https://christinacreativedesign.com Website Design and Development in Tampa, Clearwater, St. Petersburg, Florida. Thu, 07 Nov 2019 20:40:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.28 https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/random-hero-image-from-directory-for-wordpress-and-genesis/ https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/random-hero-image-from-directory-for-wordpress-and-genesis/#respond Mon, 05 Mar 2018 23:36:14 +0000 https://christinacreativedesign.com/?p=2418 Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /home/chris493/public_html/wp-includes/media.php on line 1176
If you’d like to create images for a hero section of a website and put those images in a directory and have them appear as random background images that change each time a person visits a page, this is how you do it with WordPress. The more images you have, the more random it is. If this saved you time, and I’m sure it did, consider a donation via PayPal to me@christinacreativedesign.com. This gist has]]> https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/random-hero-image-from-directory-for-wordpress-and-genesis/feed/ 0 https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/add-custom-post-types-and-taxonomy-terms-to-wordpress-link-selection/ https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/add-custom-post-types-and-taxonomy-terms-to-wordpress-link-selection/#respond Mon, 29 Jan 2018 19:02:15 +0000 https://christinacreativedesign.com/?p=2385 Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /home/chris493/public_html/wp-includes/media.php on line 1176
When you add a link in the WordPress editor, the default is posts, pages, and single posts of custom post types. If you want to link to an archive page of a custom post type, or link to a taxonomy term (a category for example), then you would need to visit that page and grab the url from the browser bar and paste in the url (that’s one way of doing it). With this code]]> https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/add-custom-post-types-and-taxonomy-terms-to-wordpress-link-selection/feed/ 0 https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/remove-beaver-builder-link-and-tab-in-admin-for-woocommerce-pages/ https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/remove-beaver-builder-link-and-tab-in-admin-for-woocommerce-pages/#respond Mon, 29 Jan 2018 19:36:38 +0000 https://christinacreativedesign.com/?p=2390 Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /home/chris493/public_html/wp-includes/media.php on line 1176
For a current project, I decided to use Beaver Builder for certain pages that the client can edit with a drag and drop editor. I ended up using Elementor Pro*. However, many people use Beaver Builder and WooCommerce together. In this situation you’ve got WooCommerce pages that are core (required) and generated when you go through the installer. These pages have shortcodes in them and they are also specified in the WooCommerce settings. These pages]]> https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/remove-beaver-builder-link-and-tab-in-admin-for-woocommerce-pages/feed/ 0 https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/clean-up-widgets-page-in-wordpress/ https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/clean-up-widgets-page-in-wordpress/#respond Mon, 29 Jan 2018 18:40:04 +0000 https://christinacreativedesign.com/?p=2379 Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /home/chris493/public_html/wp-includes/media.php on line 1176
I don’t know about you, but a lot of projects don’t require every single widget that comes with the core, frameworks, or plugins. Once you know the widget class, then you can add it to the array and remove it. If you want to keep one, just comment it out with two // before the class.]]> https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/clean-up-widgets-page-in-wordpress/feed/ 0 https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/how-to-bulk-replace-the-4-8-wordpress-text-widget-with-the-classic-text-widget/ https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/how-to-bulk-replace-the-4-8-wordpress-text-widget-with-the-classic-text-widget/#comments Fri, 09 Jun 2017 19:28:34 +0000 https://christinacreativedesign.com/?p=2277 Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /home/chris493/public_html/wp-includes/media.php on line 1176
If you updated to 4.8 WordPress you’ll notice a lot of nice improvements, but there is one thing that was done that I felt was like an artist over-working her painting: changing the Text widget to use a rich text editor. There are already plugins for that. The old pre 4.8 text widget was a way to add little snippets of html in your widgetized areas (aka sidebars). In many Genesis child themes, we rely]]> https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/how-to-bulk-replace-the-4-8-wordpress-text-widget-with-the-classic-text-widget/feed/ 21 https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/sukha-lifestyle-logo/ https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/sukha-lifestyle-logo/#respond Tue, 09 Aug 2016 23:06:30 +0000 https://christinacreativedesign.com/?p=2232 Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /home/chris493/public_html/wp-includes/media.php on line 1176
This logo was a joy to design. It’s so pretty and makes me happy. Which is appropriate since… Sukha is a Sanskrit and Pali word that is often translated happiness, ease, pleasure or bliss. Well, that’s all I have to write.]]> https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/sukha-lifestyle-logo/feed/ 0 https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/four-equidistant-inline-block-columns-that-break-4-2-1/ https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/four-equidistant-inline-block-columns-that-break-4-2-1/#respond Thu, 31 Mar 2016 12:24:56 +0000 https://christinacreativedesign.com/?p=2113 Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /home/chris493/public_html/wp-includes/media.php on line 1176
In the StudioPress.com forum a person asked about having her columns naturally collapse so that the content will be 4 columns where there’s the width for it and, as the viewport decreases in width, the columns will start stacking in to 2 and then 1 column. The column classes that come with Genesis, Bootstrap, and others don’t do that. They use floats. You can use Flexbox or you can use inline-block. Flexbox is still buggy]]> https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/four-equidistant-inline-block-columns-that-break-4-2-1/feed/ 0 https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/wordpress-rss-feeds-and-mailchimp/ https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/wordpress-rss-feeds-and-mailchimp/#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:33:35 +0000 https://christinacreativedesign.com/?p=2093 Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /home/chris493/public_html/wp-includes/media.php on line 1176

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Do not send me a bug report. Become a paid member of MailChimp and after reading their documentation, if you have an issue, use their support. The original code last week was messed up in that the the same image was used in all posts, I should have noticed it. Anyway, this code is updated and it works great. Apparently hardly anyone is reading my blog to let me know of issues, which is disheartening.]]> https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/wordpress-rss-feeds-and-mailchimp/feed/ 6 https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/fix-blurry-images-in-your-wordpress-oembed-and-use-your-own-logo/ https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/fix-blurry-images-in-your-wordpress-oembed-and-use-your-own-logo/#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:47:16 +0000 https://christinacreativedesign.com/?p=2077 Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /home/chris493/public_html/wp-includes/media.php on line 1176
I noticed that some WordPress sites I embedded, including my own, had blurry images for their featured image and had the WordPress logo for their Site Identity icon. This post will instruct you how to correct this. First let’s get some history, you are not going to touch the WP core. If you look at the /wp-includes/embed-template.php file (4.4) or the /wp-includes/theme-compat/embed-content.php (4.5), you’ll notice that the script is working some php math to find the ratio for rectangular images. If your best fit for that rectangular image ratio is an image size (add_image_size) that is small, then the resulting embed will be blurry across the web. To check if your site’s embed is blurry (you must be updated to WordPress 4.4x), paste in a url to one of your blog posts in another post in draft mode. You can use the visual mode for this test. In a couple seconds, your post will show up like the one below. If you have a featured image on that post, that will show up as well.]]> https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/fix-blurry-images-in-your-wordpress-oembed-and-use-your-own-logo/feed/ 3 https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/just-finishing-up-my-very-first-site-where-ive-use-another-designers-theme/ https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/just-finishing-up-my-very-first-site-where-ive-use-another-designers-theme/#respond Thu, 17 Mar 2016 02:12:56 +0000 https://christinacreativedesign.com/?p=2014 Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /home/chris493/public_html/wp-includes/media.php on line 1176

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I’m using a theme made by another designer as a starting point for the very first time since I started in 1999. I’m finishing up on this and am waiting for some content and a few other things. The client and I agreed that Outreach Pro by StudioPress is the one that would best fit their organization, which is really the Royal family in-exile and their friends who are trying to get the world to]]> https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/just-finishing-up-my-very-first-site-where-ive-use-another-designers-theme/feed/ 0 https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/if-the-date-is-modified-show-modified-date-in-your-genesis-child-theme-posts/ https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/if-the-date-is-modified-show-modified-date-in-your-genesis-child-theme-posts/#respond Mon, 14 Mar 2016 20:06:17 +0000 https://christinacreativedesign.com/?p=1992 Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /home/chris493/public_html/wp-includes/media.php on line 1176
In the Short Code reference there are a couple shortcodes missing. The first one below is the shortcode for the modified date. January 29, 2018 1:20 pm To indicate that the date was last updated on, I check to see if it was modified. This is so all the posts, even new ones, don’t show the text “Last updated on” before the date: This modified from the one I use on this blog since I]]> https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/if-the-date-is-modified-show-modified-date-in-your-genesis-child-theme-posts/feed/ 0 https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/logo-that-hangs-outside-the-site-header-in-genesis-with-css/ https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/logo-that-hangs-outside-the-site-header-in-genesis-with-css/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2016 21:48:06 +0000 https://christinacreativedesign.com/?p=1957 Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /home/chris493/public_html/wp-includes/media.php on line 1176

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A week or so ago someone in a Genesis forum had a CSS situation where the client’s logo designer suggested placement outside the .site-header. This example is using Outreach Pro. If you use this in another theme, you may have to make adjustments to the CSS. View Demo Software requirements: Photoshop or Illustrator or equivalent FTP Code Editor Set up the Logo Get the vector logo and either open it in Illustrator or place it]]> https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/logo-that-hangs-outside-the-site-header-in-genesis-with-css/feed/ 2 https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/fast-and-free-wordpress-database-migration-without-losing-serialized-data/ https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/fast-and-free-wordpress-database-migration-without-losing-serialized-data/#respond Thu, 10 Mar 2016 14:32:27 +0000 https://christinacreativedesign.com/?p=1981 Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /home/chris493/public_html/wp-includes/media.php on line 1176

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If you don’t want to lose your widgets, your CMB2 content, or other serialized data, the Search and Replace for WordPress Databases by interconnect/it is amazing! I had a BUNCH of CMB2 fields and when I did a standard find and replace or a SQL query, my content was just not showing up when I moved my site. Widgets and CMB2 use serialized data. That stuff is completely over my head. Check out this descriptive]]> https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/fast-and-free-wordpress-database-migration-without-losing-serialized-data/feed/ 0 https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/limit-wp-clips-to-only-a-genesis-theme-and-only-a-specific-child-theme/ https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/limit-wp-clips-to-only-a-genesis-theme-and-only-a-specific-child-theme/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2016 15:55:32 +0000 https://christinacreativedesign.com/?p=1975 Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /home/chris493/public_html/wp-includes/media.php on line 1176
For a lot of situations you don’t have to use a plugin to update your Genesis child theme, you can just edit the child theme’s files directly. However, if you are a developer working on a client’s site, using WP Clips as a mu-plugin, you can keep the child theme pristine, make some major customizations and, if sometime in the future, that particular child theme does have an update (and many do), you can install]]> https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/limit-wp-clips-to-only-a-genesis-theme-and-only-a-specific-child-theme/feed/ 2 https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/awesome-web-hosting/ https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/awesome-web-hosting/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2016 02:04:53 +0000 https://christinacreativedesign.com?p=1715 Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /home/chris493/public_html/wp-includes/media.php on line 1176
I have another post covering why you should avoid all web hosting companies owned by Endurance International Group (EIG).. Also avoid GoDaddy hosting. Yuck. Non EIG Hosting Companies I recommend! This is the order in which I recommend these companies.]]> https://christinacreativedesign.com/blog/awesome-web-hosting/feed/ 3