I often want to add the current date to the footer in Divi for the copyright statement. I don’t want to have to go back through hundreds of websites every year to update the year. The problem is that the Divi footer doesn’t allow for shortcodes and there is no filter you can hook into
WordPress 5.9 introduced us to full site editing themes on 25 January 2022. This is a whole new way to build WordPress themes, breaking with how we’ve done it since February 2005. With such a massive change, there aren’t many full site editing ready themes just yet. The big theme players have yet to make
I have a number of posts that get thousands of readers a month and dozens of comments. As more comments come in, I often update the content, or clarify things. Particularly if the theme or plugin they relate to changes. The way that GeneratePress is typically setup, it only displays the published date, which is
Today we’re going to continue on from my series on how to customize the meta for posts using the Astra WordPress Theme. How to display the WordPress categories below the content in Astra In functions.php, create a function that echoes the categories. Hook the function into astra_entry_content_after. Stop the category displaying in the default place
I recently went to edit the copyright on a WordPress site running Astra and the place to make edits was blank: The same thing happened when I tried to edit a HTML block: I was able to add the blocks and move them around. I just couldn’t edit their contents. To fix a broken WP
I had a request from a reader for a tutorial on how to add a message to every post, but not to archives, categories or the blogroll. Specifically, they wanted an affiliate disclaimer to appear on every post, below the post title. They were using the Astra theme. But they didn’t want the affiliate disclaimer
A reader of this site requested this tutorial. He was after something like this, where there is a custom icon in the Astra post meta just before the date. The best way to do this is either with Font Awesome or with a custom SVG. If you are already loading Font Awesome and one of
Sometimes we want to use the Gutenberg editor for some of the simpler pages on a Divi site. I know, there are better ways, like using GeneratePress or Astra with Elementor or Beaver Builder. Those are my usual combinations when I know I’ll be building out a bunch of Gutenberg pages. But sometimes, you just
Your web design layout will often call for full width rows. By default, Divi rows are set to a maximum width, usually 1080px. There are two main ways to get that full width look: Set the background color on the section, instead of the row Change the width and max-width of the row You’d go
I’ve been building WordPress websites since 2006 and hadn’t come across this one until today. I would make changes to the Advanced CSS in the Theme Customizer and it would show in the preview window. I’d hit publish and everything looked normal, but when I refreshed the page, the changes weren’t there. I tried everything
