Google Analytics supports demographics and interest reports using the same demographics and interest categories used on the Google Display Network. Not all of your site's traffic will have associated demographic or interest data, and if the associated data is small enough so that there is a chance of personal identification, Google will enforce thresholds and display a notice instead of actual … [Read more...] about Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reports
How To Use the Genesis Blog Page Template
Already understand blog page templates? Jump ahead using one of these quick links: Genesis Blog page template Genesis Easter egg: query_args query_args examples Our Blog Extras template Using the Genesis framework, it's possible to produce a stream of posts that match virtually any criteria. All it takes is a little understanding of page templates and custom fields. For starters, … [Read more...] about How To Use the Genesis Blog Page Template
Enterprise Pro by StudioPress
The Enterprise Pro theme from StudioPress is a business-oriented HTML5-compliant, mobile responsive design with a flexible widgetized home page. It's a refresh of the popular Enterprise theme that: added mobile responsive design; added HTML5 support; added support for multiple color styles; removed support for custom backgrounds; consolidated the 2 Home Top widget areas into a … [Read more...] about Enterprise Pro by StudioPress
Using Web Fonts
Using web fonts such as Google web fonts is a common need for sites on our network, so we give you several tools to make it easy to do. First, some background. The fonts available in a visitor's browser are the fonts installed on that visitor's local computer. Since you have no guarantee which fonts are available locally, you run the risk that your site renders differently to different … [Read more...] about Using Web Fonts
Enable Shortcodes Everywhere
A shortcode in WordPress is a powerful way to add content via a macro. The shortcode executes code that replaces the shortcode with specific content. By default, they're not enabled everywhere in WordPress. That's a limitation you can easily get around using our wpPERFORM.com Enable Shortcodes Everywhere plugin. The plugin adds support for shortcode support in the following places in … [Read more...] about Enable Shortcodes Everywhere
Set a Custom Body Class Using a Parameter
A custom body class is a way to use CSS to style content with that class in a unique way. It's possible to assign a custom body class as a parameter in a URL. Our wpPERFORM.com Front End Color Switcher plugin illustrates how this works. Our live demo of the StudioPress News Pro theme shows off the theme's support for multiple color styles. The theme supports 5 color styles which are classes … [Read more...] about Set a Custom Body Class Using a Parameter
News Pro by StudioPress
The News Pro theme from StudioPress is an HTML5-compliant, mobile responsive magazine-style design featuring a widgetized home page. It's a refresh of the News theme with a few changes: support for HTML5 markup new default fonts 3 additional footer widgets dropping support for the "after content ad" widget area dropping support for 2 color styles (purple and teal) Introduced on … [Read more...] about News Pro by StudioPress
Magazine Pro by StudioPress
The Magazine Pro theme from StudioPress is an HTML5-compliant, mobile responsive design with a widgetized home page. It's a refresh of the original Magazine theme, which lacked the media queries to adjust the display for different mobile devices. In December 2018, StudioPress updated the theme to include block editor enhancements. Magazine Pro keeps most of the features of its predecessor … [Read more...] about Magazine Pro by StudioPress
Your robots.txt File
A robots.txt file is used to control access to your site's content by spiders that crawl the web. Reputable robots and spiders will respect the directives in your robots.txt file, but less scrupulous operators will just ignore them. A robots.txt file doesn't enhance your site's security, because it's up to a crawler to voluntarily respect the directives you provide. While it's not a universal … [Read more...] about Your robots.txt File
HTML5 Genesis 2.0 Support
With the upcoming release of Genesis 2.0, Genesis will support HTML5 markup. HTML5 markup won't be enabled by default, because that could break child themes released before it was added to Genesis 2.0. Therefore, even after Genesis 2.0 is released in final form, HTML5 support will have to be enabled on a site-by-site basis. To accomplish that, we've released a small plugin, wpPERFORM.com … [Read more...] about HTML5 Genesis 2.0 Support