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Monday, July 29, 2024

PropertyPin – A Visual Bookmarking Platform for Property Images

By now, you should be familiar with my ImagePress plugin for WordPress. If not, here’s the gist: it allows website…

Monday, July 29, 2024

How to Get Dominant Colours of an Image in PHP

This feature has been requested by some of my ImagePress customers. It is also being used on my PropertyPin website.…

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

How to Completely Remove the Jetpack Plugin

This is mostly a note to myself. Jetpack is a well-used plugin on a number of sites and has over…

Thursday, July 11, 2024

ClassicPress TinyMCE: How to Add Styles, Buttons, Fonts, Dropdowns & Popups

When I took over FX Builder and started updating it for the new ClassicPress 2+, I wanted to add some…

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Moving to a System Font Stack (How and Why)

I believe the “why” in the title is self-explanatory. If not, it’s all about performance. Over the past decade, I…

Friday, July 12, 2024

How to Build a Vertical Off-Canvas Menu Bar Using JavaScript and CSS

In my work, coming up with fresh navigation ideas and creating an intuitive and efficient navigation system is essential for…

Friday, July 12, 2024

How to Correctly Configure GDPR Privacy and Google Consent Mode v2

For this tutorial, I will use the WP Google Consent Platform (GCP) plugin for WordPress. This is a two-step operation.…

Thursday, May 2, 2024

How to Lazy Load Google Map Iframe Embed in WordPress

If you embed a Google Map iframe on your WordPress website, you may notice an increase in the total webpage…

Monday, April 22, 2024

What’s New in the Latest Lighthouse Release

The last few releases of Lighthouse have been silent, and fixed or patched various issues with individual websites. I have…

Friday, March 8, 2024

Dark Mode for Lighthouse!

I’ve long wanted to add a dark mode to my WordPress back-end, but “thanks” to the block editor, it’s not…

Thursday, May 9, 2024

WordPress Plugins and User Experience

What happens when WordPress plugins reach maturity? At this moment, and I’m talking strictly from a code/design point of view,…

Friday, February 23, 2024

How to Build a Front-end Password Reset Form in WordPress

I have just moved an entire user account module from the back-end of WordPress to the front-end. This includes the…

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