Creating individual page sliders with Genesis

November 18, 2011 by Leave a Comment

I’ve recently started to work with the Genesis Framework for WordPress. I still love Thesis, but I thought why not start working with Genesis too. It was a good idea, and I’ve already landed a project or two developing with Genesis, and the last project I’ve worked on required something I hadn’t done before.

The client wanted the option to have the option of having a unique jQuery slider on each page of the website. Whilst I’m sure that there are slider plugins that can do this pretty easily, I thought why not try something different. So that’s what I did. I used WPAlchemy to handle the metabox in the backend, and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. Watch the video below as I walk you through how I created it.

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Using Thesis and WPAlchemy

November 15, 2011 by 2 Comments

I’m currently working on a Thesis project where I need to work with custom metaboxes. WPAlchemy jumped out as a pretty good solution, so I went ahead and downloaded/install it as instructed – but it didn’t work. Well when I say it didn’t work, what I mean is that the fields and styles for the fields within the metabox wouldn’t show up. I found a fix for it. Here it is.

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Using Thesis body classes to target browsers

October 21, 2011 by 3 Comments

There have been situations where I’ve been coding something in Thesis, and there are cross-browser issues. Don’t get me wrong – 99% of the time this doesn’t happen, but on the rare occasions they do crop up, I’ve come up with a solution.

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WordPress 404 error and Mod_Security

October 21, 2011 by 1 Comment

I’ve recently been having a pretty annoying problem with WordPress.

I’d write a post. Sometimes it would publish, and other times I’d be shown the WordPress 404 error page. Strange? I thought so too. At first I thought it was something to do with with my code – and as I use the Thesis theme, I checked the custom_functions.php file. Nope, nothing wrong there.

I disabled my plugins, one by one, and nothing changed either. I installed the WP-Optimize plugin thinking there were too many post revisions and autosaves – it didn’t change anything. I’d still be randomly thrown the 404 error page when posting, saving, or previewing post/page.

Google to the rescue. It threw up several links to the WordPress support forums (here and here). It suggested some kind of issue with mod_security. More searching led me to this post by Matt Rudge, detailing what was happening and how to fix it. I’d highly recommend you submit a support ticket with your webhost to see if they can fix the issue if it arises. Also, I’d recommend you check Matt’s the article out if WordPress gives you a 404 error when your trying to post or publish something.

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