If you’ve bought a WordPress plugin or theme, more than likely you get the software and support. However, a lot of people like to complain about the price. A lot of times before pricing a plugin or theme, the developer or company developing them, will try to do research to see what people are paying.
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The Excerpt Metabox in WordPress
Throughout the years, there’s some areas in the WordPress backend that people aren’t aware that exists, or really what it can be used for. The excerpt metabox is just one of those areas that happens to be it. By default, if you have a theme that pulls in the excerpt of a post, the post
[Continue Reading...]Tag Cloud Do’s and Don’ts
I have been seeing a disturbing number of blogs with some creepy tag clouds. This isn’t something just recent. The tag cloud tragedies I’ve seen span more than a decade! Some have no CSS spacing implemented and others, well, they really are a ‘drag’ on the layout’s load time. I am not going to draw
[Continue Reading...]How to Add Drafts as Menu Item to the WordPress Admin Navigation
I rely on my draft posts. On a whim, I will often just create a title, write a few notes, and save a draft post with the plan of writing about it in the future. However, I get annoyed having to navigate a few pages in my WordPress admin to get the to draft post
[Continue Reading...]Children Using WordPress: How Can Parents Keep Kids Safe
After a child safety discussion on a WordPress Security Facebook group that I managed to participate in, I felt the need to touch up on children using WordPress, as I’ve been finding a lot of younger kids getting into creating websites and blogs. My own son has a WordPress blog as well. The original question
[Continue Reading...]WordPress Troubleshooting Tip: How to Fix the Pending Menu Problem
Sometimes when updating, WordPress brings up some strange issues. In this troubleshoot tip, the problem is a pending menu in the WordPress backend under Appearance> Menus. This usually occurs after a WordPress core update, and what happens is that if you’ve put together menus, they read as pending and custom links. Aside from the pending
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