"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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I’ve been using Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo now since both were in beta some years ago. While they are maturing quickly and very stable for production work now that the 1.8 series has been released, what’s just throwing me is over 25 years of Adobe command key…
Because you can’t input anything other than a price in WooCommerce, it makes it difficult when using WooCommerce as an event platform to display paid events as FREE, or even adding labels like SEE DETAILS, or REGISTRATION REQUIRED. This little hack replaces the price with pre-defined words. So…
Random little issue I had to solve. Create a way to add insurance to an order. Basically create a dummy product not in the store for a set amount. Change the [add-to_cart_url id=””?????] to the ID of your product that is the amount of insurance you want to…
Sometimes cross domain scripting access is a pain in the butt and necessary in WordPress. Especially when dealing with Font Awesome (or web fonts in general) and third party data aggregation sites.. like say IDX or something. Here are my fixes. This post is for no other reason…
I found myself in a situation where I pre-loaded an entire WooCommerce store with products before the client decided on the shipping method. There I was with a little over 400 products, staring at the new weight, length and height fields that the plugin added to each product…
Having an SSL on a domain is pretty much the standard now, and many developers choose to use SSL For Free as their certificate provider. However, many people do in fact have issues getting and/or renewing certificates for unknown reasons. Here are a couple of my tips to…
I thought the future would be filled with flying cars and personal jetpacks. Turns out I was way off. Welcome to the future where Alexa can now flush the toilet for you while you play solitaire on your smart phone. Read the article here: Introducing The Kohler Numi...
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After two years of miscommunication the Gutenberg Drama has finally reached a tipping point. WordPress has been forked. Welcome to ClassicPress. The thing is, when your an Open Source platform like WordPress and you find yourself in a position where leadership from the top-down ignores their users concerns,…
I hate automatic updates for pretty much everything, operating systems, software, phones, you name it. I’m not against security, I’m just against something happening with little to no communication to the end user or the administrator who ends up cleaning up the mess when one of those forced…
