How To Edit Jetpack infinite scroll footer text on Genesis Themes

How To Edit Jetpack infinite scroll footer text on Genesis Themes


Infinite scroll on websites is becoming more common and is a clever and effective method for retaining site visitors. With infinite scroll there's no longer a need to click the previous or next archive pagination links.

With the Jetpack plugin thankfully there's a one-click method of activating infinite scroll on your self hosted WordPress powered site. But if you're using the Genesis Theme Framework, as I am these days on all the sites I develop, when you try to activate infinite scroll you may receive a polite message which states that your theme isn't compatible with the infinite scroll feature. Our you may not receive an error message but infinite scroll just won't work.

By the way, if you aren't using Genesis Theme Framework and a Genesis Theme, you should be, get the framework and a theme here.

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How To Add A Read More Link to Genesis Child Theme Excerpts

How To Add A Read More Link to Genesis Child Theme Excerpts

Using the Genesis Theme Framework is a huge help when setting up, customizing and maintaining a WordPress powered website. But sometimes the default settings won't quite meet your requirements.

Recently while customizing a Genesis Child Theme for a client's website, in the theme settings I had set the Content Archives to Display post excerpts. But when viewing the post archives the excerpts did not have a “Read More” link like the client wanted.

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