Here is a shortcode that I developed for WordPress to enable AJAX searching of the post title without relying on AJAX. There is a big push to move away from using iQuery and just use native functions of the browser to achieve the same objectives. My solution will detect when the shortcode is used and […]
Category: WordPress Tutorials
How To Change Facebook Link Thumbnail and Description
To change the Facebook link thumbnail and description in WordPress we need to utilise a coding technology called “OpenGraph”. This allows a website to tell Facebook what information to display when someone shares a link. Facebook for Developers has a tool known as Debugger that allows a user to see what a Facebook link will […]
Editing your WordPress wp-config.php File
The wp-config.php file contained in the root of your WordPress install directory contains all the configuration items for connecting and interacting with WordPress. The most important information it contains is the credentials for connecting to the MySQL database which without this you’d just see an white page with an error message saying “Database Not Found. […]
Copy billing to shipping address in WooCommerce
There is no function in WordPress to copy billing to shipping address fields that WooCommerce adds to user profiles. This is quite a tedious task if you are manually creating users via the WordPress dashboard. This article will show you how to use jQuery with a bit of PHP in WordPress to copy the billing […]
Post actions confirming in WordPress
There’s no native ability to add a dialog box for confirming post actions in WordPress. Luckily, since WordPress is extremely configurable we can develop one ourselves! One of the clients recently requested that they wanted a pop up box to alert them if they had not filled in specific text boxes when publishing a new […]
How to speed up your WordPress website
Making your WordPress website load faster and improving your Google page ranking is a question I see come up time and time again. Google uses a multitude of factors to determine how to rank search engine results which tpically used the webpage content (URL, titles and headers) and various measurements of the authenticity of the […]