On a recent project, I needed to have a series of emails following up new users, prompting them to setup their profile. I couldn’t use Aweber, like I normally would, because the follow up emails had to stop when they completed their profile. That could happen at any time So how did I schedule follow … Read more
A popular web design technique swaps images and pictures as you go down rows on the page. It looks great on desktop, but often leads to a strange look on mobile. There needs to be a way to reverse the order of some columns. As I was building in Elementor, that’s what I’ll discuss here. … Read more
I had a situation in a website build recently where I wanted to show a high resolution slider on desktops and a lower resolution, static image on mobiles. I’ve done this before in Beaver Builder, but hadn’t done it in the Elementor WordPress page builder. Here’s how to responsively hide elements in Elementor. Select the … Read more
In a website I recently built, I needed to create a WordPress loop of posts based on a list of IDs that I had. How I arrived at that list of IDs is not important for this tutorial, but basically I did a geographical search of profiles based on a set distance from the starting … Read more
Astra is a popular WordPress theme, that I use on many of my sites. It’s lightweight and looks great, but sometimes you just want to customize it more than it normally allows. Thankfully it has plenty of hooks. By default, the post meta in Astra looks like this: How to customize the post meta in … Read more
I was building a WordPress site where people would buy the one item using a simple PayPal button. There was no need for an eCommerce shopping cart or anything fancy. But the client wanted the option for their customers to use different coupon codes to get different discounts. PayPal doesn’t support discount codes directly. The … Read more
I needed to change the author link in WordPress post meta. Most of the sites I work on are single author websites, so the Author page is just a copy of the blog page. I used to just use Yoast SEO to redirect the Author page to home. That’s ok, but it seems a bit … Read more
I was working on a membership site which had grown to a few thousand users. We had two sets of users, the individual type of which were set in the user meta. Basically, we wanted to add this… So how do you add a custom filter to the WordPress users list? Create the filter dropdown … Read more
I was working on building out a theme for a WordPress site that is essentially a marketplace for services. We had two types of people signing up: hirers and job seekers. The default initial email was fine for hirers, but we found a lot of the job seekers were signing up and not completing their … Read more
I was recently working on building a little eCommerce store for a client and they wanted to have the categories show up on the product category pages. This design didn’t have a sidebar, so the usual option was out. I had to dig into the WooCommerce template code to figure it out. So how do … Read more