Use Search Icon to Fire Search

If you want an icon to work as your search submission in WordPress you can do this with a basic jQuery script. It is actually not too hard. You just use something like jQuery(‘#fancy_icon-198-4635’).on(‘click’, function() { jQuery(‘#searchsubmit’).click(); }); where on clicking the fancy icon you trigger a search submit click. And that search submit you […]

Hostnet.nl MainWP Issues

Been having Hostnet.nl MainWP Issues lately. The MainWP Dashboard cannot connect to the child theme. Never been happy with hostnet really as they throttle RAM all the time. This causes issues doing BackupBuddy backups and even issues with Wordfence. MainWP – Hostnet Connection Severed But now for two months I have not been able to connect […]

Mailchimp Comment Optin – Fixing Outdated Constructor Error

Mailchimp Comment Optin is a plugin we still use for some of our clients. Fixing Outdated Constructor Errors is needed to work with it properly. The error you get will be: ( ! ) Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; MCAPI has […]

Bedrock Valet Can’t connect to local MySQL server Error

If you want to set up a Valet Bedrock based WordPress website and you run into this Valet Can’t connect to local MySQL server error. It will block you from generating a Bedrock WordPress website. It is however easy to remedy. Valet Can’t connect to local MySQL server Error The error you get will pop […]

Jupiter Page Background Image Position

The Jupiter Page Background Image Position can be a challenge with certain images. Sometimes the background image added behind your page winds up looking horribly cut off. So how can we improve the Jupiter Theme background images? Background Color & Texture Jupiter only allows for general background-position directions. This can be done per page using the […]

PHP Strict standards: Declaration of A should be compatible with B

We bumped into an PHP Strict standards: Declaration of A should be compatible with B issues.We had a theme made by us quite some time stop working recently.  One we we were using as a demo mainly. So we decided to work things out. As many of you might bump into this I decided to […]

Digital Ocean Monitoring Beta Setup

Just installed Digital Ocean  monitoring beta on one of my Digital Ocean droplets where I have Trellis running for a WordPress client of mine. It is a new way to monitor bandwidth, memory usage and I/O. And also a way to get alerts when your droplet gets hit hard on one of those metrics. Installation […]

Change Custom Post type Name and Taxonomy of existing Custom Post Type

Had a client ask me the other day if the existing name of the Custom Post Type in question could be changed as the url or taxonomy. So how do you Change Custom Post type Name and Taxonomy of existing Custom Post Type? Well there are a few steps you need to take to do this […]

Changing Site URL with WP-CLI

If you quickly need to change the WordPress site url on a VPS or dedicated server with WP CLI installed or installable WP-CLI is your friend. It is a great command line based option dealing with url changes during site migration. There are of course great plugins to help out too, but believe me with […]