Partly as a challenge, partly due to a short spell of no client work I decided to start up a WordPress Theme business in June 2012. I uploaded my first ever commercial theme “Scruvely” which went on sale on 1st August 2012. I’ve now got 34 themes on sale across multiple marketplaces. I’ve made a lot of mistakes, learnt a lot about WordPress, customer support and marketing along the way. I thought it was about time to share some of this, so here we go…
Enqueue CSS just while logged in to WordPress
If you’ve googled the above title like me and came up with a bunch of links on how to enqueue (or load) CSS or JS whilst you are in the admin area, you will have had a ton of stuff related to admin_enqueue_scripts which you don’t want…
Category Based Previous & Next Links on Custom Post Types for WordPress
Working on a client project in WordPress recently, I came across something I’d not thought of before…
Category based Previous and Next links on Custom Post Types.
Performance hints: WordPress on Cloud & Shared Hosting
It’s been a while since I relaunched my company website, 2nd Floor. I worked hard to get the best performance I could from the website, running multiple page speed tests and really trying to hone it down.
After hours of experimentation (yes I got a bit obsessed with it) I was able to get a good compromise between page speed and sensible site maintenance.
Contact Form 7 Custom Styling
Ever wanted a really easy way to sort out the error styling on the popular Contact Form 7 Plugin for WordPress? The following CSS will give you some solid error styling out of the box and put the errors into block level (in flow with the form) errors rather than the hover over thing it does by default.