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Genesis Footer

July 29, 2010 By 16 Comments

Website footers have become so much more than the end of the scroll for a site. Once a place to only find some credit to the designer or copyright/trademarks of the blog, they have now evolved into their own significant part of the site. They contain anything from contact information and twitter feeds, to contact forms and any extra information or functionality that really increases the usability of a site.

The default genesis child theme has a “go to top” link and a credit section, both of which are filterable. If you are looking to just change the text of either, you may want to check out these other tutorials.

Changing “Return to Top of the Page” text in the footer.
Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due

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How to Filter the Genesis Breadcrumb Trail

June 21, 2010 By 7 Comments

Breadcrumbs are a great way to add another form of navigation for users to easily find their way around sites as they dig deeper through articles and pages. In terms of usability, breadcrumbs can reduce the number of actions for users to return back to a higher level page that they were on a few moments before; and they are especially great to visually show someone’s location on sites if they just happened to land on a certain page through search, or a link.

Breadcrumbs can be enabled in the Genesis theme settings in the dashboard, where you will find four check boxes to have them either enabled or disabled on certain sections of sites. Once the breadcrumbs are activated, you should notice them above the content area. For example, if you are on your home page above the content area you should see: “You are here: Home” and if you want to change the text “You are here” or even the link to home, it is possible with a filter.

Below is an example on how to use the Genesis breadcrumb filter. The following snippet will change the default “you are here” text with an “x,” as well as use “>” for separators in place of the “/” and an image for the home link. 

add_filter('genesis_breadcrumb_args', 'custom_breadcrumb_args');
function custom_breadcrumb_args($args) {
  	$args['labels']['prefix'] = 'x'; //marks the spot
  	$args['sep'] = '>';
  	$args['home'] = '<img src="'. get_bloginfo( 'stylesheet_directory' ) . '/images/homegraphic.png" alt="home">';
  	return $args;
}

To use the code above simply add it to your child theme’s function.php file and make any modifications you’d like.

List of all filterable items and their default values in the genesis breadcrumb trail are below.

 ['home'] = __('Home', 'genesis'),
 ['sep'] = '/',
 ['prefix']  = '<div class="breadcrumb">',
 ['suffix'] = '</div>',
 ['display'] = true
 ['labels']['prefix'] = __('You are here: ', 'genesis'),
 ['labels']['author'] = __('Archives for ','genesis'),
 ['labels']['tag'] = __('Archives for ','genesis'),
 ['labels']['date'] = __('Archives for ','genesis'),
 ['labels']['search'] = __('Search for ','genesis'),
 ['labels']['tax'] = __('Archives for ','genesis')
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