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]
Playing with Parallax Effects
Trying an Image Parallax plugin for a client. Let’s see what it does when I move my mouse around! The sax moves around. Pretty Cool! Now let’s see what the client thinks.
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]
Two New Favorite Plugins
As I am working on an upgraded WordPress website for a client – moving an older, outdated theme to a sparkling new customized Genesis theme – I came across two new VERY handy plugins I wanted to share. 1. THE DUPLICATOR This plugin is not for the novice user. If you’re a more advanced user,… [Read More]
Another Reason To Love NextGen
Last Fall (November 2014) we developed a fun, interactive, e-commerce website for Tim Sample and The Maine Humor Store. We used WooCommerce because it has so much flexibility for any size business that wants to sell online. In early January, Tim asked us to add downloadable products to his store. NO PROBLEM! Well, there was… [Read More]
A Reason To Be Happy About NextGen
You may have read about a vulnerability in a plugin called Slider Revolution. Last weekend, they found more than 100,000 WordPress sites were hit with the malware known as “SoakSoak”. This vulnerability has resulted in more than 11,000 domains being blacklisted by Google. DesignME Clients can rest peacefully – we don’t use that plugin. We… [Read More]
