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How To Move The Custom Menu Item Classes To The Anchor Element

December 4, 2018

Cameron Jones

Do you need your custom WordPress menu classes to be applied to the link anchor instead of the list item? With less than 20 lines of code you can make this happen without a custom menu walker!

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Enabling Jetpack’s Cookie Notice On A Theme Without Widget Areas

November 25, 2018

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WordPress

Jetpack’s Cookies & Consent Banner is a widget, even though it doesn’t display in a widget area. If your theme doesn’t have any widget areas this makes it impossible to add the cookie banner until you follow this handy guide

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Let’s Take A Very Serious Look At Gutenberg

November 19, 2018

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Gutenberg, WordPress

Gutenberg is the controversial new block editor for WordPress coming in version 5.0. While I believe it’s a great step forward, towards the future, there are a number of issues around the project that really need to be addressed.

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What Remote Working Means To Me

November 13, 2018

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Human Resources

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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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 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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