With the advent of PHP 7, a few webhosts such as SiteGround have made it available on all their shared hosting services and you can find a way to enable it here. Before you jump the bandwagon though, be aware of the warning they posted on their website: Please have in mind that even if you're using an app that supports PHP 7 some of its components like plugins, themes, modules, etc. may have … [Read more...]
How to Add ID Attribute in Genesis Main Content
With the upgrade of Genesis Framework to responsive design, there's a particular id attribute on the web content that's deprecated when you use HTML5. If you take a look at /genesis/lib/framework.php file from Genesis core, you will see that the id="content" markup is still included in the XHTML markup. However for HTML5, the ID attritube is no longer there. This change creates a problem … [Read more...]
How to Change WordPress Upload Folder
If you do a fresh install using WordPress 3.5 or later, you may have noticed that one useful feature that's sorely missing is the ability to change the default upload directory from the Administration page. Not sure why it was taken out in the first place, fortunately there's still a way to do it without too much trouble. You just need to add the following code in the wp-config.php … [Read more...]
Migrating Genesis Metadata to Yoast SEO
If you install Yoast's WordPress SEO Plugin on top of your Genesis theme, you'll notice that all your manually typed meta descriptions (and maybe keywords) just went completely missing. Meta description is an important element for search engine to index your pages and when you already have more than hundreds of pages and posts or even ten, then re-typing is definitely not an option. Since I'm … [Read more...]
How to Add Pagination on Genesis Lifestyle Theme Front Page
As an update to their top seller Genesis Theme, StudioPress released a new Lifestyle Pro Theme with responsive design and HTML5. If you're a member of My StudioPress, then you'll have access to setup the theme exactly as it looks like in a demo, which is already very good to begin with. I really like how the front page was setup, however I also want it to function as my main blog along with … [Read more...]