If you want to skip the reading about super crappy, no good web hosting and just see a list of NON-EIG hosts I totally love, read my web hosting post. Over the last 6 years or thereabouts, Endurance International Group (EIG) — formally BizLand hosting — has purchased MANY of the most popular hosting companies,…
Add Custom Post Types and Taxonomy Terms to WordPress link selection
When you add a link in the WordPress editor, the default is posts, pages, and single posts of custom post types. If you want to link to an archive page of a custom post type, or link to a taxonomy term (a category for example), then you would need to visit that page and grab…
Fast and Free WordPress Database migration without losing serialized data
[tweetthis]Fast and Free WordPress database migration without losing serialized data[/tweetthis] If you don’t want to lose your widgets, your CMB2 content, or other serialized data, the Search and Replace for WordPress Databases by interconnect/it is amazing! I had a BUNCH of CMB2 fields and when I did a standard find and replace or a SQL…
Random Hero Image from Directory for WordPress and Genesis
If you’d like to create images for a hero section of a website and put those images in a directory and have them appear as random background images that change each time a person visits a page, this is how you do it with WordPress. The more images you have, the more random it is.…
Remove Beaver Builder link and tab in Admin for WooCommerce pages
For a current project, I decided to use Beaver Builder for certain pages that the client can edit with a drag and drop editor. I ended up using Elementor Pro*. However, many people use Beaver Builder and WooCommerce together. In this situation you’ve got WooCommerce pages that are core (required) and generated when you go…
Clean up widgets page in WordPress
I don’t know about you, but a lot of projects don’t require every single widget that comes with the core, frameworks, or plugins. Once you know the widget class, then you can add it to the array and remove it. If you want to keep one, just comment it out with two // before the…
Updated: WordPress RSS feeds and MailChimp
Do not send me a bug report. Become a paid member of MailChimp and after reading their documentation, if you have an issue, use their support. The original code last week was messed up in that the the same image was used in all posts, I should have noticed it. Anyway, this code is updated…