Managing your domain authentication to send mail with Mailchimp or similar mail providers can sound like a daunting task, but it's a relatively simple process. Hopefully this article will hold your hand through the experience and allow you to send mail via external websites, quickly [...]
Are you a talented and hard working freelance programmer, with specific skills in PHP, JQuery, WordPress and other current web technologies? If so, I'd be happy to utilise your talents on an ongoing basis. You must have a strong grasp of WordPress, including custom post [...]
With any web design project it's always good to have a page where all the necessary content elements are shown to ensure they're in perfect working order for the rest of your site. I've lost track of the amount of times I have done this [...]
UPDATE: On later versions of WooCommerce in 2020 you may also try the following fix for the 30 limit threshold. https://www.warrenchandler.com/2020/06/27/woocommerce-variations-break-after-30-or-more-bug-fix/ Recently, a client was reporting that they were seeing an out of stock message on their product page, which wasn't correct. All of the [...]
If like me you use the WordPress plugin Resize at Upload, or Resize at Upload Plus, it's quite likely that you'll be getting a mysql error when changing the settings. Something like: Access denied for user ''@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /home/accountname/public_html/wp-content/plugins/resize-at-upload/resize-upload.php on line 63 [...]
It's fair to say that developing websites that work the same on an Apple device as every other device can be a frustrating thing, especially when it comes to HTML5 video. Apple will always point out that videos use a lot of processor power, and [...]
Web Programmers seem to be everywhere these days, but finding a good one - one that will stay with you for your duration of time on the web - is an increasingly difficult task. For me, personally, it's about quality, pure and simple - the [...]
WordPress installations can be confusing at times, and when combined with the PHP environment in which they reside, uploading can be one area that causes quite a bit of confusion. To give an example, recently a client asked for a solution to the following problem: [...]
WooCommerce is a fantastic WordPress plugin, but unless you're really familiar with how it works you may run into a number of things that, on the surface at least, can not be done. One such thing is modifying the single product page template to rearrange [...]
When building a website, from time to time it's necessary to redirect the non www. version of the website to the www. version, especially since you're then less likely to have two versions of your website in the Google SERPS. And since a web client [...]
While I wait for some time to free up so I can completely revamp this old effort of a website, I thought it was about time to share another great little CSS3 snippet that will really help with some design ideas. Slanted Header Elements Slanted [...]
From time to time, as a web programmer you come across things that deviate from the norm. This is certainly one of them - adding an excerpt box to WordPress Pages. As you probably already know if you stumbled across this article, this feature already [...]
Being a programmer, from time to time you come across scripts that have been uploaded incorrectly via FTP. This can often cause a number of empty lines that need to be removed, and upon each subsequent change more empty lines are added. This can be [...]
If you're having trouble getting Google Maps marker clustering working on IE8, this little snippet may be of use. A client recently came to me with an issue whereby Google Maps were showing the clusters on all browsers except Internet Explorer 8, but it's usually [...]
Recently a client had a problem with a Google Map that had controls that were squashed and looked broken. Fortunately this is an easy fix, with a little CSS hack. Try adding the following to your CSS and the controls should look as intended. .gmnoprint [...]
If, like me, you've had the necessity to redirect WordPress tag pages to another page or pages for SEO reasons, you might have found a number of different methods to do this. It's actually a relatively simple process, but it's also one that's essential to [...]
WordPress errors can be extremely frustrating at times, but here's a little fix that should help those that are getting 403 server errors on WordPress sites. If you've seen the 403 internal server error You don't have permission to access / on this server and [...]
Do you want to become a web developer? If you're looking to become a good web programmer or web developer, like most things there are ordinarily two ways people will go about achieving this. As with learning any subject you have the option to: 1. [...]
As a web programmer, I'm often asked to fix the problems that others have, but when I see problems appearing on sites I've had a hand in, I'm infinitely more concerned. This is exactly what happened recently, when I custom post type I had provided [...]
Programmers in general are, and have always been a strange breed. I'm certainly not alone in thinking this, but more and more of late I've been asking myself whether or not society's perception of a programmer is actually correct. After all I'm normal, right? Right? [...]
Web Programmer For Hire – Am I Talking About YOU? Good web programmers are and have always been difficult to come across. I've encountered a number of programmers in the past 18 years of web development and I can honestly say that not one has [...]
Much has been made of Google's Hummingbird and its all new “intent” methodology. Google claims it knows what you're looking for and it will evolve into something to behold. So while I can understand Google's optimism for a brighter search related future, I do have [...]
As many of you will know I'm a web programmer and without sounding egotistical or arrogant I consider myself a pretty good one. Google certainly thought so too, since it ranked me on page one for that search term for a good number of years, [...]
If you're interested in becoming a web programmer, a vital consideration is obviously which programming language to learn. Websites today aren't usually constructed using just one language and you'll find it's necessary to be versed in a number of programming languages to really make a [...]
The A to Z of SEO This article (updated December 15th 2013) contains what I consider many of the most important factors in SEO, from A to Z, from Authority to Zeitgeist, and is based on SEO information accumulated over the past two years, drawing [...]
Finding a web developer that's able to turn the web design concept that's in your head into a reality can be a great source of frustration - after all, we're not all like minded and on the same page - and working through line after [...]
Google's latest Penguin update exploded into action yesterday (October 4th), the fifth such update in the last 18 months. The update is said to affect around 1% of search queries to a noticeable degree, according to Matt Cutts, speaking via Twitter. https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/386231794883780609 The Penguin evolution [...]
A common problem when you're moving a blog from one place to another, especially relevant after you've used WordPress' handy built in Import/Export tools to migrate content, is the common error: You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page. This can be extremely [...]
When people take a look at my business card, something that is often mentioned is the oversized black and white square pattern on the back of it. Of course, for those of you in the tech. savvy crowd, you'll know I'm referring to my site's [...]
Am I A Web Programmer? This article will outline the differences between a website programmer and a web designer (web developer) and hopefully allow you to identify which category you fall into. While web programming and web development (web design) are two separate entities, [...]
