We’ve wrote a lot of articles about Post Formats here at WP Speak. Here’s another one. Have you ever wondered how to exclude a post format from your homepage? For some reasons, you might want to exclude a Post Format from your homepage. For example, you might want to exclude Link Post Format from your homepage since […]
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How to Add Social Sharing Buttons in Genesis Post Info
I’ve seen many times lots of folks in StudioPress forum ask about how to add social sharing buttons to Genesis post info section. Therefore, I thought I’d share how do it in this article. I know there are many different ways to do it, but this is probably the easiest way to do it. Firstly, in order to customize […]
How to Enable Shortcodes in WordPress Widgets
In this very short tutorial, I’m going to share a little snippet to enable shortcodes in WordPress widgets. By default, all shortcodes can only be used in post and page post types. To add shortcode support in widgets, simply paste the following code in the functions.php file of your child theme: View the code on Gist. Here’s […]
Customize Excerpt Length in WordPress
Today I’m going to share a little snippet to change or customize excerpt length on your WordPress site. Excerpt is a quick summary about an article and by default, WordPress will pull the first 55 words from the article as the excerpt. To change the excerpt length, simply put the following code in the functions.php file of […]
Add Button for Horizontal Line in TinyMCE Editor
WordPress uses TinyMCE editor which is good as this means you don’t have to write any single HTML code to write up your post. TinyMCE allows you to write your posts as easy as using Microsoft Word. The default TinyMCE comes with very basic feature and shockingly there’s no button to add a horizontal line […]
Conditional Secondary Menu With Genesis Framework
Another tutorial on Genesis Framework. By default, Genesis comes with two menus – Primary and Secondary Menus. This is really great and gives more flexibility to do further customization on your website. Sometimes you might want to use the different secondary menu on specific post and page. There are two ways to achieve this in Genesis, […]
Swap the Position of Featured Image and Title in Genesis Framework
There is no doubt that using framework like Genesis or Thesis is hard at first because there is learning curve. Besides the standard WordPress hooks, filters etc, you need to learn tons of specific hooks, filters etc for those frameworks. However, once you’re good at it, you’ll definitely never look back. Trust me, those hooks, filters etc really help […]
How To Add And Use Column Classes In WordPress Theme
Writing should not always be one column. To better represents your writings, sometimes you might need to divide some paragraph into few columns. This can easily be done in WordPress. From the image above, you can see that we can make the paragraph into two to six columns. The screenshot above was taken from Minimum Theme, […]