As a web developer, I frequently encounter situations where I need to have access and modify files in the root directory or within the WordPress install and I don’t have FTP access. Often, I simply want to update some plugins but don’t want to do it without access to these, in case something goes wrong. Well now you can do … Read More
This article is mostly for my own use, but perhaps you’ll find some use for it too! These are just the steps I take to ensure that all of the URLs and site information are correct for the live site vs. the test location. When I set up a test site on Cloud Access that is later to go live … Read More
I just heard back from the support team at Greatives, the team behind the Reload WordPress Theme. I was having an issue where Masonry galleries created in Visual Composer displayed exactly the same whether I was using “Stamped” or “Masonry” as the display mode. In the demo they have here, you can see that “Gallery Stamp Masonry” looks very different … Read More
If you need to search an entire directory via FTP for a text string (or search by filesize, date, or path), I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news it, if you are searching for files containing the string in their name: you can do it easily with FileZilla. The bad news is, there isn’t really … Read More
Disabling filters included in a parent theme using your child theme’s functions.php sounds like something that should be really easy, but it’s actually a little tricky to figure out. If you’re here, you probably already figured out that you need to use remove_filter, but might have noticed that it isn’t working. The reason is probably that the child theme functions … Read More
The Jurassic World website is quite awesome. In honor of the movie coming out this weekend, I decided to review it! I highly recommend you check it out yourself at JurassicWorld.com. The website is responsive and has all the bells and whistles of a modern theme park / movie website with the massive marketing budget of a major movie studio. … Read More
Today, I got an unexpected but very welcome surprise from Rebecca Rausch at Neon Lizard Creative Design: a fun variation on my logo, featuring a turtle! Anyone who knows me knows that turtles are very important to me, and this was quite the fun mashup. Now I’ve just got to figure out lots of places to use it!
If you are using the Chapelco theme for WordPress, don’t use the Ultimate Posts Widget. It will break your theme and site! They must have an overlapping function, because it basically ruins the entire header, leading to a lack of stylesheets. I would wager that it applies to all themes using the Gantry framework as well (which I would not … Read More
If you are a fan of beautiful animations and rare animals, you are going to love this one. In addition to being a super awesome website built with modern web standards, all of the animation work is also done entirely in CSS. Besides being very difficult and impressive, this also means that the animations themselves are able to be fully … Read More
