I needed to make some changes to the header of DIVI site and this guy gives a great start to finish example.
I hope this helps someone else out there…
WordPress Creating A Child Theme
With WordPress themes it is always better to create a Child Theme when you can so when your theme has a update your time spent customizing the CSS isn’t lost.
I stumbled onto the following page the other day that was a great help to get started. I was use to just writing my own, but this saved a bunch of time.
I hope this helps someone else out there…
DIVI drop down vertical submenu
Working on a new WordPress site I really wanted to go deep with DIVI. I got stuck on an issue with the dropdown submenu items. They were horizontal instead of a standard one below the other.
The issue was quickly solved when I created a new menu and made that one the primary.
I hope this helps someone else out there…
K2 – Limit Intro Text
I was surprised I wasn’t able to do this easier, but it looks like others have struggled with this as well. I did get it fixed, and was able to limit the word count. I didn’t make a override yet but I will.
In the latest_item.php file I replaced:
<?php echo $this->item->introtext; ?>
with
<?php echo K2HelperUtilities::wordLimit($this->item->introtext, 50); ?>
Here is the thread that helped me solve it
https://www.joomlaworks.net/forum/k2-en/29406-solved-can-we-have-introtext-word-limit
I hope this helps someone else out there…
Joomla! 3.8 – A Must-Do Update
I learned since Joomla 1.5 that updating is a must. Make a backup and install the update. You never know unless you try.
Today I saw an article that gives a great reason for updating to 3.8….answer is security.
For eight years, hackers have been able to exploit this password-stealing flaw in Joomla
I hope this helps someone else out there…
Adding A Video To Joomla 3 Article / Page – Using JCE Pro
I needed to add a video to page/article in a Joomla! 3.8 site. I saw the JCE advertises as being able to do this with just a URL. I love the way WordPress embeds YouTube videos and hoped it would be the same experience. It wasn’t, but it wasn’t bad.
The first issue I had was my subscription was expired. That was a cheap fix. Less than 30 bucks and ready. After installing the Pro component I didn’t see where I could add video yet. I tried just the URL but that didn’t work. I solved my issue by adding the special toolbar in the JCE to the normal JCE toolbar. Here is a video of how to set this.
I hope this helps someone else out there…
Create A Custom 404 Page In Joomla
When a site gets moved the old indexed URLs lead to users linking to your site through their search may link to a page that no longer exists. Using Google’s Webmaster Tools you can eliminate old URLs, but in the mean time you can pretty quickly create your own 404 page not found error page. The article below is a great resource.
https://docs.joomla.org/Creating_a_Custom_404_Error_Page
The basics are:
- Create an uncategorized article that is the 404 page. Dress it up any way you like.
- Create a menu link to the 404 page and set it to be unpublished. Copy the URL of this page to be used later.
- Copy the “error.php” file from the “Templates/system” directory and paste it in the root of the template your are using.
- Edit this file and delete out everything after the “or DIE” statement.
- Add the PHP redirect code in the article.
I hope this helps someone else out there…
instantdezign.com – unsolicited text messages
I started getting text messages from http://www.instantdezign.com/. This was extremely annoying. I replied back to stop, but more came in.
I finally went to their site and used the Chat feature, and they said I was removed from their list.
I hope this helps someone else out there…
Wamp – Error displaying the error page: Application Instantiation Error
My localhost WAMP on my personal Windows 10 machine just crapped out on me. PHPmyAdmin wouldn’t run I get the following on my screen when I go to my localhost website running in WAMP.
Error displaying the error page: Application Instantiation Error: Could not connect to MySQL.
My WAMP install I did without using a password for the PHPmyAdmin. It ran fine for a year and suddenly not. What to do? I had stuff not backed up that I really wanted.
- What if adding a password to the PHPmyAdmin fixes it…it didn’t.
- Could it be my WAMP install and should I re-install on top of my already installed WAMP?
I looked deeply into the config.in.php file and playing around with that something did work. I used the solution on this page.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28541325/1045-cannot-log-in-to-the-mysql-server-in-wamp
Next I was lead to OS Training and an article using MySQL Console in WAMP. I never even knew it was there. It asked from my password. I put in the password I had just created in the config.ini.php file, but that didn’t work. I went back to my original blank password and I was in. I typed in
UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD(“root”) WHERE User=”root”;
That gave me the error.
ERROR 1820 (HY000): You must reset your password using ALTER USER statement before executing this statement.
Which lead me to updating the password for root.
set PASSWORD = PASSWORD(“What ever password”);
That did the trick. I was back into my websites and PHP my admin.
I hope this helps someone else out there…
Google Optimize – Getting started and how it benefits?
I am starting down the path of Google Optimize. I am working on a new site and want to do some comparisons of what parts will do better.
Starting with these places.
- https://www.google.com/analytics/optimize/
- https://optimize.google.com/optimize/home/#/accounts
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDDMMbhvSVU
Anybody has any advise or suggestions on setting up and using Google Optimize feel free to comment.