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Add Search & Filter Pro with Ajax Reload to Beaver Builder Post Masonry Grid
You can use Search and Filter Pro with Beaver Builders Themer Post Module grid masonry layout with Ajax reload. This guide goes through the tweaks needed and uses a custom post type archive page with a Post Grid module that uses the main query with a masonry layout. Create your Posts Module CPT Archive Page…
An Introductory Guide for starting out with SASS for CSS
SASS and LESS are two similar tools for writing out CSS code that is sort of pre-CSS code with variables – that is then converted to good ole regular CSS code. Why you would want to use them really depends on your workflow, for smaller scale work and minor CSS updates it probably isn’t necessary but for mid-large…
Up and running with installing Sass on macOS
Up and running with installing Sass on macOS Big Sur or earlier OSX Sass (Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets) is a CSS pre-processor tool in which you write your CSS code using variables, selector inheritance, mixins, and nestings and and then compile that code to spit out regular CSS. The benefits of SASS are more advantageous in…
Temporarily Turn off Modsec filtering
You can temporarily turn off Modsec filtering by adding a code snippet rule to your .htacces file, this can be helpful if you are triggering a number of rules which are false positives or you are unable to get the rules whitelisted whilst you do your development. Add into .htaccess <IfModule mod_security.c> SecFilterEngine Off SecFilterScanPOST…
Show Hidden Library and User Library files and folder in macOS
From OSX 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8 Mountain Lion and 10.7 Lion, the /Library and ~/Library are hidden from the Finder – to show these directories in the GUI, launch Terminal from Applications/Utilities and run the command below with sudo and enter your admin password when requested: sudo chflags nohidden /Library/ ~/Library/ to hide again: sudo chflags…
Conditional Check if Custom Post Type Posts Are Published
You can check on the existence of published Custom Post Types by using a new WP_Query loop with an if/else statement, as the CPT is already registered it is difficult to use a conditional check without checking the loop of posts. add_filter(‘wp_nav_menu_primary-menu_items’, ‘wpb_add_menu_item’, 10, 2); // Add to primary menu based on CPT existence function…
Add Search Toggle Icon at End of Menu in WordPress
In WordPress, you can add a search toggle field at the end of a menu using the filter wp_nav_menu_items or a similar menu filter by which you can append menu items at the end of the targetted menu, add a slideToggle with jQuery for the show/hide effect and a bit of CSS. Targetting the Menu…
Git WordPress workflow for Local Development to Staging Site
This guide shows a Git WordPress workflow and demonstrates version control using Git from a local development environment on macOS to a staging site web server. For the Database control and pushing to staging, we will use WP Migrate Pro. A second remote repo for a production server would also need to be added in a real-world scenario. This…
Import / Export a mysql database on the command line
To export a mysql database (as a dump) from the command line run: mysqldump database_name > database_exportname.sql To import a mysql database dump into a database: mysql database_name < database_exportname.sql To export all databases into a dump: mysqldump –all-databases > all_databases_export.sql To import one of these mysql databases from the dump into a database: mysql…