Code snippets, tutorials and other wordpress related stuff
Changing the WordPress login logo is a simple yet effective way to personalize your website’s admin experience. By replacing the default WordPress logo with your own branding or site logo, you can create a more professional touch. This guide will show you exactly how to change the WordPress login logo using a custom code snippet. […]
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When transitioning from one WordPress page builder to another, maintaining functionality and ensuring content displays correctly can be a daunting task. Recently, I implemented a custom solution for converting Visual Composer (VC) galleries into Kadence Blocks’ Advanced Gallery while simultaneously cleaning up redundant shortcodes left behind by Visual Composer. Here’s how it works and how
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As a web designer with over a decade of experience, I’ve witnessed WordPress evolve in remarkable ways. Recently, I decided to revisit Full Site Editing (FSE)—a feature that felt buggy and underdeveloped when it was first introduced. My goal was to see how far FSE has come, using my latest project, spiritswithoutspirits.com, as a test case.
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After upgrading to MacOS Sequoia and the most recent Safari version 18.0 (20619.1.26.31.6) the classic wordpress editor is broken. The big problem is: you can’t hit the upgrade button anymore as the bottom widget column is overlapping the one on the right. This occurs only when using the classic editor and Gutenberg is not affected.
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Contact Form 7 is one of the best form plugins. It’s versatile, developer friendly, extensible and completely free. Yes there are more “easy” solutions but I found them more complicated in the long run. If you are comfortable with reading some docs, working with shortcodes and customizing the styles via CSS CF7 can handle most
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By default WordPress displays it’s logo on the far left site of the admin bar with some quick links to WordPress, documentation, news, etc. As I don’t use them and sometimes click there by accident I usually remove them from my websites. Also it’s less confusing for clients or editors if they have access to
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Google Maps is an amazing service but there are a couple of reasons you might not want to use it on your website. Back in the day ease-of-use was perfect but at some point Google wanted you to use API keys so they can make money of websites with millions of users (which is totally
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By default wordpress organises uploaded media into month- and year-based folders. Probably a relict from when it was mostly used as a blogging tool. You can disable this easily enough under Settings > Media. On a WordPress Multisite installation there is no such option. You have to change the setting on the network page itself
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Sometimes you simply want to add a line or two in your themes header.php without actually modifying it. Modifying it directly is seldom advisable. Even in a child theme you need to keep track of changes you made in case the parents header.php changes too much – after an update for example. The solution is
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