For those who are trying to add a new key to an existing droplet – READ THIS!!!! If you are getting the “Permission denied (publickey)” when trying to copy your public key to the server, you likely have password authentication disabled in your droplet. How to fix this: Log in to your DigitalOcean account and…
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Untangling the web hosting knot
So you’ve decided that you are going to finally jump in full force and build your own website. Congrats! Maybe you’ve done a little tweaking of a WordPress.com theme, or you remember the days of customizing your myspace profile, or maybe you don’t know a damn thing about website hosting, but you’ve made a decision…
How to create a custom slider with Pods! Pt2 (adding text to your slides)
If you have not checked it out yet, start with PT1 of this series. If you followed the tutorial for how to create a custom image slider tutorial PT1 you should now have a slider that is sliding images across the screen, but you’re here because you also want an editable title and excerpt for…
Protected: Making a Custom Fields Framework
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post…
Getting Coding & WordPress Help for Free from Strangers
When I am working on a deep programming project I tend to spend a good amount of time asking questions and also paying it forward by answering questions. I handle a lot of beginner questions and thus have found that many people have no idea how to ask for technical help or programming help at…
HUGE DISCOUNT CODE FOR WPENGINE!!
To get your 40% off of any plan click this link and use promo code SSL40OFF I was just notified of a really great deal from one of our current advertisers, WPEngine. They are right now offering 40% off any of their plans PLUS 2 free months. As a newbie, deciding on the best hosting company…
The number one tip I would give to people learning to code
It is very easy to get overwhelmed when jumping in to the world of web development and programming in general. To most people, looking at code on a page is like looking at a foreign language. Thats because it is! Programming is basically the language of computers. There are many different dialects; php, C++, java,…
Ternary Operators – php shorthand ?:
Ternary operators are probably the most confusing code to look at but at the same time probably the most underused style of coding for new developers. Ternary operators doesn’t give any additional functionality to PHP programming aside from simplifying and minimizing the number of characters you have you type in order to achieve the desired…
Customizing the output of the [gallery] shortcode
The default output for the WordPress gallery is pretty bare bones. They simply output the pictures in a whatever x whatever grid and allow you to link to the file or media page from each pictures. The great thing about that is that you can really go nuts customizing it and make it into anything…
Deep linking with flexslider
Deep linking is the ability to link directly to content on a page, and deep linking with a slider means you want to open a page and have a specific slide already loaded in your slider. Flexslider has some very useful functions that will allow us to easily update the URL path with the ID…