I have been using MAMP at my place of work for PHP and WordPress development, after a few weeks the “My Website” page really broke me, so I decided to do something about it and created my own custom MAMP / My Website dashboard. Here is what my new dashboard looks like, if you want […]
A lot of the eCommerce websites I visit seem to have a way of showing product features, for example, I am looking for a new snowboarding jacket and they will always list things like, “Waterproof zips” as a product feature with a little image, but how do you do this with WooCommerce? Well after a […]
Download WooCommerce Image Hover This plugin is available from WordPress.org, download WooCommerce Image Hover. Warning: WooCommerce Image Hover Disables Functionality With WooCommerce 3.0+ and the new image slider, for this plugin to work I needed to disable some of the new features and I feel that we should embrace the new features as they are more […]
Unfortunately when you are setting up a WooCommerce store, you often come across the problem of product thumbnails being different heights. On a single product page this is normally not a problem, however on archive pages, such as categories and tag pages, a different height on your thumbnail will make the layout of your products […]
The Black Studio TinyMCE plugin is a great plugin that I add to just about every WordPress client site these days. It gives clients a simple way to add some style and formatting to text in a widget area, eg, sidebar or header. However, I find that the name that appears as the widget heading […]
When you are developing a WordPress powered website for a client, the dashboard can be a little in your face with all the widgets, menu items and WordPress branding. So to make the dashboard more user friendly and customisable to a client needs, you can do a few things to clean it up. Please note: […]
WordPress continues to evolve, it was born as a blogging platform, then it became a super powerful CMS and now it is being used as a PHP development framework. Take a few mintues, grab a coffee and watch the below presentation (slides from the presentation are further below) by Jeff Pearce, aka, Jeffikus. Jeff gives […]
Everyone by now should know that WordPress === AWESOME. If you want to sprinkle a little more awesome on top you can, here are 10 things by Ross Johnson to help speed up WordPress powered website! Source – WordPress.tv
Better late than never right? I honestly cannot believe how quick the time has gone from attending WordCamp Gold Coast to the point of sitting down to write this post. So here it is WordPress homies! WordCamp Gold Coast 2011 was my first WordCamp, or any web industry event for that matter. Needless to say […]
I just found a presentation by Jeff, from Paper Leaf (Edmonton, Canada), on Designing a Client-Focused WordPress Site, Jeff brings up some great ideas on how we can make WordPress an even more friendlier CMS for clients. I’m looking forward to catching this one on WordPress TV soon. Check out the slides! Do you have […]