So we have this funky and extremely frustrating issue where we’re trying to embed a video using the Youtube video block in the new WordPress Gutenberg editor and the video is NOT being embedded. Instead of seeing the video, all we’re seeing is the link to the Youtube video. Well the issue is NOT Gutenberg. …
Ever run into that pesky maintenance mode screen? You know the one where your WordPress site won’t load. This often happens after you update WordPress to the latest version. I run into this sometimes when I’m doing development work locally building a WordPress theme or plugin. Well it’s super easy to fix. I’ll show you…
In this video we’ll show you how to quickly create an animated svg loading icon to use on your website. We’ll find an icon using thenountproject.com and then animate the svg using the svgator.com svg animation software.
If you have the latest version of the Gutenberg editor, there are currently two ways to change your page’s/post’s permalink. For your information, a permalink is a URL or slug to a post or a page in WordPress. OPTION 1: Change Permalink in the Gutenberg Editor This option only works with the latest version of WordPress’ Gutenberg editor. Earlier versions didn’t…
Step 1: Create a Salient child theme Follow these instructions from WordPress on how to create a child theme. Step 2: Copy the existing header.php from the Salient parent theme to create a header.php file in the child theme. Step 3: Place the following code wherever you want the Google Translate widget to appear. We searched for the…
I’ve run into numerous situations where I need to loop through data on a website that I do not own (typically API documentation) so that I can reformat it and make it usable. For example, AWS Route 53 includes a list of top-level domains (TLDs) in a page with related data for each TLD but…
If you have a file (such as a database.php file) that has different contents locally than what needs to exist in production, follow the steps below. After following these instructions, you will have two different versions of a file; one for local use and one for production. Step 1: Run git update-index command Now, any…
First, make sure that you are allowing network access to MySQL in MAMP Then, try adding the following key-value pair to the MySQL array in config/database.php. Your MySQL array should now look like this: You should now be able to run php artisan migrate with no problems!
The magic wand allows you to easily and quickly cut an image from another image or to extract a part of an image into its own layer. Start by opening up your image in Photoshop. Then, hover over the magic wand tool in the left sidebar. Then, click on the image with the magic wand…
We love drawing our users’ attention to important elements on our pages. There are numerous ways of doing this: adding a button, increasing the font size or font weight (ie bold), adjusting the font color, adding a background color, etc. We’re going to focus specifically on buttons on this post. Sometimes adding a button isn’t…