Despite being a very useful feature in WordPress I have noticed that, in my experience, some WordPress users don’t know they exist. Here we take a quick look at why conditionals are, what they are used for, and even show a small example.
Read moreSetting up XAMPP on your computer in fairly easy thanks to the quick installer & control panel that enables you to set Apache & MySQL as services.
Read moreToday we are going to take a quick look at the ability of CSS to select elements using attribute selectors. We are also going to look at the new features added to attribute selectors in the CSS 3 specifications.
Read moreToday we are going to look at a quirky idea I was asked to make for a website I was building recently. It’s a way to provide extra information about an image without needing extra space.
Read moreA very popular way of displaying posts on a media heavy site is with a post thumbnail grid. This shows a grid of posts with their relevant thumbnails, you can even show the title & show a snippet from the excerpt. Let’s take a look at how it’s done.
Read moreA very popular design element today is the large illustrative header, just like the one we have here at Return True. Something that is starting to become just as popular is adding the ability to hide said large header. Here I’ll show you how to do that.
Read moreThis is a little bit of a niche post, but it’s all about a problem I had recently with my site. It was all to do with WordPress and how it responded when running under PHP as FastCGI instead of CGI.
Read moreThere are lots of websites hosted on shared hosting in this age, and the majority are probably running WordPress. While it’s a great application once set up with plugins it isn’t the lightest one on the block. Here we are going to look at making WordPress as shared server friendly as possible.
Read moreDo you have a HUGE amount of store categories but don’t want to turn the thumbnails on to display ‘full’ because your home page will seem like it scrolls forever? I’ll show you how you can use the images you use for your category thumbnails to display a small selection instead of the whole lot.
Read moreA great idea for some WordPress blogs is to have a related posts widget. However they generally require a plugin to work & too many plugins can slow down even the leanest (and most optimized) WordPress blog. Here is a great alternative to using a plugin.
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