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.
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. However – what’s just throwing me is over 25 years of Adobe…
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…
