The general practice to add custom CSS code in Builder sites is to edit child theme’s style.css. Some users directly edit the styles where they appear and some add them at the very end (better approach). While it is true that a customized child theme will hardly need to be updated, there could be some [...]
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How to set up and use custom.css in iThemes Builder
May
9th,
2013
If you are using a Custom Post Type named say, portfolio in your iThemes Builder powered WordPress site, by default the CPT archive page, http://yoursite.com/portfolio/ will use Full Width layout (assuming the default Archives view is not deleted or modified) or which ever is the default layout (if there is no Archives view). It is [...]
Read More→By default, going to Appearance -> Widgets will present widget areas (sidebars) of all the layouts present in your iThemes Builder site. Having a long list of widget areas will make it cumbersome to drag widgets into widget areas when you are looking to populate widget areas of a specific layout. Builder makes it super [...]
Read More→By default when Search widget in iThemes Builder child theme, Air looks like this: If you would like to use a icon in place of the Search text button with some default placeholder text that goes away when the field gets focus, follow the steps below. 1) Upload this image to Air’s images directory. 2) [...]
Read More→How to Automatically Add Sub Menu Indicators for Menu Items
April
29th,
2013
In this article I put together instructions on how to automatically add vertical and horizontal sub menu indicators for menu items in iThemes Builder‘s navigation module. Prerequisite: Navigation Module should be set to show a custom menu vs Builder Settings Categories or Builder Settings Pages. 1) Add the following at end of functions.php before closing [...]
Read More→How to Set Full Width to Modules in Builder
March
15th,
2011
By default all modules in Builder are only as wide as the container they are in. This width is defined when creating/editing a layout in Builder’s Layout Manager. But did you know that it is possible to make any, some or all modules full width? i.e, have them 100% wide stretching from left edge of [...]
Read More→How to Replace Left Metabox with Text in Classen
March
15th,
2011
In our recently released child theme of Builder, Classen, post meta info showing posting date, author, gravatar, categories and comments appear to the left of content. If you would like to instead show the meta info regularly like in the below screenshot, follow the wiki article here.
Read More→How to Place Text At Right Side of Clickable Header Image in Builder
March
14th,
2011
While Image Module in Builder is great for displaying header images, there are situations where using a HTML module makes more sense. Let’s say you would like to display some piece of text like your company address/contact info at the far right of header image, just edit the layout, add a HTML module with a [...]
Read More→Builder Tip – Use Duplicate Sidebar Widget to Use All Widgets of One Sidebar in Another
December
27th,
2010
In a typical website, we usually have different layouts for home page and for display of other views like post, page, category etc. Let’s say there are two layouts (which we primarily use) in our iThemes Builder site: Home, Default and that a view has been added to associate the Home layout with Home view [...]
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How to Replace Standard Comment Form with Jetpack’s in iThemes Builder
Before: After: If you would like to replace standard comment form in your iThemes Builder powered WordPress site with Jetpack Comments, follow these steps: Edit comments.php in active theme (should ideally be a child theme of Builder). If the file is not present, copy it from parent Builder directory into the child theme directory and [...]
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