Here’s the problem: You want to give an external person to your company a email address at your domain … it might be an accounts person (accounts@yourdomain.com) or a contractor, or a very part-time staff member. You want them to be able to have a professional looking email address @yourdomain.com but you don’t want to have to pay […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
WordPress is powerful … but occasionally you’ll hit a problem where you hunt for hours online trying to find a solution. You may find plenty of other people searching for the some thing too, but no decent answers. For me searching for how to use update_user_meta display_name to change the default display name when a new user creates an account was […]
WooCommerce Layered Navigation is great for giving your online store visitors easy to use filters. I added the “Active Filters” widget to my sidebar so that users could easily see and remove any filters they have applied. It looks like this: But I also wanted to add a link to “Clear All Filters” with one […]
When embedding YouTube videos in WordPress, sometimes only the link will appear. This occurs when the video has been copied from another webpage and already has formatting applied. When looking at the post on Text editor view, the link can be seen with tags wrapped around it. Here is a video with a quick solution to […]