August 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
WordCamps have been a staple of the WordPress community for many years but with COVID they essentially disappeared. As the world comes back out of hibernation, so are the WordCamps. This year I made the decision to attend a flagship event, WordCamp US, in Washington DC. The first thing I want to get across to […]
March 23, 2023 | Code Snippets
I ran into a situation where we wanted to have 10 articles featured on the main Blog page, but then as they paginated through to show 20 per page. The below code uses the “pre_get_posts” filter and some conditionals to make that happen:
March 22, 2023 | WordPress
Customer support can be an area that makes or breaks your success in selling a WordPress plugin. An effective support system not only addresses user issues but also empowers them to find solutions on their own saving you time and energy to focus on other things like marketing. Customers will always find issues with anything […]
March 21, 2023 | Code Snippets,WordPress
An essential part of any WordPress installation is its database, which stores all the data and settings required to run the website. The database prefix is a crucial component that plays a vital role in organizing tables and ensuring security. In this article, we will discuss the purpose of the WordPress database prefix, the $wpdb […]
September 1, 2022 | Releases
Our Confetti plugin has a new feature in version 1.10 that allows you to have it triggered when the location it is embedded has scrolled into view. This has been our most requested feature and I’m excited to make it available! Currently, this is only available via the shortcode embed method and I look to […]
July 19, 2022 | Code Snippets,WooCommerce
I had an idea to show all the different variation images for a product on the Shop page within WooCommerce. The goal was to show all the different colors available for a hat and other similar items on a client site. Showing just a single image didn’t seem to make it clear enough that there […]
June 21, 2022 | Releases
It’s been a little bit since I posted about Confetti and its new integrations and features. New Integrations since last time: Paid Memberships Pro – Show confetti after a purchase WS Form – Show confetti after any form submission, including their Conversational format New feature Launch delay – You can delay the launch of the […]
May 18, 2022 | Code Snippets
I have been developing custom WordPress plugins for clients for many years. Even though there are so many great plugins in existence, they cannot all do exactly what your client needs and a custom plugin is required. Often several custom post types are created and, of course, metadata is saved for all of them. I […]
April 27, 2022 | Code Snippets,Lazy Blocks
How to add your own custom class to Button blocks when using Lazy Blocks
April 22, 2022 | Code Snippets,WordPress
When registering a sidebar, you can set the “before_widget” value to include some classes that WordPress will define. With Gutenberg, you can now use blocks in your sidebars – yay! However, that “before_widget” class by default does not include anything about the block that is used so it can be a challenge to custom style […]