Posts by Reid Walley
Divi – Making Blog Module Images Match Featured Image Ratios
Divi‘s Blog Module only displays images in landscape-ratio. This cuts off at the top & bottom of my Post’s portrait-ratio Featured Images. Here’s how Elegant Themes Divi tech support solved this issue. This code goes in the Child Theme’s functions.php file, and allows Divi’s Blog Module to display my Featured Images at their true ratio.…
Read MoreWooCommerce Visual Hook Guide for Single Product Page – Resources
Goal: Use Advanced Custom Fields to create a sales badge/label that says “Distressed Art” on specific main product pics. Note: plugins like YITH WooCommerce Badge Management and Advanced Product Labels for WooCommerce seem to conflict with my current Beaver Builder install. woocommerce_show_product_sale_flash seems to be the WooCommerce Hook that needs to be targeted – I’m…
Read MoreWooCommerce – Make Multiple Products Featured
Problem: I wanted to make half of my WordPress WooCommerce products “Featured”, but when I ticked the ones I wanted I realized there was no physical way to then choose “Featured” as a bulk option. This Business Bloomer article to the rescue. Solution: Business Bloomer’s article to the rescue: WooCommerce – How to Bulk Edit…
Read MorePrintful – Artwork Sizes for Men, Women & Youth T-shirt Sizes
Michael Hulse compiled a super-helpful Printful Guideline Cheat Sheet for what size artwork goes on what size Printful t-shirt (Men, Women & Youth T-Shirts). Artwork sizes for Printful t-shirts Artwork size: 12” x 16” Pixels: 3600px x 4800px DPI: 300 Men / Unisex: Small and larger Women: X-Large and larger Youth: Medium, Large, X-Large Artwork…
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Talent Spotlight – Film Director David Howe – Lessons Learned
Film director David Howe shares the biggest change he’s made since his early days of film making. Visit David Howe’s website
Read More[Solved] Printful Sync Error – HTTP Error 414 Request-URI Too Long
Problem: Printful.com shop is displaying the following syncing error message: Something went wrong with sync. Received error: HTTP Error 414 Request-URI Too Long. Try to refresh data. Solution: Adjusted a setting in the WordPress iThemes Security plugin: WordPress admin > Security > Settings > System Tweaks > un-tick the “Filter Long URL Strings” setting
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Convert PSD/PNG File to Vector File
Converting a PSD/PNG file to Vector Have old Photoshop (PSD) and PNG files that need to be converted to vector so I can manipulate them in Affinity Designer. Commenter recommend Convertio. The following process gave me a vector file that’s really close to final. Upload Photoshop PSD/PNG file to Convertio In the “to” dropdown, choose:…
Read More22 Awesome T-Shirt Templates and Mockups – Shopify
Great t-shirt mockup resource from Shopify Visit Shopify. And since I’m specifically using Printful to print my shirts: Printful T-shirt Mockups (click on the “Mockups” tab)
Read MoreAffinity Photo – Keep Reduced Images Sharp
Reducing a PNG logo from 1211px X 366px @ 150dpi to 300px X 91px @ 72 dpi. I found that Affinity Photo’s default setting of Resample + Bilinear is crap for reduced image sizes. Using Resample + Bicubic is still kinda crappy. But Resample + Lanczos 3 options gave a sharper result: Lanczos 3 (separable) =…
Read MoreSlider Revolution / Rev Slider – YouTube Video and Broken Keyboard Scroll
Problem: Clicking pause on a YouTube video (in Slider Revolution / Rev Slider slide) breaks the ability to use keyboard arrow-keys to scroll up or down the page. Solution: YouTube arguments (parameters) to the rescue! disablekb=1 Go to your Slider Revolution slide: Click on the Layer Selector Menu (hamburger icon; my Layer is titled “youtube:youtube”)…
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