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Creating a Popup in WordPress using Popup Maker and Contact Form 7 Plugins

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Nowadays, the majority of blogs utilize a popup form. Although they may annoy a small percentage of your site's visitors, most web users have come to expect a pop-up. They key is to create a well-designed pop-up that can also be easily closed by your site's visitors. A pop-up is fine, but one that is a little too intrusive is a good way to deter return visitors.  In this article, I explain how to create pop-up forms using two plugins Popup Maker and Contact Form 7. In case you don't know, Contact Form 7 is considered to be the best contact form WordPress plugin available and is one of my personal favorites. Better yet, it is fairly easy to transform a Contact Form 7 form into a popup with another great plugin called Popup Maker. In a nutshell, all you need to do is copy and paste the shortcode of a form created in Contact Form 7 into a new popup configured in Popup Maker. Then implement the proper configurations and necessary styling. Well, there is a little bit more to it than that. … Continue reading...

Locally Setup and Install WordPress On Windows Using WAMP

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When building a new website in WordPress, it best practice to first create the site locally on your computer and then later FTP the files and upload the database to a live server. By building your site locally, you can test functionality and design before going live. If you are making a site for a client, it is also better to set it up locally before releasing the finished product on the live server. Creating a site locally is also a great way to just mess around and learn WordPress. Moreover, if you have an established WordPress site, having a local, offline version allows you test changes to the site before implementing those live. If you are using a PC, then the best way to turn your machine into a local server is using Wamp. If you are using a Mac, then it is best to use XAMPP. This article provides a tutorial for setting up WordPress locally on your PC with Wamp. 1. Download the latest Wamp server Click here to go to the Wamp server website. Once there you can scroll down to the … Continue reading...

How to Use JQuery in WordPress

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You can do a lot in WordPress just by modifying PHP templates. In fact, even just an intermediate understanding of PHP and the WordPress template hierarchy allows one to make some relatively advanced customizations. Combine this with HTML and CSS and you can build a dynamic Website in WordPress. However, you will soon learn that knowing PHP isn't enough. You eventually come to the point in which you simply can no longer ignore Javascript. When you come to this junction, it is best practice to use jQuery in WordPress, which is essentially a shorthand of Javascript. Assuming that you have studied Javascript a little and understand its fundamentals, then jQuery can serve as a real asset to your site. You can do a lot in jQuery from fadein affects, a scrolling header, hiding text and so on. While developers have been integrating jQuery with WordPress for several years now, there is still a fair amount of confusion about how to probably add it to your WordPress site. Based on … Continue reading...

How to Create a Custom Homepage Template in a Genesis Theme

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If you are new to using Genesis themes, the first thing you will likely notice when you look under the hood that they are set up somewhat differently than your typical WordPress theme. I like to think of the Genesis framework as a variation of WordPress. When you first start poking around at the Genesis framework, you might feel a bit lost and confused. But there is nothing wrong with that you certainly are not alone. Fortunately, once you get past the learning curve, Genesis themes not only become easier to customize, but you soon realize what a powerful tool the Genesis framework can be for building websites. Genesis themes offer a decent amount of functionality 'out of the box' and many users content at never moving past that stage. However, at some point you may require more customization and functionality and adding custom page templates to your WordPress site is one way  create a more dynamic website. To give you an idea of how to make a custom page template in Genesis, I have … Continue reading...

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