One way to move people from being prospects to being customers is to educate them through content marketing. This usually takes the form of blogging, podcasting, videos, or some other form of serialized content, published on your company blog. Many companies use their email newsletter as a way to send their RSS feed directly to […]
Add Advanced Custom Field To RSS Feed In WordPress
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, […]
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 […]
Add New Fields To WordPress User Profiles
On your WordPress user profile, in the back end of the site, you’ll notice most themes have places to input your website, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube URLs. Many years ago, you had to add these manually, and WordPress (back in the day) used to have places to set your AIM (remember that?), Jabber, and Yim […]
Making A Sticky Blog Post in WordPress
What is a sticky blog post? Generally this means that on your blog archive page, instead of seeing posts in reverse chronological order (or however you sort them), one post will always be at the top of the first page. This is what we mean by “sticky”. Fortunately, WordPress makes this easy to do. Unfortunately, […]
Add Edit Profile Link In bbPress
bbPress is a popular WordPress plugin for creating forums. Sometimes, it is used by itself, but often, it is used in conjunction with BuddyPress, another WordPress plugin for creating self-hosted social networks. As it turns out, many folks have sought out how to add a link to edit your profile on bbPress, outside of the […]
Using WordPress Custom Admin Styles
Sometimes, it is advantageous to add custom CSS to the WordPress admin area. Perhaps you want to show an admin area that does not resemble the default WordPress back end. In other cases, you may want to serve specific admin styles, based on the user role of who’s logged in. Here’s how you add WordPress […]
Using The More Tag In WordPress
The More Tag is one feature of WordPress that is still misunderstood by many users. The More Tag is what triggers the Read More or Continue Reading type of links on an archive page of blog posts or other post types. Most themes have a default link text for when the More Tag is displayed. […]
How Long Does It Take To Make A Custom WordPress Theme?
One of the first questions people ask when they’re searching for a WordPress developer is “How long does it take to build a custom WordPress theme?” Like everything else in web development, the answer is “It depends.” Keep in mind that development is one stage of the web design cycle. (Most projects have discovery, strategy, […]