Tips and Tricks
How to Create a User or Contact
There’s a few reasons why you might want to create users or contacts within your Websavers account. Client Centre Contacts cannot login to manage the account and can be created for the following reasons: A) to save an alternative email address for the account owner (must use the same name as account owner), B) for accounting…
Read MoreSyncing sliders with number or dropdown fields with Formidable Forms
My client wanted a car loan calculator that could look good and be functional on both mobile and desktop devices. Originally the design called for sliders for the various parts of the car loan options (amount, down payment, and term), but how many website sliders have you used on a mobile device without being frustrated?…
Read MoreAdding a “Province” Dropdown to an Address field with Formidable Forms
Working with a client on a site which only targeted the Canadian market, I was asked to add province drop-downs to the address field in a form we were building. Canadian addresses aren’t typically supported in as friendly a fashion as American addresses in form tools. American addresses often have a state drop-down by default,…
Read MoreFormidableForms Javascript / JQuery Extensions & Hacks
I’ve been working on a client’s site which has some specialized form needs, and have been using Formidable Forms to achieve the goals required. Formidable Forms is an incredible piece of software, probably the most advanced Forms tool I’ve used with WordPress, but there’s some additional functionality I needed. Fortunately, Javascript is here to help!…
Read MoreHow to disable greylisting spam protection in Plesk
This guide will show you how to disable greylisting for your domain in Plesk. Greylisting protects your domain from spam by declining the first connection attempt from the sending server, and then accepting a later connection. This can cause delays in email receipt and in some cases (where sending servers use multiple different servers for…
Read MoreHow to avoid timeouts when importing a WordPress export XML file
WordPress provides a great mechanism for exporting and importing data simply by using Tools > Export or Import. However when used on large datasets, as well as media files that take time to import, you’re bound to run into timeout issues. Obtaining an XML export from the source If you’re exporting from another self-hosted WordPress…
Read MoreHow to keep your development sites from being indexed
This guide will show you how to configure your development site to ensure it is not indexed by Google. If you’re looking to set up a development environment, take a read over our guide here to learn how to do so then come on back here. Why is it important that your development sites not…
Read MoreHow to set your PayPal IPN URL
Looking to get your PayPal API credentials? It’s not the same thing, but it often goes hand in hand with setting the IPN URL when connecting an eCommerce solution. Putler has done a great job with their guide. There’s plenty of guides out there showing how to do this with the old PayPal interface and it seems…
Read MoreWordPress Critical Error or White Screen of Death: How to Fix it
If, when attempting to access any given page on your website, you get a blank white screen, you’re in the right place! This indicates that there’s an error with the code that runs your site or (more likely) parts of your site. It could be due to any number of things, but the most common…
Read MoreHow to hire a web designer / developer
In the 14+ years we’ve been in business, we’ve worked on a lot of websites and worked with a lot of designers and developers. Sometimes the website has been hacked and needs a cleanup and secure home. Other times the developer disappeared and the client needs help with maintenance. Some are trapped in a proprietary…
Read MoreWhat to do when Thesis (WP Theme) stops generating CSS
This has happened to us a few times, namely every time we migrate a site using Thesis. The problem is that Thesis stores all its CSS (custom, skin, and editor CSS) in the database. It also stores the variables that drive that CSS in the DB. Something about how that data is transferred over when…
Read MoreHow to create a WordPress submenu without a blank page or duplicate link
Creating a sub-menu, or multi-level menu, in WordPress is actually pretty easy! WordPress has a guide to creating multi-level menus perfectly well explained in their documentation, roughly half-way down the general guide to creating menus. So why do we have a post all about something WordPress has already covered? Well… if you’re creating a sub-menu…
Read MoreOverlapping images when using a content grid?
If you’re seeing overlapping images, or odd grid display issues when using a content grid plugin, look for a plugin that enables lazyload of images and disable it on the page. For example, we use WP Rocket on most of our sites, and while it’s a fantastic caching plugin, occasionally you can run into the…
Read MoreHow to point a domain name to your Websavers hosting account
There are two ways to point your domain to Websavers: 1) by updating your name servers, which moves the DNS hosting as well, or 2) by updating the individual DNS records and keeping your DNS hosting where it is now. Before we get into the details on how to make either of these options happen,…
Read MoreHow to create mail authentication records: SPF, DKIM, DMARC
Have you ever had: What’s causing that? Why is it rejected or filtered to spam? While there can be additional reasons for a message being filtered to spam, more often than not, any one of the above issues will occur because there’s an issue with the sending domain’s email spoofing protection configuration. These protections, or…
Read MoreUpgrade to Magento 1.9.x and find your custom registration forms not working?
We’ve come across this a couple of times recently wherein an upgrade to Magento results in registration forms not working as they should be. The symptoms this time around were as follows: Visitor fills out registration form and clicks submit Visitor is brought back to the registration form as if nothing has happened And nothing has happened…
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