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How To Add The Blog Page Content To Blog Post Listings

June 25, 2018

Cameron Jones

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

Cameron Jones

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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

Cameron Jones

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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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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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