If you are like me, you frequently need to be able to easily add social media follow buttons directly to your WordPress theme. You could, of course, hard-code them, but you are still going to have to find the images and add all that markup to get it looking good. There is an easy way! With the Social Media Feather … Read More
This one had me stumped for quite a while. Whenever I used gradients in my layer mask for an image later, I would end up with really obvious banding, which really just ruined the photo in my case. Even with dithering enabled and using 16-bit color mode as all the identical online “solutions” suggested, I was still getting the banding … Read More
Sometimes you may find that the permalink of a single page you have in WordPress is not working. When you are in the edit screen, it shows up fine. But when you click to view it, the permalink is something like yoursite.com/?p=14 or something along those lines. Additionally, when you try to view the page when logged out, you get … Read More
I came across a really neat trick today for those times when you’ve been locked out of your own WordPress site or a client wants you to make changes to their site but never gave you login credentials. All you need is FTP access and you can create a new administrator user. Original credit for this goes to George Stephanis of … Read More
I came across a great way to limit the number of words displayed in the excerpt for a WordPress post, brought to you by the good folks at Cuppa (update – link removed because the site is gone). This method will allow you to choose a specific word limit every time you use the_excerpt or get_the_excerpt in your template files, … Read More
A common problem with beginners to WordPress after they create a new site is that they are unable to add anything to their custom menu. In some cases, there are just no options to choose from to add to the menu, in others there is just a vague heading saying, “no items” as well as numerous other problems. here are … Read More
If you are getting this error and are frustrated with the lack of help on the internet, have no fear! I’m here to help. The error, “Username and/or API Key invalid” is actually very common with Envato’s Toolkit, which is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily update your Envato themes. So how do we solve this issue? Just … Read More
Sometimes it’s necessary to manually select the order in which to sort your authors on your page listing all your authors or users. It is a little tricky to do, but I’ll break it down for you in this simple tutorial. First, you are going to need to add a custom meta field for your users. There are many ways … Read More
If you are using a loop to list all your WordPress categories or terms in a custom taxonomy and you only want to display the top-level ones, here is how you do that. The trick is in getting the “parent” parameter, which is set to “0” for all top-level terms and categories. So to start a foreach loop and display … Read More
