Include Private/Draft Pages In Parent Dropdowns

By default, WordPress only includes published pages in the dropdown select menu that allows you to choose a parent for a particular page. This is a pretty well documented problem that is yet to be addressed in core. Not a huge issue, however it can cause some pretty pesky problems. For example, say you have … Continue reading“Include Private/Draft Pages In Parent Dropdowns”

How to Properly Move the Entire Site Footer in Genesis

We recently had the need to move the entire .site-footer div in Genesis. There are various tutorials out there that suggest using the following code to relocate your footer content:

However this won’t actually move the entire .site-footer div. On the contrary, it will only relocate the contents of the div, which means you’ll … Continue reading“How to Properly Move the Entire Site Footer in Genesis”

How to Synchronize Social Media Shares, Counts, and Comments Across HTTP and HTTPS

If your site is available via HTTP and HTTPS, then likely your share counts, likes, comments, etc appear differently depending on which protocol is used. Learn how to solve this problem and ensure consistency regardless of protocol.

If your site is available via HTTP and HTTPS, then likely your share counts, likes, comments, etc appear differently depending on which protocol is used. Learn how to solve this problem and ensure consistency regardless of protocol.

New Mm Theme: Trestle

A handy boilerplate child theme for serious Genesis developers. Trestle takes a lot of the grunt work out of building sites using the Genesis Framework, providing quick and easy-to-implement solutions to common problems and repetitive tasks. We’ve taken Genesis’ rock-solid foundation, integrated mobile-first CSS, responsive navigation, a full-featured settings panel, and much more. Download. Install. Enjoy. View … Continue reading“New Mm Theme: Trestle”

Plugin Review: BlogVault

I’m just going to come right out and say it: blogVault is my new favorite way to backup, migrate, and restore WordPress websites. We stumbled upon blogVault – or rather, it stumbled upon us – when blogVault founder Akshat Choudhary paid a visit to one of our Bay Area Web Freelancer Meetups. Long story short, … Continue reading“Plugin Review: BlogVault”

WordPress Captions – How to Remove Default 10px Padding

One of the things WordPress does right out of the box that we don’t always like is automatically add an extra 10px of width to all images with captions. This is great if you want to preserve the default .wp-caption styling with a nice 5px of padded gray around the image, but if you change your … Continue reading“WordPress Captions – How to Remove Default 10px Padding”

Mm Plugin: WP Hotkeys

WP Hotkeys WP Hotkeys provides time-saving keyboard shortcuts to help you quickly navigate the WordPress dashboard. Download Now » WP Hotkeys helps you navigate your dashboard as quickly as possible with fully customizable keyboard shortcuts. After installing WP Hotkeys, you will see the default hotkey hints display in brackets next to each standard menu item … Continue reading“Mm Plugin: WP Hotkeys”

Equal Height Columns with jQuery

There are a ton of great solutions out there for creating equal heights columns – so many that it can get a bit daunting to choose one. Here’s a simple jQuery snippet we’ve started using when CSS alone won’t suffice. Thanks to Rob Glazebrook for the building blocks, to which we added some special functionality … Continue reading“Equal Height Columns with jQuery”

How to Get URLs for WordPress Admin Menu Items

Recently, we were working on a project in which we needed a reliable way to get URL’s for WordPress admin menu items (Dashboard, Posts, Plugins, Tools, etc). Despite our best searching efforts, we simply could not find an answer – seemingly no existing function to accomplish this task. So we ended up digging into menu-header.php, … Continue reading“How to Get URLs for WordPress Admin Menu Items”

What is Mobile First CSS and Why Does It Rock?

We throw around the phrase “mobile first” a lot here at MIGHTYminnow. It factors into many of our discussions and plays an important role in pretty much every site we build. We even created the Genesis Mobile First Child Theme, which is dedicated to making it as easy as possible to go mobile first when working … Continue reading“What is Mobile First CSS and Why Does It Rock?”