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Tips and tricks for WordPress

Fix the WordPress Divi Contact Form Error “Please refresh the page and try again”

November 21, 2017April 21, 2018 WordPress 5

I use the Divi WordPress theme in many of my sites. On my personal site, I was using the Divi Contact Form module at

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SR71 Blackbird at the Udvar-Hazy Center

Use WordPress as a Static Site Generator for Insane Speed, Reliability, and Security

October 27, 2017February 16, 2019 WordPress 14

WordPress is a great website platform which I use and develop on every day, but, it has its weaknesses. It requires a database that

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Divi Accordion with all items closed!

The Easiest Way to Make Your WordPress Divi Accordion Module Start Out Closed

August 12, 2016December 6, 2018 WordPress 17

Many people who use the WordPress Divi Accordion Module want it to start out closed by default. Every WordPress client I have who uses

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PHP code

Query a WordPress Custom Field Stored As an Array

July 21, 2016January 3, 2017 WordPress 0

Querying a WordPress database is pretty straightforward using WP_Query or get_posts(). However, I ran into a problem when I was trying to search for

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Set Up a Background Task (“Cron Job”) in WordPress

May 12, 2016January 3, 2017 WordPress 4

Let’s say you have a page or piece of code that needs to be run regularly, say once a day, or once an hour.

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Import Members into WordPress Ultimate Member from CSV File

November 17, 2015December 18, 2018 WordPress 19

The Ultimate Member plugin is a formidable package for managing membership on a WordPress site. Surprisingly, however, it does not have a built-in way

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Fix WordPress Ultimate Member Cover Photo Not Uploading

November 13, 2015October 24, 2017 WordPress 17

Ultimate Member is a very widely-used membership WordPress plugin. It works well, but I’ve come across a number of problems with the uploading of

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WordPress

My Most Useful WordPress Plugins (My “Cheat Sheet”)

May 2, 2015February 14, 2019 WordPress 4

These are life-saving WordPress plugins that I use on many of my clients’ and my own sites.  Alright, maybe “life-saving” is a slight exaggeration,

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Create a WordPress Multisite Network with Different Domain Names

February 23, 2015September 25, 2018 WordPress 38

I had a situation where I needed to create a WordPress Multisite network of sites with each site having completely unique domain names.  I found

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Map a Separate Domain Name to a WordPress Page or Post

February 8, 2015January 29, 2019 WordPress 38

I had a client who wanted to map a domain name directly to a WordPress Page, and not show the WordPress URL. For example, let’s

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Style the WordPress Media Player!

August 9, 2013October 10, 2018 WordPress 180

The WordPress 3.6 Media Player came at just the right time for me. Just a month before, Yahoo discontinued their Yahoo Player, and I

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WordPress structure

Make Any WordPress Theme Responsive (Mobile-Friendly)

April 1, 2013February 10, 2018 WordPress 34

Here is the scenario: You’ve searched high and low and found the perfect WordPress theme for yourself or your client. But, there’s one big

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SR71 Blackbird at the Udvar-Hazy Center

Twelve Ways to Massively Speed Up Your WordPress Site

March 12, 2013August 3, 2018 WordPress 17

Is your WordPress site loading slowly? There is a cool tool called Pingdom which creates waterfall charts so you can see exactly what is slowing

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Make a WordPress Post Stay at the Top of the Page

February 22, 2012December 6, 2018 WordPress 1

Most WordPress landing pages either contain static information or the latest posts.  But what if you want the both worlds – a landing page

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