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A short overview of WordPress Security Plugins

8 April - 2018 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: April 8, 2018

A short overview of WordPress Security Plugins

A short overview of 5 WordPress Security plugins This is my take on the following plugins. All in One WP Security & Firewall Features that stand out: Mentions it is good practice to backup: .htaccess ... [Read more]

Change primary hosting domain to subfolder

16 January - 2018 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: January 16, 2018

Change primary hosting domain to subfolder

Redirecting the primary/main web host domain to a subfolder. The public_html folder is a place to keep folders of the various domains one has at a web host. Web hosts usually have the main or primary domain in the root ... [Read more]

Using Poedit 2 Pro to translate a WordPress plugin or theme

19 June - 2017 By Paal Joachim 1 Comment
Last updated on: August 29, 2017

Using Poedit 2 Pro to translate a WordPress plugin or theme

Translating a WordPress theme or plugin using Poedit 2 Pro I have earlier used Poedit 1 and recently upgraded to version 2 Pro. Poedit will suggest translations for each phrase. I will use the plugin All in One SEO as ... [Read more]

Developer Resources

19 June - 2017 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: January 18, 2018

Developer Resources

Some developer resources that I find useful. codex.wordpress.org  generatewp.com wp-hasty.com Lukes awesome WP developer tools list: github.com/lukecav/awesome-wp-developer-tools Additional ... [Read more]

Contextual Related Posts plugin

28 May - 2017 By Paal Joachim 4 Comments
Last updated on: August 29, 2017

Contextual Related Posts plugin

Contextual Related Posts plugin By WebberZone.   A related posts plugin will show related posts from the same site usually at the bottom of an article. Why I decided to use Contextual Related Posts ... [Read more]

Adding copyright information to the bottom of the page

1 December - 2016 By Paal Joachim 1 Comment
Last updated on: January 17, 2018

Adding copyright information to the bottom of the page

Copyright information Most often we add some copyright information at the bottom of the page that says something about year, made by, made with and perhaps a link to the wp-admin. I will use the date, site_url() and ... [Read more]

Using conditional logic in Ninja Forms

22 November - 2016 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: August 29, 2017

Using conditional logic in Ninja Forms

Conditional Logic in Ninja Forms Using conditional logic is a paid for addon to Ninja Forms. After having installed and activated the extension / addon. Find the form you plan to use it in. Here is an example using ... [Read more]

Speeding up the site manually and by using cache plugins

12 November - 2016 By Paal Joachim 8 Comments
Last updated on: April 3, 2018

Speeding up the site manually and by using cache plugins

Speeding up the site manually and by using Cache plugins As I use this site to test out new plugins over time. Some plugins also affect the performance of the site. Further down I am also sharing code you can place ... [Read more]

Creating parallax effects when scrolling

1 November - 2016 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: November 1, 2016

Creating parallax effects when scrolling

Creating parallax effects when scrolling with WordPress A static jpg showing 4 product images. These can be animated.   I am using two files. One to create the main animation effects and a CSS file to ... [Read more]

Creating a footer that sticks to the bottom

1 November - 2016 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: September 6, 2017

Creating a footer that sticks to the bottom

How to stick the footer to the bottom when there is very little content. If your using a Genesis child theme then check out my other tutorial: Creating a sticky / fixed footer in a Genesis child theme If one has very ... [Read more]

EZP Coming Soon Page Elite plugin

17 October - 2016 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: October 17, 2016

EZP Coming Soon Page Elite plugin

EZP Coming Soon Page Elite plugin ...is for new launches/maintenance or other instances where you need your site to be offline for a while. There is a lite version here to test ... [Read more]

Related Posts for WordPress Premium Plugin made by Barry Kooij

4 October - 2016 By Paal Joachim 1 Comment
Last updated on: October 4, 2016

Related Posts for WordPress Premium Plugin made by Barry Kooij

Related Posts for WordPress Premium Plugin Barry Kooij has made a quick and efficient related posts plugin I would highly recommend. I have earlier written about the free version here: Related Posts for ... [Read more]

Changing the WP editor area through CSS

1 October - 2016 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: August 29, 2017

Changing the WP editor area through CSS

Add your own editor style We can style the content creation area inside the backend post or page creation screen by using add editor style code. The following code uses the theme stylesheet. Add the code to your ... [Read more]

Ninja Forms default Form templates

25 September - 2016 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: November 19, 2016

Ninja Forms default Form templates

Ninja Forms 3 has just been released it contains the following default form templates. Part 1: Contact Me, Event Registration and Quote Request. Part 2: Creating columns   Contact Me - Form ... [Read more]

Adding taxonomies to the media library WP core

22 September - 2016 By Paal Joachim 1 Comment
Last updated on: May 31, 2017

Adding taxonomies to the media library WP core

Work is being done to add taxonomies to the media library WP core 10th of May 2017 - An update that should have been done few months ago. Here are various Google documents I have made for the Media Management feature ... [Read more]

Ninja Forms 3 walk through -step by step- guide

6 September - 2016 By Paal Joachim 10 Comments
Last updated on: August 29, 2017

Ninja Forms 3 walk through -step by step- guide

Ninja Forms version 3.0 has now officially been released With a totally new user interface. It can take a little while to get used to the new interface and figuring out how to in general use the new Ninja Forms contact ... [Read more]

How to point a top level domain to a multisite using domain mapping

10 August - 2016 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: August 26, 2017

How to point a top level domain to a multisite using domain mapping

How to point a top level domain to a multisite using a Domain mapping plugin. I am using the plugin Mercator by Human Made. Download the plugin from Github and rename Mercator-Master to mercator and unzip ... [Read more]

Genesis: Adding a full width image behind the title

13 July - 2016 By Paal Joachim 2 Comments
Last updated on: January 22, 2018

Genesis: Adding a full width image behind the title

Adding a full width featured image behind the title The result should look something like the below.   Full width image behind the post and page titles I have looked at how Showcase Pro a Genesis Child ... [Read more]

Adding a user to a multisite network

12 July - 2016 By Paal Joachim 4 Comments
Last updated on: July 14, 2016

Adding a user to a multisite network

It is fairly cumbersome way to add a new user to a multisite network The Network admin Add New User form looks like this:   Adding a new user through a multisite sub site looks like ... [Read more]

Adjusting the auto embed of WordPress site links

12 July - 2016 By Paal Joachim 3 Comments
Last updated on: April 22, 2018

Adjusting the auto embed of WordPress site links

Adjusting the style of the auto embed links. Adding a link to your site from another WordPress site you will very likely get a standard auto embed of the link. It will look similar to what you see below. (Actually on ... [Read more]

The new WordPress org plugin repository

4 July - 2016 By Paal Joachim 2 Comments
Last updated on: July 31, 2016

The new WordPress org plugin repository

The WordPress plugin repository is being worked on A "beta" version is up right now at: https://wordpress.org/plugins-wp/ Clicking See all leads to the below page:   What is missing at the above beta ... [Read more]

Customizing the excerpts meta box

3 July - 2016 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: July 5, 2016

Customizing the excerpts meta box

There are multiple code snippets we can add to customize the excerpts meta box Part 1 - How to use and style the excerpt All the following code snippets are added into the functions.php file below the other code that ... [Read more]

Cleaning up filenames that have non UTF8 characters in them

2 July - 2016 By Paal Joachim 1 Comment
Last updated on: August 28, 2016

Cleaning up filenames that have non UTF8 characters in them

Using a code snippet to clean up filenames WordPress does not fully clean up non English characters from file names that are uploaded. In Norway we have three additional letters æøå. These letters are sometimes used ... [Read more]

How to hide or remove meta boxes in the single post or page screen

2 July - 2016 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: July 15, 2016

How to hide or remove meta boxes in the single post or page screen

How to hide or remove meta boxes in the single post or page screen   How to hide the meta boxes .....but still having them accessible through the Screen Options tab. I was wondering how to hide specific meta ... [Read more]

Automatically set featured image, if no featured then set post image as featured

30 June - 2016 By Paal Joachim 2 Comments
Last updated on: July 12, 2016

Automatically set featured image, if no featured then set post image as featured

Automatically setting the featured image without a plugin   It can be very easy to forget to set the featured image. Here is code that will do the following: 1. Sets the featured image. 2. If no featured ... [Read more]

The 404 plugin by phpbits.net

24 June - 2016 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: June 25, 2016

The 404 plugin by phpbits.net

I tested a very easy to use 404 plugin by phpbits.net A video walk through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVIOlZ-VplA   Taking a closer look. There are two versions. The free version at WordPress ... [Read more]

Changing the size of thumbnails or other images

18 June - 2016 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: June 18, 2016

Changing the size of thumbnails or other images

Adjusting thumbnails or other images used on a site ... Can create a blurred like look. This can be adjusted by refreshing the image cache. Last night I decided to turn off the checkbox to "Crop thumbnail to exact ... [Read more]

Create your own author bio box in WordPress

18 June - 2016 By Paal Joachim 1 Comment
Last updated on: August 29, 2017

Create your own author bio box in WordPress

Create your own author bio box in WordPress without a plugin. I have tested the following author box in TwentySixteen Child theme and Genesis Child themes as well as some random themes. The final result using ... [Read more]

Additional widget areas for Genesis themes

10 February - 2016 By Paal Joachim 4 Comments
Last updated on: March 11, 2017

Additional widget areas for Genesis themes

This tutorial contains lots of widget areas that can be used in Genesis child themes. One of the reasons why I use Genesis themes is all the information that is available on how to use it. My affiliate link ... [Read more]

Creating a client friendly login screen

9 February - 2016 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: June 21, 2016

Creating a client friendly login screen

How to give the customer a customized login screen. The finished results looks like this: (I believe the image was purchased some time ago through Medialoot.com)   Inside the Functions.php The following ... [Read more]

Useful site helper tools

5 February - 2016 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: December 18, 2017

Useful site helper tools

There are a few tools I help to get my sites up in running order. As I come across additional tools I find very helpful I will add on to the article.   qSandbox - "Staging Sites Made Easy" It is real easy to ... [Read more]

Customize CSS to style your site

5 February - 2016 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: January 18, 2018

Customize CSS to style your site

Using CSS to style the site I have also added some html as how to use anchor tags for linking to another place on a page. Customize using CSS to further adjust the design of the site. One good way is so use the ... [Read more]

Creating a sticky / fixed footer in a Genesis child theme

5 February - 2016 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: September 17, 2017

Creating a sticky / fixed footer in a Genesis child theme

Genesis themes have an unique way to add a sticky / fixed footer. If your using a theme that is not a Genesis theme then check out my tutorial: Creating a footer that sticks to the bottom Sticky is actually something ... [Read more]

Customizing the blog post previews and posts page of a Genesis child theme.

8 January - 2016 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: January 8, 2016

Customizing the blog post previews and posts page of a Genesis child theme.

Customizations done to the blog posts preview and posts page of a Genesis child theme. These are specific for the Genesis Framework - StudioPress Themes for WordPress (affiliate link). A two part series on using Code ... [Read more]

WordPress Core Projects

5 January - 2016 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: January 6, 2016

WordPress Core Projects

Core Projects being worked on for future release in WordPress Core WP Fields API PJ: What is the WP Fields API? Scott: Fields API is a project that lets you build structures for WordPress objects. A structure is ... [Read more]

Protecting your web site from malware

20 December - 2015 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: April 9, 2017

Protecting your web site from malware

Here are some advice to protect your web site. Install the plugin Theme Authenticity Checker (TAC) to see if there are any malware or unwanted code in the theme you have installed. Install a backup plugin. I use ... [Read more]

Customizing Altitude Pro – Genesis child theme

13 November - 2015 By Paal Joachim 33 Comments
Last updated on: January 14, 2018

Customizing Altitude Pro – Genesis child theme

How to customize the one page Genesis child theme Altitude Pro.   --- Updated January 2018 based on Altitude Pro 1.1.3---   Support the site by using my affiliate link to purchase Genesis Child ... [Read more]

Customizing a video embed

6 October - 2015 By Paal Joachim Add a Comment
Last updated on: June 20, 2016

Customizing a video embed

Customizing a video embed in WordPress. Further below I will also show a responsive iFrame Embed. The default view of a Youtube url embeded into a post or page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOA4yLHs0gQ (I am ... [Read more]

A checklist before launching a site

30 September - 2015 By Paal Joachim 2 Comments
Last updated on: July 20, 2017

A checklist before launching a site

After installing WordPress there are many steps to take before adding content. The following video is a 1.5 hour long recording of a lecture I held at the Sarasota WordPress Meetup on the 29th of September 2015. I have ... [Read more]

How to make a sticky header in WordPress

24 August - 2015 By Paal Joachim 4 Comments
Last updated on: December 1, 2016

How to make a sticky header in WordPress

How to make a sticky header in WordPress I will show multiple ways of creating a sticky header. A fixed/sticky header that stays in place as one moves down the page. Right click the area on your web site you want to ... [Read more]

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