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Disable Individual Category Breadcrumbs in NavXT

When it comes to adding breadcrumbs to a site, we normally use Breadcrumbs NavXT. And we love it, but sometimes it just needs a little tweaking. Recently when configuring a new blog for a client that makes heavy use of categories, we ran into a scenario where we needed to remove the category slug from […]

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How to add a new widget area to a WordPress theme

If you’ve used WordPress for almost any length of time at all, you’re probably familiar with widgets and sidebars. Sidebars are just areas of your site, that you can add widgets to. And widgets, are drag-and-drop “modules” that add functionality to your site, from displaying recent posts, to displaying meta data, to pulling RSS feeds. […]

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Add Description to WordPress Menu Items

By default, WordPress has the option of adding descriptions to menu items, allowing you to add interesting additions to your menu items. Most themes, however, don’t support menu item descriptions out of the box. But with just a few lines of code, you can add support yourself. Step 1: Enable the description box To get […]

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Create Awesome Archives with Genesis

The Genesis Framework includes some awesome features, that solve some common problems. One really handy feature is customizing your archives. Out of the box, WordPress doesn’t give you a whole lot of options for archives, but Genesis adds the necessary functionality to: Add custom archive headlines Add custom content to archive pages Control the display […]

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Why the Genesis Framework is Awesome

If you’re looking to build WordPress website quickly and with a solid foundation, there’s one framework you should have on your radar: The Genesis Framework by StudioPress. I’m a huge Fan of Genesis, and use it (almost) exclusively for all theme development, large and small. I consider Genesis a must-have tool that every WordPress developer […]

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How and Why to Create a Site Specific Plugin

If you’ve spent anytime as a WordPress theme developer, you’ll be intimintaly familiar with the functions.php file. It’s included in every theme, and is the main file for defining the functions which affect the behavior of your site/theme. However, in many cases, your themes functions.php is not the best place to place your snippets! Themes […]

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