On one of my sites I wanted to allow my users to enter a short URL to go to a page with a longer URL. For example, I wanted them to type a short url like this: example.com/m/1234567 instead of a long url like this: example.com/membership.php?id=1234567 To do this, I added my .htaccess file in […]
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I’ve seen many clients and websites avoid shopping carts like the plague because most of the third-party, off-the-shelf shopping carts can be intimidating, complex and confusing. Shopping Carts don’t have to be scary. Especially if you only have a couple of items to sell. If you only have a ‘Buy Now’ button for each item
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I have a First Data Merchant account. I wanted to add a payment page to my WordPress website. I created the form with Gravity Forms which would allow me to pass variables for the item they are paying for, the amount, and the quantity. I also wanted the form to allow them to fill in
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I wanted to add a form to take payments to my payment page. I decided to user Gravity Forms. I am pleased with the result. I wanted my form to take either a payment amount that I set or to allow the user to enter the amount they would like to pay. I wanted the
We were adding content from a Google Doc which was sent to us from one of our clients to a site today. One of the things we copied and pasted was a link to another page on the site. The link was correct. I checked it. But each time we clicked on the link, we
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One of my clients wanted me to add a video to their website today. The video looked to be created on an iPhone. The video looked great on my iMac, but when I uploaded the video and tried to view it on the site with the videojs plugin in WordPress, the video was sideways. After
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I have a client who wanted to assign member IDs to their users after they had registered. They wanted the member IDs to be random and were preprinted so that the user could get some things by snail mail with this new member ID attached so using the WordPress User ID wasn’t an option. The
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I helped build the Kimbro Oil site in symfony while on a team at Iostudio, LLC We had a lot of fun building this site. I built the content management system which allows the administrators to pull content from multiple rss feeds and include them on the kimbrooil.com site. They could drag and drop the
I figured out how to post something from my WordPress site to a Facebook time line, but I also want to be able to post to a Facebook Page that I manage as well. I would like to post some of the random quotes I’ve generated to my Facebook page. The code is similar to
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I wanted to exclude some of my pages from the search results. I assigned the uncategorized category to all of them. Then I could use the following code to exclude that category. In my case, I used the ‘uncategorized’ category for the posts I didn’t want to show. The category ID for ‘uncategorized’ is 1
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