Code snippets, tutorials and other wordpress related stuff
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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