So you’re saying we have to pay to use Google Maps API?
My response?
I’ve never owned a high traffic site that’s passed a google map quota limit so this is pretty new to me. Based on the documentation it looks like it.
I mean seriously.
I love HTML. Love it so much I like to write about it in its purest form. Even attributes people don’t think about or won’t dedicate a single post too. I can’t count how many times I’ve used HTML’s target attribute in my development career. Everyone’s talking about concepts, frameworks, paradigm shifts and all that. I’d like to talk about the target attribute.
_parent isn’t used all too often in my experience, so I’m going to use it in my example below.
<a href="/some-page.html" title="The Title of this Hyperink" target="_parent">HyperLink</a>
CSS3 has settled in quite nicely into the development playground for me at least but for businesses, this property alone provides some serious value. If you’ve been programming since the early 90s, you’ll see that we’ve gone a long way with interactive elements – javascript not included. In this post I’m talking about CSS3 Transitions, as mentioned on another post CSS alone is a major powerhouse.
So let’s go back in time a bit when we had to use images to indicate user feedback – a scenario would be a visitor hovers a link and then it changes color or is underlined after you hover it. This is a good thing – it lets the visitor know the element does something, presumably a link that goes somewhere. But designers and developers stepped it up a notch by adding image rollovers, we kinda needed the help of Javascript.
I was working on a site, it’s your standard WordPress site. I’ve worked with WordPress a long time and seen a lot of different scenarios. The client had this important image on their site that needed to be enlarged in a lightbox or modal, visitors just had a hard time reading small text. Of course you would think hey just use a bootstrap modal component. Well they didn’t have bootstrap installed – well they did but they were just parts of it based on another plugin they had installed. This would even further complicate things.
My second solution was to see if they had jquery installed – well of course they did. But is it in the header? In the footer? Some weird spot, yeah I’ve see that before. If it was in the footer where it ideally ought to be then we should be good right? Oh yeah by the way I haven’t even talked about writing the script – I’m looking for a good place to put the script first. Yeah, that’s this is just the first part. So I was thinking maybe I should just use a plugin for this – easy and get it over with. But why when I could write it all myself, so that’s what I did .
Continue reading “Creating a custom modal with just jQuery and CSS”
I get a lot of consulting gigs having to do with Google Page Speed – basically an assessment on how fast a website loads on a browser. You might be curious why this is important if you haven’t worked with SEO or Web Development. The thing is you don’t even need to be a techie to know why this is so crucial in almost every aspect of running an online business.
I remember working for a start up back in the 90s and being part of a meeting having to do with this subject. I barely knew how to write some HTML back in those days, I was such a noob. Anyway, back in those days SEO was still really finding its place in terms of job title.
I’d like to first talk about my relationship with Javascript before I get into jQuery. I’ve known Javascript since the 90s, back when I was a young lad, Javascript freaked me out – I’ll admit I was really intimidated by Javascript more than I was with PHP. I mean they even have a modern looking official site for Javascript now that’s not so daunting.
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Advanced Custom Fields (Official Site), this plugin is way too awesome not to mention. I’ve run into this WordPress Plugin (Plugin Page) over a dozen times in the course of my development work – I started realizing how powerful, flexible and stable this Plugin really is.
If you’re looking to add “Advanced”, “Custom”, “Fields” to your pages as the name suggests you’ll find a slick easy to use interface. Simply add the fields you want for your pages.
I myself thought I was all done – In this second step you’ll have to get your hands dirty with some PHP. Yeah this might be a little daunting if you aren’t tech savvy but you’ll be thankful you did, this all sounds cliche but for real practice makes perfect.
I was working on a high profile website under a big name and they had me implement the AMP plugin a couple months ago.
Pages were working great on mobile thanks to the WordPress AMP Plugin. Then after three months that’s when a bunch of errors started showing up on the Google AMP console and I later learned that these errors were very common.
Continue reading “WordPress AMP Plugin Errors due to New Relic Javascript Injection”
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.
Continue reading “WordPress links with hashes and disabling a links normal behavior”
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