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

October 8, 2018

Cameron Jones

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 An External Or Customizer Link To The WordPress Admin Menu

September 28, 2018

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Developer Tutorials, WordPress

WordPress has a simple API for adding new pages to the admin, however sometimes you may not want your link to be a new settings page. Here you can find demonstrations for how to get around this limitation of WordPress.

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

August 9, 2018

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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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Fixing The Gravity Forms Salesforce Add-On For WordPress

July 17, 2018

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WordPress

Salesforce is a very popular Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform. It allows businesses to closely monitor the status of their customers and offers insights into help manage and boost sales and retention rates. Naturally, there are ways connect the most popular content management system with one of the most popular CRM platforms. One popular method is…

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How To Add The Blog Page Content To Blog Post Listings

June 25, 2018

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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 Install An Apple USB SuperDrive On A Windows 10 PC

May 22, 2018

Cameron Jones

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Hardware

As technology evolves, an increasing number of laptops and even some desktop machines are being built without CD/DVD drives. With the rise to prominence of digital services such as Spotify, Netflix and Steam, it’s become more convenient to stream our music and movies than buying CDs and DVDs. Not only is it on-demand, there’s also…

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Don’t Be Afraid To Quit Your Job

April 25, 2018

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Human Resources

Changing jobs can be daunting for anyone. You generally spend more time at work than you do anywhere else while you’re awake, so your job is a massive part of your life and significant changes to that can have a huge impact on all other aspects of your life. There’s a lot of risk that…

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How To Find Out The Handle For Enqueued WordPress Scripts

April 9, 2018

Cameron Jones

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Developer Tutorials, WordPress

With the wide variety of plugins and themes out there for WordPress websites, sometimes you can run into issues with the scripts and styles they include. It could be your new form plugin has some hideous styles, or maybe a couple of different plugins are all enqueuing different versions of the select2 library causing all…

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Forcing WP_Query To Return No Results

March 26, 2018

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Developer Tutorials, WordPress

The WP_Query object is the primary way of retrieving a post, or a number of posts from a WordPress site. There may be some occasions where you need a WP_Query object to return an empty result, so that WP_Query::have_posts returns false. Some good use cases could be testing for empty results when you’ve already added a lot…

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