The Web Princess

WordPress & Genesis Theme Development

The Web Princess

Asking a Better Question

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In my time as a developer and trainer for hire I have been asked by clients or trainees to make changes to their websites. More recently I’ve been working as a team lead/project manager and I’m finding that even though the context is different I’m often asked by clients to make changes to content, or code, or to processes.

A lot of times this is no big deal; there have been cases where I’ve been gung ho! and dived straight in to make the changes the client asks for, after all… other times? I ask a better question…

How to Link Widget Titles Without a Plugin

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So, in this game from time to time you get thrown a curveball. Some beautiful design feature that doesn’t have a natural easy flowing way of working in WordPress. Here’s the scenario. This design has lovely images that are also links, in the sidebar. The titles for said widget are overlaid on the images, and… [Read More]

Beginning With WordPress: First Steps With Your New Website

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Well… would you look at at that… a whole new WordPress site! Clever you! Have you logged in yet? If so, you might be sitting looking at the Dashboard wondering what the heck you do next…  so, let me help you with that! (Failing that you’re wondering what on earth a Dashboard is, that’s ok,… [Read More]

Under the Hood of Self Hosting a WordPress Website

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Here we are, the conversation continues… we talked the other day about deciding between wordpress.com and wordpress.org… and you are still following along.. you must have turned out to be one of those people like me for whom the lure of having control of your own website’s destiny was too good an opportunity to pass up – welcome to the wonderful world of self hosting a WordPress website.

Now what?

Well, you need some things… you need to buy that domain name you’ve been mulling over… and you need to buy that hosting space in which your website is going to live… so, how does that happen?

Deciding Between WordPress.com and WordPress.org

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I do a fair bit of training WordPress users, be it in classroom situations, one on one with clients, or in meetups. I find running these sessions rewarding and challenging and I really do love seeing people leave at the end of the day or the session with that “I think I finally get it” look on their face. In all that training one of the conversations that comes up consistently centres around the difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org. Specifically, the difference between a free, hosted WordPress service and downloading a free copy of WordPress and hosting it yourself.

While at its core the software is the same and the look and feel of everything you do in the dashboard to manage your site will be the same, there are some critical differences you should be aware of if you’re in the process of deciding which of these options is appropriate for you.

Freebie Social Media Icon Menu

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There are a few blogs I follow pretty closely, and one of them predictably is Brian Gardner’s (predictably because he’s behind Genesis and I’m a bit of a fan). A while back Brian put together a tutorial about making a social media icon menu – I took it on board, I like rolling my own… [Read More]

Customize Meteor Slides with Advanced Custom Fields

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I’ve spent a large block of time recently working on a project for a new client, intent on proving just how slick it is to build sites from a really solid, clean, FAST platform (Genesis – affiliate link). BUT I found myself stuck on an issue with the front page development and realised just how much of a handicap it can be when you get so welded to a ‘way of doing things’ that you forget just what else is out there.

Here’s the problem.

The site needs a paginated, slideshow for the front page (ok, not much of a problem, every site on the Internet*, has one of those…) whose images link to a specific URL and in which you can include a heading and descriptive text.

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