When Plugin Installation Doesn’t Follow the Normal Patterns It’s not like I’m new at this. I’ve installed plugins, modules, extensions and libraries in WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and other systems. But, yesterday evening, I ran into the craziest rig-a-ma-roll of instructions for an install I’ve ever run into with WordPress WooCommerce …
History of Sidebars WordPress has had sidebar functionality, almost from the beginning. This may be because “WordPress started out because the development of an existing blogging software b2/cafelog was discontinued by their main developers.” So, a structure for a basic blog had already been tried, tested, and improved. In 2005, …
When Website Elements Push Each Other Around There is only so much room in that circle … and there is only so much room on your website … and there is only so much room in your banner. Often, a website owner will request a design change that presents a …
GIMP is a “Free & Open Source Image Editor. In this article I will look at some of the basic functions a website content manager needs to perform.
Setting up a Shopping Cart: WooCommerce The last few weeks, I have been helping a Website HELP Wednesday client set up WooCommerce. I was surprised to find how many places that process has some unneeded confusions due to bad UI (user interface) design. So, I thought I would install WooComerce …
Shopping Carts: One Product with variations or Multiple Products Software has no imagination. Everything has to be entered precisely for software to work. This is especially true with setting up a shopping cart. For this article, we will discuss setting up a shopping cart for t-shirts using Plants Anonymous as …
Image Tasks for a Website Content Manager Articles about Planning Images Image Design Inconsistencies Image Overload The life cycle of a website has need of many skills. The web developer gets all the attention, but development only really involved at the beginning and when new features or rebuilding is needed. …
Case Study: Sometimes a WordPress Import Isn’t Quite So Simple Back in the old days of the web, we built “static” sites. That means that the content and the coding were all lined up between and around each other in files. It also meant that taking a copy of the …
No matter how comfortable I have been with Photoshop, that doesn’t make it the best tool for everyone.
When a Plugin Mysteriously Stops Working … it may no longer exist Many years ago, a client in the travel industry had a problem with the little weather app on their website. It just stopped working. The weather app was a WordPress plugin tied to Google Weather. Google had discontinued …
