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 …
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 …
Case Study: Sometimes a WordPress Import Isn’t Quite So Simple WordPress has a handy-dandy export function that comes with the basic WordPress install. That means that it’s part of the WordPress core, not a plugin. (There are also plugins for this task.) When you use the Export tool, you can …
Web Services Don’t Need your Permission to Change … or Disappear Many years ago, a client in the travel industry had a problem with their little weather app on their website. It just stopped working. The weather app was a WordPress plugin tied to Google Weather. Google discontinued their weather …
When the default WordPress Post functionality doesn’t have all the fields you need, it has Custom Post Types functionality to add new data fields.
When you want each Post or Page to have a unique banner image …
Why is the WordPress Kahuna Theme Messing with my Images? As WordPress theme writers work with the functions of the WordPress core, there can be some interesting bugs. A bug is an unintended glitch in the programming. The Kahuna theme has a bug with how it uses the WordPress Featured …
If you have a WordPress site, you may have seen this note in your dashboard. And, you may or may not have heard any of the hullabaloo swirling around this update. Any software update that affects the first number indicates a major technology change. In this case, it’s a shift …
