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/
Plugin Review: SG Optimizer by Siteground
I’ve talked a lot about my favorite host Siteground, but today I’d like to talk about a plugin they offer that helps speed up your site called SG Optimizer. Actually, I’m not going to just talk about it; I’m going to show you some results from adding it to some of my clients sites. Review…
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ReCAPTCHA ERROR for site owner: Invalid domain for site key
Recently got this error after changing domain names for a customer. I tried two things to fix. 1) I tried V2 instead of V3. That didn’t work 2) I realized that I had added the https:// at the front of the domain name on the google setup. Once I removed that, it worked like a…
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Creating a map with custom icons with Toolset
Recently a customer needed a map with custom icons rather than the regular map maker icons that come with Google maps. He wanted it to look something like this so each icon represented a different type of store. To do this you’ll need 3 things: 1) A custom post type with Toolset Custom Fields set…
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Are You Ready for The Gute?
Hopefully you’ve heard that WordPress 5.0 is on it’s way with the new Gutenberg editor. It’s very different from the current “classic” editor. The new editor will be much more like the page builders that have become popular. With the release of WP 5 expected at the end of November 2018, you should make sure…
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Login Protect Content
There are many different ways to protect your content. For this client, he simply wanted to capture people’s email address before they could read the content. Seems simple, but there was multiple articles that needed to be protected and what if people came back? We didn’t want people to have to submit their info all…
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