An addition to a WordPress website was the presentation of a number of products for viewing, but not for sale. The products were to be listed, a thumbnail, title and excerpt text. Clicking through to the product there would be the usual details: title one or more images a summary a full description The items […]
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Whilst editing WordPress posts and pages the usual icons at the top of the page and in the popup bar above the currently focused block are showing as text, not as the icons. I was seeing the action links as text not as icons. Shown above is the situation whilst editing a post. the action […]
Tags are a means to add additional clarity and filtering to a website post. Tags are cross-category they can therefore be thought to be horizontal. Whilst categories are considered to be vertical. Whilst categories can be rigid in their grouping, posts from different categories can have the same tag. Tags can be used to offer […]
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WordPress uses the file wp-config.php, located at the root of the website, to provide configuration settings. Options include the connection to the database. To ensure that these settings are Include make your edits prior to the line: /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */ It’s also used to add other configuration options. Given in […]
A WooCommerce WordPress website may default to showing products listed as id references rather than using friendly URL strings. This permalinks error is easy to correct. This was an older installation issue with WooCommerce, which has been changed in recent releases making the URL more friendly in its parameters. Having previously configured a WordPress website […]
Giving the new post a title, adding content using blocks, implementing the posts settings and some thoughts on SEO options. Adding the New Post To create a new post I like to begin by clicking on the Posts entry in the left hand black menu. The next page will show all of the posts. On […]
WordPress has a handy method available to check if a plugin is installed and active before calling and making use of one of its functons. is_plugin_active() An example of its use might be a WooCommerce cart repeater included within the header of a theme. clearly If the WooCommerce plugin isn’t active then we don’t wish […]
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A quick look around the admin side of a WordPress website. With an insight into the admin view layout and editing: pages; posts; and uploading a new image to the media library. A WordPress website has a public view and an admin view. I’ll use example.com as the domain name.Replace it by your website URL […]
Images can be added to a WordPress post or page with the image block. The image block allows for the alignment, size and caption of the image to be set. There are two parts to adding an image to a WordPress post: When creating a new WordPress post I like to prepare my images first. […]
I have seen a curl error reported when updating plugins on a WordPress website. The cause has been memory related. A typical observed error when updating WordPress plugins is Download failed. cURL error 77: Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?) The version of php in use was 5.6. An update to the […]
