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Category: Website Design & Development

Introducing WP Theme Components

September 16, 2020

Cameron Jones

Speaking Engagements, Website Design & Development, WordPress

I recently had a lovely chat with Nathan Wrigley from WP Builds about one of my recent projects WP Theme Components. WP Theme Components was born out of the repetition of needing to copy the same functions between multiple sites. It was becoming increasingly difficult to remember which project had the most best version and…

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Learn WordPress Plugin Development With My New Course

April 27, 2019

Cameron Jones

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Website Design & Development, WordPress

Have you ever wanted to learn how to develop WordPress plugins? I’ve just released a new course on Skillshare that will teach you exactly that! WordPress Plugin Development For Beginners: Building Your First WordPress Plugin is my brand new course for aspiring plugin developers available now on Skillshare. With just a little bit of PHP…

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How To Force HTTPS With Your .htaccess File

March 5, 2019

Cameron Jones

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Developer Tutorials, Website Design & Development

Having an SSL certificate is becoming more and more important for your website, but just installing one isn’t enough. Learn how to force your website to use HTTPS with your .htaccess file.

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Formatting A 12 Character DateTime Value

January 5, 2019

Cameron Jones

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Website Design & Development

I have been working with an API recently that was giving me dates in a format that was twelve character string made up of just numbers. My initial thoughts were that it might be a Unix timestamp, but they were too long. I also knew what some of the sample dates needed to equate to,…

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How To Restore The Database Of A Site On Local By Flywheel

October 8, 2018

Cameron Jones

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Local by Flywheel, Website Design & Development, WordPress

I love Local by Flywheel for developing sites locally. It’s fast, customisable and more stable than Vagrant based development environments. They recently released version 2.4.2, which included an update to the preferred environment. Local was nagging me to update the environment for my sites, so I obliged. Much to my dismay, this process wiped the…

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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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How To Fix Google Maps Including Or Overriding Roboto Fonts

November 3, 2017

Cameron Jones

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Website Design & Development

I recently ran into an issue with Google Maps and the Roboto font. On a website I was working on, which used Roboto, pages with an embedded Google Map would have slightly different font weights, and as it only changed after the map initialised, there was a distinct change as the font weights adjusted. Google…

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Unknown character set: ‘utf8mb4’ When Migrating WordPress

December 5, 2016

Cameron Jones

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Website Design & Development, WordPress

The Problem Recently I was migrating a new WordPress site from a staging server to the production server. Normally, I would have set the development site on a sub-domain of the site, however their hosting account had been suspended at the time, and needing to get started immediately, I set up the staging site on…

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Add Some Ninja To Your Website – Performance Optimisation

November 18, 2015

Cameron Jones

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Speaking Engagements, Website Design & Development

Recently I spoke at the Brisbane Web Design Meetup group on the topic of website performance optimisation. I also had the pleasure of sharing the stage with Tom De Spiegelaere from Mango Matter who spoke on a silo-ing SEO strategy. You can find his presentation at mangomattermedia.com/bwd. The Brisbane Web Design group is a local, non-profit…

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