Tutorials

I wanted a simple way to take payments, and to show the payment form in a modal window. I created a shortcode that displays a button, that then displays any external URL in a modal when clicked.

When your site goes into maintenance mode during plugin and theme updates, WordPress loads a default page that is VERY basic and not very attractive or professional. You can control the look and feel of your WordPress maintenance mode page by creating a custom “maintenance.php” file that includes your branding, relevant images and contact details.

To further reduce Gravity Forms spam submissions, you maintain a list of spammy words in your Disallowed Comment Keys field and check all form entries against this list, using the custom code provided in your theme’s functions.php file.

I’ve been trying to create the perfect blog URL structure that appeals to my sense of order for more than 7 years. And I finally discovered the last piece of the puzzle. It’s time to lay out my entire solution for you, including examples.

I recently discovered that my username was being exposed in the WordPress classes for comments as comment-author-[myusername] and being scraped and abused by some sharp spammers. Here’s how I fixed the issue.

I’m working on a site where I want to pull out just one single category of blog post, “Case Studies”, into its own URL structure, so I can see how this category of content is performing in Analytics, and also to send a signal to Google about the importance of this content to this website.…

I’ve recently begun getting spam messages through my contact forms that are submitted by humans, not bots, so they don’t get stopped by the standard honeypot setting in WPForms. I wanted to create a content blacklist for WPForms that was easy to maintain and add new terms to. I also didn’t want the overhead of…

There’s nothing more annoying than visiting your Google Analytics account and finding it full of junk data and fake websites. How on earth are you supposed to see what’s going on with your website with all that Google Analytics spam screwing things up? Fortunately, there’s a few simple things you can do to block those…