Undefined Index – PHP Text Widget Error Solution

If you are using the PHP Text Widget in WordPress and get an error in your Admin section that reads:

Or something similar, there is an easy solution to this annoying problem. First, load up the file plugin.php from the plugins directory, usually wp-content/plugins/php-text-widget/plugin.php. You may want to download it using your FTP program so you can work on … Read More

Authors Loop with Links to Pages – WordPress Tutorial

Creating the loop for a page that displays all of your authors in your WordPress website is something that’s not as straight-forward as you would think it would be. Additionally, actually linking to the author’s page is fairly tricky. So today I am going to show you how to do it. You can take the final code and put it … Read More

Use Responsive CSS to Remove Admin Bar in WordPress

If you want to remove the Admin Bar in WordPress using only CSS, there is a very easy way to do it. You can even make it responsive, so that it will display or be hidden depending on the size of the screen. Additionally, you won’t need to edit any of the core WordPress files, you will only need to … Read More

WordPress Website for Lakeville Errand Service

Brian Johnson Design is happy to announce that we have gone live with a new WordPress site for Ponytail Xpress, a Lakeville-based errand service and personal shopping service. In addition, I noticed today that even though we just launched the site and we only did minor search engine optimizations, it is currently ranking fairly high on the first page for … Read More

New WordPress Website for Twin Cities Marketing Agency

We recently launched a new website for the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro-based marketing agency, Magnetik Marketing Solutions. The site is actually template-based, with numerous customizations done to it. There is a large, front-page slider that gets some of the marketing message of the business out to visitors while adding a little motion and excitement to the design. To add some content … Read More

Change Number of Results in Loop: WordPress

If you want to limit or even make UNlimited the number of results produced by the WordPress loop, without starting a new wp_query, I have a solution for you. This will work on an results or archive page, anywhere the loop is used, including results for authors, custom taxonomies, custom post types, or categories. In this example, we are going … Read More

How to Display Custom Field Value Only If it Has Value

When working with custom fields in WordPress, it’s necessary to know how to actually display those values on the page. And much of the time, you may have markup associated with that custom field that you only want displayed if the field actually has a value. We are going to learn how to do just that. In this example, we … Read More

Dropdown Menu of All Terms in Custom Taxonomy – WordPress

Built-in to WordPress is a nifty function, wp_dropdown_categories, that is supposed to list all your categories in a drop-down menu and, with the right script, link directly to them. It even has an argument for using it with a custom taxonomy. The only thing is, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t produce the appropriate link. It appears to produce a link like /?cat=# … Read More

Best Way to Manage Custom Fields – WordPress

There is an easy, amazing new way to add and manage custom fields for your WordPress site, and it doesn’t involve learning tons of PHP, or even any coding whatsoever! The answer lies in the plugin called Advanced Custom Fields. This has saved me so much time in working with custom fields, it’s truly amazing! Rarely do I describe plugins … Read More