Engage Customers to Boost Your Small Business
Have you maxed out your marketing spending, but still aren’t seeing the growth you expect? The problem might be that your customers aren’t engaged. What exactly does “engage” mean though? Let’s take a look at some dictionary definitions:… Read More
How Can I Remove MDNSD From My Android? It’s Draining My Battery!
Although this post was originally published in April 2017, it has been overhauled and updated to include information about MDNSD as of June 2019. Are you experiencing major battery drain on your Android? If so, a process called MDNSD could… Read More
How to Link an Anchor Tag to a Target Location on a Different Page with Expanded Content and a Fixed Header
In this blog post, we’re going to explore how to link an anchor tag to a target location on another page. Plus, we’re going to take it a few steps further and explore how we handle linking to those targets on a… Read More
How to Create a Floating HTML Element that Stays in the Sidebar When Scrolling
Sometimes you have important information in the sidebar of your website that you want to keep in constant view of your site’s visitors, such as contact information, or an advertisement for your goods and services, even as they scroll down the page…. Read More
Using WordPress media shortcodes (audio, video, playlist) powered by mediaelement.js in ajax loaded content.
A recent project called for dynamically requesting custom post type content in a modal window. The content was loaded through an ajax request and inserted into the modal window container. That content just so happened to include various combinations of… Read More
Flexbox: I think I get it now
I’ve been aware of Flexbox since at least 2014, but avoided using it until now. So many new things to learn, so little time! Until recently the display “block” and “inline block” properties were fine for my layout needs. Now… Read More
How to Find the Names of the Custom Post Types Used in Your WordPress Site
I recently ran into a situation while working on a WordPress site where I needed to query for custom post types that were created by a plugin I was using, but I didn’t know the name of the specific post… Read More
How to Create Custom Checkboxes with CSS
Styling checkboxes with CSS can be frustrating. If you’ve ever tried changing the border or adding a background color to a simple checkbox input element, you know the feeling. While it isn’t quite as straightforward as styling most other elements,… Read More
How Kamikaze Marketing Killed Crystal Pepsi. Tab Clear, Anyone?
The original release of Crystal Pepsi occurred in the early 1990s and, in 2016, it was rebooted for a short time and started showing up in soda coolers from grocery stores to convenience stores throughout the country, including our own… Read More
How to Set the Featured Image as a Background Image in WordPress
Let’s say we’re building a site for a client who would like to have a background image behind the title of their blog posts. That’s easy enough. Just set a background image on the containing div with CSS. .header-wrap {… Read More
Showing the current page’s parent’s sub-menu items from a custom nav menu in WordPress
There are plenty of tutorials and code snippets online describing how to show the active page’s children (or if on one of those children, the active page’s siblings) as a sub-menu in WordPress. Usually something like this: <?php $ref_post =… Read More