Inserting images in your posts or pages is quite easy in Wordpress using the Add Media button. This post is meant to explain how the Wordpress media shortcode is populated with the information from your media library. Take a look at the image below. The body of the post as…
Have you ever created a post or page in Wordpress and found the following weird code staring at you? Yeah? Chances are you copied the content straight from Word and pasted it right into the Wordpress editor. To prevent this from happening in the future use the Paste From Word…
I put it off long enough. My site was in desperate need of optimization. I installed the popular W3 Total Cache plugin and then began the task of configuring it for my needs. I will not get into the specifics here - I will let the plugin's developers and experts…
Last month, Infusionsoft hosted a Mastermind call about building a dynamic checkout process which started me thinking about how to implement such a feature for a client. By the way, if you are an Infusionsoft user and you are not attending the weekly Mastermind calls, you are really missing out.…
For many years I have used CRON and shell scripts to perform code and database backups for my own site and client sites. Of course, using a CRON job usually means that the client is unable to modify the backup or the backup schedule which is fine, really, especially since…
The other day, I was asked if I could suggest a shopping cart solution for a site whose owner was selling only one single eBook in PDF format. My immediate response was WooCommerce which always ranks as one of the Most Popular plugins on Wordpress.org week after week or WP…
I watched Amy Cuddy's TEDTalk the other night and it seems it really struck a nerve as I have thought of it a number of times since. I've told a few people already to watch it in the hopes they could draw some inspiration from it. Her findings as a…
It's summertime, your on vacation and a colleague or your realtor need a document signed immediately but you are on the beach and it's a long walk to the hotel's business center. Or you are out on a fishing trip nowhere near a fax machine. Wouldn't it be nice if…
I spent way too much time this morning trying to figure out which piece of CSS was causing the moused-over element in the Country and State drop downs on my checkout page to disappear. By default, the font color for the moused-over elements is white (#ffffff). When rendered on a…