Recently, I had to work on a site that had a few things going on: It had some users with custom roles, and capabilities Those users had a simplified dashboard WooCommerce was enabled. The problem was that when those users logged in, WooCommerce would redirect them to the “My Account” page, instead of their simplified dashboard…. Read more »
Posts By: Alicia Ramirez
5 Tips for Learning App Development
For the past few years, I’ve been teaching myself how to make native iOS apps. I’m still not super strong, but I hope to release my first app in the fall (I’ll keep you posted). I hope the following tips will help you do the same. 5 – Do it as fast as you can The… Read more »
Skrollr for Beginners Tutorial
Skrollr is a scroller library that allows you to perform animations or changes to your web page’s content based on screen position. For example, you can make a div slowly appear, or slide in, as you scroll down the page. You can see it in action here. This tutorial will cover the bare minimum you need… Read more »
Advanced Custom Fields Google Maps Tutorial
Update (Oct. 31, 2016): Google Maps now requires that you have an API Key in order to add maps via ACF. The tutorial reflects this new requirement. One of my go-to plugins is Advanced Custom Fields. It is versatile, and makes adding custom fields to posts, pages, custom post types, and even user profiles a breeze…. Read more »
Move WordPress from MAMP to a Server
There are many ways in which you can migrate your WordPress site from MAMP into its final home, to make it “live”. The way I’m going to show, has worked well for beginners. What you will need: Access to the cPanel (or similar) on your server Migrate DB plugin (or similar) in your local installation… Read more »
HTML5 is for Slackers
I can’t deny it, I’m an old curmudgeon when it comes to HTML validation. I remember with fondness the good old days of XHML and a draconian W3C validator that wouldn’t let you get away with anything. I miss the unquestioned pride of a green “This Page is Valid HTML 1.0 Strict”. Why this old lady rant?… Read more »
Integrate Isotope with WordPress, Part 2 (Categories)
A few months ago I wrote a post on how to integrate Isotope with WordPress. Since then, I’ve received some requests on showing how to limit it to one category. In this tutorial I will show how to add the Isotope code and scripts to a template, filtering the posts that belong to one category by… Read more »
How to Make a Kindle eBook from Scratch
Update (Sept. 11, 2015): The character set for Kindle eBooks is now UTF-8. And recommends using the UTF-8 character over entities (© over ©). There are many ways to create a Kindle eBook, but creating your own source files, and then using KindleGen to convert it into Kindle Format 8 will give you more control… Read more »
Integrating Isotope with WordPress
Isotope is a very powerful jQuery plugin that allows you to create sortable, filterable (I’m sure that’s a word) masonry layouts (although you can have other layouts as well). Isotope is free for personal use (a commercial license costs $25, and an organizational license $90). In this tutorial I will show how to add the Isotope… Read more »
Advanced Custom Fields Image Object Tutorial
Update (10/11/2016): I added some escaping to the examples. Better safe than sorry. When creating an image custom field in Advanced Custom Fields, it gives you the option of setting the “Return Value” as an “Image Object”.