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Responsive Design, What Is It?
The good folks at Hall Marketing made this great infographic summing up Responsive Design and why it’s important. Going forward all client websites will continue to be built responsive in nature. Once...
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Mobile App using WordPress’s Custom Post Type feed
For the past 6 months, I’ve been yearning to try building a mobile app. After getting my feet wet with some jQuery basics and a further understanding of php, a project came my way incorporating a...
View Article301 redirects from static .htm (or .html) to WordPress pretty permalinks
A client with an older static page website had moved to a WordPress platform recently but Google was still showing some of the older pages in their results. The client wanted to preserve their google...
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Importance of Owning your own Domain and Hosting
One thing I have always stressed to my clients is the importance of owning your own domain name and hosting account. While some design firms do handle hosting (and thats fine), I have chosen not too....
View ArticleFinding your Twitter RSS Feed URL
Something as seemingly simple as locating the RSS feed for your Twitter feed is really not that simple. Until now. Type this anyplace you are asked to enter your Twitter feed RSS URL:...
View ArticleMaking an Embedded iframe Video Responsive
I had a small project today that involved embedding a youtube video, onto a responsive site. Youtube’s embed code uses an iframe that contains set height and width parameters and is therefore not...
View ArticleWordPress security basics
The past month has seen a new level of threat aimed specifically at WordPress sites. Its a brute force attack with the goal of harvesting WordPress login information by essentially trying every...
View ArticleUsing @font-face for custom web fonts
In the old days of web design we were limited to the standard web safe fonts which really put a cramp in our styles. But today we see a seemingly endless variety of fonts being used on the web. This is...
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WordPress Admin Dashboard Alerts
Ever wish you could leave messages to your clients or yourself inside the dashboard or admin area of a WordPress site? Well you can, and there’s several really easy ways to do it. Below are 4 simple...
View ArticleAdding Shortcode to php
One feature of WordPress is the use of shortcodes. But occasionally you will want to place a shortcoded item onto a php page template. Its easy. Just place this code in the php file anywhere and add...
View ArticleAdding Widget Areas to a WP theme
Finding a great theme is just the beginning of designing a custom site. Here you will learn how you can add your own custom widget areas anywhere inside WordPress’ template files. 1 First, open your...
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Infographic: Most Popular WordPress Plugins
One of the best reasons why WordPress is the most acclaimed and the most popular CMS service is because of the user friendly design options. It will not be an exaggeration if we say that a person with...
View ArticleDefault FTP File Permission Setting for a WordPress Directory
Have you ever screwed up your FTP file permission settings for a WordPress site and found yourself locked out with a 403 and no idea what the default settings were? Well that’s what I did today. So let...
View ArticleAdding the Drag & Drop Menu Function to a WordPress Theme
A quickie on how to add a Navigation Menu to a WordPress theme. 1 Open up your functions.php file and place this: function register_my_menu() { register_nav_menu('custom-menu',__( 'Header Menu' )); }...
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Web Design Trends of 2013
Thanks to Design Taxi for providing this infographic poster. Poster created by http://enfuzed.com/.
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NextGen by Photocrati – Gallery Thumbnails go to Pages
Im going to show you how to make it so your NextGen Gallery by Photocrati WordPress plugin will allow for the gallery THUMBNAIL images to open to a new or different page instead of just either the...
View ArticleRelative php Path for an Image in a WP Child Theme
So easy and simple. When editing the php for the relative path for an image in a WordPress theme it goes like this: <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/FileName.png"...
View ArticleWooCommerce – Dropdown Variables instead of Select Options button
A client installed WooCommerce on his site and wanted the default Select Options button as seen under a variable item to show a dropdown of choices instead. 1 To change that first (if you haven’t...
View ArticleWordPress – Pulling Page content to use in another place in your theme
Very simple to do! My client wants some page content on her homepage… how to do it is so easy. Simply place the following code anywhere in your theme to pull from the page desired. This can be inside...
View ArticlePHP: Echo a Relative Image Path
How to echo a relative image path inside php (inside a WordPress theme file for this example): echo "<div class='classNameHere'>"; echo "<a href='linkPathHere'>"; echo "<img src='";...
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