Filter Genesis Navigation Menu to be 1 level on Home Page Only

A friend was asking how to make the Header Navigation on the Genesis theme Altitude Pro only be 1 level on the home page but show all the levels on the interior pages. Here is how I suggested it be done https://gist.github.com/lorennason/b01bb8c9cd2dc999635c0a7169e36f84 The inspiration came from Bill Erickson’s post on Customizing Menu Arguments. I just…

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Youtube Video Background with Aspire Genesis Theme

Aspire is a new theme from Appfinite for Genesis. It’s a great looking theme but a customer was asking if I could take it and put a video background to it. There are many ways to make a video background. Here are 2 options Option 1: Use a jquery plugin like bigvideo.js and then set…

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Pin It – A free Genesis child theme

I saw tweet go by from Brian Gardner of a Genesis child theme he was working on called Pin This. It looked interesting so bookmarked it for later. Everyone is so enamored about Pinterest but really I think all the work you put into social notworking you should at least put some of that effort…

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How I created the ToolTip Testimonial Popup

A client asked me about the testimonial popup featured over at Studio Press. When you hover over a picture at the top of our site your will see a tool tip appear. I looked at the site and figured it was a custom js script to activate tooltip function from jQuery TOOLS. I then dropped…

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Genesis Custom Author Box

I was looking for a custom solution to the Genesis Author Box. I didn’t find one. I did find examples and bits and pieces. First I used Greg Rickaby’s idea to add extra fields to the WordPress user profile. http://gregrickaby.com/2011/01/add-new-contact-methods-to-wordpress.html I used the first part of his code [php] remove_action(‘genesis_after_post’, ‘genesis_do_author_box_single’); // Add/Remove Contact Methods…

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