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How to exclude or remove the posts of one category from WordPress blog feed on front home page

October 29, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

If you are using WordPress for your website you may want to exclude or remove the posts from one category of your blog from the blog feed on your website on the front page there. You can then add this code to your functions.php file. You may want to backup your WordPress website before you make updates to it on there.

/**
 * remove category from blog feed on front page
 *
 * @author WPSnacks.com
 * @link https://www.wpsnacks.com
 */
function remove_category_from_blog( $query ) {
    if( $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_home() ) {
        $query->set( 'cat', '-#' );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'remove_category_from_blog' );

You can then replace the # with the id number of the category you want to remove from it. This post may help you to find the category id number on there. Now if that works for you it would remove that category from the blog feed on the front page of your WordPress website on there.

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How to add the sidebar to the front page of your StudioPress Genesis theme on WordPress

October 29, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

Do you want to add the sidebar to the front page of your WordPress website on your StudioPress Genesis theme on there? If you do you can then add this code to your functions.php file. You may want to backup your WordPress website before you make updates to it.

/**
 * Add sidebar to front page
 *
 * @author WPSnacks.com
 * @link https://www.wpsnacks.com
 */
function add_sidebar_to_front_page() {
    if ( is_home() ) {
        return 'content-sidebar';
    }
}
add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', 'add_sidebar_to_front_page' );

Now if that works for you it would add the sidebar to the front page of your StudioPress Genesis theme on your WordPress website on there.

How to add a widget area to the top of a WordPress website before the header in a StudioPress Genesis theme

October 29, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

You may want to add a widget area to the top of your WordPress website in your StudioPress Genesis theme. In order to add a widget area to your StudioPress Genesis theme without using a plugin you can then add this code to your functions.php file. You may want to backup your WordPress website before you make updates to it.

/**
 * Add widget before the header
 *
 * @author WPSnacks.com
 * @link https://www.wpsnacks.com
 */
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id'          => 'widget-before-header',
	'name'        => __( 'Before Header Widget', 'yourtheme' ),
	'description' => __( 'This is the widget before the header.', 'yourtheme' ),
) );
function addwidgetbeforeheader() {
	genesis_widget_area( 'widget-before-header', array(
			'before' => '<div class="widget-before-header widget-area">',
			'after'  => '</div>',
		) );
}
add_action('genesis_before_header', 'addwidgetbeforeheader');

If you want to style the widget you can do that in css using .widget-before-header in your stylesheet or you can read this post on how to style your custom widget area on your website for more information on how to do that on there. You can replace the yourtheme title with the name of your WordPress theme.

Now if that works for you it would add the new widget area to your StudioPress Genesis theme at the top of your website before the header on there.

How to style your custom widget area in a StudioPress Genesis theme on WordPress

October 29, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

If your website uses a StudioPress Genesis theme for your WordPress website you may want to add your custom widget areas to the theme and you may want to style those widget areas in your css stylesheet. You can then add this code to your css stylesheet file to style your custom widget areas in your StudioPress Genesis theme without using a plugin on there.

.your-widget-name {
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;
}

You would replace the .your-widget-name with the name you gave your custom widget area and then use css to style it on there.

How to add a widget area before the footer of your StudioPress Genesis theme on WordPress

October 29, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

If you are using a StudioPress Genesis theme on your WordPress website you may want to add a widget area before the footer. You can then add this code to your functions.php file to add a widget area before the footer of your StudioPress Genesis theme without using a plugin on there. It may be a good idea to backup your WordPress website before you make updates to it on there.

/**
 * Add widget area before footer
 *
 * @author WPSnacks.com
 * @link https://www.wpsnacks.com
 */
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id'          => 'widget-before-footer',
	'name'        => __( 'Before Footer Widget', 'yourtheme' ),
	'description' => __( 'This is the widget before the footer.', 'yourtheme' ),
) );
function addwidgetbeforefooter() {
	genesis_widget_area( 'widget-before-footer', array(
			'before' => '<div class="widget-before-footer widget-area">',
			'after'  => '</div>',
		) );
}
add_action('genesis_before_footer', 'addwidgetbeforefooter');

If you want to style the widget you can do that in css using .widget-before-footer in your stylesheet or you can read this post on how to style your custom widget area on your website for more information on how to do that on there. You can replace the yourtheme title with the name of your WordPress theme.

Now if that works for you it would add the new widget area to your StudioPress Genesis theme before the footer on there.

How to add a widget area after blog posts in WordPress in a StudioPress Genesis theme

October 29, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

If you are using WordPress with a StudioPress Genesis theme you may want to add a widget area after your blog posts. If you want to add a widget area to your StudioPress Genesis theme without using a plugin you can then add this code to your functions.php file. You may want to backup your WordPress website before you make updates to it.

/**
 * Add widget area after blog posts
 *
 * @author WPSnacks.com
 * @link https://www.wpsnacks.com
 */
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id'          => 'widget-after-posts',
	'name'        => __( 'After Posts Widget', 'yourtheme' ),
	'description' => __( 'This is the widget after blog posts.', 'yourtheme' ),
) );
function addwidgetafterblogposts() {
	genesis_widget_area( 'widget-after-posts', array(
			'before' => '<div class="widget-after-posts widget-area">',
			'after'  => '</div>',
		) );
}
add_action('genesis_after_entry_content', 'addwidgetafterblogposts');

If you want to style the widget you can do that in css using .widget-after-posts in your stylesheet or you can read this post on how to style your custom widget area on your website for more information on how to do that on there. You can replace the yourtheme title with the name of your WordPress theme.

Now if that works for you it would add the new widget area to your StudioPress Genesis theme after your blog posts on there.

How to disable the WordPress Link Manager link-manager.php without a plugin

October 29, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

On your WordPress website there is a tool that you may or may not see in your left admin menu titled Links. You may not want to have that tool on your website if you do not use something like that to manage lists of links on there. If that is from the WordPress link manager there is a way to disable it without using a plugin. You can then add this code to your functions.php file. You may want to backup your WordPress website before you make updates to it.

/**
 * Remove link manager
 *
 * @author WPSnacks.com
 * @link https://www.wpsnacks.com
 */
update_option( 'link_manager_enabled', 0 );

Now if that works for you it would remove the link manager page from the left menu in your WordPress admin on there.

How to disable self pingbacks on your WordPress website without a plugin

October 27, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

If you are using a WordPress website when you write posts you may find that you are getting notifications that you have pingbacks from when you link to your own posts on your website. There is a way to turn off self pingbacks without using a plugin by adding this code to your functions.php file. You may want to backup your WordPress website before you make updates to it.

/**
 * No Self Pings
 *
 * @author WPSnacks.com
 * @link https://www.wpsnacks.com
 */
function no_selfpings( &$links ) {
    $home = get_option( 'home' );
    foreach ( $links as $l => $link )
        if ( 0 === strpos( $link, $home ) )
            unset($links[$l]);
} 
add_action( 'pre_ping', 'no_selfpings' );

Now if that works for you it would keep you from receiving pingbacks from yourself when you link to your own posts on your website on there.

How to redirect http to https in your WordPress website using your .htaccess file

October 26, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

If you are using WordPress and have updated your website with a SSL to have https for the url instead of http you may want to have the website redirect http urls to https. That way it may help when people type in http urls to redirect them to the https url instead. You can put this code in your .htaccess file using FTP to do that.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

You should be very careful when you edit the htaccess file.

How to add an underline to the links on your website when someone hovers over it in WordPress

October 26, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

If your website is a WordPress website or even a regular website you may want to underline links on your website when people use the mouse to hover over the link. Just add this a:hover WordPress Code Snippet to your CSS stylesheet in your current WordPress theme in order to add an underline to links that are hovered on in WordPress.

/**
 * Change link to underline on hover
 *
 * @author WPSnacks.com
 * @link https://www.wpsnacks.com
 */
a:hover {
	 text-decoration: underline;
}

Your theme may likely already have the link code listed in the CSS stylesheet so you may want to search the stylesheet for that first and if it does then you can update that to the one you want.