Melanie Adcock

Genesis has long been know as one of the best developer frameworks. Customizing or creating a Child Theme is easy if you know PHP, HTML, or CSS. Finding a theme that fits 100% of your needs rarely happens. For example: You find the perfect blog theme but your client wants a slider on the homepage

I wanted to post this because I know there are others out there who may find themselves in the same predicament I did over the weekend. I upgraded a client that was using Studiopress Education Child Theme to Genesis 2.0. It sort of “broke” the front page. At the bottom of the home page is

As a full-time web designer I have a “go to” list of plugins that I use over and over again. Here are just a few: All in One Event Calendar – this calendar plugin available at wordpress.org and time.ly has evolved into a pretty nice plugin . It went through some awkward teenage years after

Installing WordPress with the One Click Install (demo on Bluehost) Keynote | PowerPoint | Mov | PDF Depending on your browser you may need to Right Click (Control Click on a Mac) to download file. Manually installing WordPress using FTP (File Transfer Protocol) More beginners videos at wpbeginner.com

Adding text above posts on a blog page  is actually very easy to do in Genesis regardless of what child theme you use. In fact, I do this for every site I create simply as a convenience for my clients. They don’t know they CAN’T without this but you never know if they will try.

Sometimes necessity is the mother of invention. Not only did I need a way to have Gravity Forms in a pop-up box but videos, images, and other content as well. I was creating a new WordPress site for one of my clients (finally), taking them from a static HTML site. This church site had not