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Gravity Forms add-ons need to have capabilities

TIL that you need to give Gravity Forms add-ons some capabilities, otherwise they might disappear from the WordPress admin. Continue reading Gravity Forms add-ons need to have capabilities

Customise WooCommerce out of stock message

Sometimes the WooCommerce out of stock message isn’t quite appropriate. Here’s a couple of ways to change that message. Continue reading Customise WooCommerce out of stock message

Searching custom meta on custom post types

Ever 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. Continue reading Searching custom meta on custom post types

Load Gravity Forms stylesheets in page head

Gravity 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. Continue reading Load Gravity Forms stylesheets in page head

Disable scroll wheel on Events Manager location maps

Events 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. Continue reading Disable scroll wheel on Events Manager location maps

Hack a WordPress plugin AJAX action

Customising 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. Continue reading Hack a WordPress plugin AJAX action

Moved to DigitalOcean

I’ve moved nearly all of WebAware’s websites to DigitalOcean, and stuck NginX in front of everything. Continue reading Moved to DigitalOcean

Fix broken tables in twentyfifteen WordPress theme

WordPress 4.1 brings with it the twentyfifteen theme, which I find to be a rather nice blog theme. Unfortunately, it adds a new wrinkle to any tables on your website — often breaking them! Here’s the simple fix. Continue reading Fix broken tables in twentyfifteen WordPress theme

Sort WooCommerce products first in search results

When shoppers search a WordPress website, you want them to find products first before listing any articles and pages. And it’s surprisingly easy to achieve, with a simple filter hook. Continue reading Sort WooCommerce products first in search results

Use Autoptimize effectively

Keeping your WordPress website fast can become pretty tricky once you start installing plugins and off-the-shelf themes. Everything seems to want to load at least one CSS stylesheet, and sometimes a dozen or more JavaScript script files. Some also inject great chunks of CSS and JavaScript into every page. Luckily, there’s the handy Autoptimize plugin to help you sort all of that out. Continue reading Use Autoptimize effectively