Genesis Toolbar Extras – A Plugin from David Decker @ DECKERWEB

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Ever wished there was a quick way to access all your Genesis related items right from your dashboard? Well there is! The Genesis Toolbar Extras plugin is accessible from your WordPress admin bar. Easy access to the support forum, tutorials, community tutorials and showcase to name a few. Check it out here … [Read more...]

Keeping Your WordPress Site Secure

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A post on the Genesis forums today was asking about theme security. As I said on the forum the best way to secure your theme is to secure your site. The WordPress codex is a great place to start gathering information. See the Hardening WordPress article. To help beef up security via your .htaccess file place this in the file directly … [Read more...]

Beginners Guide to Padding and Margins

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How do I add space around my images or text? Space is added via margins or padding. Lets start with a square box, lets say you have text inside the box and you want to have space between the text and the box sides. You would want to adjust the padding - so padding refers to what is inside. Let's see the same box and text … [Read more...]

Graphics Card Blues

I do not own the most expensive system ever but for just over a grand I would nevertheless not expect to have to reboot every time I engage my graphics card in any meaningful way. It started with an inability to watch anything on YouTube. That problem was solved by switching off the graphics accelerator on Adobe Flash. Then it wouldn't play an … [Read more...]