You may remember, I've done a bit of fiddling around using WordPress Custom Menus to make lists of Social Icons. They worked but they were fiddly, relied on sprites which are a bit of a pain to deal with and furthermore also relied on users getting comfortable with the advanced settings of Menus and adding things like classes to the menu items. I am also aware that a lot of people use the Genesis Simple Social icons plugin to create a genesis social icon menu. But given that I still like … [Read more...]
Let’s Talk about Naming Widget Areas and Sidebars
So, you've installed a brand spanking new theme and are starting to plough into the prospect of fitting it out with some sweet customisations. Your theme has a bunch of content editable areas for you, because the developer knows you're smart and can find your way around their very clever structure. You have, what they call in the biz, intuition. So, you go to your Appearance » Widgets and have a scan down the right hand side of the page to decide where you want to put your content. Easy, … [Read more...]
ACF Repeater Fields – Adding Classes to List Items
In this quick tutorial I'm using Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) repeater fields to turn out an array of photos and text that link to PDF files (brochures)... and I'm using the genesis grid settings to lay them out nicely (by adding class="one-third" to the list items). The thing is, for the genesis grid to work you have to add a class of 'first' on the first list item in every row as well... so I need to set up a counter to count the list items and add a class to the first and every third ... … [Read more...]
Freebie Social Media Icon Menu
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 social icon displays and didn't want to load up my site with plugins that always seem to miss that one social network I want people be able to get to. So, given that I'm putting together a new 'site image' for … [Read more...]
Customize Meteor Slides with Advanced Custom Fields
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 … [Read more...]
Creating a Wholesaler Role in WP e-Commerce – Part Two
I had hoped to get back to this yesterday (and the day before), but you know, life happens... and in fact we've added another function to the whole process so now you get the whole kit and caboodle (you're welcome). So, just to bring you up to date, Sarah, a client of mine wanted to add a whole bunch of wholesaler functions to her WP e-Commerce store so in Part One we covered some of the plugins required to allow for a new Wholesaler role in her Users list and the addition of functionality … [Read more...]
Making Simple Coming Soon and Under Construction work with Child Themes
It's quite possible that there are other maintenance and 'coming-soon' plugins out there that are more up to date, slicker and better than this one, but for whatever reason I've used Simple Coming Soon and Under Construction for a number of years. Unfortunately, in more recent times I have found it not performing to my liking in that while it would display a splash screen when it was in 'maintenance' mode it was never my custom one. As it happens this non-performance coincides with the advent … [Read more...]
Genesis Theme Framework for Beginners
This is rather an old post (yep, I'm going back to edit it) but it's the genesis (see what I did there?) of my love affair with Genesis the Theme Framework for WordPress. As things progress with this new incarnation of the Web Princess website I plan to add more of the useful things I find particularly to introduce the Genesis theme framework for beginners, or more precisely, for beginning developers. But, here's where it started, with a talk at a WordCamp. Ok, so by now my session at … [Read more...]
Answers in Genesis WordPress Framework
I've been spending a bit of time using the popular Genesis WordPress framework (produced by Studiopress) building a couple of sites on it lately, one somewhat more complex than the other. Genesis makes the basic deployment of new sites really, really easy but the learning curve to get used to how to manage things can prove a bit challenging. I'll document some of that learning curve, as I go, in the meantime here is a list of where I'm finding the most useful information, as much for my benefit … [Read more...]