Remember folks, there’s no such thing as a stupid question. Recently I had an issue within the new shiny editor of Gutenberg in that…well…I couldn’t work out how to create paged posts in Gutenberg. I needed a paged post within by debug environment to fix a bug for Inline Tweet Sharer. For the live of…
Out of the box, WooCommerce is pretty powerful. You can set up a shop in minutes with a few small clicks, and by default WooCommerce will give you a functional shop. One area however where it slightly deviates from the norm is how template are structured, and this can lead to problems if you are…
Recently I had something that I was stuck on for ages. I was trying to set a WordPress Child Theme thumbnail image size and I just couldn’t do it. It sounds simple, doesn’t it – set_post_thumbnail_size is the function and that’s it, unfortunately when it comes to child themes it isn’t that simple. Child Themes functions.php In…
Recently I had a problem with CMB2 and date fields. We were using an API that had dates stored in EU format (which is day/month/year), but try as we might we couldn’t get CMB2 to import the dates correctly. Many of the dates were in US format (month/day/year) and a few never even imported successfully.…
You can almost split WordPress developers into two groups. Those of us (myself include) who love Automattic’s offering of plugins in one module – Jetpack, and those of us who hate it. I’m firmly in the first group, but occasionally find myself in the second camp, as I have recently when I wanted to disable…
In the past few months I have been playing around with a few sites with a new form of marketing – Facebook Marketing. It’s a fairly new string to my bow so I’m still new to it, but I thought I would try a little bit something different than previous attempts. Attempts at marketing have…
WordPress in version 3.7 introduced a most welcome and a game changing feature – automatic updates. This slightly controversial-at-the-time feature allowed WordPress to automatically update minor or security releases without the need of user intervention. This was needed, as more WordPress installations out there are secure and safe, with fewer bugs. It is a good…
One of the major sources of traffic to blog posts is social media, but like anything, it needs a clear and coherent strategy for it to work. However, if you are a small, one man band, it can be daunting to begin with to manage not only your blog, but also your Facebook or Twitter…
Yeah, I know. It’s March. We’re about 4 months out from Black Friday 2016, so why am I writing a Black Friday article now? Well, over the festive break I looked at the stats from the Black Friday sale I had both here as well as on WP Email Capture, and I think my strategy…
Recently we’ve had an issue on one of our sites whereby we had a post archive on a WordPress menu. When the page was shown, then the active class would be shown on the site, and styled accordingly. The problem occurred was when we switched from the archive to the individual post, and the menu…
