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Notes from building and running websites.

Documenting the tips, fixes and things we learn along the way, mostly technical, occasionally opinionated.

Solving the MailPoet WooCommerce Unsubscribe  Problem
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Solving the MailPoet WooCommerce Unsubscribe Problem

Mailpoet could be unsubscribing WooCommerce shoppers from your mailing lists. Learn how to prevent that. ...

11 January 2023
Editing Freepik vector files in Affinity Designer
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Editing Freepik vector files in Affinity Designer

I subscribe to Freepik for premium images for use on my and on my clients’ website builds. Freepik provi...

26 June 2022
Configuring WordPress with Amazon CloudFront and LiteSpeed Cache
Amazon AWS, CDN, WordPress

Configuring WordPress with Amazon CloudFront and LiteSpeed Cache

AWS CloudFront is a great CDN> Learn how to set it up for use with WordPress and the LiteSpeed Cache plugin ...

5 February 2022
Protecting An Email Address from Spam Bots with Oxygen Builder
Email, Oxygen Builder

Protecting An Email Address from Spam Bots with Oxygen Builder

You want your email address on your website for customers to easily contact you, but you don’t want a to...

5 May 2021
Automatically Closing Oxygen’s Floating Icon Menu
Floating Icon Menu, javascript, Oxygen Builder

Automatically Closing Oxygen’s Floating Icon Menu

Oxygen has recently released a Floating Icon Menu as part of their composite elements. It works great! It does...

29 March 2021
Configuring UpdraftPlus with Amazon S3 Storage
Amazon AWS, UpdraftPlus

Configuring UpdraftPlus with Amazon S3 Storage

This article will show you how to configure the popular WordPress backup plugin – UpdraftPlus – to...

19 March 2021
Adding Google Material Icons to Oxygen Builder
icons, Oxygen Builder

Adding Google Material Icons to Oxygen Builder

Google has released their Material Icons which contains more than 1,400 icons. This guide will show you how to...

12 March 2021
Styling ALL Images in a Blog Post
CSS, Oxygen Builder

Styling ALL Images in a Blog Post

I want to apply some consistent styling to images within blog posts i.e. a shadow. Now I expect this could be ...

6 March 2021
Adding an Anchor Link to Oxygen Builder
HTML, Oxygen Builder

Adding an Anchor Link to Oxygen Builder

You want to scroll to a particular place on a page? Then you need an anchor link. How do you add anchor links ...

28 February 2021
Adding Google reCAPTCHA to Bit Form
Bit Form, Google reCAPTCHA

Adding Google reCAPTCHA to Bit Form

Bit Form is a new flexible form builder for WordPress. It’s currently available for an extremely attract...

27 February 2021
Device Mockups for Showcasing a Portfolio
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Device Mockups for Showcasing a Portfolio

Do you want to showcase your portfolio in laptop, tablet and mobile phone device mockups? This video tutorial ...

21 February 2021
Advanced Hover Effects on Buttons and Elements
hover effects, Oxygen Builder

Advanced Hover Effects on Buttons and Elements

Oxygen Builder allows you to do some hover effects on buttons and other elements. I came across this site: Hov...

17 February 2021
Aligning to the Top and Bottom of a Container Div
Oxygen Builder

Aligning to the Top and Bottom of a Container Div

In my blog listing page, I wanted the blog image as a div background, with the heading aligned to the top of t...

13 February 2021
Taking a Full Web Page Screenshot
Oxygen Builder

Taking a Full Web Page Screenshot

How do you take a “screenshot” of an entire web page? The visible section and the content below th...

10 February 2021
Code Block Styling in an Oxygen Builder Blog Post
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Code Block Styling in an Oxygen Builder Blog Post

With this blog, many times I will want to paste code snippets. Building the blog content and adding a code sni...

7 February 2021
SmartCrawl Compatibility with Oxygen Builder
Oxygen Builder, SEO, SmartCrawl

SmartCrawl Compatibility with Oxygen Builder

I’ve used the free SEO plugin, SmartCrawl by WPMU Dev previously when using the Divi them builder. I lik...

7 February 2021