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How To Remove The Uncategorised Category From WordPress And WooCommerce

September 28, 2020

Cameron Jones

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Developer Tutorials, WooCommerce, WordPress

Out of the box, WordPress includes a default category for posts called “Uncategorized”. It not only looks unprofessional, it’s largely unnecessary. While you can rename it to something more suitable, I tend to use “General”, you can’t delete it. At least, not without a bit of code. The first thing we’ll want to do is…

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How To Set A Default Featured Image For Your Posts And Pages In WordPress Using Advanced Custom Fields

July 25, 2020

Cameron Jones

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Advanced Custom Fields, Developer Tutorials, WordPress

They say pictures are worth a thousand words. That might be a slight exaggeration, but images can be vitally important for websites, particularly for layouts that use featured images. It’s common for themes to display grids or lists of posts, and if some of the posts don’t include a featured image the site can look…

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How To Add PHP Coding Standards Checks To Your WordPress Project

May 23, 2019

Cameron Jones

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Developer Tutorials, WordPress

WordPress is a massive project, with hundreds of developers contributing code over more than 15 years. When developing at such a large scale, it is virtually impossible to maintain consistency in the codebase, as every developer has their own methods, styles and preferences. Heck, it’s practically impossible with just two developers, let alone a project…

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How To Create A Front End Login Page With Easy Digital Downloads

August 9, 2018

Cameron Jones

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Developer Tutorials, Easy Digital Downloads, WordPress

Recently I published a quick tutorial on setting a WooCommerce site to use the WooCommerce login page for all logins instead of wp-login.php. I wanted to replicate this functionality on a new site I’m building with Easy Digital Downloads. Easy Digital Downloads requires a bit more work, as by default there’s no option to set…

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How To Add The Blog Page Content To Blog Post Listings

June 25, 2018

Cameron Jones

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Developer Tutorials, Website Design & Development, WordPress

One of the most frustrating things with WordPress is how the blog page and post type archives, despite behaving and appearing in a very similar manner, they are managed quite differently. Literally speaking, the blog page is an archive for the post post type, but not so in the technical implementation. The main difference is that…

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