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Modern Portfolio – responsive Genesis child theme for WordPress

modern portfolio mobile responsive genesis child theme for wordpress

Some themes look good, some themes are functional and some themes are clever… the Modern Portfolio theme is all three.

The homepage has a single top menu, which includes: About, Portfolio, Services, Blog and Contact and each menu item is a “scrollable link”, which scrolls you slowly down the page to the appropriate section.

Modern Portfolio is a specialist theme, it’s been designed for anyone who wants to provide a graphical display of their work and needs that display to be totally mobile responsive.

As Studiopress put it:
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WordPress security – Sucuri Malware Monitoring Alerting and Cleanup

sucuri for a complete wordpress security service

If you take a look at the bottom right of my footer you’ll see a small blue badge with white writing, which says “Monitored by Sucuri” – it may be small but boy is it important.

It tells you that this site is monitored by the best website security people in the business… Sucuri.
You’ll find that badge on all our sites and all our client sites because when it comes to security, we don’t take chances.
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Backup and restore using BackWPup plugin

backup and restore your wordpress site with the backwpup plugin

The job I hate most of all is adding all the SEO tags to a post or page after it’s published.

The job I hate second most of all is… backing up.
Backing up the database and backing up site files.

I know it’s got to be done, you know it’s got to be done, WordPress warn you it’s got to be done, but it’s still a chore.

Fortunately I’ve just found the perfect solution…
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Metro magazine theme – responsive Genesis child theme for WordPress

metro news theme - a responsive genesis child theme for wordpress

The Genesis Metro magazine theme has just been released.
Is it any good?
Let’s put it this way… it’s the sort of theme that you look at and think… I have to find a site where I can use this theme, I have to.

I like the way the background image fades in slowly, I like the colours and the fonts, I like the proportions of the layout and the use of whitespace and I love the cheeky little gap between the content and the footer.
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Dynamik Website Builder for Genesis or…. the Genesis Extender plugin?

dynamik website builder or genesis extender plugin

If you’ve read my posts on the Dynamik Website Builder for Genesis and the Genesis Extender plugin, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of both products and pretty impressed by their developer Eric Hamm.

The only problem is… deciding which one is right for you.

Fortunately Eric has produced a video explaining what each one is, what they do and how they are best used.
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Genesis WordPress theme framework version 1.9 – a box of delights

genesis wordpress theme framework version 1.9

Death and taxes are the two certainties in life and to those I’d like to add a third… changes on the internet.

Code changes, browser changes, WordPress changes and constant tweaks from Google.

If you’re a website owner or a blogger, trying to keep up with the changes can be a nightmare, unless…. you’re using the Genesis theme framework.
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WordPress and the Genesis theme framework – a marriage made in heaven

wordpress and genesis theme framework

At WM Web Design we produce all our client sites using WordPress plus the Studiopress Genesis theme framework.
It’s a combination that allows us to build gorgeous looking websites quickly, easily and at affordable prices.

But now and again we ask ourselves… “are we using the right combination, the best combination?”
Is WordPress the best CMS platform and is Genesis the best theme framework?
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Pretty Pictures – Genesis child theme for WordPress

Pretty Pictures 1.0 genesis child theme for wordpress

 
Oh dear, I’m in love again.
As soon as I saw the Pretty Pictures theme I fell madly and deeply in love with it.

The wide open layout, gorgeous colour combinations and inspired choice of fonts have conspired against me and stolen my heart.

If you’d like to see why I’m so infatuated then head over to the Studiopress website and gaze upon the beauty of the Pretty Pictures theme.
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Christmas stocking fillers for Genesis theme users

genesis themes christmas presents

It’s that time of year again and pretty soon someone will be tapping you on the shoulder and saying… “OK so what do you want for Christmas?”

Fortunately if you’re a Genesis user, or thinking of becoming a Genesis user, you don’t have to settle for socks, hankies or underpants, there are lots of goodies out there that you can fill your stocking with.
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Stretch 1.0 – Genesis child theme for WordPress

stretch 1 genesis child theme for wordpress

The Stretch 1.0 theme is the “little black dress” of WordPress themes.
It may not have been designed by Coco Chanel, but it’s simple, sophisticated and absolutely stunning!

Simple - because all the frippery has been stripped away, no sidebar and no fat footer just content, content, content.
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