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Expanding a div beyond its container to be full width of page
Sometimes its necessary to break a div out of its container and make it full width of the page which luckily we can do using a bit of CSS trickery! An example of this for us is where a plugin shortcode was inserted within the WYSIWIG editor which was within a container div and we…
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5 months into our Welsh adventure
Its been five months now since we upped our lives and WordPress agency from Northamptonshire to a small hamlet near Betws-y-Coed in Snowdonia, Wales. What a journey it has been so far! The desire to live in North Wales has always been a dream of my wife Sophie and as a remote working agency, we can…
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WordPress power tools: Post Status Membership
In the first post of a series, we are going to be looking at the essential tools we use on a daily basis to make outstanding WordPress websites for creative and digital agencies. Today, we are discussing one of our most valuable resources, membership to the Post Status Club. A brief history Post Status is…
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Protect your email address on a WordPress site
WordPress comes with some useful built in functions for sanitising and protecting content which are often underused. For example, ever needed to protect an email address on a site footer or contact template so it cannot be picked up by spammers? Enter ‘antispambot’! Antispambot’s default usage is as follows where the email you want to…
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Our thoughts on WordPress targeting 50% market share
The growth of WordPress in the last 2 to 3 years has been phenomenal and it seems that every time a new statistic appears regarding market share, WordPress is growing more and more. For an open source project to continue to innovate and improve shows a lot to the legion of contributors who seem to…
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Where we go for WordPress help
Sometimes we get stuck, sometimes we just want to keep informed about what is going on with WordPress. The WordPress community is a helpful, friendly and open especially when you need help with something. Whether its a piece of code or business advice, finding something out for us normally means visiting one of the following…
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WP Engine – Proactively improving security
One of the things we appreciate the most about WP Engine is its proactive nature with improving its service offering to its customers. It seems like they are always looking inwards to see what they can improve, not in a casual way, more in a way where they are making it their mission to be…
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Celebrating WordPress
WordPress is our life and has been for years and it is always good to see statistics that show its success and popularity. As of August 2013 near on 20% of the top 10 Million sites use WordPress, which is more than any other system. WordPress was born in 2003 when the founder Matt Mullenweg…
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Displaying the taxonomy name
Sometimes you want to display the taxonomy value for post type and this next bit of code will do just that. Just put this where you want the value to appear in your WordPress themes template file and it will bring back the taxonomy category name. This snippet can go in single.php, archive.php etc and must…
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Changing the order on a Woocommerce Product page
We have just completed a WordPress site for client using Woocommerce where the design requirement meant that the order of the elements on the typical Woocommerce product page had to rearranged. In this case the price needed to be moved below the product short description. Using the built in hooks and functions of Woocommerce this…
