You may find that some of the themes you choose call out google fonts in the “old way”, but when you go to grab your fonts, it looks a tad different. One would think it was as simple as adding the “css2” to the front and the new family codes in the middle. That’s not… [Read More]
Redirect to the BuddyPress Profile Page
Buddypress doesn’t have an actual “page” for a user profile – it is dynamically created. I looked high and low for an answer and finaly came across this solutions. Thanks to Buddyforms, for this bit of code. Place this into your functions.php file and it will do the trick if you want to add a… [Read More]
“Going Live”
Have you ever wondered what happens after you give your web designer the “OK” to go live? The Technical Stuff DesignME Creative builds the developing website in a subdirectory of your domain – something like yourdomain.com/dev. So the first step is to change the Settings within your WP dashboard and installation url to the real… [Read More]
Insert Soliloquy Shortcode Using Advanced Custom Fields
DesignMe has many clients that want to self-maintain their website. So our development process keeps that in mind by making edits/additions as easy as possible. One way is to use Advanced Custom Fields to place a single line of text that can then be put into a shortcode to create a custom slider. This particular… [Read More]
Redirect My Website To https://
In 2015, Google announced they were going to give preference to website that offered their website with https:// in the url. If you are looking to boost your SEO, this is the most simple and cost effective thing you can do for your website. The price of an Secure Socket Layer certificate (SSL) is approximately… [Read More]
Stop WordPress From Removing Non-Breaking Spaces
If you’ve ever tried to add a non-breaking space – – in the text editor in WordPress, you know that it disappears once you return to the visual editor and save the page. Next time, try putting this bit of code in your functions.php file to stop WordPress from removing your non-breaking spaces (and… [Read More]
Phone Numbers Not Formatted Correctly on iPhone Safari
Recently, I was working on some custom coding for a client who created their site in Divi. We added a phone number to a widget area, but no matter how or what we used in the CSS, the color always came up as GRAY on iPhone Safari. After quite some time, I found the answer!… [Read More]
Making A Short Sidebar Full Length
I was working with a StudioPress Child Theme – Brunch Pro Theme and the designer wanted the sidebar to go all the way to the bottom of the full page text (not stop where the text ended). It just requires a little “thinking outside he box”. Basically, we just add alot to the “padding-bottom” to… [Read More]
“Direct links to my PDF files are redirecting to my home page?”
Yes, that is a problem I encountered this weekend with a long-time client. It was FRUSTRATING for all of us! The client was sending out an email blast to their members and had 2 links to PDF files on their website. Both files were uploaded into the media folder properly. No custom redirects or added… [Read More]
Force WordPress Displayname Format
DesignMe recently upgraded a website that uses our developers PRO version of s2Member. Part of the project was creating a directory using the plugin’s Member List function. However, the sort option was for display name … and the display name was set to different formats. I needed it to display and sort by last name…. [Read More]
