It looks like this could be quite a handy tool if you’re stuck with an issue that can’t coexist with the latest version of WordPress. Source: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-downgrade/ WP Downgrade | Specific Core Version has the potential for becoming one of the best-loved plugins among those, who simply cannot update to the latest WP release. In … Read more
Need a gradient? https://cssgradient.io/ (Also has color pickers, palettes, and swatches) Need a textured background? https://coolbackgrounds.io/ Specifically a triangle textured background? https://trianglify.io/ Or how about moving particles? https://marcbruederlin.github.io/particles.js/ Or wallpaper photos? https://unsplash.com/ Never have a boring background.
We’ve discovered Gutenberg Navigation Blocks — and more importantly (for any of you beating your head against the wall) the fact that you have to INSTALL the Gutenberg Plugin (even though it’s part of WP core). Apparently Navigation Blocks are not currently part of core Gutenberg, and almost all articles that talk about Gutenberg Navigation … Read more
We were working with a customer that had a ginormous media library. We found the “Media Cleaner” plugin and it worked like a charm. We removed over a gig of images and over 5800 entries in their media library. Be warned, it took FOREVER to run. But it seemed to do a perfect job. We … Read more
Need to pick a color palette? coolors.co is a handy tool for generating a color palette. You can randomly generate a palette, or give it color(s) you like and it will find suitable colors to flesh out your palette. We haven’t used it in a while, so we were pleasantly surprised to see a bunch … Read more
One of our customers received the message below through their contact form. Don’t fall victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is “Never get involved in a land war in Asia,” but only slightly less well known is this: “Never click on a link, when a threat is on the … Read more
If you need Custom Order Statuses in WooCommerce, you can purchase a plugin from WooCommerce for $49 a year for the rest of your life, or you can add this code to the functions.php of your child WordPress theme Granted, the WooCommerce solution is infinitely more robust, but if you’re just needing some order statuses … Read more
Ask Question The same customer that was trying to upload the problematic mp4 video, also ran into “WordPress: Unexpected response from the server. The file may have been uploaded successfully. Check in the Media Library or reload the page”. They were trying to upload mp4 files that were up to 400 megs in size. WordPress … Read more
We ran into an issue where a valid mp4 video file was being rejected with “Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons.” during upload into the media library. No amount of cajoling could get WordPress to accept the file. Enter “Lord of the Files” plugin. It not only increases security for uploaded … Read more
We started to doubt a customer’s sanity when they said that they were seeing name and address information already populated in their WooCommerce checkout. Even weirder, it was contact information for somebody else. Come to find out that their default hosting options had aggressive caching running and the site was caching every page, including these … Read more