Posts for designers, developers, and bloggers about the world’s most popular CMS, WordPress.
As a web developer, I’ve worked in WordPress in many capacities. I’ve developed themes from scratch, inherited themes, bought themes, built and managed shops on WooCommerce, and worked in Gutenberg and third-party builders, including Avada Builder, Beaver Builder, and WPBakery. This space is a collection of learnings during this process.
Recently I created an interactive animation in Adobe Animate. The Adobe Animate part was relatively straightforward, but embedding the exported code into my WordPress website was tricky. This blog post shares what I learned and additional resources I found helpful.
A discussion of why you may choose to use relative or absolute internal links in your WordPress blog website. Explore the pros and cons.
E-commerce stores focus on decreasing cart abandonments because that's how profits are made! One technique to combat cart abandonment is to use the HTML page title as a flashing visual to re-grab the attention of a distracted shopper. View examples and learn how to implement this on Shopify or Wordpress, too.
By default, WordPress menu settings are limited, and the options to see more are hidden. Here's where to look to find optional additional Menu property settings.
Both WordPress and Statamic content management systems are built on PHP. Just like many other programming languages, PHP's syntax for OR is two vertical lines; PHP's syntax for AND is two ampersands &&. Alternatively, the words "and" and "or" may be used, too. Here are some code examples.
Read about my partial journey of growing a parenting blog focused on kids' art and LEGO bricks. I discuss site traffic and indicators that my site is growing in credibility.
Woocommerce Shipping is both a free plugin and a free monthly service available to WordPress Woocommerce users to manage the details of shipping for their e-commerce stores. I use this USPS Woocommerce shipping option because it allows me to easily print labels, schedule package pickups, and save money on postage fees.
The WordPress Media Library does not permit uploading SVG file types by default. Trying to upload an SVG file to the WordPress Media Library displays a warning reading, "Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons." To change the functionality of your site and to permit SVG upload, you'll need to update your theme or child theme's function.php with this code.
Animated gifs are image files that loop, almost like a video. You place animated gifs, which have a file extension of .gif, as images in WordPress's block editor. Sometimes, however, your animated gif displays only as a single image. In this case, the animation and looping are not working. This animated gif error can be frustrating, but the WordPress fix for this error is straightforward.
To apply a custom layout for all tag-specific pages use the tag.php file. This will allow you to create a similar template to other archive pages, such as categories, but retain customization options. As a starting point for your tag.php file, you can copy and paste the current code from your archive.php template.