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 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 …
Your website depends on many web services to stay online. What happens when one of those services goes down?
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 …
3/17/25 Update This theme has not been updated for over 2 years. That means that you shouldn’t use it for your website. But, it was a great little theme, when it was supported. The weird thing is that it’s still available on WordPress.com. That makes me wonder how robust their …
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
