If you’ve been working on adding a custom post type into your WordPress theme, only to fall flat when, inexplicably, the title and editor in the post edit screen have disappeared, have no fear! Here is the common cause. If you don’t add ‘supports’ => array( ) into your custom post type registration, then at the very least WordPress assumes … Read More
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Display Posts with 2 or More Tags – WordPress Tutorial
It’s amazing how difficult it is to Google how to do this exact thing, but it’s so simple. But there are already pages linked into your WordPress site that will display all your posts that are tagged with multiple things. You just need to know how to link to it! Here is an example: Example: Link to all of my … Read More
How to Combine the httpdocs and httpsdocs Folders in Plesk 11
When the Plesk Panel for my virtual dedicated server was updated recently from an old version to the new 11.x version, I was left with a huge problem. I was running a WordPress website on the server which accepted credit card payments and thus needed the ability to SSL encryption on the site. Obviously only some pages are encrypted and … Read More
Responsive, Centered Square Div that Resizes Based on Height in Landscape – CSS
This particular project was requested by @sanjaypoyzer. He wanted to elaborate on our trick to maintain aspect ratio for an element with CSS. His goal was to have a div, WITH content, that would maintain its square shape while still being responsive. Easy enough to do if you want the square to respond relative to the width of the browser … Read More
Redirect to Mobile Website – SUPER Easy Tutorial
I spent literally hours searching for a good, easy-to-follow how-to on setting up a javascript redirect on your website so that mobile visitors get sent to your mobile page to no avail. It needed to be extremely clear and with great examples and I wanted a method that DIDN’T rely on screen-size because, well… That’s just stupid. You don’t want … Read More
P3 Plugin “Cannot Read Profiles Directory” WordPress Fix
If you recently tried running Godaddy’s P3 WordPress plugin on your WordPress site or blog and received the error message “Cannot Read Profiles Directory,” there is a solution for you! The problem stems from two possible causes. There needs to BE a profiles directory and it needs to be writable by the program. To get this working, you first need … Read More
Why Am I Now Getting Notifications From My Facebook Page
I’m not sure how long Facebook has been rolling this out, but in my personal account anyway, I just recently and randomly started getting every notification from any of the pages for which I am Admin in. I’m not sure why this changed all at once, but I wanted it to stop. So here is how you disable Facebook notifications … Read More
How to Use Responsive Background Image Sprites – CSS Tutorial
At one time or another, you may have found yourself wanting to use sprites in your responsive website design. While at first this may seem like a very simple task, in reality it’s a little more difficult of a challenge. It can, however, be done. Here’s how! This trick is fully supported by all modern browsers other than IE 8 … Read More
Maintain Aspect Ratio for HTML Element Using Only CSS in a Responsive Design
There is an easy way to make a div or other element square or any other shape while still being responsive, using ONLY CSS. I actually stumbled upon this solution myself, and then saw a formal write-up of it by @marcolago here. The solution is actually extremely simple, and you will kick yourself for not figuring it out. This little … Read More
Google Maps V3 “Sensor Parameter” Error – Cause and Fix
If you are here you probably received an error something like this: The Google Maps API server rejected your request. The “sensor” parameter specified in the request must be set to either “true” or “false”. This is a commonly seen error message when working with the Google Maps V3 API. If you are like me, you know little about javascript … Read More