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Dynamic Excerpt Lengths in WordPress
Excerpts are used in loads of places in WordPress themes, and adjusting the lengths of them is very easy using the functions already built into WordPress. However there’s one styling aspect that...
View ArticleEasy Pull Quotes using CSS & JQuery
Everyone now understands the importance of having engaging, relevant content on their websites, and with more content the need to give more attention to typography becomes apparent. Pull-quotes are...
View ArticleEqual sized navigation menu with jQuery in WordPress
A couple of recent WordPress websites we built called for having the menu items equally spaced out across the whole width of the containing div. Working in percentages it’s pretty easy to work of...
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WordPress and Word Processors
Where Where do inline styles come from? When redesigning websites one of the problems I have to deal with is how to handle importing old content that has inline styles embedded. A lot of the culprits...
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Review: WooCommerce Membership by RightPress
What follows is a real world case study in how I used the WooCommerce membership plugin by RightPress. Background. One of my clients...
View ArticleNew Look for 2017
One of the effects of updating a lot of other people websites is that I’m constantly reminded of the need to update my own website. Thoughts such as ‘that’s nice – I should use that on my own website’...
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How much to charge for a blog post or sponsored post?
I recently received an email asking if I was willing to publish sponsored posts on my website. I’ve received a lot of these...
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Starter, Parent, Child and Grandchild Themes
Towards the end of 2015 I shifted my working method and started using the Parent and Child functionality of WordPress...
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Adding a new Page in WordPress
The are two ways to add a new Page to your WordPress website either; In the top bar hover over the + New link, and in the dropdown click on Page. Or in the left hand admin menu click on Pages then Add...
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Using a Page as your Homepage
By default the homepage of a WordPress website will look like a blog; displaying your Posts in reverse chronological order (latest to oldest). WordPress lets you change this and use any Page as your...
View ArticleGDSFramework Parent Theme: Version 2.0.0 released
I’ve been using my own Parent Theme for WordPress sites since April of 2016, and since then I’ve been through five versions, the last being version 1.0.5. There have been a lot of advances in WordPress...
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WordPress support and maintenance site launched
I’ve recently given the support and maintenance side of my business its own website available at Easy WP Care. I’ve...
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Understanding WordPress Widgets
You can use WordPress Widgets to add extra content and features to certain areas of your site. Widgets can be used to display lists of Categories, highlight popular Posts, show social icons, related...
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Page Templates in WordPress
By default all Pages you create within WordPress will all use the same Default Template to control how the content is displayed. Your current Theme and active Plugins may add additional Page Templates...
View ArticleAdding a custom taxonomy to WP Job Manager
What follows is how to add and use a custom taxonomy with the WP Job Manager plugin for WordPress. The documentation for the plugin provides some good hints and code examples for adding additional...
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Announcing Email Post Alerts
I’ve recently added a new feature to my blog to allow people to subscribe and receieve email alerts. This means...
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Adding a new User in WordPress
There are a couple of ways to get to the Add New User screen. In the top bar hover over...
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Backing up your WordPress website
If you’re maintaining your own WordPress website it’s always wise to make a backup of your site before making any major...
View ArticleLockdown, WordPress, Genesis and Gutenberg
My WordPress journey My first few WordPress sites were built using existing themes, with a bit of customisation. But it quickly became apparent that every theme author did things differently, so with...
View ArticleUsing Twenty Twenty Three as a Parent Theme
Back in the summer of 2022 I started experimenting with WordPress’s default Twenty Twenty Two theme. This was the first WordPress theme that made full use of the new Gutenberg editor and is a very...
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