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New Theme for 2021

By Gordon September 19, 2021

The website has had a prune and new theme added this weekend. There were a few issues with the previous theme conflicting with the Autoptimize … Continued

Checking Gutenberg render callback locations

By Gordon November 5, 2019

Gutenberg needs no introduction for serious WP heads these days, and I expect – like me, you’ve all been experimenting with creating funky custom blocks. … Continued

Couple of methods for Enqueuing FontAwesome in WordPress

By Gordon September 24, 2019

Font Awesome is the ever useful font set for icons of all flavours. Version 4.7 is free and easily added to your WordPress website by … Continued

Radio box styling for Contact Form 7

By Gordon September 23, 2019

Hey there, here’s an update on the way I style up Radio inputs in Contact Form 7, this is in an update on the previous … Continued

Add FontAwesome to WordPress posts with a Shortcode

By Gordon September 18, 2019

Every now and again we require a FontAwesome icon to be added as part of the WordPress post content, now FontAwesome are really good and … Continued

Customize WooCommerce Variation Dropdown Labels

By Gordon September 6, 2019

The default label for variations dropdown boxes is ‘Choose an option’ which is fine if you’ve only got one but if you have several attributes … Continued

A few useful options built into WordPress for Theme Developers

By Gordon March 5, 2019

Here’s how to get the page you have assigned as the ‘Static Front page’ in the Settings. Here’s the blog page option. The current themes … Continued

Lazy load your post thumbnails

By Gordon January 22, 2019

Modern standards and good practice can be easily applied to your website by lazy loading the images contained thereon. The theory is to only load … Continued

Create a product category filter for WooCommerce

By Gordon June 26, 2018

Here’s a little function I’ve made which is quite useful and sought after. We’re going to add a product category filter above the product list … Continued

Add an edit post link to every single post and page on your WordPress site

By Gordon April 16, 2018

In order for websites to be useful they should be easy fo their users or managers to update. Often when I’m building themes I will … Continued

WordPress Plugin: Coming Soon Page

By Gordon March 26, 2018

Here’s a little plugin I made which allows WordPress users to create their own bespoke Coming Soon Page. Click here to download Manual Installation: Download … Continued

Add a new error message in WooCommerce on add to cart

By Gordon February 27, 2018

How to prevent adding items to the WooCommerce cart using the woocommerce_add_to_cart_validation hook.

Some more really useful plugins

By Gordon January 25, 2018

OK these are absolutely 100% super useful for tracking down where stuff is coming from via Hooks and Filters. You need the Debug Bar plugin … Continued

Removing Items from the WordPress dashboard menu

By Gordon January 23, 2018

A couple of php functions to enable you to fully customise the WordPress admin menu found in the dashboard.

Adding columns to your WordPress post content.

By Gordon November 19, 2017

Last time I posted a function to split text content into columns which didn’t really work for lists, images basically anything that wasn’t paragraphs. Not … Continued

Putting text content into two columns in WP

By Gordon November 14, 2017

Here’s a little function to add columns to your WordPress posts

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