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How to Make Divi Gallery Thumbnails Square? So far i have found 2 ways: Add code to child theme function file as found here: https://worthitmedia.co.uk/make-divis-gallery-module-thumbnails-square/ by adding  this: /** * Make Divi gallery square */ function...

How to change Divi Form Subject line? well it turns out that there are (at least ) two ways: Change your General Settings > Site title this will change the subject line from "New Message From **Old Site Title** to "New Message From New Site Title** And, hopefully...

Divi Theme builder is great. It allows me to build headers and footers globally. But using  menus in the footers can cause problems - when they go mobile / burger drop down menu - they might not fit in the footer if they have more than 2 or 3 items. So, i want to keep...

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Genesis theme v3.0 update kills child themes stylesheet! that was a fright.. last friday 21st june?..so many of my sites that were built using  Genesis framework with a child theme and clients and autoupdaters have been busily updating  as and when and suddenly the...

I was looking  for a Popup plugin that i could use for a form that worked nicely with Divi theme, but i wanted it to use the standard divi form as i find it simplicity useful. and i found Popups for Divi. Last updated: 2 months ago Active installations: 6,000+ And it...

How to Block A Single Page from Being Indexed by Google? Noindex metatag In wordpress its a bit difficult to to add the noindex meta tag to one particular page: <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> Robot Text file So, you can add a robots.txt ( a...

Its not actually that difficult, but you  may forget that you  have to edit the htaccess file: https://divibooster.com/changing-the-pin-icon-in-the-divi-module/   so if you  later have to move the site please remember to change the htacces file url!!

Using  Heart shared hosting wordpress sites can be pretty slow. The default PHP version seems to be 5.3 though you  can bump this up  to 5.5 in the Hosting Control panel. But i have been adding php versiosn with htaccess files for some time: SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION...

so, here's the code to hide all sorts of things including plugins (Contact Form 7, Head uP Bar, Visual Composer,Carousel horizontal posts content slider  and Advanced Custom Fields) from Wordpress admin area for the Role Author: //* Limit Author access add_action(...

Sometimes I build a new site on a domain reference or a pretend domain and when the site is ready I have move the website to the new domain. Certain plugins like Visual Composer and Revolution slider have problems with this as their activation codes are registered for...

How to set Custom Colours only for Wordpress Text Colour Picker

In the last couple of weeks i have noticed my fonts suddenly getting much bigger than originally set. It seems genesis have added a fix: /* Chrome fix */ body > div { font-size: 1.8rem; } that seems to be messing everything up so in my child's theme i have added:...

I just updated Timely Calendar and found my custom theme was no longer working . On investigation it seemed my custom theme folder had been deleted. Thankfully the client had not had a look at the site yet. But is there a way to stop this - very boring if its going to...

As if one could not be more boring i have added the SNAP Wordpress plugin to push WP Posts to Twitter. You're so lucky.

I moved to opera in 2000/2001 when it had adverts in the header. It was the browser that actually conformed to web standards and therefore made website building possible, when Interent Explorer was doing its whole world domination thing and breaking the internet. The...

so 1. i added this to my wordpress functions file: //* Enqueue Scripts add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'MY-Theme-Name_load_scripts' ); function MY-Theme-Name_load_scripts() { wp_enqueue_script( 'MY-Theme-Name-responsive-menu', get_bloginfo( 'stylesheet_directory' )...

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Which Responsive Framework for Wordpress is a question thats been bugging me for a couple of years a reponsive sites continue to develop and become more important. I have been building wordpress sites using the Skeleton Theme from Hybrid for 5 years or so and i still...

i have had to move sites from demo folders to live folders and from one host to another and sometimes these sites can have a lot of links on the pages – to other pages or to images or files.

I have been having this problem for a couple of months now: the wonderful Timely Calendar plugin for Wordpress stopped working on my demo sites. The Settings buttons would not work and the Add New Event Date selectors would not work. This made it very difficult to...

here's something i just took far too long trying to work out. so: Go to Appearance>Menus>MainMenu MAke sure you  can see Product Category box in left box - if not go to  Screen Options tab (top right of page) and tick Product Category Then add product Categories...

in: Media Settings> Large size>width is set to 695px. I have checked in the database>options and that it is also set to 695px. But when i upload an image (say 2000px wide) the Large size is set to 620px. What am i doing wrong? found the problem and the fix....

seems i am not alone in this. this does seem to be more of a 123Reg hosting  thing ( i dont use 123reg - client does) Warning: array_search() expects parameter 2 to be array, object given in...

i've tried a few over the years  - hard-coded shops were brilliant and great for SEO but do not look good o work well with mobile, Joomla always got hacked and was horrible to edit template, OS Commerce (was that what it was called?) was hideous, Magento was a nicer...

Is it true that Wordpress cannot add any more items to menu? I had a client who hit a limit - about 90 items in top level and sub and sub sub menus. Whenever a new item was added, the last menu item in the list disappeared! It turns out that this is not  a Wordpress...

well i spent a couple of days doing  this - pure CSS Fading background colours -  and then the client said that actually they just wanted the colour to change between pages. So, so as not to waste or worse forget the code, here it is: body {background:#B7E4F7;...

Well its taken a long time but i seem to have this working  thanks to finding  this post All-in-One Event Calendar. Which got me to this bit of code in  a template: <?php $args = array('events_per_page' => 4,); the_widget('Ai1ec_Agenda_Widget', $args); ?> Its...

a client was asking  about their google analytics so i thought i would take a look. I had set it up  beofer folk began having  their own google account so it was in  my account. So i logged in and have been trying  to find it ever since. Seems a few others can't find...

so which Wordpress Calendar is best? having  made close on  70 school websites most need a calendar of upcoming  events. Most want a widgety thing of next 10 or so events on  the home page and a big monthly calendar on  the calendar page I have tried Calendarize it....

So, for the last few days i have been struggling  to work out why a particular client was failing  to see the lovely Timely Calendar Plugin properly. Its difficult to get the client to clock on  the Compatibility mode button (because Microsoft just cannot make a good...

back in  the mod-noughties, joomla 1.5 era, when i first started doing  CMS sites i did quite a few in  Joomla. I never really liked it and as soonm as i discovered Wordpress i moved to that (via a brief stint with Expression Engine - which was brilliant). And just...

First i edited my thumbnail theme support in my functions file to: // ADD THUMBNAIL SUPPORT if ( function_exists( 'add_theme_support' ) ) { add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails',array('post','page')); add_theme_support( 'get-the-image' ); } by adding...

a problem when you  have a navigation list with an link that needs to be centred in  the box/li. normally setting  the lineheight to the height of the li does it. but if you  have a link with text that wraps then it gets difficult to vertically centre the words....

Moving RoyalSlider tabs to top in Wordpress

i spent most of yesterday trying  to change the Gravity Forms placeholder text color in css. I got nowhere. Eventually i passed it on  to a friend who worked it out: /* gform placeholders*/ ::-webkit-input-placeholder { color:#FFF; } :-moz-placeholder { opacity: 1;...

This doesn't come up  much nowadays. I suppose as i dont often get sent designs now to make into web sites that have images spliced so that they (in  theory) fit together as one seamless image. But sometimes it comes up  and then i have to remember what question to...