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What Remote Working Means To Me

November 13, 2018

Cameron Jones

Today marks a whole year since I joined Line26 as a WordPress developer. One of the major benefits of working here is that they would accomodate me working from home on a consistent basis. Considering that I’m travelling so far to work every day, being able to work remotely makes a massive difference to my life….

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Streamlining Your Template Structures When Building Themes

November 12, 2018

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Speaking Engagements, WordPress

Last week I was honoured to speak at the WordPress Brisbane meetup about rethinking our approach to the template hierarchy when building themes.

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Wrapup From WordCamp Brisbane 2018

November 6, 2018

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WordCamp, WordPress

Just last month I attended WordCamp Brisbane 2018. It was the third WordCamp in Brisbane in the past four years, and my sixth WordCamp. While it was an exhausting weekend it was without a doubt one of the best WordCamps I’ve been to. Most videos have already been uploaded to YouTube, so if you missed…

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

October 8, 2018

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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 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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