Category: WordPress
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Customizing the Privacy Policy link in Genesis eNews Extended
You put together a brand new fancy Privacy Policy page on your WordPress 4.9.6+ site and are ready to include a link to is using the latest version of Genesis eNews Extended. That’s great! This is a brand new feature, though, so themes aren’t styling for it yet. What can you do? Styling Using the…
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Genesis eNews Extended 2.1 Released
Genesis eNews Extended 2.1 is now available on WordPress.org. It has been a couple of years since a new version has been released—frankly, the plugin just works and it hasn’t needed much work. Please note this version requires WordPress 4.9.6 and will not be offered unless you’re running WordPress 4.9.6+. The European Union is preparing…
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WordPress Drop-In Plugins?
You know all about WordPress plugins and may have heard of Must-Use plugins, but what about “Drop-Ins”? In WordPress, there are three types of plugins: Regular plugins – in /wp-content/plugins/ and can (generally) be activated/deactivated/updated via wp-admin’s UI. Must-Use plugins – in /wp-content/mu-plugins/. Only PHP files in the mu-plugins directory itself are detected and they…
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Keeping It Clean
I went through my debug log tonight, which had been a bit long mainly due to older plugins throwing warnings in PHP 7. Of four plugins generating PHP 7 warnings, two had merged-but-unreleased fixes, one has a pending PR that I could apply and confirm working, and wrote a PR for the last one. Clean…
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More blogging and less social media
Entering 2018, I plan on setting a New Years’ resolution of using social media less, and blogging more. Source: More blogging and less social media The founder of Drupal, a “competing” CMS to WordPress hits the nail on the head here. I’m planning on doing the same. I do like that I look up old…
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Mobile App UI Fail
This morning, I needed to post a quick note to my team’s p2 about a scheduled standing meeting today I would be missing. I often use the mobile app for posting something short like that (and this post). This works well until when I post it to this site instead of the p2. Would an…