I’ve built a few WordPress websites using the Genesis Parallax Pro theme by StudioPress. It’s a beautiful and very well coded theme. The themes home page is comprised of various widget areas and three background images. If you have a fair amount of content in the widget areas that have background images then you may have […]
Duplicate Jetpack sharing icons
The Jetpack plugin for WordPress has many very useful features. One of those is social sharing where a visitor to your page or post may share to Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest and so on. Selecting whether to show the social media sharing icons on media, pages or posts is simple. By default the sharing buttons […]
HTML numbers in Circles (the quick way)
Often, we may require to add a number with a circle around that number. For example, let’s say that we have three steps and we want the numbers to display thus; ① ② ③ Most of us immediately think that the simplest solution is to use CSS to style a number with the number centred […]
Make Gravity Forms $ sign smaller
I seem to be doing alot of work with the Gravity Forms plugin for WordPress at present. I love the flexibility of Gravity Forms and have installed it on several hundred websites for all sorts of uses from basic contact forms to Mailchimp integrated subscribe forms to complex quoting calculators. After my post regarding removing […]
Fix CSS rotate not working
I sure hope that this helps someone as this was really bugging me. I was using CSS transform property to rotate text and the text just wasn’t rotating as it should have. My CSS looked like Eventually I came across the solution which is to use the CSS display property with a value of inline-block. […]
Why you must use tables … for email newsletters
Some clarity is needed. HTML Tables should only ever be used for tabular data and not for pure presentational purposes (that’s what CSS is for). Well, that’s according to HTML5 and best practice standards for website design. When creating an email marketing campaign however just forget about best practice as tables rule the world for email! […]