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WordPress Quick Tip: Fix Form Mail Not Being Delivered

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

WordPress Quick Tip: Fix Slow WordPress on MAMP

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]

WordPress Quick Tip: Custom Link Current Class in Menu

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!

Custom Color Palettes in WordPress without a Plugin (with Pootlepress 18 Tags Theme)

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.