PHPStorm v. VS Code for WordPress Development
When it comes to choosing a code editor for WordPress development, two popular options are PHPStorm and Visual Studio Code (VS Code). Both are powerful, feature-rich code editors that are well-suited for WordPress development, but they have some key differences that...
WooCommerce Orders Table No Link Please
Prior to 2018, while viewing the custom post type shop_order in WooCommerce, each fields was customizable, and you could click anywhere you wanted and it would act as expected ( do action on what was clicked ). On the latest version of 3.3+, WooCommerce...
Do Not Be Scared Of The Cookie Monster
I had a chance to assist on a fun project for a referred customer. The desired results of the project were to create a page that contained a private video, while needing the would be viewer to fill out a form to capture some details about the individual,...
Shipping Labels – Adding Free! back in
BEFORE Within WooCommerce 3.0+, you will be using "Shipping Zones" instead of the legacy shipping methods. When you were able to use the legacy version, there was text that was added automatically if the price of the shipping method chosen was $0.00, which...
Add Continue Shopping Button on Single Product Page
When shopping on a website, driven by WordPress and WooCommerce, sometimes you want your users to just return directly to the shop. Rather than having the user search for the shop navigation button, you want to give them a button, as soon as they add a product to the...
Conditionally Show Form on Single Listing – Business Directory Plugin
http://businessdirectoryplugin.com/docs/customization-guide/ says you cannot override the contact form template. however, within the plugin itself, there is a filter that does allow this functionality: wpbdp_show_contact_form so, we only want to show this form based...
What If I Do Not Use Shipping?
I recently had a customer that used WooCommerce(WC) as an e-commerce engine, however, the entire shipping functionality was not needed. WC has some backend settings that allow you disable shipping entirely, and in this case, that option was checked. What this setting...
WP Responsive Calendar – DIY
A customer recently requested a calendar based off of this look and feel: http://tympanus.net/Development/Calendario/. Not too difficult it may seem... however, what you do not see there is the 'actual' page because the calendario is covering the entire screen! thus...
Ready, Go!
With 2014 behind me now, I foresee many new challenges that lay ahead for 2015. From personal challenges to the work/life balance challenge, one thing I know for certain is that this year will not be an easy win. The results from 2014 are definitely rewarding, and the...
You are there for a reason
GOD puts us in unique situations on purpose. This, I truly discovered this morning, during the initial Ironman bible study. Ironman is awesome! It's a rise and shine, wake you up, slap you in the face men's bible study. Starting today, every Wednesday morning, a group...
My Codeable Story
My life has taken a few twists and turns in the past five years. Some awesome, and some not so awesome. I have a beautiful wife, and together, we have six wonderful children. Even through the not so awesome times, we stay a tight niche family. I would do anything that...
WP_Query and pre_get_posts
Recently, a customer wanted to return a larger number of results on the taxonomy.php page. That page is returned when using taxonomies anyways, so, I had to look 'before' that was called. The theme what was being configured was Bucket found here: BUCKET - A Digital...
WP-Member After Registration Redirect
If you have WPMEMBER plugin installed and you are looking to redirect your registered users to a different url than the "Dialog Box" display, then you can use this snippet. It hooks into wpmem_register_redirect() function. add_action(...
Why am I so sore?
I was in the third car garage yesterday for a little bit showing Harrison a couple things... He left, and I attempted to do some arm workouts on the TRX... I did about twenty curls and thirty triceps extension... Now, my arms are SORE!!! #outofshape!!
Resolving Twenty Fourteen
Another year passes and the day before I celebrate another day of birth... Here we are January 1st, 2014. It seems as though 2013 went by really fast, and some of the events that happened may have been either missed or overlooked. Let's take a look back at some of the...
Miracles – Seek The Truth
So #3 and I where driving the other day, and while listening to the radio (Air1), we heard the lyrics - and I thought, holy cow, this hit the nail on the head,...
Is a Six Pack Too Many?
No, not a six pack of alcohol (we do not drink alcohol), not six pack of abs (I've retired from working out), but a six pack of little children! A few weeks ago, my wife and I announced that we would be having our sixth child. Can you believe it? Who would have ever...
Miracles – Run The Play
Run the play already! You have been huddling up with GOD far too long, get off the bench, and run the play! You have been given the playbook, you have been given the instructions, you have been given the cautions, you have been given the wisdom to execute with...
Miracles – Size Matters
GOD loves it when you ask, now you just need to work on the size of your ask. Do not be afraid to just ask, no matter how big or how small the size, do not be presumptuous that GOD knows what you...
Miracles – Reality
The concept is simple: How do we experience the presence of God in each and every moment? The very process of trying to acquire Life on our own forces us to miss most of life, for real life is always in the present moment. When we live as though we can acquire Life...
Miracles – Gratitude
Often times we take things for granted...and most of...
Miracles – New Series
I have started to see a 'semi'-trend in social media - infographics used for quotes. For the reason that pictures say a thousand words, and often tell a story without even seeing the narrative, I have decided to jump on the bandwagon and begin a series of trendy...
How Bad Are You, Really?
A couple that was married for over 60 years, recently found out that the wife was terminally ill and expectations for death were short. Towards the end of her life, they sat down to talk about making sure everything was in order and get it all square for her passing....
Professional WordPress: Design and Development Book Review
I was fortunate to receive an advanced copy of this book written by Brad Williams, David Damstra, and Hal Stern. I regularly follow Brad Williams on both Twitter and the
Frustration
Frustration is what we deal with almost daily...when things are going good, we sometimes are frustrated about the days that they did not go so good...it lives within us, but does not have to. This will serve as my update on one of my goals for this year: Tough Mudder....
Countdown
Execution: It’s what matters
How much do you value execution? How do you know what really matters? We all have plans to, vacation, create better dietary habits, build relationships, but do you have plans to work on your strengths? Do you know what you are truly good at? Do that. Work on your...
Judged
Fictional story about being judged for outside appearances... There was a zoo who's main attraction was the gorilla exhibit. Day in and day out, it was packed with people surrounding it to view the very lively gorilla. The zoo prospered and marketed the attraction to...
Wise and Foolish Builders
Lots of people build lots of things. From physical things, like tables, to technical things, like websites. However, when building things, you must start with a solid foundation, and build from there. In regards to websites, it is using a strong content management...
Condense: It Makes Life Less Busy
Condense - con·dense [kuh n-dens] verb (used with object) to make more dense or compact; reduce the volume or extent of; concentrate. to reduce to a shorter form; abridge: Condense your answer into a few words. to reduce to another and denser form, as a gas or vapor...
Top 5 On My Get It Done List
Why do I have a "Get It Done" list instead of a "To-Do" or "Checklist" or a simple list of "Resolutions"? There are millions of people out there that have a list of "resolutions" that they jot down this week and set out the new year in an effort to achieve them. The...
Winter Wonderland Weekend!
I grew up in the winter wonderland, known to many as Flagstaff, Arizona. From age 1 to age 8, and then again from age 17 to age 21, Flagstaff is where I would call home. Living in Chandler, Arizona now, often times (especially, times like the winter season), I miss...
‘Tis The Season
'Tis the season for the Christmas spirit to come alive. No matter if you are celebrating the birth of Jesus, or if you still believe in Santa Clause, it is always a special treat to take some time and go visit your local are light display. Some places have blocks that...
The Third Time Will Fool You
Baseball is a fun and exciting sport (if you are actually playing that is!). However, it is a mind game more than anything. Sometimes what you think is supposed to happen, often goes completely the opposite way. Take Hunter Pence for example. In the MLBWS, he ends up...
10/10 Equals 20!
The 10th of the 10th Month marks the first date with my wife, TWENTY years ago! The first time I had a chance to spend some time with the most beautiful, wonderful, inspiring, perfect, funny, charming, cheerful and most sought-after girl in high school, was twenty...
The Why And How of Blogging
I am going to write about the "why and how" of blogging, not because I get paid a bunch of money to write, but rather to give individuals inspiration to begin a journal about their passions. For some, that is cooking, or hiking, traveling, and for others it is...
Stop iMessage From Sending Two Messages
So, I kept sending two messages from my iPhone, one was SMS, and the other was iMessage (to iPhone users). After countless web searches, forums searches and online help desks, which never got me anywhere, I finally figured out how to stop it. Step One: Settings: Step...
How To Know You Are Getting Old!
Is there ever an instance in your life when you say to yourself “I am getting old”, or I feel “old”, well, here is a How to know you are getting old little piece that I just threw together.
New Beginnings?
Ok, so here we go again. I am passionate about beginning new with projects and sometimes that spills into my own life. Although I have been working in the real estate field for more than 15 years now, I have also been passionate about technology for probably longer...
Building Full Of Links
Ok, so a slight play on words here on this real estate website. However, without building links, where does the traffic come from? Without the ability to add new subscribers and readership that would otherwise not be captured, were would the traffic come from? Dizzle...
One Deal, Two Years
Having been involved in commercial retail real estate for as long as I have, the fact of 'people you know' comes into play often. Commercial retail real estate will forever be a 'Good Ol' Boy' network, so by way of years of relationships, a deal has finally closed....
Logo Change Equal Brand Change
Does changing your logo equal change to the brand? Is your brand strong enough to that a change to the logo creates more opportunities? Let's wrestle with that for a second... The unveiling of a new logo has its good sides and its bad sides, just go ask GAP. In one...
Get Up and Over It Already
2011, a year to create new challenges, new highs, and get up and over it already! 'It' equals the year of 2010. The economy is in the tank, the outlook is bleak, and the silver lining is turning rusty. We have all heard it from one person or several. The economy this,...
Amazing!
To quote a movie that my family absolutely enjoyed: Susan Murphy: Why did I ever think life with Derek would be so great anyway? I mean, look at all I've done without him. I mean, fighting a giant alien robot? That was me, not him! And that was amazing! Meeting you...
Unlimited Beliefs
I sit at my desk and often listen to that monkey sitting on my shoulder telling me that I cannot do what I am currently thinking about. I write this to talk a little about how our beliefs in ourselves are often limited by that little voice that says "No, you cannot do...
This Year…. Resolve!
The time has come again, where you sit and sort out another set of resolutions. These goals are usually forgotten by mid-February. What can we all do to ensure these goals sticking and actually happening? Having a vision of what your goals will look like when you...
A Quiet World…
When you are speaking to someone, what are they actually hearing? Do they hear your voice, your message, your passion, your heart or do they hear you at all? Communicating with others is like trying to mix water and oil. If you are trying to communicate with others...
Where Does The Time Go?
It is now the second week in December and I am already planning for the second half of 2010... As I look back on a year's worth of *stuff* that has happened, I can recall more things that could have gone the right way, than visa versa. One can only imagine... To turn...
The Holidays…
Bring the holiday cheer with you, when you come to shop at any retail establishment. This year is crazy with sales and discounts for getting the economy back to where it belongs... I was out shopping on Black Friday with my wife, it was 11pm, and the Big Box toy store...
Training the Trainer
I spent some time yesterday sitting through a webinar that I wish I could get that time back. As you all know, I am a commercial real estate broker, and I have been involved in the commercial world for many years. The webinar was scheduled a few weeks ago, and I was...
The 80/20 Rule
Disclaimer:I have been thinking long and hard about this article for several weeks now. What I do not want to achieve is a reaction that causes a mass dissemination with fellow commercial brokers. I would like you all to have an open mind when reading this and think...
#PhxWC
I feel like a fish out of water because of the all the people who spend tremendous amounts of hours studying, developing and designing specifically for WordPress The reason why that is so, is for the fact that although I enjoy learning more about the amazing structure...
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