How To Create A Social Media Banner And Fix It To The Top Of Your Site

In this tutorial I show you how to create a Custom Widget Area, add my Social Media Icons to it, and then fix it to the top of my site with some basic styling. I also go into some of the various aspects of how WordPress implements its own fixed top banner on different screen/viewport widths. Read more “How To Create A Social Media Banner And Fix It To The Top Of Your Site”

An Introduction Into The Use Of WordPress Action Hooks

In this screencast I walk through some basic use-cases of adding custom content to various locations of your site through the use of WordPress Action Hooks. I show both Extender Plugin Custom Hook Box scenarios as well as use my Child Themer Plugin to show you how the actual PHP code looks and how you can write your own Custom Functions and add_action them into your frameworks action hooks. Read more “An Introduction Into The Use Of WordPress Action Hooks”

How To Create Custom Beaver Builder Theme WordPress Templates

There are many different scenarios that could lead to this tutorial proving itself useful, but in the screencast that follows I focus on two specific ones to try and provide a foundation that you can build off of to address your specific needs. These include creating a custom 404.php template file as well as a custom category archive template file inside your Beaver Builder Child Theme folder, to override the default Beaver Builder Parent Theme templates. Read more “How To Create Custom Beaver Builder Theme WordPress Templates”

Extending The Beaver Builder Theme

Beaver Builder ThemeI was first introduced to the Beaver Builder line of WordPress solutions through their Page Builder Plugin which works great with most any popular WP theme on the market. Those using our Genesis Child Theme (Dynamik Website Builder) started adding it to their web design toolbox and found it to be an excellent addition. So I started using it myself on some of my own Genesis/Dynamik projects and found it to be intuitive and highly flexible. Read more “Extending The Beaver Builder Theme”