1.  Add the Google Authorship Plugin for Multiple Authors by Keyword Strategy (search for Google Authorship from within your Dashboard – Plugins – Add New screen).  Don’t forget to “activate” it.

2.  This will add a new field in your Profile page.  It looks like this:

3.  Add your Google+ Profile URL.  An example Google+ url is provided.  The “Location” and “Width” is referring to the Google+ badge that is automatically added to your site.  On The Vacation Gals, it looks like this:

   I recommend changing the “Location” box to “hidden” because its really not that pretty, is it?

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    update_option( 'thumbnail_size_w', 0 );
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    update_option( 'medium_size_w', 0 );
    update_option( 'large_size_h', 0 );
    update_option( 'large_size_w', 0 );

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function show_file_func( $atts ) {
  extract( shortcode_atts( array(
    'file' => ''
  ), $atts ) );
  if ($file!='')
    return @file_get_contents($file);
}
add_shortcode( 'show_file', 'show_file_func' );

[show_file file="http://www.mysite.com/somefile.html"]

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add_action( 'pre_get_posts' ,'exclude_this_page' );
function exclude_this_page( $query ) {
	if( !is_admin() )
		return $query;
	global $pagenow;
	if( 'edit.php' == $pagenow && ( get_query_var('post_type') && 'page' == get_query_var('post_type') ) )
		$query->set( 'post__not_in', array(10,2,14) ); // array page ids
	return $query;
}

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And I’ve spent weeks if not months, thinking about how to sort through the tutorials available and make them digestible.  Instead of trying to teach all the stuff you might need to know, how about I just do it for you?

And you focus on what you do best: your business.

In order for you to fully appreciate the huge difference, here’s the before pic:

Before

TA DA:  THIS is the new control panel:

After

Here is a quick walk-through of the new steamlined features:

Features include:

• Easy access to the Control Panel – you don’t have to remember the login link!
• Only 2 panels to enter your content into with clear names: Blogs or Pages
• Site stats on Control Panel – no wading through Google Analytics!
• All Maintenance and Upgrades taken care of
• Regular Security Sweeps
• Support by a Friendly Geek to change any settings or features
• Direct Access to Tutorials
• Direct Access to your Email
• Direct Access to Support at Your Friendly Geeks Account

What do you think?  Do you love it?

Image Index from FramedCooks.com

Before you start, you’ll need this:

• FTP access
• Text / Code editor
• All posts for this index in one big category, for example, “Recipes” with all the sub-categories below that.  Each post/recipe should be placed in one of the sub-categories.
• The ID of the main category

1. Create the Main Image Index Page

Create a new Page (not post) and simply create a gallery of your favorite images – one representing each sub-category.  In the above image, the sub-categories were Appetizers, Breakfast & Brunch, Lunch and so on.  Then style appropriately.  Link each of these images to your sub-categories.

Now we’ll create the templates for each sub-category to automatically display all the latest yummy-ness or photos.

2. Test for child categories using a custom function

Add this to your child theme’s functions.php:

//by ValenDesigns.com

// If is category or subcategory of $cat_id
if (!function_exists('is_category_or_sub')) {
	function is_category_or_sub($cat_id = 0) {
	    foreach (get_the_category() as $cat) {
	    	if ($cat_id == $cat->cat_ID || cat_is_ancestor_of($cat_id, $cat)) return true;
	    }
	    return false;
	}
} 

3. Add an archive.php template to Genesis child theme

Add this file in its entirety to your child theme folder and name it archive.php.  If you already have an archive template, this will NOT work – you’ll need to add these functions carefully to the existing file so you don’t disable current functions.

 cat_ID;
 	$child_cats = get_categories('child_of='.$cat);
 		if ($child_cats) { $args = array(
    'title_li' => '',
    'depth' => 1,
    'echo' => 1,
    'child_of' => $cat
    ); ?>
  	

    
    
	























'.get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, 'thumbnail').'';
			}
		}
 /**
 * Grid Loop Divider
 * @author Bill Erickson
 * @link http://www.billerickson.net/genesis-grid-loop-content/
 *
 */
function dswp_grid_divider() {
	global $loop_counter, $paged;
	if ((($loop_counter + 1) % 3 == 0) && !($paged == 0 && $loop_counter < 2) ) echo '
';
}

        //grid function 
        function dswp_grid_helper() {
   
       		// Ensure the arguments for the normal query for the page are carried forwards
	    	global $query_string, $paged;
 
    		// If you're using a Page to query the posts (e.g. with the Blog template), comment out the next line.
    		wp_parse_str( $query_string, $query_args );
 
		    $grid_args = array(
        		'features' => 0,
        		'feature_image_size' => 0,
        		'feature_image_class' => 'alignleft post-image',
        		'feature_content_limit' => 0,
        		'grid_image_size' => '0',
        		'grid_image_class' => 'alignleft post-image',
        		'grid_content_limit' => -1,
        		'more' => __( '', 'genesis' ),
//change this if you would like more or less photos per page
        		'posts_per_page' => 24,
    		);
 
    	// Make sure the first page has a balanced grid
    		if ( 0 == $paged )
        // If first page, add number of features to grid posts, so balance is maintained
        $grid_args['posts_per_page'] += $grid_args['features'];
    		else
        // Keep the offset maintained from our page 1 adjustment
        $grid_args['offset'] = ( $paged - 1 ) * $grid_args['posts_per_page'] + $grid_args['features'];
 
    // Merge the standard query for this page, and our preferred loop arguments
    genesis_grid_loop( array_merge( (array) $query_args, $grid_args ) );
 	}

    genesis(); 

You need to add your own category ID where it is marked in the code.

This code does the following:

• Displays the category title (ie: Recipes)
• Displays a list of sub-categories (ie: Appies, Beverages, Desserts, etc)
• Displays a grid of thumbnails that are “thumbnail” sized
• Displays 24 thumbnails with pagination

4. Style your Image Index with CSS

You will need to come up with your own styles to make it pretty!

Need a hand?  Let me know in the comments or hire me to help!  :)

A chat group I was in the other day lead me to looking for a set of these helper functions in the code we were discussing … I didn’t find them. Well, I did find them in use but I did not find where they were defined. Next stop, the WordPress core … and there they were.

Now, as the title may suggest I am referring to the following WordPress core functions:

• __return_true() – returns the Boolean state of true
• __return_false() – returns the Boolean state of false
• __return_zero() – returns a value of zero (0)
• __return_empty_array() – returns an empty array, as in array()
• __return_null() – returns null (or void)

All of these functions have a very similar structure and were implemented at WordPress version 3.0.0, with the exception of `__return_null` which will be introduced at WordPress version 3.4 per their definitions in ‘../wp-includes/functions.php‘. For example, here is the code for `__return_true`:

function __return_true() {
	return true;
}

Why are these great helper functions? Simple really … they provide easy to remember, and very useful, callback functions for filters. You should not need to write your own return functions now, just __return_* it instead.