I’ve been saying this for years: People Don’t Read People don’t want long articles. They want titles and bullet points. They want to skim. Not only do they want to – that’s all they are going to do! I just finished watching this Ted Talk with Jim VandeHei of Axios and he gives some good…
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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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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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Protect Your Blog Content With Email Subscribe Form
Recently I had a customer looking to gather emails for their newsletter before people read the articles on their site. As with anything else, there are multiple ways to go about this. Below is documentation on how I chose to set it up. Please note that this protection is not 100% (like most things) and…
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WooCommerce: Sending Order Emails
Here’s how to send customer emails when you’ve processed your customer’s order. When you look at an individual order, you will see a box on the top right that says “Order Actions”. Use the dropdown box to choose Completed Order and click the little arrow next to it to send the customer that email. Once…
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How to Customize Your WordPress Site with Custom Post Types
Need to extend your site beyond just pages and posts? Want reviews, portfolios, staff, or testimonials on your site? Try Custom Post Types. Read my article on exactly how to do that here: https://marknetgroup.com/blog/wordpress-custom-post-types/
Add a Search Bar Inside a Page or Post
Just add this code into the page where you want the search bar to be. Be sure to use the “Text” tab of the editor instead of the “Visual”. Also, be sure to replace “mydomain.com” with your actual domain.