Fix Google Tag Manager Event Trigger When Clicking Links That Open In New Tab
This is a common issue with Google Tag Manager when tracking outbound links. When the outbound link has target=”_blank” attribute GTM doesn’t trigger the event tag to record the outbound click. An easy way to fix this is to remove the...
WordPress SEO Tools for Every Budget
Search engine optimization (SEO) is a must-do part of any online business, big or small. It is about letting your target audience know that you are there and explaining to them why they should choose you, not your competitors. Also, it is about your knowing what your...
Add a sort by product name option to the default WooCommerce sorting
We often get asked this question and see a lot of clients using a plugin to achieve this simple request. How do you add a ‘Sort Alphabetically’ option to the standard WooCommerce product sorting drop-down option? This is a very feature to add and all it...
How to change the WordPress admin footer text
Whether you are running a personal blog or you are a web designer, it is always nice to add a personal touch to your site. In this guide, I will show you how you can change the default WordPress admin footer text with something of your own. I often change the footer...
Reduce TTFB (Time To First Byte) & Server Response Time when using Cloudflare
Many Cloudflare users experience a strange issue when using the CDN service where the TTFB/Server response time is actually slower than without Cloudflare. You will find many discussions about this topic and we thought we would put together a quick guide on how to...
Display Products Using Tag with WooCommerce Shortcode
We get asked this a lot, “How do you display a list of products using a tag with the WooCommerce shortcode?” it is a good question as the WooCommerce documentation on shortcodes doesn’t seem to mention much about product tags. It is actually very...
Automatically Add Yoast Sitemap to Dynamic Robots.txt
Adding a sitemap to your robots.txt is a good step to increasing the crawl rate of your site if your site is still young, even with older sites this is still a good step to take. In this guide, we will show you how to add the sitemap from Yoast SEO to the dynamic...
Fix Missing Gravatar Alt Tag Value
If you have run an SEO audit on your site you may have noticed you get a few warnings for missing alt tags on your Gravatar images, well that is probably why you are reading this article anyway! This is a very common problem and one that I’m sure WordPress will...
How to find user ID?
Many functions that we write about require you to know what the user ID is and we get asked a lot how to find the user ID. Just as with post, pages, categories, etc the ID is very easy to find and almost always just a matter of viewing the preview URL when hovering...
Restrict Imagify settings to a specific user
Imagify is a great image compression service by the guys who made WP Rocket, as you will probably know you pay for usage with Imagify so you may not want your users all triggering bulk updates and consuming all your API usage. Lucky there is a simple function you can...
How to remove the Register link from the WordPress Login
Many WordPress sites don’t need to offer the option for users to register and often find spam users created which clog up your database and can cause problems down the line. Most spam users will register on your WordPress website by using the default register...
‘Paste as text’ by default in WordPress Visual Editor
This is a very quick guide that will explain how you can set the ‘Paste as text’ option to be active by default in the WordPress visual editor to prevent styles from being pasted into your content editor and ruining your layouts. The function I’ll...
How to restrict access to WP-ADMIN while working on Database
When working on a WordPress database you don’t want users to make changes to posts or settings which may be lost when making database migrations. Ideally, you will want to conduct work on your database when the site is at the least active stage, usually early...
5 Steps to Improve WordPress Security
WordPress can often get a bad rep for security, however, the truth is that WordPress is actually, in itself, very secure and most security breaches are caused by human error and poor choice of plugins or themes. We will guide you through 5 very basic steps to harden...
How to Fix Common 500 Internal Server Error with BBPress
We have come across a common problem with BBpress on WordPress Multisite installs when a user tries to access forums from the admin they receive a 500 internal server error. This fix may not solve all cases of this issue but it solves most cases we have come across....
Add User Role as Body Class with WordPress Functions
This guide explains how to easily add the current user role as a class to the WordPress body in the frontend and the WP admin, this would look like so class=”administrator user-id-1″. This is particularly useful if you want to add a style for a specific...