Don’t you just hate it when WordPress plugins are just a rule to themselves when it comes to adding new menus to your installation? Those slick, and well thought out, menu positions are now, seemingly, randomly dotted with plugin menus jostling for attention.
Well, hate no more. Tidy My Menus is an automated solution to all this. Install, activate and watch your menus tidy themselves up.
Continue readingWhen adding code to a WordPress post, you may find that it gets modified (particularly when using the visual editor). For some years now, a popular plugin of mine, Code Embed, has allowed you a way to achieve this without any such modification. However, the plugin has had many features to it, making it a lot larger from what it first was. And that first release did it just a few lines of code.
So, dusting those lines down, bringing them up to VIP coding standards, here they are for anybody to easily add to their site, for example, via their functions.php theme file…
It’s been a year since I went to my first ever WordCamp – WordCamp London. And now I’m back for a second attempt.
Continue readingIf you have a number of Lego Minifigs then displaying them is something you may consider. However, official products can be expensive, and will often not hold many.
So, I set out creating my own on a relatively shoe-string budget. How does £20 for displaying 66 figures sound?
Continue readingThe brand-new, all-singing, all-dancing, editor for WordPress is due imminently and I've been using the beta version for some time for creating posts on this site. Recently you may have noticed a little advertisement of this fact has appeared at the top of (some of) my posts – I've added this to help promote Gutenberg.
Let me share the code I've used to do this…
Continue readingSorry, that title is a bad pun. But I needed to make light of something that, otherwise, isn't particularly funny. For a few months now I've started to lose feeling in one of my fingers and generally, strength in my left arm. Here's the story of what happened and what I'm doing about it…
Continue readingWorking for the WordPress.com VIP team, I deal with a lot of high-profile clients and, although I've been working there for over a year now, my experience of technical support goes back over 25 years. So, I thought it was time to share some of my knowledge. And, you know, little of this is mind-blowing stuff.
Continue readingGoogle has announced, today, a new style of AdSense ad – the "Auto ad". Using machine learning, the code will insert adverts into your site where it things they will be most relevant.
Auto ads balance revenue and user experience by delivering the right ad at the right time to your visitors.
They can even be added side-by-side with your existing, fixed, AdSense advert. And it's really easy to add these to your WordPress site.
Continue readingI'm 46 and like to play video games – specifically on the PlayStation 4. But age can play a curious role in self-policing when playing online.
Let me explain…
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