Wordpress Evolution and Advancements Since its humble beginnings in 2003, WordPress has come a long way, revolutionizing the way we create websites and empowering millions of individuals and businesses worldwide. As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of WordPress, it's essential to reflect on the incredible advancements made, the vast ecosystem…
When migrating a Wordpress installation from one server to another, it is important that you verify the integrity of the database. The tables can be created properly but you must check for missing indexes and ensure that all primary key columns have the AUTO_INCREMENT column attribute. Missing indexes and auto_increment…
When I first started building sites using Wordpress, I downloaded a few different themes and took pieces from each to build the sites my clients wanted. Each theme had its own peculiar way of implementing things and, of course, with each new theme used I spent precious time learning that…
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…
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…