Genesis DevKit, Extender Pro, And Themer Pro Updates

I’m excited to share three new Cobalt Apps Plugin updates with you! I’ve been pounding away at my keyboard for the past few weeks and finally released fixes, refinements, and many new features for Genesis DevKit, Extender Pro, and Themer Pro.

The highlights are that Extender Pro and Themer Pro now support to new popular WordPress Theme Frameworks, and Genesis DevKit now offers a new Tablet view, in addition to the already available Mobile and Desktop views. Also, both Genesis DevKit and Themer Pro now include the latest Genesis Sample Theme, version 3.3.1. But there’s a whole lot more that that so be sure to checkout the change logs below and then watch my screencast where I showcase the many new features found in these updates.

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12 Reasons Why Themer Pro Makes Child Theme Development Awesome!

To continue our 12 Days Of Coding posts I want to get a little more specific about some of our powerful WordPress Development Tools. In this particular case I want to showcase our Themer Pro Plugin and share some of the many powerful features it offers both WordPress power users and full blown freelancers alike. And this is not an exhaustive list, but just some of my favorite goodies found in Themer Pro.

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12 Days Of Coding: How To Manipulate The Styles Of Your WordPress Website Using Themer Pro And Your Browser Inspector

In this 12 Days Of Coding tutorial I show you how to use your browser’s Inspector tool, as well as our Themer Pro Front-End DEV Tools feature, to tweak the design of your WordPress pages and posts. With this combination you’ll find that most any custom design needs, beyond what your active theme provides, will be thoroughly covered.

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12 Days Of Coding: How To Customize WP Blocks Using Themer Pro And Custom CSS

In this 12 Days Of Coding tutorial I use the GeneratePress Theme and our Themer Pro Plugin to go into greater depth with the WP Block Editor and how to customize the look of the various blocks with some custom CSS. I show you how to make your styles site-wide, page specific, and even block specific. So checkout the screencast below to help gain a better understanding of both custom CSS in WordPress and how to customize the design of your particular WP Block pages.

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12 Days Of Coding: Add Custom Content To Your WordPress Pages Using Action Hooks And Extender Pro

In this 12 Days Of Coding post I will show you the ins and outs of WordPress Action Hooks and how you can use them to easily add custom content to your website’s pages. For this tutorial I used our Freelancer Framework and our Extender Pro Plugin. With this combination I was able to use both custom coding and a super useful Extender Pro feature called Custom Hook Boxes to add and remove custom content on the front-end of my website.

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12 Days Of Coding: How To Edit The Number Of Genesis Sample Footer Widgets And Style Them With CSS

In this 12 Days Of Coding post I will be showing you how to quickly and easily change the number of Footer Widgets that are made available through the Genesis Sample Theme (or most current Genesis Child Themes) and then adjust the CSS code appropriately to accommodate these changes. I will be using the Themer Pro Plugin to accomplish these tasks.

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12 Days Of Coding: Customizing Block Editor Styles Using Custom Classes, CSS, And Themer Pro

As the first tutorial of our 12 Days Of Coding I’m working with a GeneratePress Child Theme (created by our Themer Pro Plugin), the WordPress Block Editor, and the Themer Pro Front-End DEV Tools. In this How-To video I show you simple ways to focus your Custom CSS on specific WP Block Editor Blocks by adding your own custom block classes. I then show you how to manipulate the styles of these blocks using the Themer Pro Front-End DEV Tools CSS Sandbox feature with real-time changes.

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Why I Hated NodeJS, Gulp, And Sass, And What I’m Doing About It

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tout yourself as a true “Pro” in the WordPress web development scene without some form of contact with these NodeJS powered package managers, task managers, and build tools. We’ve gone from debating our favorite code editors to arguing over which CSS pre-processor is king. Life was so much easier when all we had to deal with was a simple folder filled with CSS, PHP, and JS files. Or at least that’s what it feels like until you realize you’re being left behind, pining over the best practices of 2012.

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