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 […]
As 2015 looms closer, it’s a good time to reflect on what has worked and what hasn’t worked. In terms of Search Engine Optimisation, we face an embarrassingly high list of things which need to change. Sometimes SEO can feel like anyones game. Because of this, many people approach SEO in a fantastical way and mystify […]
Some WordPress themes allow you to customise till your hearts content making it easy to problem solve. Retail Therapy is not one of these themes. Don’t get me wrong, it is a great theme. However like many other themes, it has a glaring box warning you against editing the code. And for a good reason […]
Websites are now not only being used for big corporations or governments. Now they are being used in all sorts of niches – and businesses are thriving by focusing on specific niches. Take for example churches. Most local churches have signed in to the digital wave by creating websites. Just like other community based websites, church […]
This video shows you how to quickly change the Author on a WordPress post. Note – you must have “Editor” or “Administrator” rights to be able to change the author on a post.
Canvas is a powerful and flexible WordPress theme, from Woothemes. However the way it dynamically creates it’s own thumbnails can cause problems. 95% of the time the auto-cropping is fine. But 5% of the time the auto-cropping creates an unprofessional thumbnail that you need to replace. Like this one: Not a great look cutting off […]
