By default the Popup Maker shortcode insertion button only has full functionality on Posts and Pages. Here’s the filter to add full functionality to custom post types. Put it in your theme’s functions file.
I ran into a problem recently where emails from from submissions on a client’s site were not being delivered. The site is hosted on Godaddy, the mail is hosted elsewhere, the DNS is on Godaddy but in another account. The emails had been working fine up until a few months ago (the client only just …
My local WordPress sites are super slow. Why? Other non-WordPress local sites run just fine. My problem is not the much documented bonjour vs .local TLD issue. I am using a custom TLD. tl;dr: Add the port MAMP uses for mySQL to wp-config.php: [UPDATE 20240127] If that doesn’t work, try bypassing MySQL TCP/IP. [UPDATE 20240127] …
Yesterday, a custom link in my menu wasn’t getting the current-menu-item class. Why? I’d used a relative, instead of absolute, URL in the link. So instead of this: /products/a-product-in-the-main-nav do this: https://www.example.com/products/a-product-in-the-main-nav Done!
I read this today: The web likes to grow downward, and setting fixed heights is an enemy to that natural movement. If the content becomes too much for the space, we’re in Bad Design territory. YES! Please, oh, please, oh, please, (web) designers, start remembering this when designing for the web. You’re not designing for …
I do some design work for my dear friend Jake at The Civil Life brewery. I’m learning a lot more about beer, like how beer colors are designated using the Standard Reference Method (SRM) numbering system. We wanted to show actual examples of the colors of the beers, based on this system. This was going to …
When I first heard that WooCommerce was probably going to stop selling and eventually stop supporting their Canvas theme, I started using 18 Tags Pro and PageBuilder Pro by Pootlepress as a starting point for my WordPress sites. It’s pretty customizable from within WordPress, and I typically do a decent amount of customization in a child theme. …
If you have trouble where MAMP couldn’t start MySQL and you’re seeing lots of errors like this InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 35 in terminal (* are notes, not commands to run) sudo launchctl unload -F /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.oracle.oss.mysql.mysqld.plist * stops the system mysql in case it got started for some reason ps -ef | egrep …
I download a brand new IE9 Windows 7 virtual machine for VirtualBox from Modern IE, and after I imported it, it wouldn’t start up. Short answer: Download The Unarchiver as recommended by Modern IE and extract the zip using that instead of Mac OS’s built-in archive utility. Then double-click the .ova file, it will import, and …
The answer should have been easy to find. But I should just be a better developer and should either have known it or been able to figure it out by myself based on what I do know. Alas… Anyway, here’s the sitch: I wrote an inventory management system for Patrick’s small book-selling business. It’s got a …
