For those who don’t know, Elementor is an amazing page builder for WordPress. Super fast with some really nifty features. Check it out here. Today I’ll run through how you can add your own custom elements into the sidebar. We’ll do a basic one that outputs some text along with some recent post titles. This is what […]
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Debugging slow WordPress Theme demos with NewRelic
A few of our WordPress theme demos started to run slowly. Time to fire up newrelic to find out the problem. It quickly stood out that WordPress SQL queries are chewing up most of the time: What did I find in these demo database tables? 18000 WooCommerce “wc_session” entries. All of these wc_session entries had “autoload” set to “no”. […]
Blocking WordPress xmlrpc.php requests globally on Plesk
Create a new file called: /etc/httpd/conf.d/xmlrpc.conf with this content in it: <Files xmlrpc.php> order deny,allow deny from all </Files> Then restart the web server. Now your host will not have to deal with the many automated xmlrpc exploit attempts it receives.
BoHo Baby Hand Drawn WordPress Template – For Sale
BoHo Baby is a modern grey and teal coloured website template that’s aimed towards the children’s clothing, kids products and children’s room design market. Although the design is quite flexible for many industries such as personal blogs, jewellery, craft, interior design, home based blogging businesses, mom bloggers, homewares and designers looking for a feminine WordPress […]
Beautiful Watercolor WordPress Theme
Beautiful is a creative WordPress theme that is easy to setup and comes with a great set of features. The graphics in this theme have been hand painted by our in house artist, This theme is perfect for creative online stores like sewing projects, cooking, baking, crafts, photography, florists even children’s items. This template design would also complement your Etsy Store
Top Watercolor WordPress Themes 2016
Below are some of my favourite watercolour WordPress themes that are available for download/purchase. Using custom watercolor artwork in websites is really popular right now; it creates a strong website identity without relying on professional photography. The watercolor style themes are great for feminine websites, online creative shops, craft, photography, home bloggers, fashion, florist, gardeners artists or […]
Creating a WordPress theme installation wizard / theme onboarding
When the popular WooCommerce plugin is first installed, the end user is presented with a lovely onboarding wizard helping with initial setup and showing links to further resources. I have adapted this to a WordPress theme, here’s the video showing the installation wizard after theme activation: This wizard will help with the following items: Default plugin installation and […]
Visual Composer Plugin updates in 3rd party themes
( removed due to https://forums.envato.com/t/howto-update-visual-composer-in-stock-plugin-from-3rd-party-themes/6918/16?u=dtbaker )
The “Media Sync” WordPress plugin
Hey everyone, I’m about to launch the “Media Sync” WordPress plugin. Details, demo and some screenshots are over on the project page here: http://dtbaker.net/projects/mediasync/ Check it out!