June 14, 2016
Creating Custom Location Rules for Advanced Custom Fields
I’ll walk you through writing custom logic for where an ACF metabox appears.
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February 10, 2016
Plugin: Load Media from Production
When developing a website, only bring over a few months of uploads. This plugin will source the rest from the production website.
February 2, 2016
Infinite Scroll in WordPress
A detailed tutorial on implementing infinite scroll in WordPress. Examples include scroll-based and click-based infinite scroll.
January 29, 2016
Building a Dynamic Secondary Menu
I describe how I set up a secondary navigation to automatically list the sub-menu items from the primary menu.
August 11, 2015
Sorting Query Results by Multiple Meta Keys
I’m building a website that features reviews of hosting companies. I’m storing Price, Rating, and “Top Pick” as post meta. Users can sort the results by Price, Rating and Post Date. The client…
July 26, 2012
Overriding Options and Meta
One of my favorite “under-the-hood” features of WordPress and Genesis is the ability to override almost any kind of option/meta: site options, post meta, user meta, term meta….
February 12, 2012
Genesis Grid Loop Advanced
I recently worked with Gary Jones on refreshing his popular grid loop tutorial.
January 21, 2012
Admin Pages with Genesis
One of the best new features of Genesis 1.8 (and there are many) is a tool for making admin pages. These are needed if you’re building a plugin or a…
January 17, 2012
Manually Curated Related Posts
Here’s a way to specify which posts show up as “related” to the current post, as an alternative to the many plugins that automatically generate your list of related posts.
September 26, 2011
Adding fields to the Media Gallery
Here’s two ways to customize the media uploader: adding a “Photo credit” section, and adding an “Include in Rotator” selection.
July 17, 2011
Adding Theme Options in Genesis
I’ll walk you through creating your own theme options, accessible from the Genesis Theme Settings page.
April 8, 2011
Customizing the Genesis Grid Loop Content
Here’s some lessons I learned on customizing the Genesis Grid Loop from my recent site redesign.
December 6, 2010
Post Type Linking
This technique will let you link posts in one content type with another. For example, if you have an Events post type and a Musicians post type, you can link a musician with a certain event.
May 15, 2010
How to Move your WordPress Website
Here’s how you quickly move a WordPress website from one server to another, without losing any content or settings. This is what I do when I’ve built a client’s site on my development server and it’s time to launch.
March 9, 2010
Custom Author Pages
Here’s an overview on how to build an extremely custom Author Page for Thesis.