Graphic designer since before the Internet. Started with newspaper paste-up; then art director for advertising agency in Reno, NV; and now freelancer designing marketing materials, print-on-demand t-shirt art, websites, and social media graphics.
Very cool plugin from By Diana Koenraadt. Plugin replaces selected Category links / Post Tag links / Custom taxonomy links in a Custom Menu by a list of their posts/pages. I created a Custom Post Type (CPT) called “Clients” and a Custom Taxonomy called “Client Status.” Then, within the Client Status custom taxonomy, I created 2…
WP Shout’s article “Using WP_Query Objects Without the Loop” explains it well: WP_Query isn’t an abstract entity; rather, it’s an object, in the programming sense. Let’s quickly summarize that discussion: Every individual object belongs to a larger class of those objects. For example, an individual Car object belongs to the class Car. Every object has things in common with…
Broken product links? Product link goes to a blank page. Problem: Shopping cart page shows up fine, and products are purchasable. But if I click on the Product’s link to go to that individual product’s page, the link just goes to a blank page. Solution: Click the “Fix Product Group Permalinks’ link in WP e-Commerce’s…
Had to make a minor adjustment to the paypal_multiple.php file in the merchants folder. When making a PayPal or Credit Card purchase I was receiving an “Order Pending” message on the Transaction Results page, as well as in the customer’s email notification. This problem seems to be solved. More info to follow if all checks…
Client’s specs include displaying Today’s Events and Upcoming Events in the sidebar, in separate Widgets. Let the Event Calendar WordPress Plugins search begin. Currently using WordPress 3.5.2. The Events Calendar (v 3.0) Widget: Upcoming events Note: this only shows Upcoming events, NOT Today’s events Compatible up to: 3.6 Last Updated: 2013-7-2 Downloads: 438,550 4 out of…
21 Stimulating Color Palette Tools For Designers by Alyssa Gregory (SitePoint.com) I’m always excited about the possibilities of a new design. At the very beginning, I never really know where it will end up, and I love that feeling. The whole process of choosing colors and creating a color palette for a site is usually…