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How to Add Formatting Tags to Genesis’s Content Limit in Content Archives

April 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Recently, I started limiting my content by using Display Post Content under Genesis > Theme Settings > Content Archives instead of using Display Post Excerpt. While the default is Display Post Content, the next field Limit content to ## characters is usually blank. However, I wanted to limit the content archives while maintaining my formacodeing.

So, upon limiting my content, I discovered that this actually strips all the tags except <code><script></code> and <code><style></code>. However, I wanted to allow basic formacodeing tags like <code><b></code>, <code><em></code>, and <code><br></code>. Gratefully, Genesis has a filter that will allow you to keep these tags in the content limit. To add the tags, you will need to add a filter in your functions.php.

add_filter('get_the_content_limit_allowedtags', 'get_the_content_limit_custom_allowedtags');
function get_the_content_limit_custom_allowedtags() {
return '<script>,<style>,<b>,<br>,<em>'; //add whatever tags you want to this string
}
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Move Genesis Sidebar

April 9, 2011 By 1 Comment

There are many times due to adding various actions that I will accidentally do something (like adding an additional wrap wrongly) that will cause havoc on my sidebar where my sidebar will appear below my content. What happens is that the #sidebar is now subordinate to #content instead of them appearing together in #content-sidebar-wrap (or whatever). So I have found a simple solution for this when this happens. I move my sidebar up.

I simply add this to my functions.php file:

remove_action('genesis_sidebar','genesis_do_sidebar');
add_action('genesis_before_content', 'genesis_do_sidebar');

Yes, I recognize that this is only a bandaid, but…

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How to Widgetize the Home Page of the Expose Genesis Child Theme

March 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

In order to widgetize the Expose Child Theme, you have to do three things.

1. Edit the CSS to make .portfolio-posts absolute. So find the following CSS.

#content .portfolio-posts,  {
	background: #FFFFFF;
	float: left;
	width: 280px;
	min-height: 280px;
	margin: 0 10px 10px 10px;
	padding: 9px 9px 9px 9px;
	border: 1px solid #D5D5D5;
	display: inline;
	-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 3px #BBBBBB;
	-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 3px #BBBBBB;
	overflow: hidden;
	}

#content .portfolio-posts h2 {
	font-size: 18px;
	}

#content .portfolio-posts p {
	line-height: 20px;
	}

and delete #content.

2. Edit functions.php to include the widgeted area. Add the following code after // Register widget areas:

genesis_register_sidebar(array(
	'name'=>'Home 1',
	'id' => 'home-1',
	'description' => 'This is the first section of the homepage.',
	'before_title'=>'<h3 class="widgettitle">','after_title'=>'</h3>'
));
genesis_register_sidebar(array(
	'name'=>'Home 2',
	'id' => 'home-2',
	'description' => 'This is the first section of the homepage.',
	'before_title'=>'<h3 class="widgettitle">','after_title'=>'</h3>'
));
genesis_register_sidebar(array(
	'name'=>'Home 3',
	'id' => 'home-3',
	'description' => 'This is the first section of the homepage.',
	'before_title'=>'<h3 class="widgettitle">','after_title'=>'</h3>'
));

3. Edit home.php to incorporate the widget. Then comment out the following:

//require_once(PARENT_DIR . '/index.php');

And add the following just after that:

get_header();
genesis_home(); ?>

<div id="content home-widgeted">
	<div class="widgeted-home home-1">
		<?php if (!dynamic_sidebar('Home 1')) : ?>
		<div class="widget">
			<h4><?php _e("Home", 'genesis'); ?></h4>
			<p><?php _e("This is a widgeted area which is called Home.", 'genesis'); ?></p>
		</div>
		<?php endif; ?>
	</div><!-- end .widgeted-home home-1-->
	<div class="widgeted-home home-2">
		<?php if (!dynamic_sidebar('Home 2')) : ?>
		<div class="widget">
			<h4><?php _e("Home", 'genesis'); ?></h4>
			<p><?php _e("This is a widgeted area which is called Home.", 'genesis'); ?></p>
		</div>
		<?php endif; ?>
	</div><!-- end .widgeted-home home-2-->
	<div class="widgeted-home home-3">
		<?php if (!dynamic_sidebar('Home 3')) : ?>
		<div class="widget">
			<h4><?php _e("Home", 'genesis'); ?></h4>
			<p><?php _e("This is a widgeted area which is called Home.", 'genesis'); ?></p>
		</div>
		<?php endif; ?>
	</div><!-- end .widgeted-home home-3-->
</div><!-- end #home-widgeted -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Now, Expose Home Page is widget ready to give more control on the front page. You may need to add some CSS to style even further.

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Create Your Own Custom Genesis Category Archive Template in WordPress

March 9, 2011 By 2 Comments

Someone in the StudioPress Support forums wanted a Category Archive Template that listed categories and posts under that category. For example:
Category 1

  • article 1
  • article 2
  • article n

Category 2

  • article 1
  • article 2
  • article n

So, here it is:

<?php /**  * Template Name: Category Archive  */ get_header(); ?></p>
<p><?php genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap(); ?></p>
<div id="content-sidebar-wrap">
<p>    <?php genesis_before_content(); ?></p>
<div id="content">
<p>        <?php genesis_before_loop(); ?></p>
<div class="post hentry">
<h1 class="entry-title"><?php _e("Site Archives", 'genesis'); ?></h1>
<div class="entry-content">
<p>                <?php $categories = get_categories( $args );?> </p>
<ul class="catArchive">
                <?php foreach ($categories as $category) {                     $catCounter++;                     $catLink=get_category_link($category->term_id);<br />
                    $catStyle = '';<br />
                    if (is_int($catCounter / 2)) $catStyle = ' class="catAlt"';</p>
<p>                    echo '<li'.$catStyle.'>
<h3><a href="'.$catLink.'" title="'.$category->name.'">'.$category->name.'</a></h3>
<p>';<br />
                        echo '
<ul>';</p>
<p>                        query_posts('cat='.$category->term_id.'&showposts=5');?></p>
<p>                        <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?></p>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<p>                        <?php endwhile; ?></p>
<li><a href="<?php echo $catLink; ?>" title="<?php echo $category->name; ?>">More <strong><?php echo $category->name; ?></strong></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<p>                <?php } ?>
                </ul>
</div>
<p><!-- end .entry-content --></p>
</div>
<p><!-- end .post --><br />
        <?php genesis_after_loop(); ?></p>
</div>
<p><!-- end #content --><br />
    <?php genesis_after_content(); ?></p>
</div>
<p><!-- end #content-sidebar-wrap --><br />
<?php genesis_after_content_sidebar_wrap(); ?></p>
<p><?php get_footer(); ?><br />

To add this to your child theme, simply follow these directions.
1. Open a blank text file.
2. Copy this code into it.
3. Save as page_catarchive.php (or just download: Genesis Category Archive Template (252))
4. FTP into your child theme folder.

To use in your theme, create a new page and select Category Archive under Page Template.

Click Publish. Style via your CSS.

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