Recently a client needed a function or two for Gravity Forms to process UK telephone numbers, and asked that they are between 7 and 15 characters in length. The following Gravity forms filters do exactly what's needed. Paste them in to your theme's function.php [...]
GDPR 2018: What do I need to know? The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect on May 25th 2018 and will affect the way you are able to collect, store and use the data of your customers. In a nutshell, it will become [...]
WordPress: Activating a Plugin Manually A client came to me recently with a broken site problem they simply couldn't fix. They had de-activated a plugin that was so heavily ingrained into the site that all site functionality had ceased to work, meaning they could not [...]
After the recent WooCommerce updates, a number of clients have contacted me to ask about the admin message that appears in the WordPress Dashboard: Connect your store to WooCommerce.com to receive extensions updates and support. This message certainly isn't anything to be concerned about, and [...]
You can hide Gravity Forms labels a number of ways, and most people will typically use CSS to do what's needed. However, what many people don't know is that there is a much easier way to hide the labels, a way that adds additional functionality [...]
From time to time when migrating a WordPress website, you may come across collation issues when migrating the database. Specifically, a common error message when importing via PHPMyAdmin is the #1273 – Unknown collation: ‘utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci’ error. When Wordpress updated to version 4.2 they introduced support [...]
Gravity Forms is quite possibly the best forms plugin available for WordPress, but even with the vast array of functionality it offers right out of the box it still has its limitations. One such limitation is the date picker field, offers practically no chance of [...]
The WordPress default search has never been the most powerful tool in the WordPress arsenal, and hasn't changed much over the years. Developer and focus group discussions have promised much, but it's still the same old basic search functionality that existed way back when. However, [...]
It's often the small things that tend to annoy us, and in the case of one client it was the "Howdy" message on the right of the WordPress admin bar. A small thing perhaps, but how can you change it, programmatically? Fortunately help is at [...]
Managing your domain authentication to send mail with Mailchimp or similar mail providers can sound like a daunting task, but it's a relatively simple process. Hopefully this article will hold your hand through the experience and allow you to send mail via external websites, quickly [...]
Are you a talented and hard working freelance programmer, with specific skills in PHP, JQuery, WordPress and other current web technologies? If so, I'd be happy to utilise your talents on an ongoing basis. You must have a strong grasp of WordPress, including custom post [...]
Recently for a project it was necessary to restrict WordPress registration to a select few specific domains, for example: domains with an email address from a certain company, i.e. email addresses ending with @warrenchandler.com. Rather than using a plugin to do limit domain access when registering, [...]
People who know me are aware of the fact that I like a gadget or two (perhaps the understatement of the year). Arguably the hottest gadget around at the moment for consumers/gamers is the PlayStation VR, but it does come with its downsides. And these [...]
With any web design project it's always good to have a page where all the necessary content elements are shown to ensure they're in perfect working order for the rest of your site. I've lost track of the amount of times I have done this [...]
UPDATE: On later versions of WooCommerce in 2020 you may also try the following fix for the 30 limit threshold. https://www.warrenchandler.com/2020/06/27/woocommerce-variations-break-after-30-or-more-bug-fix/ Recently, a client was reporting that they were seeing an out of stock message on their product page, which wasn't correct. All of the [...]
If like me you use the WordPress plugin Resize at Upload, or Resize at Upload Plus, it's quite likely that you'll be getting a mysql error when changing the settings. Something like: Access denied for user ''@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /home/accountname/public_html/wp-content/plugins/resize-at-upload/resize-upload.php on line 63 [...]
It's fair to say that developing websites that work the same on an Apple device as every other device can be a frustrating thing, especially when it comes to HTML5 video. Apple will always point out that videos use a lot of processor power, and [...]
Today's WordPress themes are becoming more and more flexible where web design is concerned, but I'm still asked from time to time to create custom widget areas for clients. Fortunately, the process is a fairly simple one and you can create a simple widget [...]
From time to time clients come to me requesting login redirects in WordPress. The following handy snippet below allows you to specify where the user lands once they've logged in, based on user roles. In the example, users with Administrator and Editor roles are redirected [...]
Web Programmers seem to be everywhere these days, but finding a good one - one that will stay with you for your duration of time on the web - is an increasingly difficult task. For me, personally, it's about quality, pure and simple - the [...]
I recently built a site for a client using the fantastic Avada theme, and they asked me how it was possible to have images showing up in a lightbox rather than a standalone file or an attachment page. They wanted to add the prettyPhoto plugin, [...]
WordPress installations can be confusing at times, and when combined with the PHP environment in which they reside, uploading can be one area that causes quite a bit of confusion. To give an example, recently a client asked for a solution to the following problem: [...]
WordPress isn't exactly Google when it comes to searching. The system is long overdue an overhaul, but while we wait for the never-arriving necessity you can still get much more out of your WordPress searches. Today a programmer client asked me something that I thought [...]
WooCommerce is a fantastic WordPress plugin, but unless you're really familiar with how it works you may run into a number of things that, on the surface at least, can not be done. One such thing is modifying the single product page template to rearrange [...]
When building a website, from time to time it's necessary to redirect the non www. version of the website to the www. version, especially since you're then less likely to have two versions of your website in the Google SERPS. And since a web client [...]
While I wait for some time to free up so I can completely revamp this old effort of a website, I thought it was about time to share another great little CSS3 snippet that will really help with some design ideas. Slanted Header Elements Slanted [...]
From time to time, as a web programmer you come across things that deviate from the norm. This is certainly one of them - adding an excerpt box to WordPress Pages. As you probably already know if you stumbled across this article, this feature already [...]
Being a programmer, from time to time you come across scripts that have been uploaded incorrectly via FTP. This can often cause a number of empty lines that need to be removed, and upon each subsequent change more empty lines are added. This can be [...]
If you're having trouble getting Google Maps marker clustering working on IE8, this little snippet may be of use. A client recently came to me with an issue whereby Google Maps were showing the clusters on all browsers except Internet Explorer 8, but it's usually [...]
Recently a client had a problem with a Google Map that had controls that were squashed and looked broken. Fortunately this is an easy fix, with a little CSS hack. Try adding the following to your CSS and the controls should look as intended. .gmnoprint [...]
