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When you have chosen to run your WordPress installation let’s say for development purposes locally in your PC on WAMPserver (that is Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) you might run into issues when trying to upload bigger media or install plugins using the .zip file upload method. I personally tried to install Divi theme and Divi […]
When using the visual builder in Oxigeno theme there are 4 and 6 columns per row available, for example. But not 5. So when you have for example 5 core values your company represents and you want to highlight them on your homepage each one in a column in a row you need a workaround. […]
You may discover that using Divi theme menu module and having long enough menu with nested menu items the menu might upon opening extend deeper down on screen than there is room on screen and hence it will not be fully visible on mobile screens. In addition the long menu is not scrollable, leaving further […]
I ran into a strange issue today where I needed to change a site language in WordPress General Settings, but selected language just would not save. I went to General, then select desired language under Site Language and hit Save Changes. A message appears at the top of the page “Settings saved.” But what happened […]
I once got this problem that when updating my WordPress (it was using IsleMag theme) after the update accessing adming via wp-admin would not work anymore. Instead it gave error 500 – Internal Server Error. Normally I suspect any internal server errors are caused by .htaccess. This time renaming the .htaccess didn’t help. So time […]
If you care about your WordPress site security you have of course installed a simple plugin that limits the amount of tries anyone can attempt logging in to your site before applying some restrictions, like a time delay until the next allowed attempt. One of the simplest and best plugins for this purpose would have […]
I once got this problem that after updating WordPress (using IsleMag theme) accessing admin via wp-admin was suddenly not working anymore. Instead it gave Internal Server error 500. Normally I always suspect Internal Server errors have to do with .htacess redirects not working properly. Renamed .htaccess. didn’t help. So it was time to troubleshoot. Here […]
When you want the Qode slider of the Bridge theme for WordPress to open a YouTube video in a lightbox when clicked on the slide CTA button, you are left on your own, since the Qode Interactive are saying that the buttons are not intended for lightbox use and you could only pop up videos […]
Sometimes you want to turn your WooCommerce into a product catalog. This can happen to either you or your client. When looking for ways how to do it, you most likely stumble upon a WordPress plugin that turns on catalog mode. I personally tried the YITH WooCommerce Catalog mode plugin and it lacked a feature […]
Once I needed to add a back button to a WordPress menu. It was actually a WordPress site that was built for a information display touch screen booth and there was a need for a back button. A possibly long story short, here is how you can add a back button to a menu […]