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Adding an Accordion to Your WordPress Website

We often use accordions on FAQ pages for our clients. I get asked by designers which plugin to use for a good accordion. I find it much more efficient and fairly easy to add my own accordion code. Too many plugins can slow down your WordPress site and require more updates. Here’s how to add […]

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Why I Will Never Use First Data Global E4 Gateway API and Will Try to Discourage My Clients

One of my most popular posts of all time is about integrating First Data payment processing with a website. I’ve had several clients who have First Data accounts and they’ve seemed happy with their account, so I decided to give them a try. OMG I wish I hadn’t. It cost me SO much money. It

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Hiding my Pop-up When a Visitor Returns if They've Chosen Not to See it Again

I mentioned the sliding pop-up that my client wanted on her page here. I fixed it where it would pop-up – or slide in – every time someone visited the home page. After the first couple of visits, I was irritated by the pop-up and didn’t want to see it again. I assume that other

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Increase the Security on Digital Downloads – Change the Folder Name Every Day Automatically in WordPress

I want downloads from my site to be secure without locking my customers out too. Many security solutions I’ve seen often keep the purchaser out as well. Passwords are often forgotten and either cause the customer a headache or it’s a headache for me to try to support the purchase by constantly looking for or

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Test My PayPal Buy Now Buttons on My WordPress Site for PayPal PDT

My client has several digital products for sale. She has several buy now buttons hosted at PayPal. Hosted buttons have their own unique ID’s. To test these buttons, I need to set up the same buttons in my PayPal sandbox merchant account. When I do, they give me different button ID’s. Ugghh. Sure makes testing

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WordPress 3.7 Upgrade Error: Call to a member function reset_postdata() on a non-object

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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Display My Custom Post Categories (Custom Taxonomy) in a Dropdown

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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