Adding images to your menu items is a good way to customize your menu. It helps a visitor to immediately identify what kind of page your menu item links to. For example, a menu item linking to your archive page might be better with a calendar icon before the label. Plus, it’s just visually appealing…← continue reading →
How to Find or Contact a Website’s Owner
A lot of people contact me asking to add, change or remove certain aspects about certain websites. The problem is those websites aren’t mine and I have no control over them or their content. Since my WordPress Themes are used by a lot of people for their own WP Sites, their visitors end up following…← continue reading →
Remove Query Strings from WordPress Resources
If you’ve analyzed your WordPress blog with services like GTmetrix or Pingdom Tools, you may have been advised to remove query strings from static resources. That is to remove the part of your resource string (URL) that indicates your WP / Theme / Plugin version number. Their reasoning is that some Proxy Caching servers do…← continue reading →
Speed Difference in WordPress: PHP 5 vs PHP 7
There’s been a lot of talk about upgrading to PHP 7 especially in the WordPress community. Yoast SEO, a WordPress plugin, recently added a non-dismissible notification urging users who use old versions of PHP 5 to upgrade to PHP 7. I’ve upgraded my server to PHP 7 and although it initially produced some warnings due…← continue reading →
Fix bbPress Form Shortcode not Showing
bbPress Create Topic Form not showing? I have guest posting enabled in my bbPress plugin but for some reason the Create Topic Form is not showing. This issue becomes apparent when the following are true: Anonymous or Guest Posting is enabled. The shortcode [bbp-topic-form] is used. The shortcode is added on a page. The page…← continue reading →
How to use Widget Options for WordPress
Using the Widget Logic plugin for WordPress is a good way to customize when or where a Widget should appear. But Widget Logic might be too complicated for the average user. You are required to know a bit of PHP Logic and WordPress Conditional Tags. See Tutorial: How to Use Widget Logic for WordPress But…← continue reading →
Disable WP Background Image on Mobile Devices
If you have a WordPress blog and many of your visitors view your site using a mobile device, you may want to disable your Theme’s Background Image when a user views your page on a mobile device. Most mobile users usually don’t have excellent connectivity and are connected through slow networks. Add that to the…← continue reading →
How to Create a Project or Virtual Host with WAMP
The release of WampServer 2.5 greatly improved the virtual server’s speed which was already fast to begin with. Also, with the new process of creating Projects or Virtual Hosts, you can now have URLs like instead of the old which is a great improvement especially for users like me who play with WordPress Plugins. Step…← continue reading →