
At the Wordpress.org forums there is a section called ideas https://wordpress.org/ideas Anyone can suggest an idea and others can then add to it and vote on it. I just added the "A better media structure" idea. ... [Read more]
Managing menus in WordPress
Finding good ways to manage and create menus with WordPress. NB! See further below on using conditional logic code to show specific menus. I asked a question at the Advanced Facebook WordPress ... [Read more]
Thoughts on future WordPress Core Plugin features
Update 14 August 2014 For 4.0 planned release 27th of August - there are very few Core Plugins. Perhaps just one the Media Library Grid Plugin. I hoped that additional Core Plugins would also be ... [Read more]
Desktop Server the MAMP/XAMPP alternative.
Desktop Server the Mamp/Xampp alternative. I downloaded and tested Desktop Server to create a local WordPress development site. I create my sites locally with Desktop Server or MAMP before uploading them to a ... [Read more]