I was working on adding a few features to a pet project – one of them was allowing users to add a youtube video to their profile page. In order to this though, we need to get familiarized with youtube and a few parameters we already know.
A commonly known parameter is autoplay, if we set this to “1” – the youtube video will play automatically on an initial page load.
The general structure is illustrated below, get familiar if you aren’t already – this is a pretty cool feature.
I’ve been working through one of those client requests that isn’t use too often. They wanted a PDF be automatically downloaded after submitting their email (the only field on the form).
I started thinking about different scenarios, particularly this one:
If a visitor successfully completes the form and hits submit, should the PDF open on a new window tab or should it be automatically be downloaded?
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I was working on a BigCommerce site that needed rel attributes added to its pagination links. I’ve worked with BigCommerce sites in the past and I was curious if their backend had changed since then.
The rel=”next” and rel=”prev” link attributes are used to tell Google that each page in the series are unique – this eliminates duplicate content. This is similar to the rel=”canonical” attribute.
I dove right in – everything looked pretty much the same which was good, I needed that extra time to get familiarized again with where their template files were. I’m a big fan of BigCommerce – their backend is super slick. They’re working hard over there at BigCommerce.
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WordPress allows for the creation of custom links within the Menu’s area. I like this feature, it has been around for years.
I use it sometimes to create internal and external links but there are cases where I wanted them disabled. In this case and as you may have experienced – a custom link requires a value. It’s pretty common to just put a hash “#” as a value.
Something like href=”#”. This however will cause the element to behave normally as it should – there’s nothing wrong with that except it will cause your page to “jump” back up to the top of the page which can be annoying for visitors.
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If you are running into issues connecting to a network you used to be able to connect too or for unknown reasons, fire up the terminal and run the following command.
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I was recently tasked with redirecting a url, pretty straightforward I thought.
I said that was easy. But the issue was the trailing slash – this character had to be optional.
In your .htaccess file…
Redirect 301 /page-1/ /page-2/