A client needed me to show a certain hidden div on the page if a certain option was selected in a dropdown box. Here is the javascript/jquery code I used to show the div when the option was selected. I had multiple items on the page with the same dropdown box so I also needed […]
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I tried to upgrade my WordPress site this morning and got this error once the upgrade was finished: Call to a member function reset_postdata() on a non-object Since I wasn’t looking forward to finding my latest backup and restoring my old version, and since I knew I would still have the problem even after I
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A client wanted me to use Ajax to save checkbox results to a database so that each check was saved as it was made instead of waiting until all the checkboxes were checked (or unchecked) and then submitted on the form. He had a LOT of checkboxes on the page which made a very large
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I want to let my random quote generator users choose which quote category they want to see a quote from when they automatically post the quote to their Facebook page. I want to show my quote categories, which are a custom taxonomy (quote_categories), on my custom post type (quote). Here is the code I use:
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Genesis had me spoiled. The Genesis themes that I’ve been using ARE child themes and therefore, only the Genesis theme itself has updates that I must install. When I started using Elegant Themes (which I love, by the way), I forgot that they might have updates. So, I forgot to make a child theme when
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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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