I recently had a client who needed a simple way to add clickable image ads onto his site using widgets. He also wanted to be able to track clicks so that he could charge the advertisers. That doesn’t seem too much to ask, does it? But when I searched the Plugins Depository, more plugins were…
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MailPoet (Wysija): The Easiest Newsletter Option
Update: Wysija newsletters are now called MailPoet. I’m a busy person like I’m sure you are. I don’t have time to spend all day designing a newsletter and keeping up with Constant Contact or MailChimp accounts for myself. I’m not trying to sell anything here, I’m just trying to spread my message about the easiest…
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Plugin Review: Jetpack
Author: by Laura Hartwig Jetpack is evolving and changing and offers much more now than it used to. Originally used only for WordPress.com blogs, now you can use it with your WordPress.org self-hosted sites. I had heard some good things about it, and decided it was time to investigate it’s offerings more. One note, to…
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Plugin Review: Jetpack Mobile Theme
Jetpack Mobile Theme WordPress Plugin Reviewed by Laura Hartwig on Dec 23,2012. Super Simple! Recently, I have heard a lot of good things about the expanded functionality of Jetpack, so I decided to give it a try. I’ve had some problems connecting to my Tumlbr account with the Publicize part, but I noticed the Moblie…
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Plugin Review: Easy Fancybox
Recently I had a client who was looking for a text onclick pdf to pop up like an image rather than the ugly page that usually displays with pdfs. I found this plugin: Easy Fancybox. Easy Fancybox WordPress Plugin Reviewed by Laura Hartwig on Dec 7,2012. It answered my problem and looks nice as well…
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Add Label Inside Input Box in Gravity Forms
Please see newer article here: https://wpdecoder.com/php/gravity-forms-placeholders/ Update 8/4/15: as of v1.9, Gravity Forms has added the ability to use placeholders, however, they don’t make it easy to hide the regular labels and show placeholder text only. Do do that, you will need to add the following line to your functions.php file: add_filter( ‘gform_enable_field_label_visibility_settings’, ‘__return_true’ );…
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