Using a CSS preprocessor can provide powerful flexibility if you are working with a design that uses colour to help orientation, for example changing the colour scheme depending on the section of the site the current page belongs to. These concepts can also be applied if you would like to add the option for users […]
Category: Development
Creating a content scheduler in WordPress
When creating CMS tools, it is sometimes helpful to allow the automation of content updates. For example, during a sale an ecommerce client may wish to highlight daily deals. I use ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) to create a lot of WordPress customisations, and using the date picker field makes implementing a simple scheduler quite straight […]
Creating a multi-step WooCommerce checkout
By default WooCommerce provides a single page checkout, which in a lot circumstances is the recommended approach as it encourages conversions by reducing the number of clicks required to purchase a product. However, depending on your page layout, or if there are a lot of custom fields included, a single page might start to become […]
Turning off automatic scaling of large images in WordPress
While I was uploading posts of my work recently, I noticed that the larger images had been scaled down. Some of the screenshots of my sites are very tall, and the scaling being applied due to exceeding the maximum height had quite a dramatic affect on the width. It turned out that this behaviour was […]