Redirecting pages or websites tends not to be something most web designers deal with on a regular basis. What sometimes happens is you change your domain and keep the pages the same on the new domain. You don’t want to redirect all the pages of the old domain to the homepage of the new domain,
One of our readers commented on the tutorial about responsively hiding elements in Elementor raising a great question: what if you don’t just want the element to be hidden – what if you wanted to prevent an image from even loading on mobile. With most methods of hiding elements for mobile, you’re just assigning this
Many of the better WordPress themes add a color picker to the WordPress customizer. This makes it easier to design your website visually, rather than with code. When you use the WordPress Customizer, you may have seen something like this: The circled colours is what we’ll be changing today. Why go to the trouble of
As a web designer, it’s important that your website looks good on all sizes of screens. Sometimes you need to display two columns side-by-side on mobile. Elementor defaults to having columns be full width on the smaller screens. Usually that’s what we want, but how do you get this dark image to sit up next
If you run WordPress websites, you’ll spend a large proportion of your time backing up sites. There are two main reasons you’ll be backing up a site: One-time backups for doing updates, moving the website or improving the site Regular backups in case the server goes down, you accidentally delete something or the website gets
We do a lot of backups, website migrations and other restorations with BackupBuddy. BackupBuddy is on my list of essential plugins. You can check it out here. How to migrate a WordPress site with BackupBuddy: Create a Complete Backup Download the zipped backup and importbuddy to your computer Upload the files to your new server Create a new database
Many people use Amazon S3 to store the backups from their WordPress websites. Most of the good backup plugins integrate with Amazon S3. All you have to do is input your Amazon Access Key ID and Secret Access Key. The way their accounts are setup leave many people’s Amazon accounts wide open if someone were
A site I build some time ago had problems after one of the recent Elementor updates. We don’t know which update caused the problem, because Elementor is only used on the home page, which isn’t changed very often. The fix was simple, but not intuitive. When you get the “Elementor White Screen of Death”, there
WordPress generally runs smoothly, but as with any system, things can go wrong. There are some common fixes that will solve most of the problems you’ll encounter. How to fix WordPress: Turn on debugging Check for a .htaccess problem Check the PHP version Check the WordPress memory limit Increase the Maximum Execution Time Save the Permalinks Clone the
With PHP 5.6 reaching the end of support recently, now is a good time to write a refresher on how to update to a more current version. How to update the PHP version on cPanel: Take a backup of all the sites on the server Log in to cPanel Look under Software for “PHP Selector” or “PHP Manager” Choose the domain to