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Read more button for Genesis posts

Step one:
Go to genesis settings and make the display of content archives “Entry excerpts” as follows

Step Two:
Copy the code below and paste it to functions.php of genesis child theme

//READ MORE BUTTON

/* Append ellipses to excerpts and then show "Read More"  button for manual & automatic excerpts.
     * @param type $text
     * @return string
*/
     function custom_excerpt($text) {
    // $text= substr_replace($text,"...",strpos($text, "</p>"),0);
    $excerpt = $text . '<a href="' . get_permalink() . '"><button class="read-more-btn" type="button" value="read_more">Read More</button></a>';
    return $excerpt;
    }
    add_filter('the_excerpt', 'custom_excerpt');

/* User defined excerpt length.
   * @param type $length
   * @return int
*/
   function custom_excerpt_length($length) {
     return 65;
   }
   add_filter('excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length');

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Connect Boxbilling with WHM and create cPanel accounts

Boxbilling is one of the popular free webhost billing software.

  • Download Boxbilling webhost billing software from http://www.boxbilling.com/download
  • Install it to your website root as Boxbilling provides both frontend and backend support.
  • After installation login to your admin panel and Go to Configuration > Hosting Plans and Servers > New Server tab

Add a New Server

  • Name – The name of your server, e.g. ServerOne
  • Hostname – Your server’s hostname, e.g. localhost (you can use either a hostname or IP address)
  • IP Address – Your server ip address
  • Assigned IP Addresses – Write the IP Addresses that are assigned to your server (One per line)
  • Enable/Disable – Disabled servers will not be shown in the drop down menus
  • Nameservers – Add server nameservers
  • Server Manager – Custom or cPanel/WHM
  • Server Manager username – WHM username
  • Server Manager password – WHM password
  • Access Hash – Optional
  • Use Secure connection – Yes
  • ADD SERVER

Next, you need to Create a New Hosting Plan.

  • Go to Configuration > Hosting Plans and Servers > New Hosting Plan tab
  • Name: Plan or package name
  • Disk quota (MB): Diskspace
  • Bandwidth (MB): Bandwidth
  • CREATE HOSTING PLAN

Add hosting plan additional parameters

  • Parameter name: Package name
  • Parameter value: Package slug

Finally the most important part, you need to Add Product. When you add the product, it must be matched with the Server and Hosting Plan.

  • Products > Products / Services > New Product

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Thunderbird – set up new email account

Download thunderbird a mozilla project from https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/download/ . Its free.

Install it to your computer.

How to create new mail account?

  1. Click on Menu icon in top right corner.
  2. Hover on “Option”.
  3. Click on “Account Settings”. You will get all your email account info here too.
  4. Click “Account Action” in bottom left corner.
  5. Then Click “Add Mail Account”
  6. Give Name, Email and Password.
  7.  

 

How to remove account from Thunderbird?

  1. Click on Menu icon in top right corner.
  2. Hover on “Option”.
  3. Click on “Account Settings”. You will get all your email account info here too.
  4. Select the email account you want to remove.
  5. Click “Account Action” in bottom left corner.
  6. Then click “Remove Account”.

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How to change wordpress “sub-menu” class to “my-class” for specifie menu

In header.php

  wp_nav_menu( array(
    'theme_location' => 'primary',
    'walker'  => new Child_Wrap()   
   ) );

Then in functions.php

class Child_Wrap extends Walker_Nav_Menu
{
    function start_lvl(&$output, $depth = 0, $args = array())
    {
        $indent = str_repeat("\t", $depth);
        $output .= "$indent<ul class=\"my-class\">\n";
    }

    function end_lvl(&$output, $depth = 0, $args = array())
    {
        $indent = str_repeat("\t", $depth);
        $output .= "$indent</ul>";
    }
}

This will replace the class “sub-menu” to “my-class”.