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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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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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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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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I helped build this site when I worked on a team of three at Iostudio, LLC. I built the content management system using the symfony php framework.The content management system allows them to add, update and delete events, images, featured items, and reviews. I was responsible for the site functionality and server administration which included
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I helped build this site when I worked at Iostudio, LLC. This site has a large content management system that allows the administrators to resize images, add news, and add events.This site was originally built in symfony on a Windows server. It was one of the few sites I have built on a Windows server,
Here’s how you can find all users that have a certain metadata value for a specific meta_key. First set an argument array with the specific meta_key and value and operator. In my case, I wanted all users with a member_number equal to ‘xxxxxxx’. The meta_key is ‘member_number’and the meta_value is ‘xxxxxxx’. If both of those
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I want to find the user’s id based on a piece of user metadata that I have. The metadata I have is coming in as part of the url. My url looks something like this: http://example.com/users/wu8shti where ‘wu8shti’ is a member id. Here is how I find the user’s ID: This code should be placed
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Recently I needed to find a user on my WordPress site with a specific member number that had been assigned at registration. This member number was a custom user meta field that I had created. I wanted to find all the user’s information based on that member number. I tried using the WordPress ‘get_users’ function
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There are many PHP frameworks out there such as Symfony, Zend, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, and many more. I don’t know that any framework is better in all things than any other framework. I think it’s probably a matter of familiarity and preference. My favorite as of this writing is Symfony. You can read about my experience
