This is reposted from the WordPress Meetup Network: Upcoming Online Events With much of the world either on lockdown or in recommended self-isolation, organizers all over the world are taking their events online. The WordPress community is no exception to this trend as many meetups, WordCamps, and other events in the community are being streamed…
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WordPress 101: Creating your Business Website with WordPress
These are all the basics you need to know to get a small business website up and running with WordPress. This is a special presentation I prepared for my class at Francis Marion University’s Kelley Center. It includes 99 slides full of all the details you need to know to get your website off to…
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Come Take My Class at Francis Marion University!
If anyone is in the area, please sign up for my WordPress 101 class at the Kelley Center for Economic Development at Francis Marion University. I’ll be teaching two classes on March 3, 2020. One at the Florence, SC campus and one at the Lake City campus. Check out this flyer for more info!
Add Search Icon to Navigation Menu for Genesis Theme
Do you want to have a search option in your navigation menu, but like the style of just having the search icon there instead of the full box? This is how it will look: Then when you click on it, the full search box will show up. Add this code to your functions.php file. /*——Add…
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The History of WordPress (in four minutes) – For You History Buffs!
Take a look back to the beginning of WordPress with this great video. This video was used as part of the opening of WordCamp para Desarrolladores Sevilla 2019. Thank you to them for sharing it on WordPress.tv!
Error Establishing Database Connection After PHP Update
Recently I had a customer with a PHP Update Required error message on the backend. Maybe you’ve seen it. It looks like this: Most control panels of hosting providers have a PHP Version section where you can easily update the version yourself, so I went in and updated the version for my client, but then…
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Replace Featured Image with Video
Ever want to replace that WordPress featured image with a video instead? The VideographyWP plugin let’s you do just that! You’ll need to be using YouTube videos. Once you install it, you will need a YouTube API, but there are easy to follow instructions on how to do that. Once your API is set up,…
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Tutorial: Creating a Slideshow with BeaverBuilder
First, I want to be clear that this tutorial is about how to post a slideshow of pictures, not a slider which has text or content included. However, a slideshow can show captions. An example is shown below. If that’s what you are interested in, please read on. The second thing I should mention is…
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WordPress Updates
Once I hand over a newly developed site to a client, I can’t stress enough how important it is to keep the site updated, not only for compatibility reasons using modern browsers and adding new plugins, but mainly for security reasons. Your first form of security should be a strong password. Your second form of…
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Happy 16th Birthday, WordPress!
Today is WordPress celebrates it’s 15th birthday. Here’s an article written a couple years back that celebrates how WordPress has grown over the years: https://torquemag.io/2015/05/happy-birthday-wordpress-wordpress-turns-12/