Changing the Default Presets on Beaver Builder Theme for the Customizer
Here is a quick way to override the Default preset that comes with the Beaver Builder Theme in the Customizer. This may come in handy if you need to start off with your own default and perhaps remove all the other presets so the theme cannot be drastically changed. You can obviously override the default…
Read MoreRemove the default Mobile Menu in Beaver Builder Theme
Here is how to remove the default mobile menu from the Beaver Builder Theme – you may need to do so as you want to use another plugin or simply don’t need it. Add some Jquery Adjust the CSS Fire the Jquery Source/Ref
Read MoreAdd a Numeric Pagination with Accessibility in the Beaver Builder Theme
The default WordPress post pagination used in Beaver Builder Theme uses wp_pagenavi() and gives output as below. You can swap this single post navigation for a numeric display using the navigation function the_posts_pagination(), this also has the added benefit of using accessibility features for screen readers. First up is to make sure you copy…
Read MoreSet up WordPress Code Standards on Visual Studio Code on macOS
Here is a guide on how to get WordPress code standards using PHPCodesniffer on Visual Studio Code text editor using the WordPress code standards, this will be done via adding PHPCodesniffer via Composer, you can also add PHPCodesniffer via Pear or Homebrew, I used to have it running via Pear but have found it to be not as reliable…
Read MoreAdd a Back to Top Scroll Button on a Beaver Builder Page
Here is a way to add a quick scroll to top icon on a particular Beaver Builder page, this will only load on the page in question as instead of enqueuing it in functions.php we’ll add the code straight to the custom CSS/JS boxes in the page builder. Open the page in Beaver Builder…
Read MoreAdd Custom Logo Schema to Beaver Themer Header Layout
Custom Logo was introduced in WordPress 4.5 and provides a way to upload your main logo to your header and display microdata logo schema for a company, here is a way to include it in a Beaver Themer header layout in Beaver Builder. Beaver Themer already outputs microdata schema for the header and footer html…
Read MoreAdding Cloudflare to the mix of ServerPilot and fail2ban
This guide looks at adding Cloudflare to a set up of ServerPilot and fail2ban with a WordPress jail set up. Once you start using Cloudflare as a CDN solution for your hosting, you are adding another firewall into the equation, albeit a very good one, but you may want to pass your servers local firewall…
Read MoreAdding WordPress to fail2ban on ServerPilot
Dealing with brute force attacks on WordPress is an issue that you would need to address, this guide looks at adding a solution for WordPress sites running on ServerPilot on a Vultr instance but can be also used on platforms from other providers such as Digital Ocean. Using fail2ban as a solution to brute force…
Read MoreRemove WordPress Default Image Sizes
WordPress image sizes contain defaults, small, medium and large as well as medium-large which is used in their implementation of responsive images. You can remove these default images with a WordPress filter intermediate_image_sizes_advanced Why you may want to do this could be that you definitely don’t need certain sizes or you are saving on web disk…
Read MoreSetting up a WordPress VVV Vagrant Workflow
Using VVV Vagrant as a WordPress local development workflow is a great flexible platform, here’s mine which uses 5 bits of software to create a vagrant box. VirtualBox,Vagrant, VVV,VVV Dashboard and VV Variable (optional, but still worth it IMO). Each of these bits build on the other and when put together make an environment that…
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