If you’re in business in any way, at some point, you’ve had to shop for web design. You’ve had to figure out what criteria you’ll be judging a web development firm on, and then go through your list of candidates. Hopefully, that list is small rather than large. But here’s a question. What happened to […]
Favor The Long Road: Ongoing Client Relationships
HTML: Give Parent Div 100% Height Of Child Floated Elements
Updated November 17th, 2020
11 Comments on HTML: Give Parent Div 10011 Height Of Child Floated Elements
Many web designers and front end developers have been stumped by this dilemma before. When you have a parent div with only floated child elements inside, how do you give the parent element the height of the floated child elements? Before we look at the answer, let’s look at why this is a problem in […]
Add Manual Exceprts to Pages in WordPress
Excerpts in WordPress are sometimes used as preview text on an archive page (like a blog or category page). WordPress themes usually enable excerpts on Posts by default. If you are editing a post, and don’t see the field for Excerpt, it is probably hidden under the Screen Options tab in the top right corner. […]
Add an Options Page with ACF (Advanced Custom Fields)
Over the course of the last eight years, I’ve built over 150 sites, most using WordPress. This code snippet is something I’ve used with ACF PRO aka Advanced Custom Fields PRO in order to set up an Options Page. The data from this newly created Options Page would be saved in the wp_options database table. […]
Calculating Shipping Costs In WooCommerce
Calculating shipping costs on products from your e-commerce store can be involve a bit of guesswork — if you’re not automating the process. There are reasons you might not want to do this, but if you do choose to calculate shipping based on the buyer address, there are tools for WooCommerce that will help you […]
WooCommerce 2.5: Add SKU On New Order Email
Update: This bug has been fixed in WooCommerce 2.5.1 for Admin New Order notifications only. If you are running WooCommerce 2.5, test the 2.5.1 upgrade on a staging server. Once you’ve determined everything is functioning normally, upgrade to WooCommerce 2.5.1 on your production (live) server. The WooCommerce update to version 2.5 was a major update, […]
What Is VAT Tax? How Does It Affect Your Online Store?
If you own a regional e-commerce store based in the United States, you may or may not be aware of something called VAT. VAT stands for Value Added Tax, and it’s most common use is in the European Union, though other countries have similar systems. VAT is similar to sales tax, except that while sales […]
Do You Need To Pay Sales Tax On E-commerce Stores?
Site owners with e-commerce stores face a unique challenge when it comes to sales tax. Here in the United States, each state has it’s own laws concerning what sales tax you pay on your online sales form your e-commerce store. To make it more confusing, depending what state you live in, you have to compute […]
Think Big
Life is interesting. Unconsciously, most of us choose what is the safest path instead of an uncertain path. I’ve been guilty of this myself, and I understand why taking a safe and secure path is a good decision for a lot of people. But the thing about the safe path is that almost everyone is […]
Add CSS Classes To Menu Items In WordPress
Every once in a while, you might run into a situation where you want to add a CSS class to a specific link in your WordPress navigation menu. Let’s say you want to make one link in your navigation stand out from the rest, and make it a call to action button. You could do […]