Easy WordPress Localization
If you want to localize a plugin or theme or even just change some wording around, or if you are starting from scratch the easiest thing to do is install the Codestyle Localization plugin. If starting...
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Today I realized I needed a reliable web host that I can use for development purposes. Either for demoing to clients or testing things out, it needed to be online, free (because I wouldn’t use it for...
View ArticleWordPress has its own magic quotes
Apparently WordPress has it’s own magic quotes. It is not included everywhere so you need to check if the function which WordPress uses exists. More details in the stack overflow post....
View ArticleFont not showing properly in IE 8
Problem I’m using a google font that works fine in the menus, but seems to have a shadow of some sort in the content. I set the font color to white and i still see some sort of outline. I…Read more ›
View ArticleWPEngine for WordPress Hosting Worth It?
Note: This is not so much of a review, but more of how I came to a decision on WPEngine. At $29/ month for the Personal plan I would not have even looked at WPEngine a year ago. Why…Read more ›
View ArticleGoogle Analytics Measurement Protocol for Subscriptions
Send Analytics Data Directly From Your Server Google Analytics Measurement Protocol is available for Google’s Universal Analytics. It was released in the first part of 2013 and is as of this writing...
View ArticleHow does WordPress redirect mistyped URLs to the correct one?
Well, I’m not sure exactly because it is A LOT of code, but to make it stop, you can use the filter ‘redirect_canonical’ and return false. like so: So say you have a post named “mission” at...
View ArticleCareful with supporting all versions of IE 8
Problem Internet Explorer 8 is still mildly popular and so probably needs to be accommodated for on websites. However, like different versions of Chrome and Firefox, IE8 also has different versions....
View ArticleJavascript defaultValue
For some reason I have never needed to use the defautlValue property up until today. I was pleased to find javascript can access the original input value so tracking changes in a form is a bit easier....
View ArticleBootstrap Tab linking
If you use Bootstrap (v3.x) you would see that clicking on a tab does add anything to the url so if you were to refresh, you wouldn’t go back to the tab you are on. The post below says to…Read more ›
View ArticleDisable Responsive Images in WordPress
In WordPress 4.4 images are displayed with the srcset attribute. This attribute allows the browser to select alternative images for best viewing. Sometimes though this may not be wanted as the image...
View ArticleSpeed up WP_Query
In WordPress, when a query does not need paging and you only want a limited amount of results, like the last 5 posts, set the ‘no_rows_found’ parameter to true. This prevents WordPress from doing...
View ArticleLink from Google Redirecting
After years of not having a client get hacked, I got 2 in a few weeks. One client (client A) has a WordPress site which I developed the theme on. Another client (client B) was brand new, no...
View ArticleDraggable Icon in Font Awesome
This is weird. Font Awesome has a ton of fonts, but no draggable icon. Issue #816 is on github shows much love for this added feature, open since 2013. A workaround for this suggested by...
View ArticleRelative positioning of table rows and row groups is now supported. This site...
Firefox displayed this warning in the Firebug console. This warning indicates an absolutely positioned does not consider a table element relatively positioned so it may not appear as expected. A...
View ArticleWordPress the_title filter changed in nav menus
I haven’t had time to look into the exact reason or the exact version this changed, but as of at least WordPress version 4.5.2 the nav menu uses the_title multiple times for one item. For example if...
View ArticleGit Copy
This may be obvious to the git experts, but I am not that. There also may be a better way to do this, but again, not a git expert. I have a git repo set up on WPEngine, but they only…Read more ›
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