The owners of Houseplan Works gave us the requirement of adding a HTML5 video of a swinging lightbulb to a section of the home page in the Genesis Parallax Pro theme. Adding the HTML5 video is no big deal. WordPress does provide the [video] shortcode. However, in this case, I opted to natively display the
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Install PhpMyAdmin on Amazon EC2 AMI
Most Linux distributions come with PhpMyAdmin preinstalled and ready to configure. However, this is not true of Red Hat distributions such as CentOS, Fedora, or Amazon AMI among others. For these distributions, phpMyAdmin is located in the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) repository. EPEL is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains,
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Prorate WP eStore Membership Fees
Beka Rice published an article for SellwithWP where she compiled statistics about eCommerce plugin use for WordPress powered sites. Not surprisingly, WooCommerce takes the lead with a 78.4% market share for the 505,409 sites cataloged by BuiltWith. When I build an eCommerce site these days, my go to plugin is WooCommerce. It’s highly customizable and
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Create a Genesis Menu Home Icon Button
One frequently asked question is “How do I add a home button to a menu for a Genesis Framework child theme?” There are many solutions of various complexities to this question found on the web. The solution I’m offering here is simple and purely CSS based. It not only applies to the Genesis Framework, but
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Genesis Framework: Add a Custom CSS Class to Elements
A common question about the Genesis Framework is “How do I add a custom class to a [specific] HTML element?” In many cases, the person asking the question asks where in the Genesis Core files can they change the markup for the element they want to modify. First of all, it’s always a very BAD
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