While we’re all anxiously awaiting part 2 of my Marketing guide (so much has come up to share lately!), I thought I’d make a quick post to address one of the most common questions I come across in WooThemes Support – “How do I add CSS to my theme?” What You Need A WordPress Installation My […]
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RSS feed for this sectionAllow Your Users to Login to WordPress with their Email Address
By default, WordPress allows you and your users to log in with a username assigned during account creation. This is good and fine, but it’s hard to keep track of hundreds of usernames, and I know I can remember my email… So why not have both? Introducing my fourth little plugin that allows your users […]
How to Automatically Link to Twitter Profiles in Your Content
In the growing tech world, there’s so many social media platforms out there it can make your head spin. Luckily, one of the dominant ones for tech and cutting edge news is Twitter – there, you can gain followers by the hundreds to push your content out. It’s also a great way to share credit ideas […]
New Plugin: Blog Slug to News
As my second WordPress plugin, Blog Slug to News adds a simple feature that changes all mention of the term “blog” throughout the site to “news” – since blogging still has an unprofessional stigma, a huge amount of clients felt “news” was more appropriate. This can be used by site owners, developers, or anyone who wants to […]
Invoicing Clients with WooCommerce
Hey all! I came across an interesting situation today – a user wanted to be able to accept payments from clients or customers through WooCommerce, without making it a full fledged store or worrying about integrating with accounting software. It’s too cool of a use to pass by, so I made a quick video walk […]
WooThemes Canvas Theme – Adding a Sticky Footer
Without further ado, here’s a fast way to change the Canvas Theme by WooThemes to have a sticky footer (which means that it will always display at the bottom of the page, regardless of your content length):
Move the Main Navigation in WooThemes Canvas
For anyone who has worked with me or talked about picking a WordPress theme, they’ll know that I almost always suggest the Canvas theme from WooThemes.com. With a nice clean slate and a huge selection of user-facing options, Canvas can be modified to fit any need – as shown by the growing variety of Canvas Child […]
3 Easy Ways to Find the Page ID in WordPress
One of the common questions I come across involves page IDs – specifically, how can a user tell what the page ID is for the current page they’re viewing? This is important for a lot of custom code jobs, so here are three quick and easy ways to find the Page ID in WordPress. Method […]
How to Sell your Photography with WooCommerce
Update: January 27, 2015 Exciting news, everyone! WooThemes now offers a WooCommerce Photography plugin, which is built FOR photography, so much less work than this solution. If for some reason the plugin isn’t an option, though, then the method below should always still work 🙂 Introduction One of the most common requests we get at WooThemes […]
WordPress Security 102: Essential Tricks and Tips
In this installation of the “Locking Down WordPress” series covering security, we’ll be looking at specific settings and tricks you can do using the free iThemes Security plugin. For this guide, you’ll need: A clean WordPress installation (or at least one you can play around with) FTP Access to your WordPress installation A copy of […]