Add HTML [br] break tag to a Widget Title in WordPress

By default you can’t add HTML to a Widget Title in WordPress, such as a break tag <br>, you can get around this by adding a filter to allow shortcode to the title area…. In functions.php file in your child…

How to Create Custom WordPress Template Posts, Pages, Headers, Footers and Sidebars

How to create new Wordpress templates for your theme including posts, pages, headers, footers and sidebars. To change the WordPress home page edit the index.php in the main theme  if using a child theme, just copy and then edit the file in…

Making Full Width Headers and Footers in WordPress TwentyTwelve Theme

How to create a full width header and footer in WordPress’s responsive Twenty Twelve theme. Example Site. Create a Child Theme First up  you should really create and work from a Child Theme Make Header and Footer Copies to Child…

Find and replace text across a whole WordPress web site using phpMyAdmin

You can do a find and replace for text or html code on a post or page across a whole WordPress site by using the mysql database that the site stores all its data in. First up you need to…

Responsively Removing Width and Height Attributes on Images and wp-caption on WordPress

If you are looking to go responsive for images on your site and want a theme that responds to various devices such as tablets and mobiles there are a couple of issues to sort out with existing hard coded images that…

Redirect HTTP to HTTPS on Tomcat Server Install

Tomcat Server Https

You’ve bought your SSL secure certificate and successfully installed on Tomcat with the keytool but how do your redirect the entire site to go HTTPS and redirect any HTTP connection straight over to HTTPS. You need to edit the 2…

Making RSS Feed Links no-follow in WordPress Sidebar

If you use the RSS widget in WordPress to bring in a Feed with multiple external links that go to external content and that update in the sidebar.  You may notice that all these links have the attribute set to…

How to see all records in a DNS domain from a nameserver using dig and a zone transfer

If a nameserver has not been secured to restrict zone transfers you can request one to see all the records in a particular domain zone by using Dig -So to find a nameserver for a particular domain:dig domain.com nsThen to…

How to change the header size in TwentyEleven and TwentyTen

To change the header size in width or height or both of the TwentyEleven or TwentyTen theme in WordPress you need to add a snippet of code to the ‘functions.php’ file in your parent theme or child theme – the preference is to make…

Can’t download the additional components needed to install Mac OS X

Addiotnal Components Osx Install

An installation error occurs sometimes for when upgrading from OS X Snow Leopard to OS X Lion “Can’t download the additional components needed to install Mac OS X” – Check your network configuration as the install needs to pull down…