If you need to do a major redesign job on a WordPress site – either for a client or for yourself – it's best to copy the whole darn site and work on it in private. Once the site is copied and invisible to the rest of the world, you are free to go crazy on it. You can play around on the "dev" … [Read more...]
Featured Images in WordPress Widgets using Genesis
The most important blogging design improvement for the last few years has been use of the featured image or thumbnail image. This small rectangle of color provides the user with an visual teaser which they can click or tap in order to find out more or read a whole article. More and more … [Read more...]
Speed Up Your WordPress Blog
Even people like me who are old enough to remember the great sound of a dial-up modem (when I listen to that I still feel excited!) know that there is a need for speed on the internet. The above video on speeding up WordPress is part of a course I'm doing on Udemy about blogging, optimization, … [Read more...]
How To Start A Podcast With WordPress, Blubrry PowerPress and Libsyn
For the last few months now the blogosphere has been hot with the word "podcast". As podcasting is not as ubiquitous as video, small businesses can utilize this medium more effectively as there is less competition. If you want to start a podcast you could do no worse that to go to the podcasting … [Read more...]
SEO For A Small Web Design Business
Web design business owners may be required to do many things. Selling, accounting, marketing ... yes. Designing? Sometimes. But, master the dark arts of SEO? Surely not! You should, of course, be concentrating on providing the best services. That's a "given." But there is a reliable way of … [Read more...]
Creating a Custom Page Template for Genesis
One of the ways WordPress can be made to act like an all-singing, all-dancing CMS is with custom page templates. These give you the ability to make any page on your website look and/or function differently to all the others. Here I'd like to explain how you make a custom page template for … [Read more...]
Creating & Styling Sidebar Widgets in WordPress
The first time I saw WordPress widgets I thought "what on earth are these useless pieces of dog's do?" Now I think that widgets are awesome website building devices that should have pride of place in any website designer's toolbox. What are WordPress widgets? WordPress widgets are self contained … [Read more...]
Creating Header and Navigation Menu in WordPress
Every WordPress site is different. This is because everybody chooses a different theme or "look and feel" for their site. Creating a header and top navigation menu in WordPress will be a slightly different process for each site. Here I am using the Genesis theme framework for WordPress because I … [Read more...]
Styling a WordPress Child Theme with Genesis
In my last post and video I explained how to make a child theme for the Genesis theme framework in WordPress. In this article I explain how to start styling the Genesis child theme. Here you can see where we left off last time with the Genesis child theme only just set up plus an image of the … [Read more...]
Making Your Own Genesis Child Theme On WordPress
I often ask the visitors here what they would like to me write about and the most common subject people mention is making your own WordPress theme. WordPress is a powerful publishing platform which can be made to act and look like just about any kind of website. What are WordPress themes and how do … [Read more...]
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