I had a friend ask me if I could help them move their comments section on the homepage of Toocheke theme. The location of comments happening after the creator’s thoughts/blog post about the comic seemed like a strange placement to me too. I thought I’d publish the solution here in case anyone else wanted to move this section around!
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Dear fellow WordPress developers, it’s time to give up Classic WordPress.
I know, I know. But Gutenberg has been the core editor since December 2018. And I agree with you! When Gutenberg first came out I wanted nothing to do with it either. It was not ready for prime time, there were a lot of things wrong or downright broken with it, and it hardly fit into any sort of regular WordPress build. But the fact of the matter is that Gutenberg has been out for nearly six years now, and it’s really shined up to something great.
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It’s no secret my favorite slider plugin is Smart Slider 3. With a robust interface, lots of great options, ease-of-use, and accessibility as well as SEO features, Smart Slider 3 is hands down the best slide plugin for WordPress out there.
I’ve run into certain areas where I’ve wanted to use Smart Slider 3 with pngs, and make the slider as a whole fully transparent so it’s like each slide is floating and sliding on the website. It seems simple enough — just drop out the background on the slider you’re building, but it seems all slides have a solid background on them (usually white) no matter what.
The solution?
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I’ve dealt with this headache so you don’t have to. Signing up for an agency account is great, because it gives you some new tools to take the confusion out for your customers when it comes time to help them with their Google Business profile. However, an agency account comes with some caveats. That is, the agency cannot own profiles on its own (it can never be an owner), so having a backup Gmail or Google account to be an owner is key. Ideally, the client becomes the owner, but that doesn’t always work out.
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There are many ways to make your WordPress site faster, but seldom is the topic about your database. When your WordPress site starts to slog, it can be a frustrating experience for not only you, but your visitors as well. If a website is too slow, did you know it can actually lose potential customers? Really! According to Google, the probability of bounce increases 32% as page load time goes from 1 second to 3 seconds. Keeping your site quick isn’t just a vanity project; it has real consequences that can help grow your business.
For the uninitiated, every WordPress install has two parts: the PHP, CSS, and JS files that make up the functionality of WordPress, and the MySQL database that houses all of the information that propagates into the WordPress installation. A WordPress installation cannot function if it’s missing its database, and you’ve likely seen the dreaded “error establishing database connection” error before that tears down your entire site. So, let’s talk databases, identifying if they’re slow, and what you can do to fix them.
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When parent company Automattic announced just a few days ago that they were going to be selling user data from WordPress.com and Tumblr to Midjourney (Company responsible for LLMs), at first I just shook my head. I read the details, including the grisly fact that all user data has likely already been scraped and sold, including private data like unanswered asks on Tumblr and private blogs, and put it aside for a moment. Later, a paltry toggle switch to opt-out WordPress.com and Tumblr accounts (despite the data likely already being taken) appeared, and I thought: no.
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In the new year, you may be looking to set some goals for yourself, and one of those goals might be taking care of your languishing website. Updating your website is a great goal, and identifying barriers for customers in regards to your digital presence is another goal you should make, and page speed might be it.
One barrier I come across often is a site’s page speed. Is your site a slow loading beast? How can that affect your customers and your potential to do business? What can you do to fix it?
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In the age of the digital world, everyone thinks they can just grab any image they want off of Google image search and use it for any purpose they want. While actually protecting your copyright as an artist is a different topic entirely, we talk about how to do your best to ensure attribution is given to you when you’re not there to babysit your artwork.
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Nothing is more tell-tale about a site being old and out of date than a years-old copyright year in the footer of a website. Here’s how you can automatically update your copyright year as soon as the clock strikes 12 on New Year’s Eve.
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