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Remove Copyright from the Footer of a WordPress Website

1 Comment / Blog, Development, Theme Features, WordPress / By slocumstudio

This post was last updated on January 5th, 2022. We address two points in this blog post. The first is how to Remove Copyright from the footer of a WordPress Website. And Replacing Copyright with your own credits is the second. Some refer to Copyright as website credits. The common methods are: Customizer, using an Astra Starter Template the footer widget area, a plugin, or revising the footer.php code. For most personal blogs, hiding or removing the WordPress branding is not high on the priority list. Having a website complete with its brand logo is highly sought for corporations and …

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How to Make WooCommerce Thumbnails Clickable

Leave a Comment / Blog, Development, Plugins, Simple Shop, WooCommerce, WordPress / By Matt Medeiros

WooCommerce is super-popular plugin for selling digital or physical products from your WordPress website. It’s used by tens-of-thousands of shops around the world. It’s quite an amazing plugin but lacks one simple interface function — clickable product images in the store view! Crazy right? Unfortunately, it’s going to take some developer chops to get this working as there isn’t a simple one-click action for this in the settings. Luckily for you in this post, we’ll show you how to make those WooCommerce thumbnails clickable.

Remove the Title from a WordPress Page

Leave a Comment / Blog, Design, Plugins, WordPress / By Dan Zarzycki

This article has been updated in March of 2019. WordPress is a great platform, initially designed for blogs; now the popular Content Management System is widely used for business sites. But not all of it’s “features” translate well into business websites. Page and post titles are one. But there are some steps you can follow when trying to remove the title from a WordPress page. In a WordPress website every page and post have a title, and in many cases, having a big old title at the top of your page might look awkward. There might be other cases (business …

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Choose the right WordPress User Role for your client

Leave a Comment / Blog, Plugins, WordPress / By Dan Zarzycki

It’s 10 o’clock at night and you receive an email from your client. You know the one I’m talking about. Your client — the one who demanded Administrative access to your site yet doesn’t understand WordPress — managed to find the Editor and turned your once stable creation into a scary white screen of death (WSOD). It’s a nightmare, but by setting the right expectations with a client and with the help of a free plugin, you can provide the client with the just the right amount of access to their site. End result: The client is happy. You are …

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Choose the right WordPress header layout for your website

Leave a Comment / Blog, Design, WordPress / By Dan Zarzycki

Consider this the beginning of our series on building, selling, and managing WordPress websites for clients. We start our series on creating easy WordPress sites for clients from the top. The header is perhaps the most important piece of the website. After a large call-to-action or image on the front page, it is going to be the first thing a person sees when visiting their site. The following resource discusses different header options and how to determine which is right for you or your client.

How to create a WooCommerce website quickly and affordably

Leave a Comment / Blog, Design, Development, Plugins, Simple Shop, Web Marketing, WordPress / By Dan Zarzycki

WooCommerce is the most popular free solution for eCommerce on WordPress. WooCommerce was acquired by WordPress creators Automattic, so we can expect that much will be done to make WooCommerce the official solution for WordPress eCommerce. Thankfully, WooCommerce is also one of the most widely supported WordPress eCommerce plugins. It is the one we have recommended from the beginning and the one we support the most. Our pro themes are even developed with WooCommerce support in mind. Read the resource to find out how easy it was for a business to take a WordPress theme and WooCommerce and build an …

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How to set up shipping in WooCommerce

1 Comment / Blog, Development, Plugins, Simple Shop, WordPress / By Dan Zarzycki

One would assume that if you are reading this resource, you have already accepted WooCommerce as your WordPress eCommerce solution of choice or are strongly considering it. There are a few technical details that can be extremely daunting when using a free plugin like WooCommerce. These include: Accepting Payment Managing Stock Creating variants (small, medium, large) Creating products easily Shipping your products A lot of these options are more easily managed with solutions like Shopify, but that does not mean you shouldn’t have a difficult time managing your WooCommerce options. It is a cheaper options, and resources like this help …

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Is my WordPress website mobile-friendly? (after Google update)

Leave a Comment / Blog, Design, SEO, Web Marketing, WordPress / By Dan Zarzycki

As a member of a web agency, it is rare that I receive panic FROM a client. Normally, we are the ones identifying risks and resolving them. This all changed after Google made an announcement; as of April 21, 2015, the appearance of your website on a search results page would be far more dramatically affected by its mobile presence. In short, if your website is built with mobile use in mind or is “mobile-friendly”, you are in the clear. If not, your site may not display in search results where it once did. Needless to say, our inboxes erupted with client …

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Smush.it may not work. Here are some alternatives.

9 Comments / Basic Web, Blog, Plugins, SEO, Web Marketing, WordPress / By Dan Zarzycki

You may or may not be surprised to learn that WP Smush.it is an image optimization plugin for WordPress that uses Yahoo! to run its services. With the popularity of WordPress and the plugin — which is at time of posting active on over 300,000 websites — it is safe to say that Yahoo!’s servers were getting taxed to perform the operations on your images. In fact they were getting taxed so much that there is concern that the server load is too much for Yahoo! to continue with the service it offers. It is time to look for alternatives …

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WooCommerce vs iThemes Exchange: the battle of free eCommerce plugins

Leave a Comment / Blog, Development, Plugins, Simple Shop, WordPress / By Dan Zarzycki

Everyone looks for the cheapest, easiest solution to a problem. Why wouldn’t you? When you are using a free platform like WordPress, having similarly “free” options in your plugins and themes is attractive, right? Not necessarily. This is a look at WooCommerce vs iThemes Exchange — two of the most popular free WordPress eCommerce plugins — and the true costs of selling on a WordPress platform.