With the advent of PHP 8.1, WordPress developers are increasingly encountering new challenges due to stricter error handling and type enforcement. Today, I want to share a recent experience involving the One Click Demo Import plugin while preparing a theme for submission. This case study will provide insights into the nature of the compatibility issues and offer practical solutions for other developers facing similar situations.
Read More…Effortless WordPress Development with InstantWP: A Quick Fix for Localhost Port Restrictions
InstantWP is a treasure for developers, providing a simplified pathway to set up and test WordPress locally on your machine. This tool is particularly handy for theme and plugin developers, or anyone looking to test out WordPress configurations without affecting a live site.
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Why Selling WordPress Themes is a Dying Business
There are a few reasons why selling WordPress themes may no longer be a profitable business:
Read More…Aligned Images Spacing Issue under Mobile Screen
If you insert an aligned image (left or right) in your post or page content, it probably will look good under Large Screen resolutions (Desktop or Tablet screens). But under Mobile screens there could be an issue with reduced space for text around the image (screenshot above).
If you face such issue, you could check our suggestions how it can be resolved:
Read More…Old Themes: Handling potential jQuery issues in WordPress 5.6
In you use an old premium theme (older than 1 year) and upgrade your WordPress to version 5.6 (or newer version), there could be some issues with JavaScript on your site (i.e. not working Slider).
The reason for that is the jQuery version upgrade in latest WordPress versions and stop jQuery Migrate helper script by default.
If you have such issue, here is how to resolve:
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How to fix “Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons” for WebP image in WordPress
If you upload a WebP image to WordPress media library, you will receive the following error:
Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons
The above can be fix with a small code change. Here are all of the necessary steps:
Read More…How to Remove Gutenberg Block Library Style CSS
The new WordPress editor (Gutenberg) brings new functionality for editing content but it comes with additional resources which are loaded on every site page load.
Read More…WooCommerce: Change Number of Products per Page
Unfortunately, there is No WooCommerce out of the box Admin/Customizer which allow us to change the number of products displayed in Shop pages.
Read More…Enable Shortcode in Widget
By default, if you insert a shortcode into widget it will be displayed as plain text instead of the expected display when it’s being inserted in post or page.
Read More…How to Reduce Header Space in Twenty Twenty Theme
Twenty Twenty is currently the default WordPress theme. It has more than 1 million active installations which probably makes it the most popular WordPress theme.
We use that theme in our plugins demo site. Recently, we found out that the header space is too large and we decided to reduce it’s top and bottom space. Here is how it can be done:
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How to Install a Plugin from zip file in WordPress
Here is a guide how to install a plugin in WordPress from its ZIP file:
Read More…How to Add a Shortcode in Gutenberg
If you use latest WordPress Editor (called Gutenberg), you may find it challenging to insert a short code. So, here you can find all of the necessary steps:
Read More…Create Multiple Columns Pages with WordPress Gutenberg Editor
One of the great features of the latest WordPress Editor (called ‘Gutenberg’) is the ability to create multiple columns pages.
Here is a step-by-step guide how it can be done:
Read More…How to Convert Old Posts to Gutenberg
After update to latest WordPress, you probably use the new built-in Editor (Gutenberg) which format the content into separate blocks (Paragraphs, Headings, Images, Read more, etc.)
Once you get used to with it (after writing two or three posts, you probably will become addicted to Gutenberg editor … and you won’t even want to use anymore the old (Classic) editor.
When you open an pre-existing post (created before the Gutenberg update), it will be opened with the old editor. So, here is how to convert it to Gutenberg:
Read More…Twenty Nineteen Theme Review
If you have updated to latest WordPress version (and you should have done that already), you probably have noticed there is a new default WordPress Theme: Twenty Nineteen.
I have played with the theme, reviewed its code and here you can check my thoughts about it and things that made a huge impression on me:
Define Customizer Starter Content
Introduced with WordPress 4.7, starter content allows you to define a default content (such as widgets, customizer settings, menus and pages) which will be displayed when user opens Customizer (Admin Panel -> Left Menu -> Appearance -> Customize) of a newly installed WP sites.
Read More…How to Display a shortcode as Menu Item Dropdown
In some cases you may want to display the result of a shortcode as Main menu sub-item. Here are all of the necessary steps: Read More…
Issue with Beaver Builder Plugin
We have recently received a customer query about Beaver Builder plugin support with one of our themes – tMovies. We made the necessary investigation and found the reason for the issue:
1. Our themes rely on latest jquery/jquery.ui standard js libraries.
2. The plugin relies on old and deprecated jquery/jquery.ui js libraries.
The best solutio would the plugin to be updated to use latest jquery.ui library, but it’s not something we could do (it can be done only by plugin author).
In case you want to remain using the Beaver Builder, we can suggest the following theme update that you can apply to resolve the issue: Read More…
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WordPress ver 4.7 “Vaughan” Released
The new WordPress version 4.7. Vaughan is now released and you can update your WP site to it. Read More…
10 Things to Learn from Twenty Fifteen Theme
Twenty Fifteen is now available. It was released with the WordPress 4.1. If you are a WP theme developer or you simply want to improve your current theme, you can learn much from the Twenty Fifteen. Here is a list of useful tips and tricks I learned form that theme: Read More…