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I had a brilliant idea for a plugin: one that would allow you to add Terms of Service check box to Contact Form 7 fast, easy, and without any hassle. You know the kind, if you don’t check it – you can’t do something, in this case, send a message through the form. Little did I know there already is a tag doing exactly that.
Let’s assume you have a client that wants a two-step sign-up form (each step is a separate form, and each form sends it’s own email). He wants the visitor to enter his basic information (name, email, phone) in step one, and all the other less important information like sex and address in step two – but with a twist – step two should also contain basic information from step one. If you’re looking for a solution for this particular problem, you found it.
Most of us have encountered this annoying behavior, no doubt about that. For those of you who are not familiar with it, WordPress automatically adds p elements around, for example, your shortcode for inserting videos. And this more often then not adds unwanted white spaces and breaks your layout. Even though there are more then a couple of ways to fix it, the following is my new favorite one. Read the rest of this entry »
If you start Googling around for the right plugin, you’ll undoubtedly find out the choice is relatively poor. But, there’s still hope.
OK, so let’s get everything straight right away; we’re talking about a completely fresh installation; no plugins and no themes are installed, nothing at all. There’s nothing to turn off, and to see if it’s working then. If you’re getting this kind of behavior, then this post will probably help you.
I’ve been long searching for something that makes this possible, and while you certainly had options (four or five plugins exist for quite some time now), none of them worked as well as I hoped, plus, they always missed a couple of important features, at least for me. Well, that search has come to an end, meet Post From Site plugin.
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The main idea behind this is to make your site faster to load, and more responsive. This way, not only will your visitors be happier, but you will also improve your Google position since load speed is a ranking factor.
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As you’re surely aware, WordPress supports something called Custom fields. They can, and mostly are used to modify your theme with a specific, custom behavior.
Now, when you’re using a plugin, it most likely uses Custom fields for at least a part of what it does. And sometimes, you want to change that plugin’s behavior, or you simply want to see how it’s developer did something. Showing hidden Custom fields comes in real handy in those cases.
Open up your favorite editor, and update your functions.php with the following code:
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There are loads of options out there to choose from, but this Facebook comments WordPress plugin is one of the easier ones to setup. It does only what it says it does, and doesn’t have any extra features that might complicate things.