Archive for the ‘wordpress’ Category
Backup Buddy on GoDaddy hosting
So I have a few hosting accounts with various companies. Plus I have had many clients with all kinds of hosting accounts. I do love GoDaddy’s customer support, and their hosting is generally a little more affordable than most as they are consistently running specials. But the one bad thing is that Backup Buddy doesn’t […]
Read more...Why you need to be Mr. know it all
Running a web design business is much more than just being a web designer. So many companies out there learn a little bit about WordPress backend and market themselves as a web design company. But they are lacking in so many other areas. Reasons why you need to be a Mr. know it all A […]
Read more...Shortcode output at top of page content in WordPress
Come across a shortcode glitch a while back when I was building custom interface for a client site. The shortcode’s output was displaying at the top of the page content, no matter where I dropped the shortcode. Searched around for quite a bit until I found the fix. Hopefully you will find this blog post […]
Read more...Moving WordPress to new Domain and forwarding permalinks
How to forward your permalinks under a new domain when using WordPress You have decided to re-brand your domain. You have been using WordPress for several years and have tons of blogs, and quite a bit of pages. What is the best way to keep the same permalink structure and just redirect the root domain […]
Read more...Trim whitespace on WordPress Excerpt
Recently built a client website and was pulling in a custom excerpt to the homepage for a custom post type. Everything worked fine until the client decided they were going to add a header image above every post and add some returns before the actual text started. This change on their end started giving my […]
Read more...Pagination for Custom Post Types in WordPress
Custom Post Types in WordPress are a great way to expand on custom WordPress development. Once you have all the custom post type in your functions.php file, usually you call a custom query in your template page for your custom post type. When doing pagination for a custom post type in WordPress One thing to […]
Read more...WordPress Site Development
There is a right way and a wrong way how to develop a client’s WordPress site. When you develop a site for a client you more than likely always put it up on a test server before you put it on their live server. This gives them a chance to look it over and to […]
Read more...Custom Contact Form in WordPress
Your own custom Contact Form in WordPress. There are tons of contact form plugins. For a while I was using Contact Form 7, but after a few plugin updates, I was starting to get feedback the form was giving problems. Always spitting out an error that the form couldn’t be submitted. So I decided that […]
Read more...WordPress Security through htaccess
There are quite a few plugins for enhancing your WordPress site from getting hacked via the login page. Over the years I have used limit login attempts plugin for blocking IP addresses that get your login credientials wrong in certain number of tries. This works well for bruteforce attacks. And the settings are very customizable […]
Read more...Open New Window for Frontend of your Website in WordPress
Im not sure why WordPress hasn’t added the open in new window when you click on visit website when you are in the admin section. Of course I want to keep my admin window and not take that page to my front end. Personally I like to have both the admin and front end of […]
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