Wordpress, PHP, Joomla, and general web design principals. Issues Ive faced and how I solved them.
Released last week, WordPress 4.2 now has support for emoji’s, all 872 of them. Twitter has open sourced and released their set for everyone to use. What are Eomji’s? Emoji’s are an advanced set of Emoticons, and can be added in Pages and Posts. Using your smartphone, or tablet, you have likely noticed the Emoji’s in […]
Issue: You can’t login to the Magento admin panel on localhost using Google Chrome Browser. This issue still happens in Magento CE 1.8, and below you will find the fix. 1. Find Varien.php Edit /app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Session/Abstract/Varien.php 2. Find the code in Varien.php Find the code around lines 87 through 94 (in Magento CE 1.8). It should […]
One of the issues with Google Chrome browser is the inability to drag and drop bookmarklets into the bookmarks. I ran into this issue recently when trying to save the Subtle Patterns bookmarklet, from one of my favorite sites. It takes a few extra steps, but here’s how you can add bookmarklets in the Google […]
I recently ran into an issue where I wanted to have color swatches in the Magento layered navigation, instead of the attribute color name. By default, the layered navigation displays the name of your attribute. In this case, the color of my store’s shirts. So, how do we make it so that it displays a […]
I recently needed to remove the WooCommerce generator tag that is automatically added to the header in the source code. In this case, I was using Bones theme for WordPress. Below is the code that we want removed, as shown when you view the page source. You will need to open your WordPress theme’s functions.php […]
Being the most popular CMS on the block comes at a price. Unfortunately, WordPress sites are the most sought after by hackers for many reasons. First, its the most used CMS and is used by millions of popular sites. Secondly, these sites are usually ranked high and generate a good amount of traffic. Lets take […]
I ran into a snag with one of my WordPress themes that uses TimThumb to automatically take an article image and display it on the homepage. What if I wanted to implement the_post_thumbnail(); (WordPress 2.9+ hack) and override my TimThumb image?? I was able to acheive this using some simple PHP in the index.php file […]
