If you’re using the Customize My Account For WooCommerce plugin from WooCommerce, there is a conflict with any theme that includes Font Awesome. The author of this plugin included a non no-conflict self hosted version in the plugin. Once you active the plugin and customize your dashboard everything…
Change the color of the line above the copyright section in the Salient Theme footer. By default there is nowhere to select the color of this line other than use the Extra Color #3 option in the Accent Colors settings — but this does not always work for…
If you're only shipping a product and not using the billing & shipping form fields. You can change the Billing Details text to Shipping Details text by using this function. Shipping Details as the default text makes more sense if you are not using both form fields. function...
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Interesting security concepts here. You can either whitelist specific domains essentially guaranteeing only registered users have the same email as the domain of the website, or you can play wack-a-mole by constantly manually adding bad actors to a black list. Both ways have pros and cons.
Something that is a constant battle with clients is explaining over and over on a weekly basis why you can’t take a 25MB HD image of your dog from your iPhone and upload it as a hero image to your blog post. You can fiddle the the php.ini and install all kinds of image compression plugins, but at the end of the day average people just aren’t as technical as developers. If you give them a 2MB upload limit — they will kill their bandwidth and blogroll with a ton of 2MB images. Even though all of them could have been under 200kb probably. What I’ve found is little helpful reminders of conversations about tips at the top of pages help. Here are two ways to nudge clients into doing image uploads right.
"Help, there was an update and I don't know how to edit my WordPress website now!" are the most common words I hear from my clients who somehow get stuck in the new WordPress block editor screen. I get their frustration too. I can honestly say that two...
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Sometimes its hard to cut through all the crud on the WordPress plugins installer page. Well, after building hundreds of websites and Ecommerce systems, these are my standouts over the years that I keep going back to that I seem to be able to build anything with. Jump...
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Hi XXXXX, It was brought to my attention by our web team that your website is now reaching XX years since its original deployment. This means that several parts of your site’s original development are out of date, and after July 31, will no longer be supported in…
Email deliverability is the single bane of my existence. If your using your own Office 365 (Not the GoDaddy Version) or an own exchange server that’s getting mail from contact forms or send mail services, add these records to your DNS as TXT to make sure they work….
