Of all the WordPress SEO plugins, one of the most successful and user friendly ones is WordPress SEO by Yoast. Although it is user friendly, there are some things which require a fair bit of getting used to and interpretation. Which is why it’s important to read a WordPress SEO by Yoast tutorial. Here are […]
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Gravity Forms: How to set datepicker default date and add calender icon
By default the Gravity Forms datepicker will start with today as the default date. On some occasions, you might want the datepicker to start with a different date. For example, in a Date of Birth field, you might want the date picker default date to go 30 years back. For an appointment date field you might […]
Is Your Website Show Home Worthy?
If you’ve ever tried selling your home, you may have an idea what show home status is. It’s this almost unattainable state in which you need to act like the last ten or so years of living in your home never happened. The holes in the wall need to be plastered over, the window you’ve […]
Comparing Various Website Builders
Although when wanting a Website for your business it is often best to contact a professional, there are circumstances in which it helps to know how to build your own website. This is usually best for personal websites or creating a mockup of a design for a website developer. Three popular sites for building free […]
How to Have Titles Appear in Lightbox But Not as Tooltip
Back in WordPress 3.7 WordPress finally got rid of the ‘title’ tag from images in galleries. This title tag created an annoying tooltip when visitors hovered over gallery images, which interfered with nice design. Like this: However many lightbox plugins used that title tag to display the name of the image. This means that many WordPress site […]
How to Remove the Author Name in WordPress Canvas Theme
Are you trying to figure out how to remove the Author from posts and archive pages in the Canvas theme in WordPress? Or are trying to remove the category by leave the rest? It’s actually really easy. Firstly, What Doesn’t Work If you want to remove the whole post meta line (author name, date and […]
Troubleshooting Universal Analytics Ecommerce Tracking in WordPress when using Yoast
If you’re using WordPress, Universal Analytics and the Yoast Analytics plugin, and want to set up Google Analytics ecommerce tracking manually, you’re probably running into some problems. I had this exact scenario with a client’s website. We upgraded from Classic Analytics to Universal Analytics and immediately all ecommerce data stopped being recorded. Even though I […]
Gravity Forms: How to Restrict a DatePicker Date Range
By default the Gravity Forms date picker has a date range of -100 years to +20 years. Sometimes you might need to limit that date range. For example, a Date of Birth field can never be after today’s date. And a requested appointment date can’t be in the past. There is some easy code to restrict the […]
How to Filter Spammy Words and Stop Notifications Sending When Using Gravity Forms
I was editing the contact form on one of my client’s sites today, and was horrified to see the amount of spammy messages coming through their Gravity Forms contact form. Emails like this: Or if they’re more clever, they’ll send it from a European female name … as this generates a higher response rate! Nearly […]
Changing the default Demo Store Notice in Woocommerce
Woocommerce has “store notice” functionality built in, which enables you to post a message that displays on every page throughout the site. Most themes display this message at the very top of the site, like this: This setting is found in Woocommerce > Settings > General. Tick “Store Notice” and then the text box appears […]