Bill Forsyth III 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
Does your WordPress WooCommerce site keep saying enter address, while address has been entered already? You’ve probably used Checkout Field Editor to disable the country input field and are now confusing WooCommerce when it’s trying to process the order The validation message “Please enter an address to continue” normally shows when you are trying to … Read more
We absolutely love where WordPress is going with Gutenberg, but on a recent project we discovered that there’s currently one glaring absence in the list of blocks: The ability to lay out a grid of content. Enter GenerateBlocks. A clean, fast, minimal set of blocks that allow you to create incredibly flexible responsive grids. Unlike … Read more
Need to clean out a product file? Old crusty sale prices sitting around from 6 years ago? Run these mysql commands to make the nothing but a faint memory: DELETE FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = ‘_sale_price’;DELETE FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = ‘_sale_price_dates_to’;DELETE FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = ‘_sale_price_dates_from’; As with all database manipulation. Make sure … Read more
We can’t believe it’s been over 9 years since our original “Low Cost or Free Stock Photography sites“. It’s definitely time to update it. After all these years, we’re still using Deposit Photos, but we’ve added a few more low-cost image repositories. Yay Images has become indispensable to us over the last year, and we’ve … Read more