Easy solution when google talk-google chat invisible mode is not working
Google has launched gtalk from gmail since long time and invisible mode was working fine but Now Google has launched google plus hangouts and once you download this google plus hangout application/plugin on your desktop, iphone or any android phone, you will be no more invisible on gtalk.
How to check if your new/recent post or page has been indexed by google
If you update your blog regularly, google will crawl your blog often and your new post will get indexed quickly in the google search. You can check whether your webpage/recent post has been indexed by Google or not with this following simple step. You can even check when (exact date and time) your blog post is indexed.
Go to https://www.google.com and search for
If your blog post is not indexed, it will give you 404 error same as seen in the image below.
Whenever you publish your new blog post or page, check that post url after 1-2 days, depends upon Page rank of your blog, how regular are you updating and promoting your blog. My two years old blog was not updated(once in a month or two) and promoted for a while so a month old post is not yet indexed and got 404 error while my kids are writing post every day and their new blog posts are getting indexed within three-four hours. Rock on kids… If your blog post been indexed in google, you will see snapshot of the cached copy same as seen in the image below. Double click on image for larger view.
Best way to get your blog and blog post indexed faster in google:
Submit your blog to google webmaster tool-Tutorial
Submit your blog to Bing webmaster tool-Tutorial
Check our SEO category for easy tutorial to get your blog indexed faster.
Easy way to change genesis default footer link to your desired link with Simple edit plugin
You must be looking for how to remove footer links in genesis Or how to change footer links? This pictorial tutorial will help you to remove Genesis footer links with genesis simple edit plugin.
Easy tutorial to remove genesis framework footer:
Download and activate Genesis simple edits plugin.
From the left sidebar menu, go to “Genesis”
Select simple Edits. Same as shown in the image below.
In the “Footer Credit Text” box, add your html links.
Click on “Save Settings”.hurrah! you are done.
You can edit/remove genesis wordpress footer links with simple hook plugin too. Check my previous post .
Easy way to change hyperlink colors in Genesis framework
Easy way to change hyperlink colors in Genesis framework
In our genesis framework tutorial series, here is a step by step guide to change link colors in the child theme with very few changes in the stylesheet.
Many Genesis themes give you color style selection inbuilt but serenity, lifestyle themes, News child themes and other studiopress themes don’t give any of this options.
Step by step guide to change link color in Genesis framework child themes:
From your left sidebar menu of the wordpress dashboard, go to “Appearance”.
Select last option “Editor”
In your right hand side you can see
select theme to edit
go to the last edit option: style.css
By pressing CTRL+F, search for “Hyperlink”. Same as seen in the image below. You can see visited color: #8B0000; ..and hoover color#. Change it according to your wish. You can find color number
You can change Navbar link by searching “#nav li a” and
“#nav li li a, #nav li li a:link, #nav li li a:visited ” and change color#. It will help you to change navbar link color and navigation dropdown links color.
To change sub nav bar (subnavigation bar) link search for”#subnav li a” and
“subnav li li a, #subnav li li a:link, #subnav li li a:visited ” and change the color.
Nav.li is homelinks. Nac.li li is dropdown links of the navigation bar. Same as in subnav.li is subnavigation bar links and subnav.li li is dropdown links of the sunavigation bar links.
To change sidebar links, search for “#sidebar li a,” code and change color: #
You can change Website’s title links directly from the “Appearance”
New genesis framework themes have different code for links:
For hexadecimal code (#000000; etc)..menu-primary li a,
.menu-primary li a:active,
.menu-primary li a:hover {
color: #000;
}.menu-secondary li a,
.menu-secondary li a:active,
.menu-secondary li a:hover {
color: #000;
Check our other genesis tutorials:
Change genesis footer links with simple edits plugin.
Change genesis footer links with Simple hook plugin.
Genesis theme option disappeared from dashboard? get solution.