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 …
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 …
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 …
This is the support forum thread for the mysteriously appearing social media icons after an update to the Basic theme. ME: I have installed Basic on two sites. With the recent update on those sites, the sidebars are being activated before the Save is activated. And, it adds a set …
When something goes wrong on your website, it’s difficult to tell whether the problem is whether something is broken due to a technical error or due to a malicious action.
Sometimes, I need WordPress or a theme to function differently. Then I need to work in functions.php
When Technologies Collide: finding the right pieces for the puzzle It’s a wise thing to understand your website’s technology. Then when the technology behaves unexpectedly, it’s easier to both understand why and find a solution. An example is the header images in the Kahuna Theme. What if you want to …
