The sender name seems to default to ‘WordPress’ in outgoing system generated emails (e.g. new account notification, password change etc), which doesn’t look good to your users. This snippet inserted into the functions.php file of your WordPress theme allows you to choose whatever name and email address you want.
Replace the ‘Sorry, no content matched your criteria’ message in a WordPress site built with the Genesis Framework
When your users hit upon a search that produces no results, the ‘Sorry, no content matched your criteria’ message that a Genesis Framework site serves them isn’t exactly the most helpful thing they could see. Use this code to change it.
Hide the WordPress admin bar from Subscribers or any logged in user who can’t edit posts
If you’re running a site with front end login where you want to completely shield your users from the ugly truth that WordPress has a back end, this snippet will allow you to hide the black admin bar from the top of your users’ screens.
Halftone overlay effect for background images in CSS
This trick isn’t specific to WordPress and can be use on any website, but I like it so here we are. You can add visual interest to your background images with this halftone style overlay. Or crosshatch. Whatever you want to call it. Anyway it looks nice and can be used to make a text overlay more legible against the image.
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Customise the ‘read more’ text in a WordPress site built with the Genesis Framework
For longer posts, sometimes it’s desirable to use the ‘more’ tag to create a break and show just an excerpt rather than the whole post. This makes your archive pages a bit shorter and less unwieldy. The Genesis framework defaults to a link that looks like this: [read more]. If you find that a bit boring and would like to change it, you can insert this code in your functions.php file:
You can just change the [Read more…] part to whatever you want.
Genesis starter child theme
For most of the web design work that I do, I start with my own custom version of the official Genesis Sample Theme. I was using the latter as a starting point for everything, but I found that I was repeating the same actions every time, stripping out some of the code I have no use for and adding other stuff that I needed.