For any number of reasons you may wish to embed a Tweet in a WordPress page or blog post. Fortunately this is incredibly simple and no HTML knowledge is needed. Just follow the instructions below. How to get the URL of a Tweet First off we need the URL of the Tweet that we want […]
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How to get Mailchimp Subscriber Popup working in WordPress
I spend an equal amount of my working time on WordPress and Mailchimp related tasks. I’m listed by Mailchimp as an Expert and have worked as a WordPress specialist for quite a few years. It’s rare however that I get to work on a technical challenge involving both at the same time. Today however was […]
Add focus to a Gravity Forms field
Adding focus to a form field means that when the page with the form loads, the field with focus will have the cursor flashing in the field ready for text input. Various research has shown that this increases conversion rates. HTML5 includes the autofocus attribute that makes it simple to add focus to a field […]
WooCommerce – exclude categories from showing
A customer uses WooCommerce to power their online shop. They required a certain category to be available through the WordPress dashboard but the category wasn’t to display on the shop pages or any widgets. Here is the PHP required to achieve the outcomes. Just add the following to your functions.php. Don’t show WooCommerce category on […]
Microsoft Word to WordPress Style Guide
A few years back I posted a Microsoft Word style-guide for content that is to be copied and pasted into WordPress websites. Copying and pasting from Word to a WordPress page or post is still very common therefore I thought I should update the guide. Why do I need to style content correctly in Microsoft […]
WordPress – How to add Social Media icons into a menu
There are many ways of showing social media (Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin etc.) icons on your WordPress menu. Almost all include having to install a plugin or the theme to provide the icon links. What many people want however is to include icons in a WordPress menu itself which most plugins and themes don’t easily support. […]
Resolve WP Super Cache error
If you see the following error in the source of a WordPress page “Super cache dynamic page detected but late init not set. See the readme.txt for further details” then fear not. This error is due to a setting being required in the WordPress WP Super Cache Plugin. Of course, as the warning describes, the answer lies […]
S2Member – Fix Home Page Redirect
I came across a problem using the great WordPress S2Member membership plugin. For some reason, if a person that wasn’t logged-in tried to view the Home Page (actually the Front Page) then the person would be redirected to the membership options page. There was nothing set to make the Home Page accessible to logged-in users […]
Why I host in Singapore and not Australia
I host my website and blog on a Virtual Private Server (VPS). Recently I moved my hosting location from the U.S.A. to Singapore. After a few clients have asked why I moved to Singapore and not Australian based hosting I thought I may as well blog about it. Australian Hosting costs are way too high […]
How to add an image gallery to WordPress
Back in the old days it was difficult to add an image gallery to a WordPress website. Furthermore it was even more complicated to make the gallery look good or change the photos or drawings in the gallery once the gallery was created. Fortunately it is now really simple to add galleries with varying great […]