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How to Use Browser Developer Tools to Inspect Elements and Modify CSS

When customizing your WordPress site, you may need to tweak the appearance of certain elements using CSS. Every modern browser, such as Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari, comes with built-in Developer Tools that allow you to inspect HTML elements and modify their styles live. This tutorial … [Read more...] about How to Use Browser Developer Tools to Inspect Elements and Modify CSS

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How to Add Favicons to Your WordPress Site

This is a follow up article for the how do I start a blog series that we have been publishing on this site to help users get started and create a successful blog. In this tutorial we are going to walk through how to generate Favicons for all platforms, starting with just one favicon file, and … [Read more...] about How to Add Favicons to Your WordPress Site

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How to Get the Image URL from the WordPress Media Library

Many tools, widgets, themes, and plugins for WordPress often ask for an image URL during the configuration steps. Follow along to see how to get the Image URL so you can use it in the configuration. In this tutorial, you will learn: How to upload an image to the WordPress Media Library. How … [Read more...] about How to Get the Image URL from the WordPress Media Library

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Simple Table of Contents (ToC) Using Pure HTML and CSS Code

For one of my blogs, I needed a simple and clean Table of Contents (ToC) implementation that uses pure HTML and CSS only (no plugins or JavaScripts). I can then manually add the ToC into any page where I want to show it. This method has the benefit of not having to load any JS files on every page of … [Read more...] about Simple Table of Contents (ToC) Using Pure HTML and CSS Code

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Add a Status Text Next to Your WordPress Post Title

In this tutorial I will show you how you can add a status text next to the post title based on a condition. There are two different ways you can handle this: Show the status text dynamically when WordPress is rendering the post title. Update the post title text in the wp_posts database … [Read more...] about Add a Status Text Next to Your WordPress Post Title

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Customizing the Payment Button Styles of the Stripe Payments Plugin

In this tutorial I am going to show you how you can customize the payment button styles of the Stripe Payments plugin. You can customize your button styling using "class" parameter of the shortcode. If it’s omitted, your button will retain the default style provided by … [Read more...] about Customizing the Payment Button Styles of the Stripe Payments Plugin

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Adding Your Own Custom Fields in the Software License Manager Plugin

This is a tutorial for the Software License Manger plugin. This tutorial is aimed at advanced WordPress Plugin developers. Lets say, you want to create an extension or a custom plugin to add couple of extra fields to save some info with each of the license keys. Below is a guideline on how to … [Read more...] about Adding Your Own Custom Fields in the Software License Manager Plugin

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Hiding the Download URL of the File with Simple Download Monitor Plugin

The simple download monitor plugin has an option that you can use to keep the download URL of the file hidden. This can be useful if you are offering some password protected file downloads and you want to keep the actual URL of those files hidden. … [Read more...] about Hiding the Download URL of the File with Simple Download Monitor Plugin

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AMP Boot Camp: Making Your WordPress Site AMP-Only

AMP, or Accelerated Mobile Pages, is meant to be displayed on mobile devices that often lack in the powerful hardware of the desktop computer. AMP pages are marked up in a special way, and keep speed in mind. They limit the tags that can be used, and feature a rule set of which can be looked at as … [Read more...] about AMP Boot Camp: Making Your WordPress Site AMP-Only