Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) makes it easy, and cheap, to send emails reliably from a website. Here’s how to set it up for use with multiple domains. (more…)
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Restrict Amazon SES by domain name
Monday, April 9th, 2018Select PayPal landing page for Easy Digital Downloads
Monday, February 19th, 2018Easy Digital Downloads comes with a PayPal Standard payment gateway, which lets us get our store up and selling quickly and cheaply. Let’s get it to select a better landing page with PayPal Standard, and make our credit card customers happier. (more…)
Localising a Gravity Forms add-on
Thursday, January 25th, 2018The Gravity Forms Add-on Framework makes the job of creating an add-on really easy. But there’s a couple of problems with letting it load our text domain for us:
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Gravity Forms add-ons need to have capabilities
Sunday, January 1st, 2017TIL that you need to give Gravity Forms add-ons some capabilities, otherwise they might disappear from the WordPress admin. (more…)
Customise WooCommerce out of stock message
Friday, December 23rd, 2016Sometimes the WooCommerce out of stock message isn’t quite appropriate. Here’s a couple of ways to change that message. (more…)
Searching custom meta on custom post types
Saturday, November 26th, 2016Ever needed to search for a post by something other than the title or post content? If you’ve built a website with custom post types that have additional fields, it’s a good chance that admins will need to search on your custom meta. (more…)
VBScript For Next and Continue
Saturday, October 10th, 2015I still get the occasional Classic ASP VBScript maintenance job from time to time, and it reminds me of the language statements it just doesn’t have. Like “continue”, great for skipping a bunch of logic inside a For loop. Turns out, there is a nice simple way to get that functionality. (more…)
Load Gravity Forms stylesheets in page head
Friday, August 21st, 2015Gravity Forms normally loads its stylesheets in the page head, where they belong. It does that only on pages which have forms, which is nice. If you use a widget to host your form, however, it can’t detect that until it renders the widget… too late to load the stylesheets in the head. At that point, it just pulls them directly into the page body. (more…)
Disable scroll wheel on Events Manager location maps
Saturday, August 15th, 2015Events Manager is a really nice, easy to customise plugin for showing events on WordPress websites. One gripe I always have with it is that the location maps zoom when you use the mouse scroll wheel, something I always turn off when I add a map to a page. Here’s how to fix it. (more…)
Hack a WordPress plugin AJAX action
Monday, July 13th, 2015Customising the AJAX output of WordPress plugins can often be a breeze, when the authors oblige other developers by peppering their code with action and filter hooks. But if they don’t, you can always fall back on hacking the plugin’s AJAX action. (more…)