I love WordPress! It’s a fantastic way to build a website without knowing how to write code. It truly makes web development easier. But, what a lot of WordPress website owners don’t realize is how easy it is for someone to break into their website. WordPress is Open Source software, which is a great thing. […]
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WordPress menus allow you to navigate your website better. You can have more than one menu and those menus can be placed in different locations. WordPress makes all of this customizable. The menu locations are dictated by your theme and are beyond the scope of this discussion, but you can find the locations that are
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When you create a WordPress post you have the option to assign categories and tags to that post. Categories are hierarchical groupings, whereas, tags are not hierarchical. In other words, your categories can have parent categories and children categories (or subcategories). This helps to organize your content for menus and other hierarchical charts/pages. This allows
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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
My client wanted not only a popup window, but a sliding popup window. The kind that slides across the page when you first get to a site. Or maybe it slides in after you’ve been on the site for a while. I searched high and low for a jQuery popup that would do just that.
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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
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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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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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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