Recently in Google Chrome you may or may not have seen the warning that WordPress Not Secure in Google Chrome. This is quite alarming, but there’s nothing to be afraid of. Your site is explicitly being told as being not secure, and this happens quite a lot in Google Chrome mainly. What Has Happened? Since Google Chrome…
One of the most common questions I get asked with WP Flipclock is how to centre WP flipclock. By default the flip clock appears on the left hand side of the screen, largely due to it is easier to put it there, but the plugin does at least try to centre it a bit. The…
If you run a business directory for your local area one way in which to improve each listing is to provide each business listing with it’s own Uber button. Uber is a taxi service where people could order taxis from their phones, and is popular in most major cities worldwide. As such, if you have…
Recently I have been working on a project where we needed to save CMB2 Colour Picker field as a RGB field. As great as CMB2 is, by default, the field is saved as hexadecimal field (like #FFFFFF). This makes sense as it is the most common ways to display colours on the internet. However, should you…
We’re a few weeks into the New Year already, and already there has been some interesting developments in the WordPress world. We’ve already had one release (4.4.1), which was released early last week, however still people are generally getting back into the rhythm on what to do in 2016. As such, I’d recommend to use…
I heard a fascinating podcast recently on Apply Filters Podcast, which detailed proper Google Analytics tracking. A lot of developers are pretty terrible at marketing and SEO, and many of them also don’t properly attribute their links and where they come from. A few months ago I was in the same boat, which really gave…
Here’s something I discovered recently, and shows what’s cool about WordPress – it’s so big, that you could discover something that other people will find relatively straightforward. Previously in WordPress I had been building themes with links to other pages as being static. This has worked out well for a number of years. However recently a…
Recently I was listening to the Apply Filters podcast. In Episode 45 they discussed Google Analytics tracking for their projects. It’s something I should do better, but at the moment I’ve not been playing around with it too much. One area that I am looking to optimise is the automatic tweets that I have running on the Winwar Media…
Recently, we’ve been using Gravity Forms on some pretty complex forms. One of the most complex forms had a bunch of select fields, and one of them had to list all posts associated with a custom post type. Gravity Forms has in their documentation a check on a foreach loop where we check the field type is…
Recently an issue occurred on the WordPress Support Forums (which I’ve started contributing to by helping out a few times a week – you should too!), where a user was was editing the Facebook Link description in an already published post, but it wasn’t being shared correctly. The Facebook Link Description was wrong, and this post will…
