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How To Customize Genesis WordPress Theme – Part I

By Shivam Vaid On May 23, 2011 3 Comments 635 views

This is the first post in a series on how to customize the Genesis premium theme. I recently installed the Genesis premium theme from Studiopress and have been experimenting with customizing it. I would be sharing on what all was tried and what results did it yield. One basic tip to remember is to always use the Genesis Child theme instead of making changes directly in the Genesis framework Customizing the Sidebar The default sidebar that comes with Genesis is empty. You just have a primary widget space and it….. Read More

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity – WordPress 3.1.2

By Shivam Vaid On May 17, 2011 Leave a Comment 245 views

After my upgrade to WordPress 3.1.2, I wrote a couple of new posts. However, I discovered that none of those posts got automatically tweeted. The tweeting of my posts happens through feed burner socialize. I was wondering what could be the issue. Then it stuck me whether the feed of the blog was getting generated correctly at all. To my horror, I discovered that the feed was throwing up an error because of which neither was the feed getting generated nor the tweet for the new post happening correctly. The….. Read More

Customize Plugin Order Below WordPress Posts Using Add_Filter

By Shivam Vaid On August 30, 2010 3 Comments 937 views

There are a number of wordpress plugins available today that would display some particular content at the bottom of your wordpress posts. These plugins could be anything ranging from subscription options for your blog, sharing links for the post OR a plugin to display related posts to the existing post. Once you enable the requisite plugins, you would see the various outputs appearing at the bottom of every post. As an example, for the post on call to action button, the following snapshot show the information displayed by the plugins….. Read More

WordPress Read More And Excerpt Customization Tips

By Shivam Vaid On July 29, 2010 Leave a Comment 480 views

If you are a blogger on wordpress or an avid blog reader, you would appreciate the importance of post excerpts in wordpress which provide you with a small abstract of the post text ( typically the first few lines of the post ). The excerpt is followed by a hyper link which says something like “Read More” or “Continue Reading”. As a blogger, you would not expect a reader to go to each individual post and have a look at the same for information. Rather, the reader might like a….. Read More

Learn CSS, PHP, HTML To Become A Successful WordPress Blogger

By Shivam Vaid On July 15, 2010 Leave a Comment 34 views

I had a requirement to create floating social media buttons in wordpress for which I was looking out for some kind of plugin that could do the job for me. I could find a lot of plugins that were meeting my requirements in parts but there was none which I could use and have the entire objective met. This finally triggered me to do some search and research which finally enabled me to instrument some small changes in wordpress CSS and PHP files that created the desired results. In this….. Read More