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20 12, 2023

Exploring Seven of Today’s Popular Web Programming Tools.. and Tools of Yesteryear

2023-12-20T23:42:02+00:00December 20th, 2023|Web Programming, WordPress|0 Comments

Popular Website Programmer Tools of Today In the ever-evolving landscape of web development, staying abreast of the latest and most effective tools is crucial for developers aiming to build cutting-edge and efficient web applications. As technology advances, new tools emerge to simplify workflows, [...]

24 07, 2023

CSS vs SCSS – Which should I use?

2023-07-24T19:14:30+00:00July 24th, 2023|CSS Tricks, Web Design|0 Comments

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and SCSS (Sassy CSS) are both style sheet languages used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language like HTML. They share a lot of similarities but differ in syntax and features. Here are the main differences [...]

25 04, 2023

What is CSS in Web Design? Are there different types of CSS?

2023-04-25T17:17:07+00:00April 25th, 2023|CSS Tips, CSS Tricks, Web Design|2 Comments

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a programming language used in web design to define the appearance and layout of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) documents. CSS separates the presentation of a web page from its content, allowing web designers to create visually appealing and responsive [...]

25 04, 2023

What is a Website Programmer? Is it the career for me?

2023-04-25T16:47:50+00:00April 25th, 2023|Programming Jobs, Web Programmer, Web Programming, Web Programming Jobs|0 Comments

While it goes without saying, in today's world the internet has become an essential part of our lives. Almost everything is available on the internet, from shopping to education to entertainment. A website is a collection of web pages that can be accessed through [...]

25 04, 2023

Moving Domain and Keeping SEO Rank using Redirects

2023-04-25T16:03:10+00:00April 25th, 2023|SEO, SEO Tips and Tricks|0 Comments

In today's digital age, websites have become an essential part of any business or organisation's marketing strategy. A website is like a virtual storefront, where people can visit and learn more about the company's products and services. However, as businesses grow and evolve, their [...]

28 03, 2023

PHP Error Fix: Uncaught ValueError: Unknown format specifier “S”

2023-03-28T16:20:47+00:00March 28th, 2023|PHP Snippets, Web Programming, WordPress, WordPress Snippets|0 Comments

Here's a problem that I've seen a few times of late, especially since the introduction of PHP version 8 and higher.   WordPress sites using outdated themes are often showing errors in and around the site especially in the Dashboard, the specific error being: PHP [...]

28 01, 2023

Website Programmers – Can AI Replace Them?

2023-02-10T16:37:39+00:00January 28th, 2023|Copywriting, Web Design, Web Programming|0 Comments

Website programmers are in demand more than ever today, especially good website programmers.   Whilst the market for web designers is now saturated with developers that have very little experience and simply know how to use the vast array of website builders out there on [...]

29 11, 2022

WordPress Only Shows Homepage – Other Pages 404 Error

2022-11-29T19:21:37+00:00November 29th, 2022|Web Programming, WordPress, WordPress Snippets|1 Comment

Is your WordPress website only showing the homepage and all other pages redirecting to a 404 page or error page? The issue can often happen after a WordPress update, or even a plugin update such as a security or redirection plugin.  Fortunately, the fix [...]

20 10, 2022

Fill in The Background of an Image Cut Out

2022-10-20T10:49:52+00:00October 20th, 2022|Graphic Design, Web Programmer|0 Comments

For a long time Photoshop has been the master where content aware fills are concerned.  You'd simply cut out an object, select the fill tool and let Photoshop do the rest.    But it's not perfect, and never was. And while Photoshop's content aware [...]

5 10, 2022

68 Beauty Inspired Logo Designs for Inspiration

2022-10-05T15:25:32+00:00October 5th, 2022|Graphic Design|0 Comments

It's been a while where blog posts have concerned, so I thought it was long overdue to give a little more inspiration where logo design and corporate branding are concerned. Here's 68 clean, beauty inspired logo designs to get your creative juices flowing. [...]

11 09, 2021

WordPress Shortcode to Get Text from URL Vars/Parameters

2021-09-11T02:03:29+00:00September 11th, 2021|PHP Snippets, Web Programming, WordPress, WordPress Snippets|1 Comment

Sometimes you may have a URL that has parameters or variables included in it that you wish to display on a page or post within WordPress.  In cases like this all that's needed is a simple function to get the information from the URL onto [...]

4 05, 2021

WooCommerce: Select First Variation if it Exists

2021-09-11T02:06:09+00:00May 4th, 2021|PHP Snippets, Programming Tips, Web Programming, WooCommerce, WordPress, WordPress Snippets|3 Comments

If your WooCommerce variations aren't user friendly for the user because it's always asking them to choose from a huge selection, or showing "Choose an option" or "Please select" text even if there's only one variation, a simple fix will help make your WordPress [...]

16 12, 2020

Get Venue Name using Toolset Views and Events Manager

2023-10-04T15:49:16+00:00December 16th, 2020|Web Programming, WordPress|0 Comments

It would be fair to say that, for as good as it is, the Events Manager WordPress plugin doesn't always play nice with themes and other plugin. The latest example of this was sent by a client trying to get a simple element from an [...]

18 11, 2020

Removing Empty HTML Tags with JQuery or CSS

2020-11-18T04:33:02+00:00November 18th, 2020|CSS Tips, jQuery Snippets, Web Programming|0 Comments

Recently a client asked for a simple way to remove empty HTML tags in their content. The HTML in question had a number of H2 tags that had no content but were creating space in their WordPress posts. Naturally you could simply remove them using [...]

13 10, 2020

How to Change WooCommerce Billing Labels and Text

2020-10-13T01:46:39+00:00October 13th, 2020|WooCommerce|0 Comments

WooCommerce is undoubtedly a fantastic piece of software for WordPress e-commerce, but it's often very difficult to customise your shop without purchasing addon after addon from the developers. Recently, a client using the Avada theme asked how they could change the Billing Details and Billing [...]

31 08, 2020

Website Not Working After WordPress 5.5 Update

2020-08-31T02:19:02+00:00August 31st, 2020|Web Programming, WordPress|0 Comments

If you're having problems in WordPress after the recent 5.5 update, there's one notable culprit that's behind 99% of the problems you may encounter. With the upgrade to WordPress 5.5, the Jquery migration tool (jquery-migrate) is no longer loaded by default, and will be removed [...]

23 07, 2020

Critical Error on WordPress/Avada for PHP 7.2

2020-07-27T00:50:01+00:00July 23rd, 2020|PHP Snippets, Web Programming, WordPress Snippets|0 Comments

Recently a client reached out concerning a critical error in WordPress using Avada when trying to access the wp-admin area of the website. It appears that the problem is due to an issue with Revolution Slider, specifically a metabox function that's including in the admin [...]

27 06, 2020

WooCommerce Variations Break After 30 or more (Bug Fix)

2020-06-27T17:36:38+00:00June 27th, 2020|Web Programming|3 Comments

Recently a client had an issue where Woocommerce product variations on the front end stopped working when there were more than 30 variations for the product. Fortunately there's an easy fix for this bug. WooCommerce by default uses a streamlined ajax threshold to populate the [...]

27 12, 2019

Adding Offsets to HTML Anchors and Bookmarks

2019-12-27T04:54:43+00:00December 27th, 2019|Web Design, Web Programming|0 Comments

HTML anchors have been around as long as HTML itself, but there's often an issue that people can't seem to fix when it comes to the exact position the page lands, especially on modern themes with fixed or resizable headers, something that's more than a [...]

2 04, 2019

Stop iPhones From Zooming in on Form Fields

2020-07-01T19:19:38+00:00April 2nd, 2019|Web Programming|21 Comments

Preventing iPhone Form Zooming Keeping up with browser functionality as a website programmer can be an arduous task, but when the operating system also contributes to the mess there's often nothing that can be done. Recently a client asked if it was possible to prevent [...]

20 12, 2018

WooCommerce No Orders Found Problem

2018-12-20T15:51:44+00:00December 20th, 2018|Programming Tips, WordPress Snippets|4 Comments

Since WordPress 5.0.2, many WooCommerce installations have had an issue where all the shop's products have seemingly disappeared. Don't worry, they're still there, but if your WooCommerce installation is showing "No orders found" in the Orders sections of your Dashboard, here's what you'll need to [...]

14 11, 2018

Add Code to WordPress Head Programmatically

2018-11-14T03:18:19+00:00November 14th, 2018|Web Programming, WordPress Snippets|0 Comments

I received a request recently from a client that wanted an easy way to hide content for logged in users via CSS, but they needed it to be done programmatically, and wanted some CSS added to the WordPress header. What they had was a CSS [...]

6 10, 2018

Add a Custom Taxonomy Filter to WordPress Custom Post Type

2018-11-07T01:02:32+00:00October 6th, 2018|Web Programming, WordPress Snippets|0 Comments

Recently, a client needed to be able to filter their custom post type posts list by a given taxonomy, making it easier to find what they were looking for.   Fortunately with WordPress this isn't difficult. For the example below, the client was a restaurant who [...]

22 06, 2018

Gravity Forms Telephone Validation (UK Number with Maximum and Minimum Digits)

2020-12-16T01:11:17+00:00June 22nd, 2018|Web Programming, WordPress Snippets|5 Comments

Recently a client needed a function or two for Gravity Forms to process UK telephone numbers, and asked that they are between 7 and 15 characters in length. The following Gravity forms filters do exactly what's needed. Paste them in to your theme's function.php [...]

27 02, 2018

WordPress Problem: Can Not Activate a Plugin

2018-11-07T01:03:39+00:00February 27th, 2018|Web Programming, WordPress Snippets|1 Comment

WordPress: Activating a Plugin Manually A client came to me recently with a broken site problem they simply couldn't fix. They had de-activated a plugin that was so heavily ingrained into the site that all site functionality had ceased to work, meaning they could not [...]

10 02, 2018

How to Remove the Connect your store to WooCommerce.com Message

2021-09-11T01:47:27+00:00February 10th, 2018|WordPress Snippets|4 Comments

After the recent WooCommerce updates, a number of clients have contacted me to ask about the admin message that appears in the WordPress Dashboard: Connect your store to WooCommerce.com to receive extensions updates and support. This message certainly isn't anything to be concerned about, and [...]

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