Internet disconnection, power failure, browser closing by misclick while upgrading plugins or themes may cause an annoying WordPress error with “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” message. Don’t worry, it can be easily solved.
To fix WordPress maintenance error, there are few ways, but the easiest way is logging in your Cpanel file manager or FTP. You will see .maintenance file in the site root directory. Just remove it. Refresh the site. And you are done!
Generally, themes page.php is used as default page template. But if you wants to create a custom page template, then you just need to copy page.php codes and save a new name like template-custom.php . You need to add this code in the very beginning. Additionally, you can add custom php codes, wordpress loops, HTML codes as you wish !
<?php /* Template name: Custom */ ?>
Now go to Dashboard > Pages > add new, you will see a drop down option in right side, where you can select your page template. Done !
Sometimes you need to make logo and search box center in genesis framework. That’d be easy. Just tweak some CSS. Caution: make sure your CSS is backed up to avoid unwanted awkward styling.
Just add these codes in style.css in Genesis framework.
/**make sure you are adding search in top right widgets **/
.site-header .widget-area {
/* float: right; */
width: 500px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.title-area {
font-weight: 700;
/* float: left; */
overflow: hidden;
width: 320px;
/* margin: auto 0; */
text-align: center;
margin: 0 auto;
}
