A set of powerful plugins where you can change the design layout.
Switch on or off the modules visible in your customizer.
Alter any part of your website within the elements section.
A more in-depth look.
Modules – Deactivate any of the modules you don’t want anyone to alter via the front end Customizer.
These could be your content creators and so on. You can do this in the modules tab as you can see in the image below.
All you need to do is click on the deactivate link for the module you don’t want to be visible from the Customizer.
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Elements Section
The elements section enables you to change parts of your website.
This can be by adding extra text or images to a page, post or sitewide.
Some examples include:
Placing a hero banner on a particular page or post or site-wide.
Adding a nav menu on a particular page or post or site-wide.
Altering the page width to full width on a particular page and add an image slider across the page.
You can do all of the above-mentioned things plus much more with the Elements feature of GP Extreme.
Here is one example I need to accomplish recently.
I wanted to change the title above your comments text area. What do you do?
Search an hour or more on your favourite search engine with possible solutions found are all outdated and don’t work on your current WordPress version?
GP Premium Modules
Let’s see how quickly we can do this with GP Extreme modules.
First click on the Elements tab.
Next give your element a title and add some code.
You can add PHP or HTML code. If adding PHP code make sure you click on the execute PHP tick box.
Next, find out where you want this text to be added.
Now choose where you want this text to be visible in your website.
All I needed to do now is click on the update button and refresh my web browser to see my changes.
And just like that, your changes have been made throughout the website or where you wanted the change to be applied.
If you want to change the Leave a Comment text on your website please see the full workaround here.
If you want to see another example see how we simply added a hero banner across our website. This is one powerful feature where you can apply different types of changes to certain parts of your website, webpages or posts.
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Site Library
There are over 25 theme styles you can add to your WordPress website.
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The theme itself is FREE to download and use.
You have a choice to purchase GP Premium which is a powerful suite of plugins that unleashes the beast within GeneratePress.
The upgrade only costs $49.95 for unlimited website installations.
What Happens If I Don’t Renew?
You will no longer receive access to the updates and you will not be able to install GP Premium on any more websites.
What are the Customizer Options Available?
Let’s discuss the free version. Once installed all you need to do is log in to WordPress visit the from main page and click on Customize.
From here you are taken to the Customizer as you can see below. From here you can make al the changes you need. You can change just about everything about your WordPress websites design.
Changes You Can Make in Customizer
You can change your:
Logo.
Favicon.
Website Layout.
Colours for your complete website.
Change your font type through the Typography link.
Manage your header and the way your menus look.
Add text in your footer or above in the menu in the header.
You can add custom CSS.
Add how many widgets you want added and you can add content inside of these from customizer itself.
And you can add custom CSS to change certain parts of your website from the customizer as well.
Let’s take a look a little more in-depth.
GeneratePress Site Identity
Anything related to the identity of your website is changed here.
You can add:
A title for your website.
A tagline.
Logo with an ability to change its size.
A website icon that sits in the web browser.
The Layout Tab
The Layout tab lets you change layout through your website. such as:
Content container
Header.
Main navigation.
Sidebars.
Footer layout.
Blog layout.
There are many many features within the layout section you can change and give your website a custom look.
GeneratePress Colours
Typography Layout
The below image is a small section of what’s available.
The Typography changes can be made for your content, H1, H2 and H3 title tags.
You can change the types of font, and the weight of the font which is how bold or light you want your text to appear.
From this panel you can change the font sizes, line height and paragraph margins.
General & Menus layout
General Tab
Load essential icons by choosing an icon type.
Combine CSS and to cache dynamic CSS.
With the menu tab as you can see in the below image, you can assign pages to your menu system.
Widgets Section
What can you add to the widget sections?
Post Archives.
Calendar.
Categories.
Custom HTML.
Display Image.
Navigation Menu.
Pages.
Recent Comments.
Search Bar.
Tag cloud.
Text and video.
Homepage Settings
You can change which displays as your main index page or you can choose to have your latest posts to show up here.
Additional CSS
With this feature, you can add custom CSS code targeting parts of your website you want to change the look and feel to.
To download the GeneratePress theme pls click here.
GeneratePress has simply saved us so much time in developing websites its a time saver.
This is a very powerful theme.
There are 2 versions to this Theme.
A free version and a paid version.
GP Premium which is the paid version is not an updated theme. Instead GP Premium is a set of powerful WordPress plugins that unleashes the beast that lays within the theme.
The free version has a front end Customizer. To show you what this looks like I deactivated GP Premium on my website.
As you see you can do all sorts of stuff here that is related to your website. Let’s take a look.
GeneratePress Site Identity
Anything related to the identity of your website is changed here.
You can add:
A title for your website.
A tagline.
Logo with an ability to change its size.
A website icon that sits in the web browser.
The Layout tab lets you change layout through your website.
This covers:
Your content container
Website Header.
Your main navigation.
Sidebars which are the content panels on the left and right side of your content sections.
Footer layout.
Blog layout.
There are many many features within the layout section you can change and give your website a custom look.
If you are like me and you are wondering how to change the leave a comment text in WordPress then this article may help.
After 2 hours of website searching and trying out different codes and techniques I gave up.
Simply because these solutions were not working. I even downloaded a plugin that was supposed to help but did not.
This made me realise how much outdated and redundant content there is out there.
I did get close in finding a solution though by using the following code I created as a WordPress Plugin.
Basically all I needed to do was create a folder in my WordPress plugin folder via FTP then create a file that ends in .PHP and then I added the following code and saved the file.
Via the plugin section in WordPress, I activated the plugin.
WARNING Code did not work and turned my backend browser screens WHITE. I even increased the ram which did not help.
<?php
/**
* Plugin Name: Change Leave Comments Text
* Plugin URI: https://www.websitebuildersguide.com
* Description: A Simple Way to Change Leave Comments Text.
* Version: 1.0
* Author:
* Author URI: https://www.websitebuildersguide.com */
add_filter( 'generate_leave_comment','tu_custom_leave_comment' );
function tu_custom_leave_comment() {
return 'Feel free to join the topic conversation by adding your reply below. Your e-mail address is not visible. Thank You';
}?>
In case you are wondering I am not a fan of making changes to the theme PHP files. The reason being is if you update the theme you then lose the changes.
So what was my Solution to editing the Text Leave a Comment?
I needed to remove the leave a Comment text and find a way to add more text in place of Leave a Comment.
Step 1 – The first was to hide the text from showing throughout the website using css code. In my GeneratePress theme customizer under the custom css tab I added the following.
Like magic, the text disappeared.
.comment-reply-title {
display: none;
Step 2 – My thought process was around maybe being able to add the text manually by manipulating the theme. This is why GeneratePress is so awesome because you can change the elements of the theme through WordPress not by changing code.
So I clicked on the Elements tab as you see above. This brought us to the screen you see in the below image.
From here I added the new text I want to appear in the comments section of my posts. I then chose the position where I wanted this text to appear which was in the inside_comments section.
All I needed to do now is click on the update button and refresh my web browser to see my changes.
As you can see here the change Leave a Comment Text in WordPress has been changed. The awesome part about this is that I could add a link if I wanted to here as well such as a disclaimer link without effecting any coding.
Now next time when you need to update the theme the above changes will remain in place.
The GeneratePress theme GP Premium costs $49.95. What you decide to do is your choice. The purchase allows you to install these to as many websites as you want.
If you decide to upgrade it a year down the track you receive a 40% discount.
With the features this theme offers you to do its awesome value and has solved many issues.
How to change the WordPress Upload Size should not be a difficult process. But I was wrong as I have experienced.
I found so many solutions that simply do not work in today’s version of WordPress.
All I wanted to do is add a cool movie to the front index webpage and each time I attempted an upload I got that stupid error that reads something like Your File Exceeds Maximum Upload Size.
Did I find a solution? Yes. I even got so excited I stopped doing what I was doing and decided to write this page to share the solution with you.
Here is what DID NOT WORK for me and my hosting is on my very own VPS account
Adding 3 versions of code found on 3 DIFFERENT websites into the .htaccess file – Result FAIL.
Creating a PHP.ini file and placing some code from a website. The same code being pedalled by a few websites – Result FAIL
Altering the wp-config.php and adding a few lines of code. Same code I found a few different websites offering this as part of there solution. – Result FAIL
The coding I found for the 3 attempted fixes above were similar or identical on a number of different websites.
How To Change the WordPress Upload Size – My Solution
I eventually thought to myself surely there is a plugin that can do this and sure enough I found one.
This solution is a 2 step process. The plugin changes the WordPress file upload size limit. Then you need to change your php file size upload limit.
The plugin I ended up using is called Wp Maximum File Size. The plugin works really well. It’s fast and easy to install, no adware and there are 7 upload file size options you can choose from.
These are 16MB, 32MB, 64MB, 128MB, 256MB, 512MB and 1GB upload file options you can choose from.
Task accomplished, As you can see in the below image the maximum upload size changed from 2MB to 128MB.
Next login into CPanel and follow the steps below.
Click on the MULTIPHP INI Editor.
Choose Home Directory (under configure PHP INI basic settings title).
Near the bottom of the page where the arrow is pointing in the image below under upload_max_filesize change this to the same file upload size to the plugin.
At this point in time, I have only used whm/cpanel since 1997. If you are using a different control panel then look for a MultiPHP INI Editor or contact your WebHost to change this for you.
I hope this has helped you if you are encountering the same issues as I was having.
All I wanted to do is add a cool movie to the front index webpage and each time I attempted an upload I got that stupid error that reads something like Your File Exceeds Maximum Upload Size.
