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The appearing / disappearing button
An update to WordPress has removed my ability to “view page” from the top utility menu. It was replaced by an appearing/disappearing button that displays “view page” only after you click “publish”. It’s a button …
Pre Get Posts Code
Code snippet to put in functions.php to remove some categories from the main loop. I’m seeing how I like my blog with photography and personal categories out of my usability blog. //https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/44672/exclude-the-category-from-the-wordpress-loop —— removes categories …
Affix a class on scroll
Bootstrap’s data-spy functionality was working, but then it started getting hung-up and not loading. This site had the possibility of caching from 3 different sources (Bootstrap CDN, hosting caching, and Cloudflare CDN) and I think …
Improving Google PageSpeed in WordPress
I set out to improve my Google PageSpeed score to 100. Through many trial & errors, I finally dumped my current theme and used just the default 2016 WordPress theme. Technically I should create a child …
Removing p tags from WordPress
Does this really work? Need to test it. Yes, it removes the p tags, but does it allow the javascript snippet in the post to run? //Removes the p tags when code is placed inside …
WordPress 2016 No Main Navigation
The new WordPress 2016 theme does not come with the main navigation installed. While we will most likely (first-thing) look into installing the main nav, it makes me stop and evaluate “is this is intentionally …
Contact Form 7 – Send Invisible Copy
Sometimes it is appropriate to review the clients incoming form requests from their website. An example would be to accurately measure the amount of viable contacts the website produced for the client, you would need …
Customizing the Editor
It feels good to me when I take the time to customize my client’s editor. It is difficult to edit web pages as an end user when the styles of the website are not applied …