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Forcing WP_Query To Return No Results

March 26, 2018

Cameron Jones

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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Joining Line26

February 13, 2018

Cameron Jones

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Job Hunting

Today marked 3 months since I started at Line26 as a WordPress developer, and they’ve been some of the best months of my career so far. I opted to wait until the end of my probationary period before posting as the last time posted before joining the company the role only lasted a few weeks,…

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How To Prevent Browsers From Asking To Save Passwords

January 28, 2018

Cameron Jones

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Security

As we move further into the digital age, we’re finding that we need to have accounts for an increasing number of websites, programs and apps. As a result of having to remember so many different passwords, password managers have started appearing to help manage our passwords for us. The most popular web browsers, such as…

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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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Top 4 Caching Plugins Compared (Breeze, W3TC, WPFC and WPRocket)

October 26, 2017

Subhan Alam

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Guest Posts, WordPress

The following is a guest post by Subhan Alam from Cloudways. If you are interested in becoming a guest blogger please get in touch. What if a website keeps getting loaded but fails to appear? It will load for sure but no one would wait for it to load especially when closing the tab is a matter…

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How To Remove Tags & Categories From WordPress Posts

September 19, 2017

Cameron Jones

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Developer Tutorials, SEO, WordPress

If you’re anything like me, you spend a lot of time building WordPress sites for clients. For the vast majority of these sites, they either don’t require a blog, or the blog is not the main focus of the site. WordPress has a user interface that is generally user friendly, however it’s good to cut back…

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How To Update The Login Link To Go To The WooCommerce Account Page

August 17, 2017

Cameron Jones

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Developer Tutorials, WooCommerce, WordPress

When building a WooCommerce site, it’s a good idea to use a custom login page instead of the default wp-login.php. Your users will feel far safer and more comfortable when logging into your WooCommerce store if the login page looks like the rest of the site. The default login page doesn’t include any navigation, headers…

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Your Home Page Doesn’t Need Keywords

July 10, 2017

Cameron Jones

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SEO

The other day I received some feedback about my website from someone who also makes websites. It would be a stretch to call them a developer, but they do make websites with WordPress. They said that I need to add keywords to my home page. This isn’t the worst idea, but your home page shouldn’t…

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