The Distinctive dame wesbite I redesigned also has a new online store so I made sure the theme was WooCommerce friendly, installed WooCommerce and added over 30 items. Apparently the store wasn’t working and so I investigated and realised I hadn’t set up the shipping methods without which the store will not function, continually resulting … Read moreWooCommerce assigning shipping methods
Recently I moved a wordpress install from a sub directory to the current modX install root directory. Only this isn’t correct to say. I didnt know how to look for what I was about to perform at first, and was a little scared as this was the biggest website I’d rebuilt, ever! over 1400 pages! … Read moreSite relocation & Better Search Replace plugin
So making a template file just like a child theme or styling using the theme options css box is a good non-destructive way (to the theme and in case you change themes) to style your layout. The following is an example of what to do when making a template for an alternative home page: 1. … Read moreMaking a WordPress Template
Making the Google adsense banner ad responsive for my current project has proven very frustrating. Nothing worked. It either broke the width of the screen and remained at 728px wide on mobile, stayed at 320px on laptop or was 1pxwide x 90px high and other such fun times. Finally after reading up heaps and choosing … Read moreGoogle adsense responsive ad
The adobe color wheel allows you to create schemes for your websites and designs by sliding in and out the five disc markers, set rules, have results in hex and rgb. A very useful picker for coming up with unique and precise colour* combos. (*yeah adobe is US so have to write color when searching)
Been too busy for ages to fix the related post image resolution on allThoseShapes. I wasn’t sure if it was a wordpress thing or a mythemeshop theme thing. Blurry related post images. They look terrible. And allThoseShapes is an image driven site. Reading up it seemed there were a few potential ways to fix this … Read moreblurry featured / related post images fix
If itDoesCompute seems a little broken – its cause it is. It seems you cant be sleepy, something I already knew, but due to work load and thinking yeah itll be okay, I left myself open for those lovely spammy rank seeking hacker advertisers. More details later, and some tips and info one main thing … Read moredont like hacks? keep updating
Wondering why your theme’s device and browser responsiveness breaks with different resolutions? I had been for the last week or so. Tried many fixes. Potential fixes should I say. I discovered an error using a theme from the myThemeShop site, thought it was at fault, then reading up thought it was a google chrome fault … Read morewhite-space:normal;
Best to decide on permalinks before you start constructing your website. if you didnt or forgot you’ll have to change your .htaccess file. If you can see the file in your wp directory you can create one by opening a text editor ans saving the blank page as “.htaccess” wordpress will have generated some code … Read moreadding .htaccess for permalink change
My previous discovery on how to make a single post from a single category appear on the index page in a wordpress site was not the best solution. At all. It caused a battle between the .css and the recent post loop! The page displayed visually what i wanted: 1 post from category ‘diary’. When … Read moreMake a single post single category appear on the WP index page