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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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 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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I want my quote generator to allow people to automatically post a random quote to their Facebook wall. Eventually, I want them to set it up to post at certain times automatically for them, but for now, I just wanted them to be able to click a link and it post a random quote to
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I wanted to change the ‘back to top’ link in the footer on my Genesis Child theme. I found this code to do it:
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I am writing a post about my quote generator and want to show the custom quote tag cloud in my post. I found that I could use the wp_tag_cloud() function to generate a tag cloud, but that would generate the regular tag cloud for all my WordPress posts. After a little more digging in the
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I have a client who wanted to pass his Gravity Forms information to his First Data Hosted Payment page. He had already set up the form on his site and the payment page in his First Data account, he just needed me to make the Gravity Form work with that payment page. I set his
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