Posts by Bryan Hoffman
Change Woocommerce New Order reply-to address to customer
A client wanted to be able to easily contact customers through the New Order admin notification in Woocommerce by simply replying to that notification. The default reply-to is the store owner’s email, so we needed a way to make it appear as if it came from the customer. After trying and failing a handful of…
Read MoreFrom Codekit to Grunt and back
I’ve used Codekit since the day I started with Sass. It helped me understand Sass and make my CSS authoring fun again. A few weeks ago I was feeling pretty awesome and decided to puh-phushaw Codekik to give Grunt a go. Spent a couple of days getting the hang and porting over some projects. Seemed…
Read MoreRemove previously tracked file from git repository
Here’s a simple git command that will remove a previously tracked file from a git repository: git rm –cached <file> The file will be removed from the head on the next commit. I run into this issue often when using Tower to manage repositories. There doesn’t seem to be an easy way to remove items…
Read MoreEverything You Need to Know About Planet Earth
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGXi_9A__Vc] Seriously cool graphic video of stuff to know about the earth.
Read MoreModify theme layout in Hybrid Core
Here’s how to modify the Theme Layouts extension in Hybrid Core: in functions.php: You can then hide sidebars and such like so: in a sidebar template:
Read MoreQuickly edit post tags and categories in WordPress
Here’s how to quickly edit categories and tags on a WordPress post, or multiple posts: Quick Edit The posts page in WordPress admin has a nice quick edit feature that allows you to quickly update, among other things, the date the categories and tags. Hover over the post name and click Quick Edit. Merrily Edit…
Read MoreUpload SVG through WordPress Media Uploader
As SVG continues is rise to the top of the internet image food chain you may have found yourself wondering why WordPress gives the security smackdown when uploading SVG through the Media Uploader: Fix it with this code, either in functions.php or better yet, your own functionality plugin: /** * Adds MIME Types to WP…
Read MoreThe Best way to back up a WordPress site
If you search for ‘How to backup a WordPress site‘ you’ll find many options on how to go about properly backing up a WordPress based website. Most of them probably do the trick, but here’s our take on the (second1) best way to back up your website: BackupBuddy BackupBuddy is a WordPress plugin that we…
Read MoreHow to migrate a site with BackupBuddy
The WordPress Codex has a detailed tutorial on moving WordPress in a variety of circumstances, and it’s fairly straight forward, especially if you know your way around Apache and MySQL. We build a lot of WordPress based sites and need to migrate sites all the time. From local development to staging servers, or to a live…
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