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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Add focus to a Mailchimp subscribe form field
I’ve written various posts in the past regarding how to have a form field in focus automatically when a website page loads. What we mean by in focus is that the cursor will be active in a predefined field when a webpage is loaded. This means that all the viewer need do is start typing […]
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 […]
How to find your Mailchimp API key
A Mailchimp API key is usually needed if you use an external application or service to integrate with Mailchimp. For example you may have a Mailchimp sign-up form on your WordPress website that automatically adds new subscribers to your Mailchimp list. There are various ways to locate your Mailchimp API key but below is by […]
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. […]
How to set a default value for Mailchimp fields
Mailchimp allows a very useful feature called Merge Tags. Merge Tags are a means of inserting data from our subscribers list into a Campaign (a Campaign is the email newsletter that is sent to your subscribers). This is extremely useful for personalising Campaigns such as inserting the recipients first name into the email. But what […]
Where can I see my past Mailchimp campaigns?
A question I get asked often when delivering Mailchimp training is where to find the link to sent Mailchimp campaign emails (i.e. archives). This is one of those things that is really useful if you want to include a link on your website to past issues of your email newsletters. Fortunately this is really simple […]
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 […]
How to add Role Based Emails to Mailchimp
For very good reason, many of the good email marketing and newsletter services don’t allow the addition of role based emails as subscribers (e.g. Mailchimp, Aweber and Campaign Monitor). A role based email address is one that starts with something like admin or billing e.g. admin@example.com is a role based email address. Getting omnivore warnings […]
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 […]